Ah, the gadget blog for geeks and tech people devotes a long post explaining to those geeks why making a technology easier to use for the average person is a good thing.

I hesitate to say this because it will sound offensive no matter what, but...I think you missed the whole thesis of the post. It's not a technical issue, it's an access issue.

If you want to get technical about it, the largest single wooden structure in the world is Pando, a single clonal colony of quaking aspen in Utah. It's over 40,000 tree trunks growing off the same root system, covering some 100 acres, making it genetically one individual.

From the source article, it seems as if splitting water is exactly what this artificial "leaf" does. Do you have other information that says otherwise?

Yup, looks like every other time I've seen people jumping up and down on top of dog corpses. Just as horrifying, too.

Here's how to use this:

This is awesome, because the chance of bending an iPad slowly to failure is so much greater than simply dropping one.

"The sun is the hottiest planet, and it would burn you if you tried to eat it."

I think the advice in the article is intended mostly for country backroads, where there isn't a lot of crossing traffic or stoplights.

All well and good, except the only reason you're using those hyphens is because you can't quickly type an em dash. The independent, prescribed uses for the hyphen (those where it's not just a convenient replacement for something else) are far more pedestrian.

There are good quality left-handed scissors. Fiskars makes them. (They're probably the best maker of scissors in general, actually.)

(Also @knightvash) Trying not to sound like some militant here, but this is the standard reply of any right-handed person when this subject comes up. "I had to do it once that way; it worked okay, so it must be fine." It's only okay because you have a better option that you get to use 99% of the time.

For all I know, you're right about this particular sculpture. You'd almost have to have a conversation with the artist—or at least get a better explanation than the one above—to know how this all relates to a Chilean earthquake.

The "OK for lefties" claim is total BS. As a lefty, I can tell you that those scissors will work just as shittily as any other scissors I try to pick up and use with my left hand. They are right-handed scissors, period.

I guess then the question is, do you think that modeling a floating sculpture after some set of data about an earthquake/tsunami is pretentious? Or possibly just a poor choice for representation?

Pfft. Play me something in 3/14 time signature and then we'll talk.

Well, nothing says an artist can't do exactly what you said. But there's also no rule that an artist can't say that their piece means something. I mean, if it's based on some infographic model of the tsunami, then that's what it's based on. You're allowed to like it or not, and she's allowed to say that it has a…

There's nothing wrong with what happened here. The doctor friend told the parents exactly the right thing: "You need to take your son to the doctor." Medical professionals will constantly get questions like this (ie., "Do you think I should be seen?") from their friends and family, and it's perfectly ethical to advise…

I disagree with you, at least in part. While you can't blame the average cashier for being less service-oriented than the bosses, communication is still part of service. If you have a business where the back of the house can't communicate with the front, and that miscommunication leads to poor customer experiences,…

I'm pretty sure there are "eco-burial" services that do this in an even greener way. I've read about some "natural" cemeteries that don't keep highly manicured plots of land, and don't use huge crypts or coffins. They just own a forested area, and basically just put you in the ground somewhere in the woods, with a…