I think we'll eventually discover and hopefully accept that some people have neurochemistry which to whatever degree does not actually perform optimally without a regular sustained dosage of their preferred poison and if we could simply prescribe what they need to feel 'right' without adulterating it with manufactured…

This really isn't about obesity to me; it's about perception and about the objective versus the subjective. If a woman is punched by her boyfriend, most people would agree that is abuse. If a woman is punched 9 times by her boyfriend, it's safe to argue that those same people would agree that she has been abused. We…

The author implies that the Japanese have no idea what 'fat' means because they do not share her American perception of 'fat'. Instead of exploring how the U.S.'s obesity rates have altered Americans' perceptions of what is fat/overweight/chubby to be wildly out of line with those of the rest of the world, the author…

The current US size 2 was a US size 8 15 years ago. I know because I wore a 2-4 in high school and am the same size I was then and now can only buy pants made in Europe, Asia or from boutiques.

Your perception of 'fat' is really skewed. Just because someone isn't grotesquely, morbidly obese to the degree that s/he would have been put in a side show a hundred years ago doesn't mean s/he is not overweight or 'chubby' or simply fat. There are millions of fat people in the US who are not considered fat enough to…

Katharine, you meant 'fewer anonymous towns' not 'less'. The most common problem with blogs continues to be writers who lack fluency in the languages in which they attempt to communicate. If you lack the facility to communicate your ideas in writing and still insist upon bringing your writing to the public, develop…

If McDonald's made a meatless burger it be full of GMO soy and so actually worse for you than pink slime. More important than McDonald's expanding its menu options is banning soy from being used as filler in every single processed food product in the USA. Look at the ingredients on your ketchup, salad dressing, bread,…

The Leaf looks a lot nicer than my $6 RCA rabbit ears, but the rabbit ears actually give me better reception and have in two different states in completely different types of buildings with completely different distances from the towers.

Partha's newest OS X build of GIMP was supposed to give full functionality to Wacom pressure; do you know if that wound up working out or not?

Even if you put together an elaborate, expensive set up like using Mac Minis as your HTPCs, those are one time costs. With cable/satellite you're spending the cost of an HTPC or more every year and get nothing you can call your own out of it. And, yes, as orbix42 points out, Rokus are cheap and you can run all your…

Do you wear false eyebrows like Mike Nichols? He also developed alopecia as a child and has never regrown any hair.

That actually would not have stopped this at all. The breach happened at the POS machines which Target (etc) use to sell consumer data to 3rd party marketing aggregators and advertising companies. It's essentially the same problem which happened recently with Yahoo allowing an advertiser to inject malware in their ads…

Misphonia. It's not completely uncommon. There are support groups, etc.

That's the only thing that works for me, too, and my mom also showed me how to do it as a little. I suspect it only works because I believe it will work. Sometimes, it's taken me three entire glasses of upside down water to get them gone, but I don't recall it ever not eventually working.

Your avatars make it impossible to read anything else posted in the comments and completely ruin the user experience for other people. Stop being so selfish and inconsiderate.

The remote control on these (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no…) can turn on a lamp on the 3rd floor of the house across the street from me from the back room of my first floor. Definitely lower tech than WeMo and the like, but the range on these things is incredible.

I would advise never buying another from Tiger Direct unless you like expensive electronics to be shipped across the country to you without any packing materials whatsoever, to arrive torn to bits and falling out of what's left of the package box and to spend the next 8 months of your life fighting with Tiger Direct…

I got a good deal on two of them this past fall from B&H. You might check them out. They often have very good prices on all kinds of stuff.

I agree completely and have no need or desire to carry and HDTV around with me. Huge phones are for obese people with greasy sausage fingers who wear tent dresses.

I use TeamViewer to access my Mac Mini from my iPhone and iPad. I find it extremely difficult to perform any simple drag and drop operations with it and a hundred extra steps are needed to just switch between open applications which are open as full screen spaces, but it's better than nothing, I guess. And, yeah, it's…