Like any investment there are different amounts of risk/reward to be found on kickstarter. Video games and new products are definitely the highest risk.

Comics, board games, and some arts projects are typically very low risk. The core product for the Order of the Stick reprint just required Rich to send money to his printer and tell them to reprint, and those came out pretty much on time.

Most board games are already in a playable form by the time they kick-start and several already have a review from Dice Tower or someone from board game geek. They usually just need more artwork and better quality pieces. A print-and-play version is frequently one of the awards and is often immediately available. There are scads of custom decks of cards out there that shouldn't be problematic at all. The US Playing Card Company has to absolutely love Kickstarter.

I am a bit confused by how cnn categorized the projects. Castle Story and Ogre aren't complete yet, but both should be out early next year. Something that was projected for last quarter of this year that looks very likely to make the first quarter of next year doesn't qualify as "Where the ^%$# is it!?" to me.

I've never wanted mod points more than I do right now to mod you down as well as the many other idiots like you who have made similar comments.

Read his entire article and you'll understand why he's doing that. I'm not going to tell you because your brain obviously needs the exercise. If you're too lazy to read then don't bother commenting. I'd also recommend actually reading the rest of the comments for the many people here who have subscribed to his list for years and verified that he's 100% legit.

There is nothing commercial or unsolicited about his service and it's a vital and important tool if value minor things like freedom. A single one of his e-mails is probably more valuable to the world than your entire pathetic existence.

They mentioned that farming it from the fish in adequate amounts would difficult. They hope to graft the slime production into bacteria for mass production.

According to the arxiv pdf (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.6429.pdf) there is no strong evidence of it being stripped. Page 1, last paragraph on the right.

It's more than just the newsfeed. I have the newsfeed disabled by browser plugins and always keep my main page sorted by "most recent" but I still don't get all posts from some people/pages that I like. I check several of their walls directly because I genuinely don't want to miss anything they post.

I do not "like" anything or anyone if I don't want to see everything they post and facebook has royally pissed me off because they think they get to decide what I really like.

As a side note it also ticks me off that facebook keeps trying to change my sort to "Top Stories" but it's almost always immediately obvious when that happens and I always switch it back.

Disney has gotten pretty good at targeting multiple demographics lately. Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb is my 2nd favorite show on TV (Mythbusters is #1). I'm pretty sure I enjoy it more than my kids do. Gravity Falls appears to be trying something similar but targeted even more to adults. Admittedly Disney is a huge beast and what one part has mastered the others may not, but we will see.

Wreck it Ralph was a completely in-house Disney Animation film. It's not the greatest movie of all time, but it's very well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable. I'm not sure how connected Disney Animation and Disney not-animation are, but they've definitely got people who can do it right.

Mentioning Doctors makes me consider something like the American Medical Association. In terms of how it relates to government and politics it functions similarly to a union in that it tries to represent and lobby for it's members, but it doesn't function at all like a union in relation to companies. It also does some amount of research and publishes one of the most important journals in medicine.

I could see something like that working pretty well.

As I understand it what makes the meteorologists so worried about Sandy is that the area of intense high winds is huge. Here's a page with several graphics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/why-sandy-has-meteorologists-scared-in-4-images/264198/

Notice that above the 3rd graphic there's a statement where a guy says he's never seen so much purple on this graphic. The purple indicates 100% chance of sustained storm force winds.

It's not super-intense, but it's intense enough, it really huge and is heading for lots of people.

Maintenance contracts and pay-per-incident support means that manufacturers make plenty of money on already-sold devices. In many cases the cost of the device is a rather minor part of the contracts.

I work in hospital IT and we have an entire separate department for working with any clinical equipment. In most cases they can't do anything either because the vendors do not allow us any admin level access and none of them are part of our regular domain/AD. The lab/pharmacy techs quite literally have more access to those systems than we do. It's extremely aggravating.

The economic costs do change, but this study focused on the environmental impact of production, which doesn't always change in tandem with the pure economic costs.

That's true for a straight DUI, but once there is a collision involved it's a whole 'nother story.

You should really read up on some of the research regarding memory. It's not nearly as reliable as you think it is. Our brain is constantly re-writing itself and it's freakishly easy to plant memories or make subtle changes to things people weren't paying very close attention to. It generally works for what we need it to do, but when it comes to witnessing crimes this can be a life-or-death issue for the accused.

I guess you could say that based on my faith in science I reject my experiential belief that my memory is reliable and accept it's unreliability.

That does not mesh with any definition of the term from any online dictionaries nor with how I normally see it used.

Google for define: Intelligent Design
The theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity.

The key point of ID over something like Theistic Evolution is generally a rejection of random chance as a factor.

Here's wikipedia's guide to classifying your classifying various types of creationism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism#Types_of_biblical_creationism