Well, kill-ing with SIGCHLD the zombie parents is more efficient and elegant, usually. The first rule of kill -9 is that you should not use kill -9 in the first place.

Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but this sounds very much like redundancy (I think the correct grammatical term is "tautology"), probably induced by some so-called SEO expert: "screw common sense, just toss in the keyword 'video' as much as possible".

I'd like to point out that long before xkcd there was userfriendly, and that in my circle we still like to and this sort of joke by saying "magnets" and giggle. The "Edward Lorenz, the butterfly and the chaos theory" punchline seems a bit forced (unless you go for the 'M-x butterfly' twist to make the emacs guy get the attention ;) )

Actually a mirror doesn't add any information, it just reflects photons :) So even for perfect parallel mirrors, at best you'll be able to trap photons that move perfectly perpendicular to them (and keep for a finite period of time others which are close). IMO the only possible perfect simulation of the Universe that would be contained in it is the Universe itself, anything other would have less entropy by definition so it won't be a perfect simulation. Going to RTFA now, because the first part actually seems to be interesting.

I think his point was "... and most likely, neither do you, so quit acting like you do".

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).

There were films made? Interesting, I loved the book.

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 :)

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. Best combination ever for castle defense. Molten lava is just for the tourists.

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.