Physical mass differential and metabolic variations due to different daily caloric intake: these seem like the most reasonable canidates. Calories generate heat while differing quantities of muscle and fat store and retain heat.

The more publicity the better.

Knives, Gasoline, Electricity, Cleaning chemicals (like ammonia & bleach):

I love those two.

The hatred for Frozen is of similar proportion to other movies when Frozen's success is taken in to account.

... like the guy who tried to cut my partner and me off in traffic on Tuesday night and told us we were "nasty faggots" and that he'd "ram our car and fuck us up our worthless asses." He didn't care about our sexual orientation, he just wanted to emasculate us.

I really want this to work.

As a straight guy I just yell "Do you promise?!? IT'S A DATE!" as cheerfully as possible.

The real trick is going to be to repurpose and reprogram one of those small motion sensing frog sculptures so instead of croaking it delivers Olaf's catchphrases.

Ah, but you see not everyone WANTS to interact.

But if people don't blog the Internet will only consist of cats and pron.

True but why?

Count yourself as lucky you haven't been stuck listening to a 24/7/365 loop of Frozen.

Yes, definitely, we should enhance the intelligence of animals.

With all the talk of freedom why do we allow ourselves to be influenced like this?

My personal measuring stick for Capitalistic excess is The Feringi Rules of Acquisition from ST:TNG & DS9.

There is of course the ball riding robot created by Dr. Masaaki Kumagai in 2010 detailed at A Robot That Balances on a Ball

Looks like she's running for the United States Senate or governor of Alaska.

Know how to rebuild, repair and improvise as many of the technologies that make life easier as possible.

(1) Find and play on continuous loops all the Christmas parody songs that satirize the the worst parts of America's commercial Xmas. Dr. Demento undoubtedly has this on a CD collection.