I'm confused. Both Jezebel and Gawker linked to Egotastic's scans of the Kate Middleton pictures. I assumed this meant they weren't available online from the copyright holder, but this post implies that wasn't the case.

For the past several years, she's tracked on the country charts and she just had a baby with her bull riding husband, who is president of their professional organization. Maybe you don't like Walmart, but Jewel seems to be doing fine.

I realize that hating on Walmart is trendy in some circles, but as they have done for the rest of America, Walmart has made products which were previously inaccessible available to Alaskans. Tom Bodett, who's from the same town in Alaska where Jewel grew-up, once held forth on Larry King's radio show about what was at…

It looks like a fun, kind of arty pic and by incorporating a little naughtiness, the photographer's work and the story is bound to get noticed. After all, it doesn't take an artist to staff a photobooth.

Basically, the doctor's conclusion is that if you sleep late on Sunday morning, you'll have trouble going to sleep on Sunday night. He suggests that if you're trying to balance a "sleep debt", you should go to bed earlier on Saturday night.

The problem with the "no sales" thing was that it didn't provide a motivation to buy. I'm a guy, so my shopping methods may be different, but if I'm walking through Penney's and see a rack of sale shirts, I might actually buy one. While, if they're not on sale and are at regular price, I may decide to come back…

I watch it with my kids.

I also thought only 30 miles was amazing. As for the idea of a busy road, like @GuanoLad said, there aren't busy roads everywhere and it was attached to a parachute, so if it was headed toward one, the drivers should be able to see it.

The still looks like a flashback to the morning after the power went down. Of course, yeah, if the battery back-up for the stoplights still work, I don't know why they can't be recharged and as I said in a comment to the post with the pilot, I can't imagine why they can't rebuild or repower the grid, but it's an…

I'd have to look for the specific literature, but my understanding was that the change made in the 90s was between using a whole virus versus a partial and that it was done as a cost-saving measure for the vaccine manufacturers. Perhaps my memory is a little shaky on why they switched from a whole to a partial, but…

But, a lot of the searches which include "escort" are because autocomplete suggests it. One would think that in the wild and without the autocomplete suggestions, "Germany" would also be associated with her name.

My understanding was that the recent upswing in whooping cough rates was because the vaccine formulation changed a few years ago and now it's wearing-off around high school, which last time I checked was where a lot of the these outbreaks have occurred. Because it's easy to hate on anti-vaccination people, the two…

Though the Japanese precedent wouldn't carry a lot of weight in Europe, there are search terms which don't come up in autocomplete, so there has to be some kind of controlling database. Prior to this post, I didn't know anything about the woman, but when I copy and paste her name into Google, autocomplete implies…

Did anyone believe there really was some kind of "feud"? The way I read the first story, Beyonce may have had an annoyed expression at some point and all the rest of it has been people with gossip blogs and tabloids trying to fill space.

I think it's more likely a generational issue and it's made to seem larger by the personality types who read and write blogs. Obviously everyone else doesn't subscribe to your "social contract", nor did I when I've lived in or near cities. There are certain people who don't like social interaction and instead of…

Bicycle Guy was a nut, not a man.

If it's rude to talk to strangers in a big city, that's really a strike against the cities. Out here in the rest of the country, people smile and make small talk every day.

It's great that you're working "toward creating a world", but I suspect these women have needs today. Not to mention that some may like the gig.

As an American close to turning 50, I'd be interested in reading more of this oral history project. I see from his (unlinked) blogspot there's a fundraising campaign underway and this appears to be the longest excerpt available.

Both the plague and flesh-eating case happened just after I moved there and though I may have missed other reports, I believe those may have been the only cases that I heard about over my six years in the state. According to the related article referenced at the bottom of the News-Bulletin piece, but isn't linked, a…