There was a time when Penny Arcade wouldn't even accept animation, too. This was also a time when I would still sometimes look at Gamespy, and every time I went there and found some obnoxious floating flash thing covering up the content I wanted to click, I made a point of closing it and giving one of Penny Arcade's ads a click instead.

...It's only business models burning.

In observing online US political commentary over the last few years, it has been my experience that many people object when he doesn't (or don't understand when he can't).

Penny Arcade the comic, that is, not the conventions they do. If you've heard of the former but not the latter somehow, then my apologies.

There was a perma-link to it on the front page of Slashdot for years, I believe.

Flagging? If I'm not mistaken, Magic has only continued to grow since pioneering the genre 19 years ago.

I think that scene in Iron Man was demonstrating his optical tracking system, letting him rapidly designate as targets the people who were pointing guns at other people's heads. With a human in the driver's seat, the indicators would be pretty obvious.

First option here. I play WoW, and I spend a lot of my time in front of my home computer. I may only really play a couple hours a day, or even not at all, but I'm almost always logged in when I'm sitting down, letting mods process auctions or chatting or whatever.

Depends what he's after. I find Google is sometimes "smart" enough with its stemming, synonyms, and other inferences to give me exactly what I was very intentionally not looking for.

The sadder thing is, I think a lot of the people in the government doing this stuff really believe that too.

Ditto for BC Hydro.

Atheists have religious beliefs in the same way as an empty set has elements.

Yeah, 3.5 really knocked the Wizard and Cleric down to "still by far among the most powerful classes in the game."

Yeah, everyone knows that all power plants fail catastrophically at 50 years on the dot.

Or alternatively, "Plain cheese pizza: the empty set of toppings."