That fat chick is really hot!

(I'm sorry. One day these cries for help will be heard by the right people.)

Youv'e never written poetry, I guess. You can cram a lot into 140 characters.

But there is no 140 character limit. There is a 140 character per tweet limit. Two tweets is 280 characters. Now we are really talking.

You took the wrong lesson away from The Island. The correct lesson: clone Scarlett.

SETI is looking for intentional signals, not the alien equivalent of Abbot and Costello.

It's perfectly fine to count eggs before they hatch. I have a dozen in my fridge right now. They look delicious. In fact, I hope they don't hatch, because I'm really craving eggs, and not chickens. Now, counting *chickens* before they hatch on the other hand...

"Sent from my $foo" means "If there are typos or if my message is curt, please forgive me, but you know how it is typing on these devices."

I'm not really a fan of either approach. I want to mix XBox 360 chocolate with Wii-U peanut butter.

An external USB drive is clunky, not elegant. It's worlds better than a maximum 2GB SD card, though and it's non-proprietary (although I'm sure Wii-U-branded drives are coming).

XBox 360 got it right in that the add-on drive might as well be built in to the unit. But I would much rather have had an enclosure which allows me to buy any standard drive instead. Also, it's not transparent enough. The XBox 360 asks you to select where to save stuff. I don't understand why it should. Either the system shouldn't *care* where stuff is located or if there is a reason it cares, it should make the determination on its own and not bother the user.

This may come as a shock, but some of us actually talk to flesh and blood women. We don't have wives who can be raped via botnet.

(Maybe I'm feeding a troll, but I just couldn't resist... ;) )

If the WSJ is excluding details to make a point, it is the epitome of triviality to argue against those points by showing what was excluded. If the WSJ is wrong about something, prove it. Otherwise, just stuff it, because your cheerleading for the NYT at the expense of the WSJ won't convince anyone. Those who are "uniformed idiots" because they read the WSJ certainly won't be convinced (the name calling is a nice touch - really brings people to your way of thinking). And those who already agree with you don't need convincing.

Rational thinkers will not be convinced, and those are the only ones you can possibly hope to sway.

You say that like "guilt-trip-control" is a means to an end. It's not.

Empire > New Hope

Really? I use permanent marker.

I want to be left to die in the desert, of course. Preferably a spice blow will finish me off before dehydration.

That's exactly sci-fi. He just described an Honored Matre from the Dune universe.

But, of course, log everything.