This strikes me as a horrible idea.

Every "True Fan" of any artist I've ever known abandons when the artist is seen as suddenly failing the expectations of the audience (getting too popular, becoming too mainstream, not giving enough attention to the fanbase).

I'm sure there is a good business model in all of this, but depending upon a relatively small audience for my livelihood is an idea that gives me the creeps.

I'm against the war on drugs and am liberal-minded, but I just discovered that I'm a straight edge:

I don't consider cocaine cool, nor do this pictures strike me as anything more special than other vintage pictures. To me, the surprise is that I am the only one commenting on that - I guess cocaine is more accepted and celebrated than I thought.

@25 I agree - I appreciate the sentiment of this post and the comments, but situations where someone has a weapon are often as tense for the robber as the robbee. I really don't think talking back is the best strategy for anyone but the best of speakers - as far as I know, feeling "in control" is very importatnt to someone committing robbery like this, and I would imagine that the last think you want to do is try and yank it away, even for a good deed. Any other thoughts on this?

@ 22 & 33 - Mindysan33 & Gert1033 -

When I was 18 I was given a mixed CD of unquestionably emo music - Death Cab for Cutie (album - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes), Sunny Day Real Estate, Hefner, Denali, American Analog Set, Kind of Like Spitting, The Good Life....

That was 6 years ago. This music was pretty okay - the current stuff going around, as far as I can tell, is terrible. I think it's really sad that music is secondary, and now "emo" means the clothes and attitude.

Also -

Has anyone mentioned yet that CUTTING is "in"??? Teenagers, many of those who declare themselves emo, at least, are cutting themselves like it's in vogue.

See the wikipedia article on "self-harm":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm

This emo stuff is way beyond anything I ever experienced in high school. I remember autoerotic asphyxiation (no time to spellcheck, sorry) but this is much more out there.

Sorry - I guess that's old news/speculation.

Does anyone else think he sounds like David Cross?

Jack Lalanne was on NPR the other day - I caught it on a podcast - and although I've never heard of him before, I'm very impressed with any senior citizen who can do more pushups than I've ever been able to do and smile while doing them.

Whoever made this table should have read Solaris and understood its premise before jumping to those conclusions; anyone familiar with the book would know that the second and third point simply do not apply in this case.

Although I'm sure that many people think many absurd things about the laws of physics because of sci fi movies, IO9 should have done the gosh darn research first!!!!!!! And the fact that he was incorrect on at least two points makes the rest of his rankings highly suspect, not in the physics, but in the interpretation of what's actually happening on screen.

What is Fawlty Towers?

Wow. I was surprised to see that Yoko's stance (or her lawyers' or whatever) IS perfectly reasonable and that she is indeed in the right. Then I felt bad that I had been surprised by this. Poor Yoko.

Maybe it's because I played in band when I was a kid, but if someone pointed this at me I would laugh uncontrollably... even if it really produced a laser.