Everyone is blowing this is off as some weird fetish-y thing and missing Mark's larger point: this is becoming normal. Let me repeat that again: hardcore, extreme and often dangerous sexual acts, overwhelmingly involving women, are becoming more and more normalized. Things that should be seasoned fetishes and…

CEOs and their ilk are rarely tech savvy. Steve Jobs didnt know jackshit about computers. The Woz was the brains, Jobs could just marked like a god

I'm still waiting for this one:

We are all beetles under GRRMs rock... or the characters are , almost same effect

The security blanket of knowing they can just buy something just like it or better if they want surely is a huge part of it. I keep things for years bc I know I couldn't afford to replace it. I have downsized many times for different reasons and still remember regretfully individual items I wish I had but can't afford…

Eh. I'm basically reiterating other things already said in this article, but minimalism is just another kind of snobbery. When you go "I don't even own a TV" you're not saying, "Aren't I, and tons of people in Nigeria, so cool and hip because we don't own TVs?" You're saying, "Aren't I so cool and hip because I could…

Right on. Very re-affirming for me to hear that articles like this are appreciated at io9.

I'm really pleased with the increasing range of topics on IO9. I'm not sure where my topical boundaries are but a piece like this, that deals with the intersections between science, politics, and culture, feels right. I had this thought earlier in the week when I read the piece about Congress shutting down the…

Couldn't resist

The best way to prove that you're not a misogynist is to deny that misogyny exists and believe that anyone who perpetuates the idea that MAYBE IT DOES is just a fat, bitter cunt.

A little thought should lead a reasonable person to conclude that he sacrificed his home, his family, his career, and his freedom to lend authenticity to the information he released to the public. But then, its a lot easier to just scream TRAITOR and completely forget about the stuff he revealed in the first place.

I'm going to assume, until proof to the contrary, that Snowden meant well when he leaked the documents, as opposed to working for a foreign intelligence office that wanted to harm the US. If he truly did it for the public good, can you imagine the loneliness and lack of options he is facing right now? He can't be…

People always underestimate how quickly water moves, especially because it doesn't even look like it's moving that fast if you just see it for a short time. A few years ago I was part of a recovery operation trying to find a car full of people that got washed away in a flash flood in the US. That part isn't really…

In the First World War, the Western nations bore the burden of trench warfare and attrition, while the Eastern Front was mostly set-piece battles of maneuver and tactics. In the Second World War, this was mostly reversed: it's the Eastern Front that saw the slogs and quagmires and trenches and house-to-house fighting,…

I've been to the Somme and Verdun battlefields, and have seen the Lochnagar crater/Hawthorne ridge redoubt. They were just as striking 15 years ago as they are now in the pictures.

I seem to recall when I was little someone was colorizing episodes of I Love Lucy and Lucille Ball got pissed because they put her in a hideous green dress because they said that's what the grey matched up to. She said she wore a grey dress because it was a black and white show what did it matter.

It's pretty little movie, but very flattened and narrowed in its vision. Germany-Russia collaboration is downplayed, many important countries omitted and perspective on 1942-1945 is grossly "Americanised"