What is the origin of the term "Spoiler Alert". [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 11 answers

Eastern Promise plot explanation. (spoilers) [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 2 answers

I am reading Douglas Coupland's new book (JPod) and I'm always a little frustrated by him. He seems to get the general vibe of nerds but is horribly off on details sometimes (in the first 50 pages, he makes reference to a "56k floppy disk"), which is agonizing. Anyway, he posits a math problem (I don't think this counts as a spoiler, I'll even omit the context and just pose the problem with page number, but if you really don't want to see anything about the book, don't read on, I guess.) [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 42 answers

Britons of AskMe: question about the end of The Office Season 1 [spoiler inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2005 - 9 answers

What is going on in the last chapter of Gibson & Sterling's "The Difference Engine"? The story makes sense until just about the last paragraph of the second-to-last chapter, but the closing series of vignettes, titled "Modus: The Images Tabled", flies right over my head.
posted on Oct 7, 2004 - 6 answers