I don't have anything against Macs. You prefer Macs, that's fine, you'll get no static from me, they are good computers. But what's with this parallel fantasy land where Macheads seem to live? It's a Mac Utopia where PC's crash twice a day, are constantly jammed with viruses and spyware, and annoy their users with an interface that is terribly counterintuitive and difficult to use. This puzzles me, because I use PC's for many hours every day, and I can testify that they rarely crash, can be kept clean of malware with a few basic precautions, and that Windows is simple to use, provided you know how to look at things and click on them.

Now, supposedly, Macs are even cheaper than PC's when considering resale value. But I see two glaring errors in your analysis, Farhad. The most obvious is that your Mac-PC comparison sets are dishonest -- in both cases, the PC comes with more storage and a ton of extra memory (twice as much in one case, four times as much in the other!). What is the Mac "premium" with truly comparable specs? More than $100, I'd wager.

The other error is that many people -- people like me, for instance, who are not power users -- have no interest in reselling their computers. I've had the same PC for six years. I use it for word processing and internet surfing, and it works fine. If I bought a new computer (Mac or PC), I wouldn't sell it in a year or two; I'd keep it until it's hopelessly obsolete and has no resale value regardless of the logo on the case. For frugal, low-voltage users like me, the PC is still the easy choice.

I'm glad I don't use Facebook, if this is the sort of dopey stuff it causes you to think about.

Maybe I'm not reading the same media as these people, but who was predicting an Obama sweep and Hillary's imminent demise? Everything I read indicated that Super Tuesday would be very close and unpredictable, that the nomination would still be in doubt on Wednesday, and that Hillary was looking strong in the biggest states -- all of which turned out to be true. I think this is just another example of the tiresome strategy of talking doom before the polls open so as to claim to have exceeded expectations and confounded the naysayers afterward. Obama does the same thing.

"The Casting" shows the most realistic CG face I've seen yet... and it's still nowhere close to convincing. The eyes work well, but the lower part of the face is oddly stiff and the movements are jerky. The overall effect is that the character appears to have a touch of the ol' trisomy-21. Keep trying, guys.

That was pretty bad, King. Sort of painful. I almost didn't finish watching it. Stick to prose -- you're really good at that. If you have to make videos, just write your usual stuff and film Rebecca Traister reading it. She's cute.

Why is it that when an Iowa team makes a big splash nationally, they go down hard in the first round of the Tournament? (See also: Hampton(15) 58, Iowa State(2) 57.) May flights of angels guide you to your rest, Drake Bulldogs.

Also, why is the Panel o' Experts scored 10, 20, 40, etc.? Lots of pools score this way, but why not divide out the 10 and get to the lowest common denominator, yo? Or: if you're going to go that route, make first round games worth 153, second round 306, third round 612, and so forth. King, I have you in second place with 2,448 points!

I don’t know (for certain) that Dara Torres is a juicer. Neither does Kate Harding. But good Lord… how naïve does someone have to be to write this piece of fluff? It essentially boils down to: “Dara Torres can’t possibly be doping -- she’s an inspiration to 40-year-old moms everywhere!” Yep, just like Roger Clemens inspired middle-aged men everywhere when he won a Cy Young Award at 42. Has Ms. Harding paid no attention to sports since 1997?

Other commenters have already catalogued the likely reasons that Torres is probably a juicer, so I won’t elaborate. I will point out how sad it is that the nonstop doping scandals of the last decade have robbed us of the best part of being a sports fan -- the experience of being astonished by transcendent athletic feats. If Dara Torres is clean, then we skeptics are cynically dismissing what should be hailed as an amazing accomplishment. What if a latter-day Bob Beamon appeared and broke the long jump world record by 21 inches? We would shrug and say, “He’s doping, obviously.” So very sad.

... because all Winter Olympic sports must be contested on snow or ice.

I can't believe I'm the first one to suggest killing off modern pentathlon.