We had "dark-mode" 40 years ago. Then it was called a DEC VT-100.

To name just one thing, I like to control when my computer updates. I don't want it updating in the middle of a presentation.

Went to Las Vegas this summer. Payed $12 for a shuttle ride to my hotel. Buy the ticket, wait 8 minutes on the bus for it to fill, then we take off and stop at two other hotels before we arrive at mine. On the trip back, my buddy gets an Uber. Three of us ride the same distance for a total of $7. I don't see how anyone can be making money at that low of a price.

I agree, Macs are great. I only boot into Windows for games. I'm delighted with Steam's attempt to move to Steam OS / Linux, but they have a long way to go. Once games are more widely available for either Macs (not likely) or Steam OS / Linux, there won't be any need for a very large number of people to ever use Windows.

Nuke 'em from orbit.

It's not just "Hitchhiker's Guide..." that makes for great radio. Check out "Dimension X", an NBC radio sci-fi show from the 1950s. "X minus 1" is another great 1950s radio sci-fi show. Many episodes can be found online and some of them are really great. It's pretty eerie to be listening to a 1950s radio show reference an outbreak of nuclear war in the 1970s when you're safely in the year 2013.

Actually, based on your comments and the findings of numerous other studies, it sounds like education has a lot to do with motivation, and relatively little to do with forms of education delivery. Look at the history of education, do you see enormous growth spurts tied to the printing press, movies, radio, home video, the internet? In as much as they make information more readily available they increase education. But it's not like there's some magic mode for learning. How many people would sit and watch a Disney film on Differential Equations, no matter what the production values were or how applied it was, etc.? So yes, whatever we can do to make information available is good, but we should stop thinking that we're going to come up with a magical sugar coating that will make everyone want to learn everything.

There were definitely a lot of stinkers in those days. But sadly, I think that for many of us the Vega was the worst of the worst.

Motor Trend named the Chevy Vega the car of the year in 1971. Car and Driver named the Renault Alliance as one of 1983's 10 best cars. In 1985 the Ford Merkur also made this list. You might enjoy this.

Actually, before Top Gun, FM and Heavy Metal were two other movies that featured extensive and problematic soundtrack licensing issues. Heavy Metal, for example, wasn't released to home video until 1995 (despite being released in 1981 to theaters) because they couldn't get the legal issues sorted. Even the original soundtrack LP left off songs that had appeared in the film.

"Dear Sirs, I never believed the stories in you magazine until one day..."

It's a lot worse than you think! FTFA:

"Celebrities had found Marfa too. The town's beloved food truck, the Food Shark, has nearly 1,700 'Likes' on its Facebook page -- including ones from luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, and Willie Nelson."

According to Wikipedia Tammy Wynette died in 1998. Facebook was launched in February 2004.

There's an app for that...

Some sort of redirection towards findings that can be verified by independent labs would seem to be an improvement on the current system. But that would require a focus non science as a system and less of the "great researcher" emphasis we see today.

I'd call that fair use. And by the way, I'm shocked, shocked to find that Wikipedia and Google would stoop so low.