Also, (non-killer) whale attacks DO happen.

I totally get it. I mean, you can grow up believing that whales are peaceful, gentle, majestic creatures and you might even know objectively that, not being plankton, you don't look like dinner to them, but the reality of being that close to something that HUGE that's freakin' ALIVE, with virtually nothing between…

@Sherazad:

Yup. Virtually the same ending too, except instead of a doltish father of three careening around the interior of the dome on a motorcycle, it's a young, troubled writer who represents King's one millionth instance of not-so-subtly writing himself into his novels.

But what if it's my wife calling?

Cut-and-pasted from my response to someone else's comment (sidenote: I hate this commenting system so much):

Some of that is right. Most of it is wrong.

The other commenters (some of them, anyway) are sorta-kinda right. When a company files for bankruptcy, it generally continues to operate while it either winds down, restructures or changes hands. The lights stay on, (most of) the employees come to work, and they keep doing whatever it is that they do so that…

Yeah, that's absurd. It's not even as though prenatal testing is exclusively for people who want the opportunity to scrap the fetus and try again if everything doesn't look "perfect." It's more about peace of mind and prudent planning.

I actually had to Google her to figure out who the hell Kimbra is. At first, I was like, "Wow, Morena Baccarin looks weird in that picture..."

On the one hand, this sounds really cool, and I will totally see this.

"However, at the time of this writing, searching for "fitspo" on Facebook or Tumblr didn't bring up any results of teenage boys, but instead, posts by teenage girls of the typical "thinspo" variety (paparazzi shots of Nicole Richie, photos of Victoria's Secret models' stomachs, tips on how to not overeat at…

Agreed. It's not a perfect system by any stretch of the imagination, but there's way too much variation between schools. My high school graded on a 7-point scale, while the school three miles down the road graded on a 10-point scale. My school offered just a couple of AP classes, which were "weighted" such that an…

One day we'll live in a more enlightened society where colleges will let you take the SAT...or the ACT....orrrr the Physical Challenge!

Hey now, Charlie, I beg to differ. Raiders of the Lost Ark represents a deep, contemplative spiritual journey. Of me. Through eBay.

I saw this article and thought, "Aw, neat, I'd like to know how that works."

Haha... I'm guessing you're not from the South. It's actually "hollow," typically pronounced "holler" in Appalachia.

Haha. I'll look forward to that.

Human skin can also turn blue due to methemoglobinemia, a rare condition that most famously afflicted the Fugates, a family living in the hills of Kentucky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugates#Carriers