"probably the algorithms" I bet it's all about the licenses. Beats might have negotiated some sweet deals with the music industry.

"made this work "
What didn't work about it? Potential competitor neutralized, its intellectual property, userbase, and licenses cannibalized for Apple's new service. From Apple's perspective, mission accomplished.

Says who?

"How does all that weird gunplay work into this goofy ass story?"

On the one hand, this sounds amazing. On the other hand, so did the trailer for Apollo 18.

And how could they track it anyway, since THE RADAR WASN'T BUILT UNTIL 1976!

I believe the usual conspiracy theory is that sure we could launch something from Florida — I mean, thousands of people saw that with their own eyes — but we couldn't get it out of Earth orbit to the moon for some reason.

I figured out why I hate this song probably as much as Emily does. Taylor's trying to cast herself (or the "I" in the song anyway) as a sympathetic poor nerdy plain Jane, but as Emily points out, she never makes a good case for it.

Half a century of offshore trash dumping. Okay, back to Taylor Swift…

I think Avril Levigne makes a better case that the target of her song is actually in the wrong, though.

It's not, though. The singer doesn't just latch on to the sk8er boi once he starts rocking on MTV, she's been with him the whole way, even when it seemed like he wouldn't amount to much. The idea is that staying true to good people can pay off.

What's wrong with liking the idea of Taylor Swift covered in batter and bread crumbs?

That's the story Taylor's trying to sell, but Emily's point is that the song doesn't make the case. There's nothing in there to convince us that the singer really is a poor plain Jane who deserves our sympathy, rather than a self-justifying jealous saboteur, especially when we know that this particular plain Jane…

It's not that beautiful people can't have nerdy interests. It's that Swift is trying to claim ownership of a kind of social rejection that beautiful people will never ever experience to the degree Emily probably did.

Oh come on, she wasn't born with every privilege. I mean, her father was only a Merrill Lynch *vice* president.

Top Canadian-produced show coming in at #18? Yikes. My fellow Americans, this is what cultural hegemony looks like.

Question: Did the Thursday Canadian Lineup ignore Dark Matter when it was airing, or have I just been ignoring the Lineup like I do with most things Canadian? Because more Americans need to know it exists.

One Facebook post from my evangelical aunt is usually where I max out.

I asked five people what they thought of your definition, and they all agreed it was ridiculous. (See what I did there?) It's not a difference of definition, but of dialect: "persons" is officialese. Seriously, try using it in a sentence without sounding like a cop or a warning sign.

As far as I can tell, "persons" is "people" for show-offs.