I recommend the Paperwhite. I upgraded from the keyboard this past summer. The light on the screen is terriffic, way better than a tablet for night-time reading. The screen itself is so much better that I actually find myself reading for longer periods of time.

I recommend the Paperwhite. I upgraded from the keyboard this past summer. The light on the screen is terriffic, way…

All original trilogy Star Wars is great.

It’s totally impractical because it keeps getting stuck to everything, but I love my Polar Pen.

It’s totally impractical because it keeps getting stuck to everything, but I love my Polar Pen.

You got there first. After years of having this recommended to me, I got it recently and love Forbidden Island. I want to actually go to that island, dangers of sinking or no. So the Desert one is also good?

I’m sure it was unintentional, but I have to point out the funny in that you began with the statement about Asia and Africa, and then noted that you can name most European countries and capitals. How are you on Asia and Africa?

My wife says, “Yeah, drop me off. I’ll punch the fratboy looks off their faces.”

If you love the bruh who loves you, what credit is that to you? For even sinning bruhs love those bruhs who love them. Love all bruhs — except those who hang rapey signs. Get those fuckers gone, bruh.

And when I get pulled over for speeding they use thousands of dollars of taxpayer equipment to do it. Keeping the peace is what the taxpayers pay that money for. I’m an Ontario taxpayer, and I’m totally in favour of this guy being charged — it’ll make sure he doesn’t do it again, discourage him and his friends from…

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…