I think this is the rub. The shows give me the impression that there isn't a strict correlation between the human and the vampire. The vampire's personality is like an echo of the human probably owing to continuity of memory, but the original human was his/her soul and that went to some afterlife.

I always just assumed that the Orbs were really hard to find/impossible to make. Since they didn't have any real use without the spell, and the spell had been lost for centuries, whoever made the Orbs originally probably quit/died/didn't tell anyone how to do it. That doesn't preclude attempting to rediscover the…

For clarification, the Orb of Thesulah. Also, the spell was actually a curse, intended to cause a vampire to feel regret for all of the evil it had committed as a demon. Considering what both Angel and Spike went through after having their souls restored, one could even consider it cruel and unusual punishment.

They are neither fast nor slow. They are COMBUSTIBLE!

I just want to see a Merman.

As a former drug addict and someone with chronic pain and is dependent on medicine, I appreciate this explanation. It's something I already knew, but the layman should make this connection. The following is not an excuse:

Every time you feel hungry when you pass by a refrigerator? Like that, but with alleyways and pub…

Re: vegetation growing in at an alarming rate.

Fringe is fine because most episodes introduce a new power or immunity or invention by somebody and a new apparatus by Walter to give someone a new ability so it is just one more billiard ball rolling around on the table.

Yes, rapid burial can only happen in a global flood. No local flood, mudslide, rockslide, earthquake, quicksand, cave-in, or any other lesser disaster could possibly do it.

Man, this story is the Platonic Ideal of Canadian. The rescuers politely call the animal experts who politely ask them to put the animal back in the woods which they do, politely, but it keeps almost getting run over so they put it in their car. The police pull them over and instead of doing what living in America has…

Mine's not a movie.

Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as Group A Streptococcus, or GAS, is one of the only bacteria that has been recorded as spreading through farting.

Strep and staph white/yellow pus because they break up red blood cells completely (through a process called haemolysis). So the colour tends to come from the white blood cells and cellular debris.

There are a few things going on....

Bit late, but Gif Explode can sometimes be useful for things like this. It breaks gifs down and shows all the individual frames separately on one page. E.g. The map at the top of the page

Oh, my bad. I meant Gawker Media sites. They used to put up posts were you'd have to click a dozen times to view each slide, but they put "Slide Show" right in the headline and everyone got mad and stopped giving them the clicks.

They quit doing slide shows after they abused it and the commenters revolted by not clicking on them any more. This is one of the times a slide show would've been a better format.

I believe there is a larger, different point to this story. The Iranians are not knowingly using "junk science" and "pseudoscience" to fight censorship. They genuinely believe that the jamming systems are a threat to public health. What we're seeing here are medical officials mounting a campaign that openly challenges…