Alec and Hilaria made the right call here spelling the first name "Carmen" and not "Karmin". Down that road madness and bad music lie.

Are you kidding? "North West" is awesome. I can't speak for the name Gwyneth "Honky Prime" Paltrow gave to her daughter, though...

There are many different ways to choose a beer with the next morning in mind.

There's weak but pleasing beer, which you may consume at varying but equally comfortable paces, even though you wish you had better beer.

I love this article, but as someone who also enjoyed Recess, I have to note this: Spinelli was always identified on the show as just "Spinelli". That was what the character preferred, and there was that whole episode explaining why, where the playground clique of The Ashleys discovered her first name and tried to…

A John Oliver show — maybe TDS, maybe not — would be swell. I actually found his hosting funnier than Stewart's as of late; that might be because Stewart's infamous animosity towards his writing staff leads him to do a lot of ribbing on the show's topics that boils down to "Isn't this ridiculous, you guys?", with…

The sealsplosion might balance itself out over time, as some others are observing; one of the first things I learned in environmental science was how wildlife populations can go through cycles where one population's growth outpaces its predators and its resources, until they come crashing down to earth when the…

Ooh, I should have looked at the WFA awards last year in my statistics class... For my final project, I did a statistical analysis of the diversity of various speculative fiction awards. It was a pain in the butt compiling the data for my spreadsheets (Given the age of some awards, a lot of the winners and nominees…

There are a bunch of comments, and I may or may not have missed it, but Fringe dropped the ball an awful lot, and IIRC at one point it was confessed that a lot of the show was made up as it went. "The Pattern" was only ever kind of loosely resolved, if at all.

There are novelizations of the comics, and Aliens expanded universe ones with no comic book counterpart, that explain a ton, but I can't remember precisely. The Space Jockeys weren't marble-skinned ubermensch in spacesuits, they were telepathic, and IIIRC they had survived unleashing the xenomorphs but were either in…

I have a pair of Sonys almost as old as I am and they still work great, but if this ever happens to me I'll definitely revisit this article as an option.

I like this, actually, but I liked it just a little bit more when I thought the title was the slightly more abstract "Applesause".

Keeping in mind that this study was conducted in Sweden, this could pose a significant problem for the US, where having to acknowledge your childrens' increasing maturity & consequent need for support as they enter the adult world and discussing things like responsible drinking with them is the grown-up version of…

The free online version of Tetris is the only game I play with any consistency these days. I think my fellow commenters will agree that the game in virtually any form is amazingly fun even if you aren't keeping track of it. One of Tetris's principal criticisms is really its strength, to me: It's distracting. I'll just…

I think at this point Billy Corgan has some kind of quasi-fetish for his weird, vague concept of China/Asia/"The Orient" that is less related to any genuine, non-objectifying interest than it is to some subconscious belief that scraping the bottom of this particular barrel will make him seem interesting and relevant…

This would be useful if it gave you some kind of notification about what it was correcting, and could hence serve as a learning aid. (It would probably take some tweaking, I think, and the same concept doesn't really work for spelling autocorrection, because some devices have stupefyingly limited vocabularies and will…

Stop & Shop (Mainly New England supermarket chain owned by the same company as Giant, has stores in NJ and downstate NY) will do this for a lot of sale items, and it's handy when you're trying to keep your shopping as competitive as possible (I make the trip to Stop & Shop largely out of convenience, because there are…

It bugs me something terrible to see comments on DIY projects, neat tricks, and assorted "useful things to know and know how to do" that basically sum up to complaining that this article isn't relevant to them. Which, on its face, isn't a bad complaint — where would a website be if its articles were irrelevant to its…

It's funny — When I first started reading the Artemis Fowl books, I pictured Butler as a slightly paler, more upright-standing, muscular, much less stupid version of Ratso from Jackie Chan Adventures. When I got to book 3, I pictured Jon Spiro as Finn, because Spiro's characterization as a total sleazebag reminded me…

I'm really dismayed that there is literally no mention of Lee Byung-hun's role in this movie. He did a great job, and his part didn't feel like it was shoehorned in or came at the expense of anything else.

Lee Byung-hun's not a token character at all; he gets some of the best action scenes in the movie and delivers some of its best lines with stellar deadpan, without falling into either the "Asian killing machine" or the "harmless, neutered Asian man" stereotypes.