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.

It's pretty clear from what Qui-Gon says to Anakin that mid-chlorians are the source of Force abilities, not a consequent.

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…

It would be very difficult. From what I remember of computer vision, eliminating motion blur by compensating for camera motion has to be done in the camera mechanism because the blur physically causes loss in the information that reaches the sensor array. The apparent motion could be cut out but you still wouldn’t get…

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…

The real question is, are they solid chocolate the way God intended or are they like all those bait-and-switch rabbits that are hollow inside? Quality journalism demands an answer!

Jupiter's red spot laughs at your puny Earth storms.

"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.

If I ever publish my writing, it will be as F.Y.T.W. Jones. If anyone asks what it stands for, "Fuck You, That's What."

That’s not the same thing as “jaywalking pedestrians are always at fault in the case of an accident”. The person hit just has to say “I was jaywalking, but crossing cautiously and this driver was going too fast” and you could have a civil case. I like to think the court would made the obvious ruling here, but we all…

I stand corrected about the NRC, but part of the problem with these pacemakers is that it was out of the device manufacturers’ hands once it was installed. Someone at the hospital, morgue or crematorium comes across it and they have to know what to look for and what to do with one when they find it. Whether it gets…

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