Because unlike the rest of the options they are kickass bastards that command whole armies.

Zombies and mummies are mere henchmen usually, while vampires and werewolves usually hide from the world in remote castles, caves or abandoned houses.

Necromancers are somewhat better, but still no match for ringwraiths who are basically royalty.

Haven't heard of demon penguins before (which probably means they are in the zombie+mummy category of lesser beings).

I can do it in 5 seconds, without a cable! It's a special technology called "DVD tray" :)

This would have been just a 'me too' post, but you made me aware that there are follow-ups to the novel, thanks!

To be on-topic, I'd be more interested in a technology that can shorten sleep times in grown-ups (specifically me), although I'd probably waste the new time on late night pr0n :)

Here's one. Actually I know his name as the guy appearing from time to time in a balloon in XKCD comics, with the cape and glasses. What's the joke or reference? I didn't bother to search.

I think I did read one of his short stories once but it didn't leave a mark or make me look for more of his writings. My memory has him filed under "internet celebrities, bloggers and web2.0 pundits" not under "SF authors".

Ms. LeGuin is definitely under the latter label, as well as a lot of other SF giants like Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Herbert, Dick, et. al., not to mention a lot of more obscure authors of various nationalities which I've enjoyed and actively sought both online and offline.

To end in a similar tone: ms. LeGuin is a SF author, mr. Doctorow is a blogger :) (at least to me).

Theoretically it's doable, once you have the TLD, you can have whatever you want in that zone.

However most (all?) resolvers out there when being confronted with a hostname with no dots in in assume it needs to be qualified an try appending the entries specified in the search domain list. They'll probably try it as a TLD only after exhausting the alternatives. BTW, nothing prevents using your fancy TLDs in your private network, just declare them in your nameserver.

Oh, and I've not even touched how some browsers default to some non-dns interpretations of "bare words". Try putting "coryking" in the location bar in Firefox and you'll be taken straight to google without even trying any of the DNS stuff I mentioned above.

Agreed, but this is different from the attitude of "poor them, all that work without getting paid".

Also, most OSS licenses have restrictions on the kind of bundling one can do between free and non-free components, so they need to be really careful to fully own what they're trying to sell, otherwise there might be a lot of other people entitled to a place at that table.

I'm not saying Mozilla is incorrect in this, I was just making a point regarding your pretty broad statement. Also I'm a happy Iceweasel user for about two years, I am interested in this only because it might redraw the fine line between proprietary and OSS interests.