I've been experimenting with merino wool socks, due to their amazing wicking properties. From what I understand, (most) blisters occur when your feet get moist from sweating. The skin then becomes soft and so friction will damage it. The panty hose idea is to have a spacious layer between your feet and socks so that…

Everything gets loose over time....

Don't have pockets when you're trying to shoot that penis pic with your SLR...

Belated, but thanks! I'm glad you get it. It doesn't work too well on dating sites... :P

Thanks! I find 2 mins of brushing to be too short. I don't see how my teeth can be clean with 4-5 secs on each tooth—even with an electric toothbrush. I normally do 4 mins and try to get the bristles in between the teeth. Can mouthwash, since it has anti-bacterial agents, mess with one's natural flora? If I rinse my…

Phew. I went to a gay club for the first time on NYE due to reason 3. We first tried another club but they had a $100 cover charge (screw that!), and so a gay (male) couple in our group suggested we go to this gay club, which had a $10 cover only. Had lots of fun. Ended up meeting a straight girl there (also went…

Thanks. That's a good one.

I was promised "Is it worth borrowing from your 401k to build your credit?", but I got this instead. :-(

Yea. Shaky hand. The guy is huffing and puffing just from talking?? And no f**kin welding. I want to see it in action.

Probably. All other governments do it. And in fact all of us too, albeit, mostly it is subconscious—and often irrational.

Thanks? Everything mode of transport, indeed, every action, has an inherent, non-negligible risk. We decide to do them when we consider the benefits or rewards to be greater than the statistical risk.

Then the maximum tolerable accidents per year goes up by 8 times.

Worried about 100s of people dying? Economic calculation: 300 trains running per day, each train saves 12hours of time, assume on average each train carries 100 people. So 11million hours of travel time saved each year. Now let's estimate the required number of deaths per year that could cause a net lost of human…

Anyone know where I can get a full sized (>1080) version of these photos for desktop wallpaper purposes? Don't mind paying a few bucks.

The "giant muu-muu" looks like it was inspired by the coats Maori warrior chiefs used to wear here in New Zealand.

Looks a bit like the engineers from Prometheus to me.

Perhaps being overly pedantic but "ol'higgy" should be replaced by "ol'higgsy" or "ol'higgsey", since the Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs, so the "s" is not a plural.

You are absolutely right. China wants to maintain a buffer country between itself and the (americanized) south korea. But this is causing unimaginable suffering to millions of people! The dialogue that we should have should thus shift from laughing at KJU to protests (perhaps against China) on the streets on behalf of…

I'm going to take some crap for this, but I think we need to stop trivializing Kim Jong Un and North Korea, and really start taking them as a serious threat to world security—not just as a joke. He's not that crazy uncle that's luny but not hurting anyone. There is GROSS human rights violation going on right now in N.…

Sir, where do you get your information? I cite: "Journal authors’ rights: