The "laboratory setting" tests and academic studies may show what they show, but (as I'm sure a PhD candidate in biostatistics would know much better than I do) simply pointing out a list of bad calls and saying they all happened in favor of the home team is about as helpful as listing the roster of the Showtime…

My wife wants to see this. Question for Will: having never read the books nor seen the first movie, do I have to spend two unenjoyable hours watching the first one to enjoy spending two hours watching this one?

Worse, Incognito said on a number of occasions that the staff member's wife had sexual relationships with several members of the team.

My (English, boarding) school took a class trip to Coventry, where we spent nearly a day touring the Jaguar factory. I admit to thorough brainwashing: I became a Jaguar evangelist inside my family for years afterward, yapping about how they laser-cut the wood veneer so that the panels on the driver's side mirror the…

I don't know why nobody's put two and two together yet:

Precisely. Apple's "collusion" with book publishers came at a time when Amazon controlled 90% of the ebook market and was able to set end prices unilaterally, as well as promoting its own imprint to compete against publishers directly. Anyone celebrating this as a victory for consumers should check out Ken Auletta's …

Re: those "shining new monuments, buildings, hell, public transportation in some cases": this was covered in the NYT a week ago. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/ruin-porn-the-aftermath-of-the-beijing-olympics/

The omission of Can't Hardly Wait is problematic, not because it was any good but because the cast, in retrospect, is astonishing. Seriously, just look it up on IMDB:

As others have pointed out on this board, the new 9-5 is a surprisingly great car - probably my favorite current car in the mid-$40k's. My greatest sadness from all of this is that there won't be a CPO program for me to pick up an off-lease special a couple of years from now.

Another solution: tell the cabbie that you really need to get there and offer them $20 extra. Then just pay them exactly the fare listed on the meter. Note: only works if you don't have to get your shit from the trunk.

@cubist_zirconia: I'd been on Verizon for so long that it never occurred to me that a modern cell network could be so bad in a major city. Keep in mind, this was in July 2008, before AT&T's coverage was as public an issue as it became shortly thereafter.

After thirty months of not being able to make a call from my iPhone 3G (or my friend's AT&T Blackberry) in my office or my apartment, including six months of waiting for this damned phone to come out on Verizon: yes, I will be switching on day 1. Anything I can do to stop giving money to AT&T will be an improvement.

Note to self: get rich in the next three years or so.

Tragically, the employee who told CNNMoney that the leaker had been fired was immediately fired.

@crinklesmith: That's basically the point made in Alex Kozinski's (he of cow-porn fame) dissenting opinion:

In case anyone is feeling too happy right now and wants to be wracked by loss, sadness and tragedy for the rest of your afternoon:

Back in the Silicon Valley gold-rush days of the late 90's, a friend was shopping around for a new car and, somewhat on a whim, we found our way into a Chrysler dealership looking to test the 300m. They had a yellow Prowler on the showroom floor behind a velvet rope barrier, and were asking $160,000.

@MechGk: Lifetime appointments, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Sorry, you'll have to wait for these guys to get old and pass on. Or be overturned by the Supreme Court, which will probably overturn this as soon as it gets the chance ([en.wikipedia.org] ).

@PlaidNinja: They're introducing the S95 - basically the same camera but with 720p HD video, for $400. The camera's otherwise basically the same: same lens, same features, etc., though the new one has updated image stabilization software.

A chain reaction creating an exponentially-increasing amount of antimatter? What could go wrong?