To your point: http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977

At roughly $20 a pop, that thousand dollars will cover my 4-stream Netflix subscription for the next six years, and my family and I will enjoy orders of magnitude more variety, even if we’re fussy about quality. No, you can keep your physical media, we’re good.

Nah. It’s an extreme telescopic shot. The bike is two miles away and you’re looking though like 50x magnification. All is well.

The next best thing: Google Street View of Petra

Elegance upon elegance: canonizing the scar on Harrison Ford’s chin through Indy’s inelegant first use of a whip. That’s just over-the-top brillance.

Great moment in me history: I too saw Jurassic Park opening night, in a palace of a standalone theater with many hundreds of others. Our heroes arrive at the T-Rex paddock as the setting turns dark and rainy; no T-Rex. Audience is rapt. Control room brings on the goat. I burst out with “That’s not a Tyrranosaur!”

Entire…

Diana, I really appreciate the hard work you put into reporting out tough stories like these again and again. I’m sure it takes a toll.

This is solid Kinja.

Lynched. Not just executed. We have a word for the extrajudicial killing of a black person when the killers are operating under the knowledge that they will face no serious consequences, and we should be using it, because even “killing” and “execution” and “murder” do not adequately capture the full horror of the act,…

That’s been a nickname for the paper for decades.

*feature.

This is what Google Maps Street View is for.

The whole set was brilliant, but in fairness, it wasn’t entirely acoustic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Unplugged_in_New_York#The_performance

I was going to as well, but it’s on 69 so I’ll leave it be.

You say this like it’s a bad thing?

You turn the AC up by turning the thermostat down, duh.

I can’t believe I stumbled on this conversation thread just now, as I’m in the middle of a chat with my wife about our grief over our dog’s passing just a couple weeks ago. We’re both feeling the loss, but it’s particularly intense for her. As species, dogs and humans have really co-evolved to an almost symbiotic…

Ya think?

Premiere showing of Jurassic Park, the original. They’ve gotten to the T. Rex paddock and Rex is a no-show. Back at the control room, someone pushes the “summon the T. Rex” button. A platform rises out of the ground; chained to it, a goat. Total tension of anticipation/suspense has overtaken the theater.

I say “Hey,…

If you don’t like grilled cheese sandwiches it’s because you’re doing two things totally wrong: