The issue isn’t the amount of chocolate the dog eats in a sitting. The chemical makeup of chocolate includes a natural neurotoxin for dogs - neurotoxins do not get flushed out of the system, they accumulate. Yes, it will take 100 Hershey kisses to harm a terrier.... But in total over a lifetime. A very obtainable…

Damn. I literally just went searching for the Liebowitz cover, and you guys beat me to the mention. So here you go. (I so love the cover art from 60s scifi)

How, exactly, could you be baffled by the first trailer? This trailer looks fun, and will probably contribute to packin' 'em into the theater, but its just your basic babes, monsters and bad guys sci-fi popcorn movie trailer.

Yeah, well... Andy Rubin's parents where in the same ROOM I was in when I suggested that the two of them would make wonderful parents. So...they had Andy Rubin because of me...so like...Android was my idea!

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt an think you're just being a good Apple loyalist, and that religious fervor is causing you to overlook a much bigger issue: one of the purposes of the US PTO is to prevent granting of patents that "have demonstrable prior art" or "obvious art." (Go ahead, have a read: [en…

Yup, this actually the real issue. Of course Apple is going to use these patents if they get them - the question is: why in the hell are they getting them?

Ah! Thanks @mac_daddy! That's the closest yet I've seen... I absolutely remember one that was a close up shot of just that mural of photos...

I tried Googling for a photo of this to post, but couldn't find it. In "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," on the "all hands" deck (where Kirk gave his speech about we're "going out there" to the crew), on the wall behind him is a series of 6-7 photographs and sketches that are essentially the evolution of the…

The logical retort:

Wow, you folks are made of sterner stuff than I to sit through 5 hours of this!

Dave Foley is a Man among men. That was tre-effing-mendous. How did I miss that?! Thanks for including it Franklin.

Welcome to my college years. I got my masters in computer graphics in the 80's, the people who created the graphics seen at Network Awesome (follow the link above) were my contemporaries. There was no SoftImage, no Maya, no MacBook AIRS, nothing.... just C code, and math, and CRT Terminals, and more fun than I can…

Yeah...so... ignoring the original novel for a minute, the whole ape franchise is now borked to the point where its one, giant inconsistant mess. The original movies started out strong, and then got progressively worse as the franchise holders tried squeezing every last dime out of the movie going public while at the…

I remember that issue...uh, fondly? I had just turned 18 and was in my first year of college...so that issue was the first porn mag I ever bought that I didn't have to sneak into my parents house... I also remember OMNI shortly after issue came out. It was a very strange magazine, mixing science fiction (which was…

It's not free, it's ad sponsored. If you ditch the ads, those publications would start charging.

No no, it would just get rebranded as an amazing new feature called "Retina Photo Gallery," followed by an explanation of how some users just are not good photographers, but iPhones are magical, so they understand what you really wanted to photograph and took care of the hassle of deleting the bad ones.

I think probably most higher order animals are pretty good at problem solving. I've seen a lot of personal examples, but two specifically come to mind:

Now this I can stretch my thoughts abit to get behind ("Family show" with accompanying explanation, not "kids show" which I hear all too frequently.)

Is that a Farscape reference I see? ("Dargo-ing up the actors")

Yeah - this has always been a strangeness in the Whoverse.