I specifically said I wasn't referring to those cases. I'm referring to 20 something hipsters who wave their heads around rather than using their thumbs.

Perhaps when our science advances enough to decipher the imprint left in the background radiation, we'll discover it contains the other universe's insurance information.

I regularly have this happen when speaking — but never when typing.

Yesterday I was stuck on the word "cremation". I simply couldn't pull it out of my head. My brain kept defaulting to "cauterization", which is not only not at all the same thing, but is also a much longer word. I was so stuck I had to completely change the direction of the conversation I was having, for fear of…

That is an assumption. You're making an assumption that, at this point in time, cannot be proved or disproved.

You may be right, and I may well be left behind in the next evolutionary step. 'Cuz immortality doesn't really have the draw for me that it seems to have for a lot of folks. Probably the spiritual side makes up for it. And seeing as how I'm not having kids, well, that does kinda' make me a bit of a dead-end…

Good example.

Sliced meat jokes aside, I wonder when noninvasive brain imaging technology will be able to to surpass this and give us real-time, molecular resolution scans of the brain?

Even if it were possible, I would not do it. Not on your life. I just don't have that naive trust in technology that some folks seem to have. When you can't get through a regular day of working with a computer w/o something going wrong (sometimes something big, sometimes small) well sorry... not gonna' trust my…

It's a common figure of speech that comes from the Raid commercial slogan. Like how "Get the stick out of your ass" is a common figure of speech.

I feel like I know you already.

Of course, if we can be robots, we can go at much higher acceleration, though we'd still need a gargantuan amount of antimatter. And frankly, even our robot bodies are going to be destroyed by the process.

lol, so fantasy based somewhat around medieval ages europe in human history must be forced into affirmative action as well? so how about all them white people killing each other in Westeros? why not make a spiel about how it lacks in skin colour variety? (see Sky Captain trolls) or how immoral many of the white…

Great article, but to be fair, the vision of an "other" culture is a bit... let's say... less brutal and sadistic than what is shown in westeros. I feel like the only reason that Daenerys can see herself in the way she does is because she positions herself that way, as an outsider, as "seperate" from her whiteness,…

This would be an ambulance tool and it appears to be a good one. A couple of needles into the skin is nothing compared to the EMS law "All bleeding WILL stop".

Personally, something about this bothers me.

Protesting gay marriage by putting on his best salmon-colored pants, popping the shirt off, putting on a Phantom of the Opera-style mask (I'm willing to chalk up "on the day of the Tony Awards" to happy accident), and lighting a flare? You have to give it to Ted Haggard, he sure does have a way of standing up for…

I feel am one of the harshest critics in the world. I think everything JJ Abrams puts his hand to is unmitigated shit. I think the new spider man was just awful, acted by a twitchy ADD-y dunce that can't emote, and I cheered when Rory and Amy were sent to nevergonnabeback land.

There is a big, big difference between killing a tick and killing a cat. Trying to attribute equal value to their lives is a misguided notion. They are not the same. A tick does not make choices, does not know its going to die, does not "feel" pain, does not knows it's a tick and does not care if you inject it with…

Seriously disappointing. I was expecting more complex things, like exploded views of the engine or specific components and perhaps guides to assembling some parts. Even so, I understand how this can be really useful to most people who don't really take care of their vehicles properly.