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The movie is ridiculous. Some scenes are exaggerated to the point where it demolishes the credibility of the entire film. They suggested that an orca (equipped with fins and jaws) had the dexterity to precisely remove clothing from a human without breaking skin. That's the most absurd thing...

It's a nitpick, but it has to be made. Humans are more intelligent now. Assuming IQ is even a reasonable measurement, we've reset the IQ bell curve multiple times in recent history, to keep 100 as the average. Not because we started to fall below 100, but because we kept moving above it. The...

As far as I know, piracy is dying at the hands of Spotify, Google Play Music All Access, Pandora, iTunes Radio, and so on. A lot of people argue that artists don't make money from streaming. Guess what? They never made money off of album sales on major labels. Trent Reznor made more money...

Firefox flanked by Chrome. Firefox is a lot less resource-heavy. I prefer Chrome's dev tools, and Flash works better on there for some reason.

I did 13 of the questions from the first one (I didn't want to deal with 4-digit addition or 2-digit*3-digit multiplication in my laziness). Pulled 12 right out of those, though.

The "and" scares me, because a lot of anti-malwares conflict with each other if they both do real-time protection. I'm not sure if Verizon and McAfee cooperate, but I'd see about disabling one or the other. And http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Didn't realize that I had a twin. But you missed a few. I think you meant to have these: Abbey Road by The Beatles The Beatles by The Beatles Revolver by The Beatles Graduation by Kanye West White Blood Cells by The White Stripes Brothers. by The Black Keys Consolers of the Lonely by The...

What's your anti-malware set-up? (Norton, McAfee, etc.?) Scan with MalwareBytes (it has a free version and won't conflict with anything else because it doesn't do any active protection).

Try The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Some of the most hauntingly beautiful prose I've seen.

I still hold some ill will over Moneyball. Demetri Martin would have been a sick Paul DePodesta. Alas, no Demetri Martin, and no Paul DePodesta. Thanks a lot, Sony's film division fallout.

Net neutrality, for those who don't know, is a policy which forces Internet providers to treat all traffic equally. That is, they can't slow down Netflix because it competes with their cable service, and they can't cut a deal with Microsoft to give priority to Bing searches over Google's. This...

If they actually need to be moved, it's going to be London again or China. London is fresh off the last summer games, and would basically only need an Olympic Village. China is China, and they can probably whip up Olympic facilities in literally any city on short notice. If for whatever...

Fossil fuels are an issue, but I'm going to point back to livestock. According to this* article, livestock cause 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, and that this can be cut by 30% relatively easily. That's a huge opportunity, and we can't overlook the significance of rising meat (particularly of...

Some warming would have happened, but we're accelerating the process drastically. The greenhouse effect is now considered to be pretty conclusive, and human activities pour out these gases in mass quantities (particularly methane, through livestock, and carbon dioxide, through energy...

Vans offers more simple designs, from what I've seen. I like simplicity. Makes life easier.

If the NBA didn't take action, they'd get absolutely shredded. The media has been tearing Sterling apart; they would look terrible in the eyes of fans if they did nothing. Fellow NBA owners have come out saying they don't want to be associated with these kinds of comments. Most of the...

Most states have one-party consent, to my knowledge. I believe that one-party consent is designed to be helpful in police situations (i.e. you can legally record an officer to prove improper Due Process). The issue is that the NBA is a business. Naturally, they do not want to be seen...

Confirmed: it was in California. The recorder (her name slips my mind) broke the law. There is no basis for such an assumption. There is evidence that he actually said what he believed. He was sued a few years ago for refusing black people from renting his apartments. He lost.

This got me thinking -- where was this recorded? I double-checked, and in California, both parties must to consent to a recording. I'm not a lawyer, but it's possible that Sterling could take some civil action about those who recorded and released the tapes. He still can't do anything about...

I read it in seventh grade, for the record. I love this post. That is all. Releasing is disturbing, but welcome to literature. Disturbing things in stories told to children is not a new trend. In fact, I think this is the way it's been for thousands of years. The last few decades are...