That someone else would be very poor, though.

(Moreso than a writer is by default, I mean.)

Also, that someone else wouldn't have a Razzie. Awards are awards! They're like videogame achievements. Gotta collect em all! Even the crazy ones!

I'm always surprised how many people have managed to sub in different music behind Rick Astley singing that. I've seen a few videos like that over the years... some worked, and some definitely didn't.

The most creative rickroll I've ever seen is the PaintRoll, which is a rickroll done in, yes, freakin' Mario Paint.

Why yes, I DO go to youtube.com for all my firefox plugins! I imagine it will be extremely satisfying to finally have something that will protect me from rickrolls, once I get around to clicking on that link.

Hmmm. Does that mean I should rename the passwords.txt file I have on my desktop? Maybe something like kittens.txt? That sounds more secure to me. What do you think?

Neat. There is one problem, though: How are the Ori props going to sell, when so many Stargate fans don't believe that they exist? :p

Actually, perhaps that could be a selling point. I can see more than one use for being invisible to the hardcore fans. For example, Amanda Tapping could certainly use a Prior's Staff, judging by some of the comments here. ;)

The world is also full of ineffective doctors, the kind who send off a blood test and pronounce you healthy six weeks later despite experiencing constant pain, or who blame swelling on water retention or menopause or a fatty diet, or who think migraine headaches are "stress related", or who cut a mole out and tell you it looks pretty harmless, then call back later to tell you they need to cut some more out because it was malignant, or who don't know the symptoms to a thyroid condition, or who... yeah, I think that's enough examples for now.

They have much better PR than the hypochondriacs, though. I seem to meet quite a few "hypochondriacs" these days.

I've got good news for you from Air Canada, then! Some time in the next year, they'll be adding a "Sealed in Carbonite" option for riding their planes. I imagine they'll start phasing out the old plane travel models soon as well, as this is apparently very space efficient and nearly 100% terrorist-proof!

As a Canadian, I feel there's only one rational response to the Russians taking our magnetic north pole (which is sort of owned by the whole of humanity and indeed the planet itself, but has been held in our trust for some time).

All out nuclear war.

And the only downside is nuclear winter! Winter! We can handle a few more months of that each year, easy. It's win-win, really!

Not .kml, no. Prior to 2000 the information was stored on .elf files, which are proprietary to the North Pole. They've been in use for centuries, but a .elf generally causes problems on newer computers, so .kml is more widely used now.

Indeed. The scientific value of alien life is immense, rivalled only by its potential for deliciousness.

Case in point, I just realized that "Her teacher back in 70-something told her the the test was total bunk and to ignore it, because he intended to." should come before "Her most recent attempt at an IQ test landed her somewhere in the 130 range, I think." Because with the current wording, it makes him sound like he was calling her stupid, which he was not. Now perhaps I should bring up Hitler, to really stick my foot in my mouth.

Keep in mind that tests from other eras (let's say the 80s and backwards, just for simplicity) were significantly skewed towards male-oriented views of intelligence. I'm not saying they were sexist: Just that in some cases the men writing the tests couldn't conceive how the correct answer could be other than the one they intended. We have a lot more studies now showing different methods of thinking, and a lot more respect for intelligence in social situations as well as academic ones. My mother, for example, scored 78 on an IQ test back in the 1970s, despite a grade average of A's and B's. Her most recent attempt at an IQ test landed her somewhere in the 130 range, I think. Her teacher back in 70-something told her the the test was total bunk and to ignore it, because he intended to.

It's not just limited to IQ tests, but essentially, generations of women have grown up thinking they're less "intelligent" than men... but with a very academic definition of intelligence.

If someone wants to launch a counter-study, try replacing the term "intelligence" in this study with "common sense". I'd be willing to bet the results would be sharply reversed, even among men reporting their own levels of "common sense". Just a hunch.

Of course. Slashdot runs on an elemental system of four key elements, after all: Interesting, Insightful, Informative, and Funny! These four basic qualities are the very building blocks of truly great Slashdot comment sections.

The Four Slashdot Elements of Negativity will get no mention from me in this place, however. /spits

LOL! (metaphorically i mean)

I have to say, that looks like the sort of thing scientists might find deep, deep in the ocean. The sort of thing where its researchers start inexplicably disappearing, one by one.