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…

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…

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.

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…

In regards to the Seagate drive issue, I really wish you guys would go back to the way things were done before this "Commerce Team"/Affiliate Money thing began which was to only curate a list of sales on well reviewed/rated items that your readers could trust as being quality purchases and which were products that the…

Subwoofers should be illegal.

I'll say it, then, SanDisk makes crap products.

The problem is that the people who need to take this advice have absolutely no interest in what anyone else thinks or feels.

The word you were looking for was 'few', 'too few brains' or 'too little brains' or even 'too small minded'.

Yeah, I don't use Chrome so the title is completely misleading.

Why would it be a good idea to learn speed reading? So you can have a more superficial understanding of things? Why would you want that? Most Gawker network writers may not edit or proof read their articlettes, but the majority of writers actually choose every word they use carefully and to eliminate any of them in…