You guarantee nobody pointed such a thing out in 1995? Seriously? You don’t think that people have been examining issues of gender representation in film, including in children’s film, for that long? Am I misunderstanding, or is that what you mean?

Apparently the very happiest people are sitting on very high, invisible toilets.

Disagree. The key feature of an Apple Car is that it would only drive on its own proprietary roads.

Full Screen Browser will kind of do it, but it’s more for kiosk applications, and isn’t as unobtrusive. If anyone knows of something, I’d also like to hear about it.

Thank-you for pointing this out. I downloaded Frameless and oh my goodness what a nice browsing experience. I never would have predicted how nice it is to get rid of that top iOS bar. Thanks again.

My wife’s method also works; up to about age five, we do the “don’t react much” thing. After five, though, her thing — when one of the kids is running and falls — is to get mad at me (since invariably it’s been me getting them to run on concrete or some other fool thing), so that the kid picks himself or herself up…

Disagree on Jon Snow. He's a lot more like Ned Stark than he is like Jon Snow. (Which is his problem sometimes...)

I have no interest whatsoever in Guitar Hero. I just came here to express my appreciation of your cross-cultural spelling humour. Well done.

I'm not sure it puts them in such a hard position. He was a player with an affection for their games. He struggled with terrible, terrible sadness, and one day he lost that struggle. A sensitive, subtle call-out to show their respect and affection for one of the most generous and funny figures in showbiz history…

I think it was actually "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." And I think the "cannot" is important. Santayana wasn't, if memory serves, talking about individuals so much as whole cultures who for one reason or another failed to build upon their pasts. It's often repeated these days as an…

From Orwell's excellent "Politics and the English Language":

Polishing, yes, and I think it's fair to say that nationalism was one of their motivations. But I think their polishing is of a much different kind and degree than is the commercially-motivated Bowdlerization in which Disney engages. However much they may have eventually pandered to audience, they were still…

Yup. I follow him on Twitter and have him on Facebook. He's solid. Your suspicion does you no credit. Just sayin'.

Can I take a moment to point out that my older son is a fifteen-year-old jock, a hockey player who's well-versed in all forms of locker-room talk, yet when I tell him about some of the ways I read about women being harassed on the interwebs, he shakes his head in disgust? He finds it horrible and takes pains to…

That was occasionally the Data's experience.

My favourite teacher was my tenth grade creative writing teacher. I also saw him again in twelfth grade for English and when, instead of a spare that same year, I too the creative writing class again. He listened, wanted us to write huge variety, and was kind.

Exactly. The question isn't is it ironic or not. The question is: would it be responsible for me to take along this thing that I will insist is ironic and then be shocked (shocked, I tell you!) when someone uses it for harassment.

I must agree. How could anyone have printed these stickers up and thought that they would NOT have been used for harassment? Some people just do not think things through.

Keep trolling, bro.

Don't troll me, bro.