The people who made Second Life are working on a VR world right now. It’s called Sansar. Early open beta at the moment.

I just assume all these stories take place in alternate universes where society evolves differently enough to make those things possible in the year they happen. It’s like when Clarke said the tech in 2001 would have been accurate if politicians hadn’t gutted the space program after Apollo.

Maybe Amazon should see if Trump is correct and not renew its contract with USPS in October?

To anyone who thinks they are reasonably intelligent, it should be clear by now that Trump hasn’t a clue what he talks about; regardless of subject. Speaking of which, why is anyone even paying attention to the moron’s tweets?

This here is a great page with up-to-date info and graphics:

3. Bezos bought the Washington Post.

How dumb do you have to be to think Ikea furniture is hard to build? Like, I can’t even fathom it.

It’s obvious what it is...

Gogol Bordello for Vol 3, please.

Our dachshund lived to be 15 eating nothing but Purina Dog Chow and whatever he could steal.

Pro Tip: You should not be feeding your dog Gravy Train in the first place. It’s the cheapest because it’s ridiculously low quality. My vet threatened me over it when I got my first dog.

Obligatory:

How much you want to bet?

Of course the Sun’ mass is less as time passes... There is no free energy.

I love the “Back the Future” music cue at the very end of the READY PLAYER ONE trailer. Looks like the Delorean is featured prominently, but I’m just so curious what’s going to be in the actual film because it’s got to be so different from the book.

Unexpected Elysium

This is all good and well, but how does it help get me into a med-bay to fix my radiation sickness?

This is how it starts.