Would have been a much more interesting article

This. And same here (well... a few years behind in the process).

It really annoys me too when they are referred to as "brothers". It annoys me more when people "correct" those people who CORRECT the people who refer to them as brothers. Though even that doesn't annoy me as much as when people refer to them as the Wachowskis and someone "corrects" them, proactively stating that they refusing to recognise her gender, or when people deliberately refer to them as brothers, with a snide footnote. Thankfully I have not seen much of the latter round these parts.

Sigh. I expected better from Slashdotters.

I was working on the logic that "the 90's" started in 1990, "the 80's" in 1980, and so on

Wait... have I travelled back in time again? I thought 2010 started almost a year ago.

I was unaware of this. This is, indeed, huge! ^_^

Yes and no.

She's not quite dead enough to be eligible.

If they're going to compare a crash between two cars at 50 mph each to a car at 100 mph into an immovable object, what they should do next is a 100 mph unstoppable force into an immovable object.

What about unobtainium?

I'd rather be knocked over by a bullet than dead.

Have you tried turning your brain off and back on again?

Apple's designs should be put on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'

42.

...wake me up when they do this with a larynx. I know a significant subset of the population who'd pay good money for that.

My new gender is seven!

"Whereas mammals have a global static variable where SEXUAL_ORIENTATION = MALE or FEMALE."

Or both or neither or something else entirely :P

(I'm presuming by 'sexual orientation' you mean either sexual or gender identity, as opposed to who they are attracted to)