This might be a stupid question, but I’m wondering about how infrastructure is working down there. All of these videos we’re seeing were taken on phones and then uploaded presumably through some type of mobile access point. Does anyone have any ideas on how those are powered? Are they somehow self-sustaining?

Ha! I forced my former fiancée to watch the Prisoner at one point in the relationship. For years afterward, we would shout “Who is number one??” “YOU ARE NUMBER SIX!” At each other.

There were a whole bunch of these “lifelogging” devices out a few years ago. I backed one on Kickstarter which I actually used to capture pictures of my ad agency’s holiday party (basically, most pictures consisted of people side-eyeing the camera as you can see my pudgy hands gesticulating wildly). I’ve got to say…

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,…

And, since this has come up, I know where around five hours of my weekend are going...

When I first read the headline, I thought “Oh, is Until The End of the World on the list?” An old boss of mine introduced me to the film and, really, it’s just an amazing piece of film.

Ugh. I dated a girl once that refused to watch films that had actors who had died in them. It was pretty frustrating (no watching Point Break or, you know, Casablanca, for example), but every now and then I got to invoke it to get out of watching her shitty rom coms, so that was a plus.

For what it's worth, I'm on a search and rescue team and, recently in the area, we had a rabid coyote attack a biker. After the attack, I decided to see about getting the rabies vaccine. After talking with the doctor, it turned out that most insurance companies will cover the vaccine after you're bitten, but they will…

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

Felix Gilman's book The Revolutions has a Victorian-era version of the same type of human-powered computer in it, I think. It didn't stick with me as much as The Half-Made World, but was still an entertaining book.

Thanks! In return, I offer you some dancing boobies. I only have the blue-footed variety, unfortunately.

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge, but based on the name of your organization, I'm assuming you have some type of diagnostic criteria to define the difference between a boob and a titty?

I think the part that I find most creepy is that someone managed to lure the folks one by one into the barn in order to kill them. Obviously, they weren't genre savvy enough to realize that when you're the last person left, you shouldn't go where every one else disappeared.

OH MY GOD! How can you not include the Taman Shud case or Hinterkaifeck? Both of them are weird as hell. They need to be mentioned.

I have a giant 5D Mark II and assorted lenses that I used to haul around when backpacking and hiking for landscape and nature photography. About a year ago, I decided that carrying the extra 5-10 pounds of assorted gear (as well as the pack space it took up) was simply nuts, I switched to using a little Canon…

Just a quick note on one of the products mentioned in this: Last weekend, I spent the night out in mid- to high-30s temperatures on the bare ground using a Z-Lite SOL, an Enlightened Equipment Revelation bag and a small a-frame tarp (it was for Search and Rescue training, so no tents allowed). I was perfectly warm…

Ah, it really depends on how fast you want to open it, right? I mean, if you want to do it in the same time span that they use on television, you can rake the shit out of the pins, but you lose cool points for having a spastic hand. If you want to do it subtly, you can take your time, feeling out each pin. Err. Not…

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.