"An Interactive medium" - Pretentious. It's a bit of card with ink on it. The same technique can be seen in many things, most notably, the Euro notes.

Facebook really needs to learn how to design a page that automatically resizes itself based on the size of the browser. The fact that the search bar takes up 70% of the top bar regardless of how big the windows is, is nuts.

Look up "DMCA Safe Harbor" for the relevant law on this point. Compare it to YouTube where people often upload full episodes of tv shows and movies. YouTube is not liable so long as they remove infringing contact promptly when it's brought to their attention. Something similar is probably the case with Popcorn Time…

Is the phone company responsible for people who conspire to commit crimes using the phone network? Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime. Phone companies surely know that phones are used for that purpose. Yet they continue to knowingly and profitably operate those networks. The internet is used for all sorts of…

Imagine if all those prospective parents that may pass on harmful genetic traits simply adopted a child (from the eligible hundreds of thousands of children around the world)... Oh how selfish some people are.

That's not Eisenstaedt's picture; the one below is. That one was taken at exactly the same moment by Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen, standing just to Eisie's right.

We should have boycotted, plain and simple. We trot out the old chestnut, "but what about the athletes?" as if some American's right to be subsidized by the government and some corporation in some bullshit sport outweighs the cost of endorsing what the Putin dictatorship has become.

Which is precisely why they shouldn't be used to express anything that requires a nuanced discussion.

"The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday that they're renaming its exhibition space the Anna Wintour Costume Center."

So to say it can all be done practically is not exactly right. Shots like the lion in the office would be impossible, to have some many people in close proximity with tons of things going would not have been possible.

#corrections Facebook forced Social Fixer's creator to drop the feature. http://socialfixer.com/blog/2013/10/1…

I shut it off after a few seconds. It sounds like Dio covering Kate Bush.

I've lived in a blacked out city during the independence war in Croatia. On the quiet nights when there was no mortar shelling I would take my dog and a small flashlight and roam the empty streets. Those memories are still vivid in my head and it's hard to describe a whole city enveloped in pitch black darkness. I…

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WOW. I would say that so strictly limiting customers' access to THEIR OWN MONEY is not a great way to hang on to customers, but they probably know from experience that it won't make that much difference, since switching banks is a pain. This is one reason it's a good idea to keep a decent chunk of "emergency" cash in…

It's totally justifiable to blame Google for this shit.

Whoa there big fella! This isn't an electron microscope.

If they're not already including this, here's another feature they should add: use rechargeable batteries in each smoke detector, and then charge the batteries automatically. That way, there's a backup in case power fails during a fire, but you don't have to climb up there and replace the batteries. If it's too much…