For what it’s worth, when I was just a wee lad, my cat Cringer (don’t judge. I was, like, five years old and He-Man was life), went missing from our ninth-story apartment one night. After searching every inch of that place for her, we went out on the balcony with a flashlight to look out there. The balcony could see…

Something similar happened to one of my high school friends a few years back. He had a headache and went to the doctor. They didn’t find anything wrong, gave him some medication and sent him home. He posted about it on social media. The next day his condition deteriorated and they took him back to the hospital and the…

Oh, I don’t disagree with that at all. Admittedly, I haven’t really been following any Taylor Swift news, so I wasn’t aware that Swift was being derided for having too many boyfriends. The only criticism I remember regarding her breakups was that, every time it happened, people suggested whatever new breakup-themed…

Honest question: Are people really shaming Taylor Swift over a lack of purity? I was always under the impression that people took issue with Swift’s constant need to turn her breakups into songs. I certainly can see the “lack of purity” analogy fitting some of the early Britney Spears behavior, though. As I recall,…

I constantly write tuneless, rhymeless, little songs to myself and sing them aloud

Well, it could be considered contributory infringement. I'm a little surprised that the Betamax case (which was originally a suit brought against Sony for creating a device that allowed folks to record television shows and established that producers of devices with non-infringing uses can't be sued because it might be…

Personally, I'd call it ShitFit.

This was my thought, too. The picture isn't great, but it looks like a coypu to me. They're an invasive species, so if they were introduced in Asia, they could be spreading. But, yeah, they don't eat meat.

It comes with an empty paper towel dispenser?

I would totally pay to read that comic. I'm not a huge Superman fan, but, yes, a situation where he must be forced to either compromise his moral code to save, say, millions of innocent lives or "be the good guy" and let millions die. I'd read that. And it's much more compelling than, "Hey, I'm a weak-minded…

That's really interesting. People around the office tend to ask me, incredulously, while I like dubstep so much, since it's what I typically listen to while working. The real answer is that I'm not particularly partial to it, but there are no lyrics and I don't recognize the tunes, so it doesn't distract me.

So... McAfee's sense of humor is showing the warden the warden's own computer and then telling the warden that that computer was a birthday gift to McAfee from someone else?

Something about this whole thing is just strange. If you actually read the "Can't Sleep" blog post, you can see that he's talking about about buying a Macbook Pro for a guy that, as McAfee says, already has one. "I am using the computer of one of the wardens, or whatever title is used here [....] His name is Gino…

Thank god you're not your ex's baby? That would be pretty awkward.

Indeed. I really love the idea, but the actual implementation (shading the header image, centering the text and profile images, etc) is just freakin' awful.

Forgive me for asking, but does anyone recognize the type of camera he's using?

I already have enough electronic paper weights.

The problem is that they didn't have a giant rotating mirror and couldn't vaporize a human target from space.

Provided it's relevant and contextual, I don't mind seeing an ad every time I took a look down my pants during the day, just to reassure myself that my little friend hadn't disappeared.