There really is a Simpsons reference for every occasion.

British comedian and all-around uptight sarcastic person David Mitchell once observed that two people can decide where to eat lunch with relative ease, but the more people you add the longer it takes until eventually a group of people big enough will simply starve to death.

Cherry. Then Strawberry. Then, if those aren't available, a random berry that's not grape. If all there is is grape, pass. :D

I built heuristics like this after reading "How We Decide" several years ago (He talked about that study in the book, actually). Each time I find a new category of nearly identical items that…

This is especially true for child rearing (I learned this the hard way). I would give my son a half-dozen options for everything: what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. I'd read some dumb book about allowing children to take control of their environment and feel as though their opinions and choices mattered.…

Also, that big setback with stem cell research...

Yeah! If God wanted cars to drive themselves, he wouldn't have created insurance companies... or something like that.

Of course it will. Hell, look at how human short-sightedness is already screwing up one of our OLD technological miracles: Vaccines.

A couple of years ago I ate a can of Italian bean soup that had an expiry date of 1998 on it.

And spain makes really good wine =/

france does make some good beer though... down in corsica and up in lorriane and alsace (former german areas, naturally) departements. but it is no surprise that wine is big here... hell, during beaujolais nouveau season they give away free samples to everyone at the grocery stores. :D

More battery, more battery, more battery...

I love cloud storage, I have 25gb in dropbox and 15gb in google drive. I'm just saying that 1tb of cloud storage is stupid, because you'll not fill it with vacation photos or class projects, but with movies or other big files, because 1tb is a lot of space.

Faster transfer speeds for you, at your house. What about when you're not at home? What if you're at work and want to show a co-worker something, or at school in the computer lab and need to get to your class projects? Or if you're at grandma's house and want to show her your vacation photos? That is nearly the entire…

And of course this 1tb hdd is accessible from any computer anywhere, right? I can also easily access it from my iphone/android/ipad/etc.? Surely I don't actually have to carry a hdd around with me everywhere I go, right?

10$ a month for 1tb is absurdly expensive. With 100$ (or 10 months of this subscription) you can buy a 1tb hdd which will have way faster data transfer and you'll own it for the rest of your life.