I don't suppose anybody admin-ish has checked if this guy's "5 votes so the story passes to the main site" are all from the same IP address or in a pattern of some sort? Because it seems quite unlikely 5 independent actual people like the rubbish he links to (that is also his own rubbish at the other end). Just saying.

It's all greensleeves here in Western Australia. Never heard any other song (and I drove an ice cream van for a summer in my teens)

There is some reaally good stuff there but it is very American in perspective! What about the Doctor Who theme or Red Dwarf theme for example? (And they forgot MASH)

Hrmm.. I'm not quite sure "read a biography of a run of the mill emperor" is a particularly good way to sell a book. Mind you perhaps that's part of what's wrong with the world and publishing/journalism in general? We only want to read about interesting things (which good and stable governance isn't particularly)

Are they bad asks the question, suggesting it is health related... then personal opinion abounds. Answer: in these terms if someone likes them it is fine.

Are you sure it's removable? The quick looking I did suggests it's embedded/symbolic of the potential, not actually usable (which would be very complicated)

74 flavours is rather impressive - even if they were scattered throughout its history!

Oh good. It was a hoax. Always good to find someone giving a hoax further spread - and not acknowleding it was a hoax...

If you think that's scary.. add in that we have revived viruses tens of thousands of years old, that there is permafrost containing dead animals and humans that will have actively infectious things modern humans - or possibly any humans that survived - have never before seen in them, and that our actions are heating the planet (there was a good The Atlantic article on it at one stage). Chilling

I only date back to about 1988 for "proper" computers myself (mostly a Commodore before that - but with both a tape and a floppy drive!), but recall how exciting it was figuring out how things work - and break - and discussing with others at school and around the place. First software, then hardware. And how sharp the internals of cases were in those early days of (my) assembling and fixing computers. Almost as if they demanded blood sacrifice! ... and of course those bloody fiddly little metal finger screws on the sides of those cables! And how even rocking up to a parts supplier meant people would - excitedly, not with excess ego - be willing to discuss the interesting things they had figured out or were trying. Much more cohesive and welcoming than when eventually things became more.. mainstream.