@booktart: Well, I'm def spamming Google from this thread once I'm done with my current book. But my faves include Gravity's Rainbow, The Big Sleep, Breakfast of Champions, Infinite Jest, Franny and Zooey, and Journey to the End of the Night. I'm woefully under-read on newer authors, though.

Oh man, I was just complaining the other day that almost everything I read is at least ten years old, and I'd like to read at least some contemporary lit, but I have no idea where to get legit recommendations. Zadie, I'll read whatever you tell me to.

@vonnegutessen: I would be more willing to accept that it wasn't serious, as it would come from a different place, but that wouldn't make it funny or clever. The subject matter is ill-advised, regardless of the author's gender. But the fact that the author is a man certainly doesn't help his case any. I've met plenty…

@Kitten is an 80s rocker: Adultery is still on the books in a few states, but it's almost never prosecuted. Adultery laws are certainly unconstitutional, and probably have been since 1965 when the "right to privacy" was established. And if not since then, since 2003, when Lawrence v. Texas basically invalidated all…

The desire to procreate probably is biologically ingrained. DNA is a meme that seeks to perpetuate itself. If a group/culture/species had no desire to procreate, it would die out, and if some part of a DNA strand carried that innate desire, that sequence would quickly become universal.

Wow, another brilliant satirist! They're really coming out of the woodwork. The sidebar on the source article says he's got 10 other posts, let's check out some more of his cutting social commentary. Quotes are his, natch, considering his incisive prose and razor wit.

@hagane_no: They may blow everything out of proportion, but /b/ blows up vans.

I know it can't, but a lot of posters are joking about how this app could be used to shoot down a plane. Am I the only one who hoped to use it to latch onto a plane with a sky hook, Dark Knight style?

Sorry if this is off topic, but what exactly is £30 a month? Is that a payment plan for a phone with no up-front? Your required data? Or your whole bill? Because if £40 a month is pricey across the pond, and your phones are free... damn. We're paying equiv of £130 for the phone and £50-£65 for the plan.

@Dorilys: Smallpox was fully eradicated in '79. Polio's down to 1,000 cases a year, and WHO/Unicef/et al are working on eradicating that too. That's all I say to anti-vaccine nuts.

@bananafishtoday: Err, that would be *#06#. The code I posted before is to get into any Sprint phone's backdoor wipe menu. :)

It's not just because Nokia makes the best cheap phones, and it's not just Europe. I worked at a used cell store in Manhattan for a couple years, as in our stock was bought from the general public. We'd see fake phones fairly regularly, mostly iPhones and Nokias. But the two catagories are totally different beasts.…

@RedEyeNinja: Not unprecedented.

"[...] a way to find new ways for natural radioactive waste containment."

@nootron: In fact, type II supernovae are one of only two ways the universe makes elements heavier than iron, and are the only source of anything heavier than lead.

@catsmeatpotterpirbright: Introducing the Nokia Xpress Music 5850: Now with Android OS! The innovative stylus design, paired with a best-in-class resistive touchscreen, gives you unprecedented control over how you use your device. Preloaded with Ovi Maps and the Ovi App Store, which now features over one hundred apps…

@Hearthatvoiceagain says see sense: Apple already agreed to back micro USB with the European Commission (of... something)! I was pretty surprised when I read it. They'll probably keep the dock port and ship with an adapter, but still.

Whoever wins... we lose.

For anyone who was to read more in-depth about the topic, there's an amazing (and long!) post on Phandroid forums about this.

@Grive: I never knew that, I always thought iDEN only existed in the US. It's pretty much dead here though. The problem with iDEN was that Motorola designed it but basically refused to licence it to any other phone manufacturers (except to RIM for a couple BBs.) That's one way to corner a market, I guess.