@Worf: I wonder if the RIAA even has jurisdiction in the Philippines...I'm fairly certain it's a sovereign state and the RIAA has no direct legal power.

@dusteruk: It never occurred to me this song had a music video...and how much cocaine would be required to comprehend it...

@TheRaginAzn: If I had the ability to, I'd promote this comment and star you...alas I've not had the privilege to have the latter happen to myself...

Awww, I forgot how cute/awkward Filipino accents are...all of my relatives live in Vancouver or the Philippines and none of them have the most often portrayed stereotypical Filippino accent. The voice-over guy's accent falls into the more awkward of the two I commonly hear: the…

@ThePriceofEggsinMalta: Mmm, I can see how that would be undesirable. Alas, I have no iPad...

YES! FINALLY! Next best thing to the Courier.

@ZaxxonQ.com: I don't suppose you shout that line in public venues often and pause the people around you, do you? That'd be a perfect experiment for Improv Anywhere...

I know you're not a political blog but occasionally you do take a stance on certain topics with a political bent. Since you graze the fact that capacity hasn't increased despite repeated outages due to flooding, you should at least allude to the political climate surrounding the MTA's funding, which is the cause of…

@djlaser: I think she meant to contrast the difference between normal operation and record-breaking runs. They both use conventional' rails (as opposed to Maglev).

@drmrw: Indeed, though if the Chinese maintain their rollingstock and rails, the likelihood we'll ever get to see that will be extremely low.

@wjbean: Yeah, as it turns out, this is a special case of insufficient funds for escalators. Transit agencies nationwide have been feeling the budget pinch since the 1960s and the fact that BART and WMATA were ever built in the 70s is nothing short of a transit funding miracle. Today, many agencies, BART included,…

@infopowerbroker: One can only hope that architects don't start putting these into airports as a sadistic obstacle course between security checkpoints and the gates....

Aside from infopowerbroker's concerns about standing and walking lanes, having both up and down escalators effectively binds both to a single point of failure in the event of one. This causes severe problems in deep subway stations like Roosevelt Island in New York and Porter in Boston where the most efficient…

Ummm, so something jumped out at me immediately as a typographer: my browser wasn't loading the fonts that were uploaded with the package. A quick survey of the CSS revealed that the values for 'url' under 'local' for both defined font faces were referencing font files within the CSS folder, rather than '../fonts'.

Uncanny Valley FTW...

Is it just me, or does it seem like every girl thinks that they're not that loud when they're whoopin' and hollerin' in bed?...

I'm not a luddite, but I think the comments by other folks here is an indication that there is indeed a poignant social message these adverts are using as their main argument. With over 16k texting-related auto deaths between 2001 and 2007 and over 5k distracted driving-related auto deaths in 2009 alone, there's a big…

Wow, architectural planning oversight only reserved for the most eccentric of architects (read: Frank Ghery and the Walt Disney Concert Hall). Considering the litigious society in which we live and the fact that it's in Las Vegas, I can see some dude(s) as rich as/richer than Pintas coming to his hotel, getting…

@Destronok: I doubt we'd even see these implemented on high-ticket European trains in a super-first class cabin. This reflects more the opulence of one of those conceptual images that regularly get released for luxurious configurations of new airliners. I could potentially see this working on a long distance train in…

@technomom1: To paraphrase a slogan from one of Amtrak's current adverts for the Northeast Corridor: You have a right to arrive in the city center.