I went to a Karmin concert a few weeks ago because as a new college student of the social-media-integrated-ingrates-from-hell generation I wanted to meet people, and it left me emotionally numb on multiple levels, from the fake Trinidad-y-Tobago/Berklee-graduate-idea-of-"ghetto" patois that Heidemann uses on every…

I have one of Samsung's Android personal-media-player-totally-not-a-tablet Galaxy Players in the 5-inch variety, and the portability is a strong advantage.

Did anyone else have this as an MP3 with the song mistitled as "Do You Want to Die"? That's how I knew the song from my dad's digital music collection, along with gems like The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" being mistakenly attributed to Save Ferris.

I am already planning to save up for this, because I own a Galaxy Player 5.0, and I love it. It really is a mini-tablet. I really hope Samsung will properly promote the SGP line, though, especially in light of Apple's court victory.

It's all good in the (detail-accurate, modular) hood. That is to say, no knockoff brand pieces (so far as I can tell) and nothing that looks like the builder altered it or made it himself.

Yeah, my view on the matter is that any social media site is really what you make of it— Don't be afraid to prune your social circles, or unfollow accounts you dislike or don't care about any more. Granted, I'm younger than most of the people I see listing their issues with social media on Gizmodo, so I might just be…

It is, and Andrew Drummond wrote a terrific novel about the adventures of one of its stalwarts in the late 19th century, titled A Handbook of Volapuk. I also recommend Arika Okrent's In The Land of Invented Languages, which covers a whole lot of ground and gives the fairest treatment possible to invented languages,…

I just got a Thinkpad and it's wonderful, but this makes me jelly like a jar of preserves.

Butt the Hoopoe. Butt the Hoopoe. Butt the Hoopoe. Mott the Hoople?

My hands are gigantic from the course of nature and 5" inch screens suit me just fine; I think if you hurry to the train station you can still get a ticket for the 9:15 to the neighboring town of Fuck You.

I have a dumbphone with a shite battery (the HTC Freestyle, an abomination upon this earth), and in any case my mp3 player is also a media player, being the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0. It's basically a mini-tablet, being 5"x3" in screen size, and I use it every day. I'll evangelize for this thing until Samsung comes…

As an FYI, your link is broken. It's a terrific article, though, and thank you for linking it.

Goizmodo? I think that's caused by an io9dine deficiency.

Chaucer is merely an early example, not the entire case. There are still centuries of precedent wherein that use of "they" was completely normal, contrary to the insistence of the aforementioned Latin fiends. Dost you comprehend? ("Thou" is the more intimate form of address, much as it is more proper to address…

Well, any petty thing to help someone feel better by shitting on someone else, I guess.

I think the use of "one" and "one's" really only becomes pretentious if a person does it constantly, or if they slip into a "voice" on some topics or addressing some people that might contain other elements of condescension.

Here's a post by a guy with a Master's in Linguistics in a doctoral program for it, and it provides an example with from good ol' Chaucey-Chauce himself: http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/

The funny thing is that prescriptivists were wrong to begin with, because "they" in that role has precedent going back to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at the very least; it's only through the efforts in the 18th & 19th centuries of a bunch of Latin fetishists imposing that language's rules on our own (differences be…

Ignore them; "they" in that function has precedent going back at the very least to Canterbury Tales, and the reason we think otherwise is because in the 18th/19th century a bunch of people obsessed with Latin and Roman culture tried to impose the rules of Latin grammar on our own language, in direct ignorance of their…

Actually, the use of "they" as a third person singular has precedent dating back at the very least to Chaucer; we are today raised to believe it is grammatically incorrect because around the 18th and 19th centuries, a cadre of crusty-ass Latin fetishists attempted to impose that language's rules on our own, despite…