(It’s a little late now, but I can’t edit my above post, so I’m going to trigger warning (the topic is rape) this entire comment thread.)

I got this out of the library when I was 11; I don’t think anybody looked twice because the cover makes it seem like just another fantasy novel.

Our roommate is deathly allergic to onions, but we recently figured out that we can substitute chopped celery and get much the same result.

I’ve been recently going through the reverse of this; having weighed no more than 92 lbs in my entire life, I always just assumed I was supposed to be fighting to gain weight. Now that I have ten years of experimentation under my belt and have concluded that nothing outside of total lifestyle overhaul and great…

It has some annoying music in the background, but you could probably grab a clip from this video (download the mp3 using a converter site and use Audacity to trim it down).

Here’s my husband’s ringtone tone for me.

Couldn’t find it on Youtube, but here’s the audio clip my husband has used as a morning alarm for six months.

I was about to write you off as just another bigot who hates religion because it’s the cool thing to do, but as I read your comment, and especially when I got to this:

I admit that I opened this article expecting a bigoted, badly-thought-out entry on how religion causes only suffering, all adherents are brainwashed or mentally challenged, and organized spirituality must be abandoned and mocked. I am pleasantly surprised and very proud that io9 and Esther Inglis-Arkell have…

As with most lists of this kind, ‘They find you unattractive because you’ve let yourself go’ is missing, and that’s the complaint I hear most often from gal friends. This is somewhat covered under ‘You’re Not Reciprocating’, but could really use elaboration. “Maybe you’re taking it for granted that they’re always…

this is over an inch of meat. I can’t fit it in my mouth, it’s so much meat.

I just checked under Budgets, and when you go to set up a pay period, the only option is 'Every month'. I get paid weekly, and the amount can vary, so this definitely leads to some imprecision in my budget.

For one, in a regular movie, you can see when a baddie sneaking up on a main character comes into the frame. The artist has control. But with VR films, a baddie could be sneaking up on you—you just wouldn’t know it unless there was a cue, either audio or visual, to turn around.

You asked for insider knowledge, and my day job involves figuring out Walmart marketing logistics, so here you go:

Before I self-publish my scifi/horror novel (I think I've posted about it before), I'd like to record an audiobook for sale through Audible. Over the weekend, I experimented with recording in various rooms, but can't quite get the audio quality where I want it. I'm probably going to have to post on the Audacity forums…

In a world where the ‘asshole’ character is easy to stay away from and doesn’t talk about you behind your back, this would be a great solution. The problem is, while a man ‘standing up for himself’ is seen as strong, or maybe aggressive at worst — women are quickly assigned the ‘bitch’ label. One of the easiest…

A few years back, I started reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality at the suggestion of a rationalist friend, but stopped maybe 15 chapters in because I found it boring. Harry was perfect and knew everything and was never wrong, and all problems could be resolved by talking.

I wrote a novel (currently recording the audiobook) about an acicular alien parasite that spreads through the body by repairing wounds, eventually taking over the entire host, with all the horrifying side effects that entails. So headlines like this make me jump out of my chair.

My favorite is when the straps match so well with the shirt that I have friends ask if they're a punk-rock-looking extra part of the shirt.

Here's the longest trailer I could find for the original, under its native name, Villmark.