I think all you have to do is go to the liquor store. GMO grains are hear to stay and GMO grapes will probably save the wine industry from their next natural catastrophe. Custom microbes that convert the plants to EtOH are probably pretty common in breweries as well.

C'mon, these are professional editoporters practicing to the highest standards of blognolism.

Citing freedoms to condemn exercising freedoms? It's so bizarre that either he's the last one in the office and doesn't have anyone else look over his statements or the organization is so insulated that their reality isn't just skewed but turned upside down and backwards.

I had no idea. That's an amazing flaw. Has everyone still been reeling from the loss of Steve Jobs to not notice this? Can you turn Siri off?

I guess one man's dubious experiment is another man's hope that he could wipe his own ass one day.

You foreshadow a good point in reference to the publisher. If the publisher is involved, you know that things aren't going to get cheaper. They are not going to lower the price of their goods. They may not increase it as fast with lower overhead of not printing, but you clearly point out the price differential…

I've had a Timex Ironman on my wrist for about every moment of my life for the last 20 years. They last a long time but I'd still like to have an original that looks a lot like that Casio. I use it as a timer, an alarm and a stopwatch. Any features added since the original are superfluous.

The biggest reason to wear a watch is to know how late I am for work because I've been sitting in the shower for 20 minutes to try to wake up and get my eyelids to remain open. I never take off my watch and I don't want to take my phone in the shower.

Buffet utility aside, D-Ring belts are pretty great. There's never any shame of having to go one more notch out!

Besides just powering it, I think it says something about safety. letting loose a self powered moving device inside someone is a tough ask for thinking that something couldn't go wrong.

Ya, I'm just waiting for the 'Ultrabooks are officially dead' post with graphs showing the dip in OEM shipments of the devices saddled with that label. The posting of stories on tech blogs about them over the last 6 months and those inevitable graphs by 'analysts' are just the marketing bookends of platform…

If it were a finished technology as described and suddenly available today I'd agree. But by the time it's developed, possibly modified to take a biopsy and be retrieved (think of a tiny little piranha) and proven safe enough, the costs of an MRI machine may be low enough to be feasible. I'm not sure it will end up…

It's kinda gotten out of hand to the point where I suspect a directive from Gawker management to post more inflammatory stories to get more clicks and comments. That Troll story is a perfect example. It doesn't add up to being genuine or intelligent on the surface so I'm guessing it's genuinely intelligent for other…

Ya, it's still readworthy, but not quite what it used to be. I read the cross-posted gawker stories. And I remember when you could make your own custom Gawker page with aggregated postings of user selected blogs. I'd do that again if subscribing to a specific franchise meant that's the kind of story I'd get from them.…

Now THAT would have been funny (even without the android controls).

I'd agree that the frequency issue is the most likely outcome. But the 'Featured' versus the Gizmodo/Gawker used 'Sponsored' terms is really splitting hairs. Unless Facebook uses 'Featured' to describe any other post I don't see the difference.

People get really close to the edge of open water around known springs and at the bottom of dams. I'm amazed when I see people 20 feet from the edge in the middle of a lake or river. But they do it all the time. I get what you mean about cracks, but just saying that it's not at all surprising around here.

Designers are what make many helmets far less effect and possibly dangerous. If the best functional design weeds out the shallow, I see this as a good selective pressure.

I wasn't close to pulling the trigger on one, but I did open the Giz post more than once to look at it and think about if it was a good idea or not. I chose not. But it's not bad. Kinda like the Mountain Hardware Monkey Man fleece jackets. Except brown. And with a fake bandolier. But with a hood! (that exclamation…

Think kōan rather than Question.