As a currently pretty overweight fellow, I have absolutely no problem with the premise of this story. Calories in/calories out is indeed the way it works. I'm somewhat surprised as the dismissiveness of Ms. Philipkoski toward various diets that appear to have helped moderate either the amount of calories in (e.g. low…

That can't possibly be true with regards to ISO.

That's kind of like how I don't understand how it can continue to be 60 degrees outside, when the groundhog assures me it is winter.

I feel like everyone gets this wrong. Pinterest isn't Tumblr for ladies. It's 4CHAN for ladies!!!!

Ditto. I've never written a letter to my elected official before today. It kind of felt like applying for a job online. If it was just me, I'd expect very little out of it. But it clearly isn't just me doing this.

Um... so what? Let's assume for a moment that piracy is as morally wrong as killing people. (It's not, but let's pretend.) Now, we know that there is one way to drastically reduce piracy, and that way is to make it less necessary, by making the material more easily and quickly accessible. We also know there is a way…

I refer to it as 4chan for girls and theorize that one day the girls on the site will rise up and begin hacking websites in the name of human rights (and because they feel like it).

To my knowledge, the act of copying the copyrighted material is what is illegal. With that said, I don't believe any court has ever tested what exactly defines "copying." The RIAA/MPAA specifically goes after uploaders, because there is little doubt that uploaders have copied and distributed material. But, since there…

Not to defend the argument, but the Dr. Pepper comparison is a pretty weak one. If there was a way to copy soda, for free, so that the person who had the soda to begin with kept his copy of the soda, and I got another copy of the soda, we'd be looking at a perpetual energy machine. In one fell stroke, assuming this…

If you can add hot and cold weather conditions, I'm totally in.

Looks more like the Dance Dance Revolution mat to me. What was old is new again!

Speak for yourself. I ALWAYS say "Tehbehhuh" when writing out TBH.

I love moving walkways because they make me feel like I am running when I walk. I imagine it's how a dog feels when he sticks his head out the window of a moving car. Also, the bit at the end is fun.

Yeah, I'm with you. I've never actually managed to make it through 2001 without falling asleep at some point in the movie. The book was great though.

As a rule, I ALWAYS open folders that say TPS Reports.

I somewhat presume that part of the reason Adobe is in the position they are right now, with the nearly insane marketshare that they have with creative software, has a lot to do with the fact that high schoolers and college kids pirated their software, and then went on to have the company they work for pay for a…

Two things. First, to my knowledge, Comcast isn't in KC. You're probably thinking of Time Warner Cable. Second, it's funny that Google might get content from Time Warner Inc to compete with Time Warner Cable. Good old money.

I'm guessing Steve Jobs was an acolyte of the Mythical Man Month, which suggests that simply throwing people (and money) at a software problem not only doesn't solve the problem faster, it can actually cause the problem to take longer to solve. For all that Google and Microsoft come up with a bunch of cool things…

I actually prefer it when people leave a message. With google voice that message essentially just gets turned into a really poorly written text, and I proceed like normal.

Picture of a horse... whatever. What I want to know if it has force feedback.