This is a good point, but all of the people I've ever met who have suffered serious mental illnesses will themselves use "mad" and "crazy" as pejorative or hyperbolic descriptors.

Yes. My mother has chronic depression and has done for years. She might never be free of it, but she does a fine job of looking after her grandchildren.

I think we should just agree that if we haven't made a game by next year that finally satisfies all our freakish urges once and for all, we should just quietly wind down the whole industry. What, for goodness sake, is wrong with badminton?

I don't know if this is a big enough saving to count for the column, especially since the recent appearance in the Steam Sale for the same price:

I love this photo by Tim Flach

I'm not suggesting she's a moron necessarily - people will go along with all kinds of horrible shit at that age, because the idea of their social circle crumbling is more than they can take.

Staged in what sense? He did smack her around the head with a gallon jug of liquid, with enough force to split the thing. This guy doesn't strike me as a special effects expert, so what am I supposed to think other than this young woman is refusing to shop that guy?

Kinja is the name of the commenting system on all the Gawker subsites.

Jug guy's twitter: https://twitter.com/theACisonhigh

I have this feeling it would actually help them to get away with it, like their defence would argue that the fact they did upload it to Vine proves they only had humorous intentions.

Sarcastically complaining that you can watch a video clip? You'll break Kinja!

Yes. The implications could be better reported too. It's obviously fun to chat about the movie fiction aspects of these kinds of things, but without the context it just leaves people feeling that science is their enemy. At some point in this article it would be good to get to the honest goals of this kind of research…

You've achieved faster-that-that-light-speed! Then you can practice racing against progressively less sluggish light.

I wish I understood. There's clearly something massive behind this, and the exact characteristics of this crystal, but I haven't the scoobiest.

Also today in New Scientist: Light frozen for an entire minute. Not just slowed, but stopped.

They mean it like the way social conservatives mean it — Pillard is going to personally see to it that everyone's gundicks are taken away and the world is henceforth ruled by a softball team of shrieking lesbians with buzz cuts and leg hair.

Praise be, Microsoft finally employed some people who understand how to promote a product!

Oh yeah, absolutely. And I'm sure that's why the Kinect is not an option on the XBO - Microsoft believes that an interactive camera is going to be be an integral part of gaming on all consoles in the future, and Sony thinks so too which is why they've made next-gen upgrades to the same device. Microsoft is willing to…

Great. Now the audience is going to think a GTA game used a song called "Iran".