True story: guy I went to HS with thought wallet chains were cool but didn’t own a wallet, so he just chained two of his belt loops together.

Deadspin needs to leave the fashion snark to Jezebel.

More importantly, why wouldn’t they just say that was the reason even if there was something else?

Let me have a stab at it. Giving more money to the artists is great, but that's not what Tidal is doing. Tidal is (still) structured to give money to the owners, many/most of whom happen to be big-name artists given an ownership stake in exchange for signing on with the service. Independent musicians putting their…

That’s true of every drug testing policy, though. One of things I enjoyed about the Lance Armstrong hearings was hearing the Scooby-Doo techniques used to avoid failing tests, like sending the testers to the wrong room, putting everything incriminating into a box and then putting the box in the room the testers had…

True facts: the Dakotas, Mississippi, Alabama and Hawaii are the only states I’ve never set foot in.

That's the bigger problem that no one wants to confront about the CA drought: water used for irrigation in what is essentially a semi-arid climate. You can ration residential water use to 0 and there will still be drought conditions due to agriculture. But people are a much weaker lobby in California than the…

"Soybean paste that's fermented until it looks and tastes exactly like snot" - Japanese people

It’s not an “unfunny twitter joke”, it’s his journalistic catchphrase.

It's a lot harder to get a soccer ball to travel quickly and accurately over that kind of distance. If it travels along the ground, grass will slow it down, and if it's in the air it's subject to wind. Plus the ball is less aerodynamic than the puck. Different sports have different expectations for spectacular -…

One of the problems I have with complaining about bad Star Spangled Banner renditions is that, from a technical standpoint, it's one of the hardest national anthems to sing. A lot of actually good singers don't have the vocal range to hit all the notes, and because the tune is not altogether well composed, the highest…

I’ve known crackheads. Rob Ford is way too fat for me to find credible as a crack user.

All the best comments are lost in the greys.

You should ask her. No, better yet, Alaska.

I am a full-time, self-taught programmer. I know people who have gone through these types of courses. They have learned the skill of being able to write code, but coding by itself is just like hammering nails into boards when you want to do carpentry. Learning to code can be the start of becoming a programmer or…

I hope Floyd cheats and gets a DQ.

I never thought I’d say this, but I am absolutely happy with the way local police in a college town are handling a criminal investigation against an athlete. Granted, he’s not a star quarterback, but it’s a sign that things are changing for the better.

IMO: their pants are actually the best part. I got a pair of trousers at Uniqlo in Japan while I was an exchange student there and they lasted, being worn twice a week, for about 7 years. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter. I would have kept them longer except 1) my waistline started to expand, and 2) an…

Am I the only one who thinks the coke-bottle business cards are legitimately a cool idea? Like if I had a soft drink company I would actually do that.

It's a scam because the argument for it is never, "the citizens really want this." It's always, "the revenue and economic growth having a team brings in will more than offset the costs to the city" which is never true. That's the scam.