Ok, so if they can grow replacement bladders for people, then why stop there? Make the scaffolding bigger than my current bladder and use my genetic material to give me a bigger one! I could go hours without pointing the pink pistol at the porcelain firing range. Sure, it's good to replace parts in, say, …

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In about a year, maybe less, the movie industry is going to try to foist a new standard or two upon us. These new discs will have "high definition" movies, as presumably the current crop of dvd is not nearly sufficient. But do people really care? More than a third of people surveyed by Scientific …

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Athiesm has come a long way. It started with doubt of myths; Plato and Aristotle gave god a philosophical, non-human character. Epicurus thought there were gods, but only uncaring ones, and says that fear of gods is a chief misery for humankind. The Skeptics invented what we now call 'agnosticism'; essentially saying that we are …

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... is it still possible to get food poisoning? This is fricken America, man. We should have this thing licked by now. In case you haven't guessed, Jessica and I got food poisoned at a restaurant we've been to probably 50 times. Hey, Red Robin: You suck. When we called then they played dumb, and …

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