Is there anything that The Simpsons has not predicted?

Regarding allegiance to the Crown in, say, Canada and Australia, if I remember correctly, this would technically be allegiance to QEII in her separate capacities as Queen of Canada and Queen of Australia respectively, isn’t it? Putting aside whether “being born in a country = pledging allegiance to the country”, even…

It also tells us that ravens and great apes—animals who diverged from a common ancestor over 300 million years ago—acquired these sophisticated cognitive planning abilities traveling along very different evolutionary paths.

The typos and misspellings here are out of control, when I saw “exorcize a demon” I honestly had to double check it wasn’t written as “exercise a daemon” (even though “exorcise” is still the correct spelling, not “exorcize”).

Might I add my situation: I work as a translator, and one of the functions MS Word has that is absolutely crucial for me is the ability to split a document window into two halves, so that I can have both halves scrolled to two different pages of the same document file, and see the original text on the top half as I…

Burn (or should it be Bern?)

My two cents from Taiwan (not sure if this one is available in the States, a search on Amazon turned up empty): Japanese peripheral maker Elecom’s DGB-S023 backpack (Taiwan webpage: http://www.elecom.com.tw/prod-1.asp?id=2507 ). Aside from accommodating my MacBook Air 11" (holds up to 13" in its laptop sleeve), this…

My two cents from Taiwan (not sure if this one is available in the States, a search on Amazon turned up empty):…

Easy, for every post they roll a pair of (very unfair) dice to decide

Now which Steve would this be?

Are you sure what he’s holding should be poutine? Coz I always thought he liked Putin more

Meh. Looks like this was in Hanoi (judging from the signage on the bus at 0:30), but this is just about everyday normal here in Taiwan as well. Plus Vietnamese streets are pretty wide open (being laid down by the colonial French and all) compared to many of the alleyways and even main thoroughfares in some of the…

Helmets (possibly) aside, I fail to see how this “fashion” looks different from stuff you could get in a kiddie section at Target for $12.95. Maybe the difference is just that everything is in adult sizes and cost $500 apiece?

I also fail to see how this one is fun to watch

This is of course possible, because I’ve been on the giving end of this.

On a more serious note (no pun intended), this is almost exactly the same as the Hungarian-French composer György Ligeti’s work Poème Symphonique, which is also 100 metronomes set to different speeds, where patterns eventually emerge from random chaos. The difference is that in the “score” (basically just a page of…

I dispute the “sentient” part of “sentient carrot”.

Plus Taiwanese TV news has interviewed the victim!

Apple Daily is far from “a small outlet”! It’s currently the newspaper with the largest national circulation in Taiwan!

Meh. We’ve had this in Taiwan here for several years already, plus it’s a three-pronged AC outlet (just saying). Although this is slightly more expensive even if you figure in US sales taxes (NT$5490 = approx. US$175)

Meh. We’ve had this in Taiwan here for several years already, plus it’s a three-pronged AC outlet (just saying).…

That’s odd concerning the supposedly poor battery life, I have my ZenWatch 2 on all day and I regularly clock in 10000+ steps every day, I also have my screen set to always on, but I’ve never had my ZenWatch 2 drop below 70% battery life at the end of a day, which (ideally) should translate to 3 days and then some, or…