I wear contact lenses, and they don't do a damn thing to keep my eyes from burning and watering when I cut onions.

But those three things appear to be it as far as offensiveness goes—one girl-aimed knitting thing, one boy-aimed juggling thing, and the very uncool "Design Your Own Indian Headdress" thing. Other that that, all their stuff looks downright awesome. They also have another knitting kit that is completely gender-neutral.…

Rehabilitation is a lovely idea, and I hope he gets rehabilitated and goes on to college—when he's 21.

YESPLEASEGODYES!!!

What is the problem with pronouns here? They refer to her as "he" when discussing the time when she WAS a "he," and self-identfied that way.

I'm a registered nurse, and I regularly apply silver alginate dressings to my patients' wounds. It's extremely common, and very effective. Google "silver alginate dressing" to see lots and lots of medical-grade wound dressings with silver in them.

Osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, doesn't turn your skin blue, but people with it often have distinctly blue sclerae (the whites of their eyes).

That's part of the point—women are expected to buy this exact type of silly, uncomfortable, sexualized clothing. Companies spend millions marketing this exact shit to us; why shouldn't men be treated the same way?

I love io9 because commenters will post pictures of Captain Jack instead of, say, Ashton Kutcher. Thank you so very, very much. I'll be in my bunk.

I actually assumed the article was a joke, because everyone understands that she is a performance artist, right? And then I got to the end and realized that apparently everyone does *not* know that. :sob

Don't you just have to pull on it more slowly? Yanking on it makes the mechanism think that you've just been in an accident and locks the belt to protect you. Let it retract, then pull it out gently.

OWWWW! That sounds horrible, and I can totally see why you'd blow it off for ages—it doesn't show, there's no blood, etc., and yet, something is clearly wrong. Almost literally, all of my memories of junior year of high school are of struggling to sit on hard plastic school chairs and take notes, every day for months…

Oh God. I did that in high school falling off top of a cheerleading pyramid. It took YEARS to stop hurting. Thank you for reminding me of the never-ending agony.

Yes, and he looks fucking awesome in it.

Seriously, it's a wetsuit. With fancy piping. :sigh I really, really wanted the costuming from this one to be better than the first movie—I enjoyed it a lot, but the Capitol people's clothing was so much less entertaining and over the top than I had expected.

Those insane "leg massagers" from SkyMall are SCDs: sequential compression devices. They're used in hospitals to prevent blood clots from forming in the legs of people who are bed-ridden due to surgery, being in a coma, etc. They are sweaty, plasticky, and icky, and they get covered in a gross film of old skin flakes…

Re: The earrings—Does Rihanna actually abbreviate her name as "Rih Rih"? Isn't it pronounced "Ree Ree"?

As soon as my husband and I got married and moved away from both our families (although they aren't bad), Thanksgiving became a thousand percent more awesome. We sometimes make a turkey, but sometimes we don't, and we always have stuff we actually love—mini pizzas, egg rolls, macaroni and cheese, wontons, etc. It's…

I completely missed the devil/angel pun (and I suspect io9 did too) and thought it was just that Taz was dead and was headed for heaven.

That was the most io9ish comment I have ever seen on io9.