I mainly meant because the animal is so beautiful. I’m sure it has some pretty great symbolism too, being a metamorphic creature, now that you mention it...

Both of the cats are behaving quite normally, yes (have had lots of cats, here). I mean, for their own personalities, which you will find are very different from one another! It looks like they get along, too, which is GREAT. And they are indeed very beautiful!

That is an incredibly beautiful moth. I’d say you had a pretty blessed encounter, there.

Writing instructor and graduate writing tutor here. Citation style, like so much of academic writing, is as much an art form as a rigid set of rules. The general rule is that your citations need to make clear where your information comes from.

One of your friends might have a Strunk and White. Not only good for citations, but also just a reassuring book in general.

You guys, what happened to the comment section over at gawker? It used to be sensible 90% of the time. Now it's almost all nuts. Can we please keep Jez civil forever?

This makes sense on a conceptual level, but it fails to take into account sales tax or the non-static nature of wages. Assuming that wages went up proportionally to the rise in prices due to the rounding, those lost hours would be none or at least fewer in number. And for some items, a price that would usually be…

I work in a Canadian business. If it lands on 2 cents it’s round-down, always. 3 cents or higher and you round up. With refunds our register always auto-rounds up. With tax, totals frequently end on the 2-cents and I would say the round-down/round-up ratio is about 50/50. Pricing would have to be carefully set up with…

It’ll have to be at the big ANA in the sky; he died in 2008 :( Luckily, his enthusiasm for proper numismatic nomenclature lives on!

Son of a coin dealer chiming in here: my dad instilled in my at an early age that the US doesn’t have “pennies”, we have a “cent”. Penny is English, the Cent is American. Proof of this is found written on the coin itself. I’ll see myself out.

Pennies should go, rounding is easy, and credit transactions can stay as they are. Anyone who is so terrified of a store cheating them out of three cents can pay with a credit or debit card.

We should get rid of nickels, too.

McNabb would lead this team to 4 straight NFC Championship Games.

I used to work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and Otto Frank did some SERIOUS editing of her diary. A lot of this was to make Anne’s pretty vicious views of her mother (saying how she wouldn’t really care if her mother died, for example) less jarring....whether or not all his…

I’m sorry, but are you seriously judging Anne Frank’s father- who outlived her and spent his life building a foundation in her name after compiling and protecting her words- for wanting to make a profit for that foundation to continue its good work?? I literally do not see any harm in this. What is the problem with…

For my part, I’m glad I’ll be good and dead by the time The Diary of Anne Frank, Zombie Killer and the like are published. But if I am still alive, I will feel free to steal them, or pay half price, since, at best, only half the effort came from the new author. How dare you deny my access!

Oh, please, you can get the Diary of Anne Frank for $3.43 for a paperback, or $5.99 for the kindle edition at Amazon. Copy right maybe abused by Disney, and whatnot, but this is hardly an example of it.

Sorry, but no.

Copyright lawyer here. In this case, having the work enter the public domain wouldn’t likely result in “profiteering.” In fact, the reverse would be true. Anyone would be able to do what they wanted with the diary —- give copies away, create derivative works (digital editions, adaptations, plays, musicals, movies,…