Ohhhh the smoked salmon one... I once worked the salad/apps station in the kitchen at a casual chain restaurant, and one our most popular orders was a salmon salad. The menu clearly said that it came with smoked salmon, but you couldn't go a week without having a server bring back the salad saying that the customer…

The current leading proposal for the Gardener (which I'd say has a 50-50 chance of passing the new City Council after this Fall's elections) calls for tearing down the eastern part of the expressway (Jarvis to the DVP). This presentation (big PDF):http://www.gardinereast.ca/sites/default/… contains the 4 major…

I once had a customer tell me that she didn't like the Tartar sauce, and demanded some without mayonnaise in it.

I prefer the home darks, but I say let the home team decide! We're well past the point where teams don't have the budget to travel with both sets of uniforms.

As others have said, there's no problem with the sample size. 10,000 is plenty for a population the size of the US if it's independent and representative. In this case, it is not really either of these things, which is what gets Neilsen in trouble.

I would argue that the concept of Outsourced was not as blatantly racist as this. I mean, there was a ton of potential for the characters to be racist stereotypes (and many were!) but the concept could totally have been pulled off without being offensive. In this case, the entire premise of the show relies upon scary…

Something interesting to see would be if there are some common "shapes" to the tracks in the 5-10 seconds preceding a made basket.

I've also heard the argument made (and I'm not totally on board with this but I can see the logic at least) that Twilight works in a feminist sense since it is, at its core, about a female character pursuing what SHE wants, often in a single-minded way. There aren't a ton of movies in Hollywood about a girl or woman…

Seeing as a few people down-thread agreed with you, am I the only one who prefers the red quinoa to the white? Either way, I love it for its versatility, it works great both as a rice-replacement in recipes, a noodle replacement for pastas or stir-frys, and cold in salad. One of my go-to lunch options is cold quinoa…

The conclusions of that article are debatable (at best). A similar argument can be made for corn for example (while it is a dietary staple in many Latin American countries it is not a primary source of calories in NA or Western Europe, while being used as both an industrial feedstock and ingredient in HFCS) but you…

And if you're Canadian you should be able to watch it on the CTV website.

Wait... That chick played Katara in The Last Airbender????

I've got a theory on Miller's problems writing Superman (which tangentially relate to the problems bringing the character to the screen in the modern era). Essentially, Miller was at its best when he got to ignore the moral shading of characters by introducing moral dilemmas (or at least the appearance of them) into…

One obvious downside of relying on route efficiency in a vacuum is that on some balls that aren't sharply hit the most efficient route (direct path) isn't the optimal route. If you have time to do so you'd rather catch the ball coming forward, both to set up a throw and it's simply better mechanics.

But... still... that seems so non-descript. As I recall, most of the other powers described were fairly specific (I can shoot an arrow really well! I'm a great cook!). Surviving is very broad. I get that it's fantasy, but it seems like a failure of world building that the scope of the graces was not better defined.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Biking makes up roughly 2% of commutes in Vancouver (StatsCan 2011), and since that rate is growing over time there's no reason to think that Vancouver can't reach the 3-6% that the most bike-friendly US cities have (large cities I mean, some smaller places approach 20%), and that's not even looking internationally…

The vast majority of whom? The vast majority of people in Vancouver will never drive down the 400 block of east 23rd avenue (as a random example) as well, does that mean the street shouldn't exist? Proper cycling infrastructure is important to the health of transport in a city, just as proper roads, sidewalks, and…

The fact that you think that's "extravagantly expensive" shows the dangers of dropping a lump-sum figure into an article with no context. In the grand scheme of road construction and maintenance costs 3 million (split over three geographically very separate projects) is not that much. Furthermore, the bike lanes…

I'm not freaked out by a woman holding a door for me, but I am horrendously terrified walking beside someone you don't know while heading for the same door, that causes a ton of stress in my life. Should I hurry up to get there first then hold it open? Is that weird? What if I drop back a step or two? Will they open…