The "aliens have visited the moon" is a pretty common trope in SF (2001: A Space Odyssey, In the Ocean of Night, Inherit the Stars, and many others).
While this makes a tolerable MacGuffin, somebody probably needs to tell these guys that it's not real.
I just clicked on an article The Stupidest Business Decisions in History. First on the list was the record label Decca, declining to sign the Beatles to a record contract.
I think the real cheat is any budget that involves a mail-in rebate.
Yeah, no argument there.
Ever visited a web page that has text from one side of the browser to the other? (GNU is a particular offender.)
Here's a bookmarklet to give you sane margins:
javascript:var style=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].style;style.marginLeft=style.marginRight='1in';style.maxWidth='7in';void(0)
White space can be a wonderful thing.
If you've got $17,000 to spend on a garden, your grocery budget may not be the most productive place to look to save money.
Pop-ups are back. You've seen them, right? "Take our short survey." "Subscribe to our magazine." Crap like that. Stuff that uses JavaScript and CSS to scroll out some stupid invitation to waste time and give up my (and your) personal information.
Tony!
Michelle! (aww, they're married)
President Allstate!
Sylar!
Chloe!
Kim
Looks like Jack picked the wrong day to quit shooting heroin!
I was just reading through the customer ratings for a used reseller over on amazon. Here's one that caught my attention:
"Great transaction - item exactly as described...couldn't ask for better!!!!"
The rating? 4 out of 5.
There is, of course, a lot I could write about regarding the second season. But I'm going to stick (I think) to just one topic, and the keystone of the whole plot. That is the Secret Evil Cabal Within Our Own Government (SECWOOG) vs. Heroically Restrained President Allstate.
Suppose you've got some high-value prisoner. Does moving him around to different facilities every few weeks make sense to anybody? And speaking of (allegedly) highly secure facilities, does it make sense to have it staffed with 5 guys and a couple janitors? Does it make sense for it not to have it's own back-up generators?
Jeeze, Mrs. Senator Allstate is quite the piece of work, isn't she?
Apparently the cure for Exploding-Car Onset Amnesia is to be nearly shot, and then dramatically rescued at the last second.
Kim Bauer just has the awesomest track record in picking friends.
Yay, Dennis Hopper!
Beep boop... beep boop... only four hours left!
Jack rescues his family, and it looks like the whole Gaines team is dead. I guess that means we've seen the last of Evil Twin Photographer Dude? Wow. I realize I've been obsessing a bit on this guy, but it seems like all the most preposterous elements of the plot have centered up on him, including
"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest." -- Bullwinkle Moose
