One of the screenshots below is MSN's estimated age-distribution of you, my dear readers. The other is for popular children's site site Neopets. →

It's perfectly reasonable to sugar-coat a bitter pill, but giving someone a teaspoon of sugar while you sneak up behind them with the suppository won't make you any friends at all. →

In preparation for the upcoming Superman movie, now is a good time to revisit Superdickery.com, a collection of very wrong comic panels. →

This behaviour was later moved into the CPU, which means every Intel-based PC built in the last twenty years (including the X-Box) has contained a variant on this quick-and-dirty hack, for those few 8086 applications that expected a couple of segments of memory memory to wrap around above 1MB. →

If you're going to invent words and concepts unfamiliar to the reader, you can't introduce them gradually without undermining the reality of the language. But at the same time explaining everything up-front would make a book awkward and top-heavy. →

This is a real book. →