This looks pretty cool.

In Michigan I've heard soda and pop and cola and pretty much everything but when 'get me a coke' gets answered with 'what kind'?

I think I heard that's a Southern thing.

Ironically, the Paul Frank thing was a BoingBoing link a while ago.

What bothers me is people using these superstitious beliefs as an excuse for war and bigotry

If they didn't have religion, it would just be something else.

I can't not be a spiritual person. It would be lying to myself at the most fundamental level. So I can rally against a theocratic system as utter insanity, and support science in all of its goals, and believe in evolution - and yes, I can still believe in a God.

It's not an either/or, science or faith, and the concerted polarization of the issue from both sides is frankly disturbing.

The NPR guy should simply have said they were reporters and had a right to be there and take pictures.

It is fantastically rare that logic actually solves these problems.

anthropomorphism alert!

I will never understand why the idea that animals experience joy is some sort of suspect notion. So my dog can't 'smile' to express happiness, but the tail wagging and the barking and the dancing from foot to foot, that's a pretty good hint.

Animals play. Animals have fun. Rats can have a pretty good time, apparantly, hanging out with a human hand. It all seems pretty rational to me.

Oh, those look delicious.

** Way too late to get read but commenting anyway

Won't this vat meat be a kind of "exploitation"?

wow, the internets.

It looks cool.

But I still don't get the whole steampunk thing.

Um, no, I think you got it.

The only catch is that students doing perfectly innocuous things that happen to fall within the terms of the ZTP will be punished as though it were a serious infraction

Not the only catch, although equally insipid. Forcing people to conform to ridiculous policy instead of sensible decision making reduces efficiency and responsibility. If no one's responsible, no one has to fix the problem, nothing gets solved.

An entire world ordered so that the buck never stops.

I don't know if 'reniassance' counts when the big players are still bogged down in badly-written, nigh incoherant crap, but there's hardly a time when there aren't at least a few good books swimming around. Especially now that manga's in the game, opening up the field.

Ex Machina, The Order (perhaps the only decent thing to come out of Civil War -- so of course it gets cancelled), and Terry Moore has a new book out, Echo.

Sounds like the kind of thing the guy on Cockeyed.com would do.

(Very sad, when I can't think of anything to add that doesn't leave me sounding like a spambot.)

I honestly can't think of a single sympathetic portrayal of a posthuman being in tv, movies, or comics.

Victor Mancha (Runaways), Johnny Mnemonic (movie version), Aaron Stack, Machine Man (Nextwave, Ms. Marvel, Cyborg (Teen Titans), the guy from The Order whose suit keeps him alive after massive body trauma, Jaime Reyes (the new Blue Beetle), etc...

#1, I saw them talk at MIT and they were warm, funny and excellent speakers. Just really awesome people.

After I'm done with a Stephenson book, I sometimes pick it right back up and start over.

Motto. I love Zodiac so much. I need to read it again now that I've seen Boston.

There's a kid's book out there, picture-book age, about a homeless boy who lives with his father at the airport.

It's very sad.

Muse, that's really wonderful.

#17, real life is not TV. Even well-written TV.

This is nice. It sort of works as a unicorn chaser for that satelite installation story.

#5

Simpsons did it?

#20 - acceptable counterargument, but not good enough. Lots of things in this world can be used improperly. My choice to end my life when I am suffering and terminal shouldn't be beholden to someone else's breaking the rules.

Richard Pini was extremely nice and patient with me when I asked for an interview via e-mail back in middle school. I am very grateful for him being kind enough then to overlook my hideous lack of skills.

This is great. I hope it helps gather lots of new fans.

If you like this, I suggest:

Hem, especially Rabbit Songs
Anna Ternheim (especially "I'll Follow You Tonight," you can find some of her stuff on YouTube)

and Rio En Medio, because nothing else sounds like them.

I eat organic because food tastes better when it has actual ingredients?

So it's as much a taste issue as any kind of trendy thing or healthy thing - because I eat organic pizza rolls and those things are way tastier than their contemporaries.

and sensors in all the books.

At least when it was my job to chiclet the books, I didn't slap them in haphazardly on the middle, say, of graphic novel pages. *sigh*

It drives me nuts to see the way GN's and comics are chicleted in the bookstores.

Also, Loci, I suggest finding another bookstore. The people I worked with were very nice, and often musicians and authors. Funny thing about that - unless your parents are the same, you generally need to get a job to pay for your art.

I wish I had the guts to carry something like that, but I can only imagine the hassles.

I think it was The Tipping Point where the author mentioned that nearly the entire young male population of Rwanda was unable to find work at the time of the genocide.

Do people in economically stable situations ever commit genocide? Is it entirely due to rising panic over limited resources?

#2, it will never happen. Obedience is much preferred. How can people become quiet little submissive cube workers if they're always asking questions and trying to make things better?

Too many people benefit too much from broken systems for them to change easily, if at all.

Not that I don't appreciate this man's earnest study, but the solution is just unbelievably complicated.

looks like he was slammed hard by commenter-whiner-trolls, who one might argue also have a history of evil.

What they lack in years they make up for in tireless dedication.

I thought this video was pretty cool.

wow

We need to decide as a society how we are going to balance the dignity and freedom of elderly people against a dangerous world they have an ever increasingly difficult time understanding.

Also considering most of us are going to be there ourselves someday.

#20 - you scare me. you really do.

genetic modification is a relation between human and plant that fills many people with visceral horror.

Buh? Not really. People would be much better if we were photosynthetic.

how about a pistol pistol?

Gun that shoots knives that shoot guns?

Please let it speak in the voice of the GlaDOS curiousity module. Pleeease.

"Are you lost? Who are you? What is that? What is that? What is that? Are you coming back?"

I know this is just going to turn into a pointless 'best pizza' survey... but I'm ok with that.

DeLuca's deep dish in Lansing, Michigan.

Cute!!!

w000t, you ever seen Whimsical Bake House?

All buttercream I think. Lots of fun with lopsided cakes.

2 inch blade? I thought that was even airplane safe.

ohmu! noooo!

I thought Centipede would also look particularly good in this format, since every cupcake could be a different piece.

Also, a Donkey-Kong themed tiered cake. And I've always wanted to try a Galaga wedding cake with two joined fighters at the top. Unfortunately my kitchen is the size of a small hallway, so no experimentation - but these are fantastic! The Pac Man especially.

That is so awesome!

two different books, pancakes.

And I thought the mould around my window frame was harmless.

The odds are good that it is. Thankfully these cases, from what I understand, are a minor portion of all mold cases in homes.

In the immortal words of the bard: don't panic. ; )

So the options here for our police force are Perfect Avatars of Ultimate Justice Who Never Get Tired or Annoyed or Angry or Say Stupid Things

or

Nazis.

I call Godwin and fold. Have a nice one.

Mark;

No, it's really not, although I'm pretty sure you could get some choice mottos from the medical profession if you asked around.

I don't know who thought it up, whether they are - as everyone here seems to think - some slavering fascist nightmare fondly stroking their nightstick in glee as they imagine all the poor innocent people they're about to Taser or, perhaps, you know, a bored smartass with a really bad sense of timing.

If there's suddenly a wave of police brutatlity and violence that sweeps Idaho, well then prosecute accordingly. But if it's just words? I'm not going to freak out about it.

ROFLcopter yeah that's definitely me, wingnut neocon and evil hater of all that is good and right. I also bake cakes out of puppies in my free time.

God I love the internet.

I don't expect people in high-stress positions not to crack mean jokes, as long as they do their jobs. Especially when their jobs involve unexpected potentially lethal situations, daily.

Call me when they're actually abusing their authority. Until then, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes I wonder if the internetz breeds these people or does it just make Sultans of us

Six billion people in the world and growing. More and more of us are utterly superfluous by the day.

It's liberating, really.

BACON IN SIXTY SECONDS

O brave new world.

but with the new technology available today we are closer to working out what makes female sexuality so mysterious

Advertising.

well damn, I think they look cool.

Chris! Texas! I saw my first deep-fried Snickers there! Ah, memories.

Clifford;

Actually your viewpoint isn't any less offensive, making the assumption that any other culture has a reason to care what the U.S. thinks. As if somehow our opinion matters more, so we have to be extra careful not to step on toes.

I refuse to pretend I have that much cultural agency.

#4;

I think it's like the way they said that global temp raised by a degree when all the planes stopped flying for that period after 9-11. Less contrails = more sunlight hitting planet = warmer temps?

I like your screenname, btw. On my rotating list of 3 wishes one of them has always been "a really good sandwich."

FWIW, I did exactly the same thing at the B&N owned bookstore adjacent to Emerson College, two T-stops down the road from the Coop.

Well, not ISBN's exactly, but names of books and authors, so I could get a better deal on textbooks online. No one cared. I didn't even think someone would call the cops on something like that.