With the human population at the level it is I think low-density and low-impact are two contradictory goals. In terms of energy use and carbon emissions, high-density cities are much more efficient and provide a better quality of life for the people in them. You get better returns to scale on energy production,…

Dubai and UAE? I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe these places can ever be "ecotopias." The whole point of being ecologically sound and sustainable is to be efficient and minimalistic in terms of how much energy we put in and how much damage we do to the surrounding landscape to make our living.

People are not designed…

The Facebook bubble is popping, and the mobile space is more crowded than ever.

"No like" =/= "No buy" and it's facile to think so. People complained like this about the banning of smoking in planes and yet people still fly. Then they complained about banning it in restaurants and yet smokers still eat out. Then they complained about banning it in bars and yet smokers still go to bars.

Industries don't self-regulate better than third-parties. You're a blind idiot if you think you. The ESRB is a stupid PR stunt to stem a stupid non-issue so it doesn't matter. Nobody actually cares about whether kids play violent video games outside the people prone to moral panic. There actually are real world…

Hey if the argument is that it's not effective or presents health risks that's a worthwhile one. If the argument is "I just don't like looking at it" then that's just plain stupid and selfish.

I am so sorry that trying to safeguard an easily exploited population's health and safety "throws off what you want to feel" as you voluntarily elect to view them performing for your benefit.

Your life must be so hard you poor thing.

Married you will be no happier than single you.

It presents some design challenges for sure, but I think it's possible to get around it. For one, people don't need to be living in every part of the structure. You could have a lot of surface area through building in tons of nooks and crannies so there is plenty of space being exposed to the outside. These zones can…

That seems even sillier. People's penises grow to different extents when they're erect. Size when flaccid doesn't really affect anything.

Holy overstated findings Batman!

"Once penis length surpassed a certain point — about 3 inches (7.6 cm) — attractiveness began abating."

Now I'm no wangologist and my experience with penises that are not my own is limited. Being less than 3 inches while erect, though, seems quite small to me and I suspect it is several…

As someone afflicted with chronic singletonosis, I can't count the amount of times I've had to handle stuff because everyone else rationalizes dumping work on me since I'm single. "(S)He can stay a little later I gotta pick my kids up" is a pretty common refrain. It even extends to having to help do favors in my…

Vimeo's embedded player does not like Flashblock. I pretty much always need to go to the direct link.

To be honest, I could probably get away with posting game updates all day from the office too. It's just my sense of propriety that keeps me from playing games on office time.

"(There's a word for this but I can't remember it. Aggregate?)"

Indeed. The sad part is that most of the stuff that this article cites as gamelength padding is stuff pioneered by the RPG genres. Having to turn over every stone and do arbitrary side-quests and other stuff just to get to the end makes me really not want to play any RPGs that I'm not willing to put all of myself into…

"There can't be good jobs because no one wants to move there because there aren't good jobs?"

I agree that explicit rewards aren't necessary. But AC3 gives you so much junk to do that has nothing to do with anything else. I'm supposed to earn money for. . .no reason. There are weapons for sale because. . . well. . . um. . . I'll get back to you.

Apparently they don't make any of you kids read "The Indian in the Cupboard" these days.

I don't think the former cases are really people being upset about lacking awe though. I think it's more an issue of them having staked out a position and digging in their heels to defend it. To be honest, the people like that I've met don't have much of a sense of awe and wonder in their religious lives either.…