I'm part of an entire generation of unmoderated internet users, and besides the porn addiction, we turned out okay!

What I think is most egregiously dishonest is the way it's presented as if the entire grant goes toward one single experiment. These grants generally fund a research team for several years at a time, and during that time, far more than the one single experiment singled out is performed. It's as if you borrowed $2…

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

Microsoft got hosed by OEMs and hardware manufacturers during the Vista era in a way that Google has only seen in its worst nightmares. Vista was, in fact, unforgivably slow on a machine with 512 megs of RAM and the terrible-even-for-the-era onboard video cards that volume-selling laptops at the time came equipped…

There was a simmering anger about people like me — "Social Justice Warriors", as they call us — who are asking for change in the game industry: a better, broader representation of characters, among other things. We're "the cancer that's killing games", and Kotaku is seen as the key enemy site, with Polygon a close…

Okay, seriously. What in the actual fuck, folks?

I teach English at the college level; last year, I was privileged to teach ENG 230, which at my institution is a rotating (through the faculty) course that is generously labeled "Special Topics in Literature."

I taught my course, for two semesters, as "Gaming: Literary…

It wasn't until I left Central New York that I found out no one else knew about salt potatoes.

I remember when that Randy Johnson thing happened, and I still cannot believe that video. If you've ever tried to pluck a dead bird, it's not all that easy—it takes some force. I can't imagine the heat he put on that ball to actually blast the feathers off that pigeon.

I think I can speak for everyone when I ask, "But how does the pizza taste, and do they deliver in thirty minutes or less?"

"Doc, you're so crazy! Everyone takes shots at each other."

That is one of the most simplistic and, I'm sorry, simple-minded explanations of a complex decision-making process. The GOP clearly should not have interfered or threatened a business enterprise on ideological grounds as they did and, for better or worse, the rejection of a union VW wanted has made the decision (and…

Should the parents be held responsible? It seems like that kind of shifting of responsibility could be a very dangerous precedent to set, on both sides of the equation.

I'm not a lawyer or even a paralegal, but I work with contracts every week, some of them highly complex ones. A few points I'll add:

Inside a typical, non-descript industrial park, inside a typical, non-descript building, there is a basement. In this basement, there is a room that is usually locked. Outside this room there is a security guard, who is usually breathing and does not usually contain a .38 caliber size hole in his forehead. Inside the…

When your grandmother recounts the story of having seen her brother bleed out after his leg was blown off during the occupation of Korea, get back to me. She carried that weight her entire life. But I suppose there's a point where you just "get over" life shattering traumatic experiences, right? Good for you that some…

Hands down. Avatar.

Less than an inch of gaffers tape can fix that.
Then again, gaffers tape fixes everything.

Here's a perfect example of why people need to understand scale. There is a scale at which privacy becomes difficult to achieve, and that's essentially this person's argument. Thinking in terms of "towns" or "cities" is the wrong scale. What we need to understand is the social unit. Think of it this way: you might…

Seats two only, minimal creature comforts (well, except for heated seat & leather)
Nature's Miata?