I find your comment confusing. LOTR was fifteen years ago, filmed in NZ. Harry Potter had poc characters. People of color existed in England even back in Downton Abbey days.

Attitudes like this are so fucking disconnected from reality. I have never once watched a film or tv show and thought “huh, this was great, except it was a little too diverse.” I cannot for the life of me understand why directors wouldn’t want to cater to (or at least pay lip service to) the 37% of America that…

- Tim Burton, basically.

My dumbphones have only "expired" because I either told em to (read: dropped in a lake or whatever). The one I use now (sony ericsson J110i) is lasting over 6 years already. Battery life: standby: 7 days, heavy use: a day.

I'm always amazed at these kinds of lists. I think it is very telling about our throwaway society. Captalism has been so successful that we can afford to make everthing throwaway and disposable. Even our food! Americans waste 50% of the food we buy. (And thanks for incluing the note that the smell test is much more…

TV sets: At minimum, 16 years (but you'll replace it before then because that's what we do now)

Yeah anyone who thinks nail polish only lasts a year has obviously never used nail polish. I can't think of a single person who has used a whole bottle of nail polish in a year.

Yeah, foods and things with a low percentage of an active ingredient with a short half-life make sense to consider the exp date on, but I have no idea how someone can say with a straight face that a bar of soap can "expire". Ivory soap can sit on the shelf for decades and it still works the same as the day it was…

While there are indeed safety issues with certain items on this list, I'm not buying many of these claims. Having used 8-year-old rubbing alcohol, 10-year-old bars of soap, 2-year-old laundry detergent, and 4-year-old shaving cream, I think some of the sources the author is using are perhaps underwritten by the very…

There's a pretty good chance you'll be able to tell if these items aren't good anymore, however, as batteries and paint just won't work.

Seriously? As I'm typing this on a fully functional Macbook from 2006 and using my 30 month old iPhone? I guarantee you they have not expired. Yet then you claim TV's last 16 years? Where are you pulling these numbers from?

Nobody and no thing should be forced to live in CT.

I was forced to go to that aquarium on a family outing. That tank is really small. I hope the Mystic people don't get their wish for a baby whale. What a horrible life it will have.

It's still marine mammals in captivity kept for the amusement and entertainment of people.
Cool to see their reaction but I can't help but feel it is of small consolation to such evolved and intelligent animals.

I have an idea: how about a LifeHacker article on how to get Gawker Media to stop screwing around with Kinja?

This is exactly why I'm naming my daughter Mercedes.

Kind of amused at the I won't discuss this in public we are transparent tweet. Past that, good for them. It won't fix everything, but the good thing about active chapters of frats is that their institutional memory is effectively 5 years. It's not outside the realm of possibility that in 10 years' time hazing will…

"You forgot me."

I'm suddenly reminded of the "time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" joke :)