I watched the 2005 Pride and Prejudice last weekend, and was reminded of this Douthat column. Aside from the references to urbanites and television, the following pretty much describes Pride and Prejudice:

We pay $172.60/month for cable with HBO and Showtime, two TiVos, Amazon Prime, and Netflix streaming. The $55 option is almost perfect, but avoiding the forced commercials on Hulu Plus might be worth $115/month.

David Mitchell's latest seems like his weirdest as well.

This is the Seattle Central Library.

Now I want to visit Calgary.

But do they sell your data?

Would the graphic have been considered outrageous if the subject had been female?

Beautiful is kind of generic. I guess what I mean is that it's intuitive, minimalist (in a good way), and internally consistent. I find it far superior to the Roku UI, and while I happily pay TiVo for their UI's superiority to the UI of the Cox DVR, the Apple TV UI is simpler (again, in a good way). The Chromecast, at…

I love AppleTV more and more all the time. We have one for each TV, and I love that one device can pick up a program where the other left off. I love that I can use it to buy a movie, rent a movie, or watch a movie for "free" (via the Netflix, HBOGO, Showtime Anytime, or PBS app). I love that the UI is consistent…

I've used TENS units and have been unimpressed. (They have existed since 1974.) Prolonged use caused pain. My husband had the same experience. There must be a specific kind of injury that they work well with.

Beautiful.

This certainly makes end-of-life planning more difficult. "If I don't respond to Vertigo, it's okay to unplug me."

My siblings and I were beaten with belts, wooden spoons, spatulas, and (worst of all) the handle end of wire-handled flyswatters. I don't know whether we "turned out okay," but that's not really relevant. People live through all kinds of terrible things and "turn out okay." My parents believed in corporal punishment…

I don't get it. Our music libraries are getting bigger, right? And now the most memory you can get on an iPod is 64GB? My library just fit on my 160GB Classic if I left off Christmas songs and a few other things. I guess we're supposed to be streaming, but the infrastructure for that is weak if you're driving, hiking,…

I suspect that in the old days, the star could promise the people who worked on the album that they'd have a perennial source of income because he gave them songwriting credit on a filler track.

At least with Tweetdeck they had the decency to buy it before ruining it.

>Safeguard even inconsequential information about yourself.

I was an early adopter who got a lot of free space when close to 50 people accepted my invitation to join, but with Microsoft bundling 1 TB of OneDrive space with Office 365, I can't justify spending money on Dropbox.

I hate football, but he's one of my heroes.

But then we complain that people are living where it floods (Mississippi River Valley) or has hurricanes (coastal South), or where development is bad for the environment (the Northwest, northern California, and pretty much anywhere else).