Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.