It's actually pretty good- most other Olympic villages are rat holes today.

That's frightening

"I need to examine your ear canals. Here, let's ram this wire camera up your penis through your body cavity to check."

Are you familiar with this study Esther? Setting up a utopia for mice that went unchecked, and coined the term "behavioral sink."

"Oh, also there may be a Hunger Games theme park in our future which sounds both depressing and awesome."

weird elfy dog face gives me a weird uncanny valley sensation

though it's a dumb reason, one of the reasons why I have a hard time wanting to like what I've seen of the movie so far is because that that dumb face

I loved these utterly insane movies when I was a kid, and I turned out fine like everyone else who need to keep a bag of decapitated squirrel heads under their bed with the words "luv" scrawled on it with pink lipstick.

Robotech movie?! YEAHHHHH-(Reads line "300 and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra")... oh.

If you haven't seen it, this is an amazing history on aspect ratios: http://nofilmschool.com/2013/06/visual…

Is that the best idea they could come up with to make money for the state? They might as well print a 1 trillion dollar bill.

Whale boomed in the 60's in Japan. Whale was eaten prior to WWII, but not very often and more for industrial reasons (oil etc).

Other odd fact: The Japanese didn't really have whale as part of their diet until post WWII, when we told them to eat it (as it was plentiful) because of food shortages etc. Turns out it's delicious and added it cultural cuisine.

No, people grabbed the pitch forks and torches because he sold his medical integrity to peddle bullshit for cash.

True. Though I think it fell slightly out of favor after 9/11. Though when I think about X-Files falling out of favor and shows like 24 coming to prominence... yeah, that sucks.

Kind of... though I must admit, part of the charm was that she was not a true believer.

The show was all about not trusting the government, and after 9/11 people wanted to find trust in the government so shows like the X-Files and Lone Gunman were less in favor... I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the writing starting to lack quality by that point.

I so want to push that

It's not really a secret when you can go to the manufacturers web site and see that it was last updated in 2011, and that all of the authorized dealers are police equipment suppliers.

To be barely fair: Traffic in Seattle is shit.