I have read and love everything she's written. Doomsday Book is one of my all-time favorites, and Blackout/All Clear blew me away too. I love that she's basically a huge romantic at heart.

My dad always told me it was a big electrical storm. That "meteor" theory is crap.

Also, family. I can't un-friend my husband's cousins without getting everyone mad, but I sure as hell can unsubscribe from his constant uninformed political rantings that I don't agree with.

Your last two points, times a thousand. It was like the Evil Queen was watching some Kardashian-style reality show and didn't realize she had missed an episode. "Wait, when did she meet the dwarves??"

I got my old passport back about 2 weeks after the new one arrived. (This was about 6 months ago.) Just be patient :)

Yeah, and there's about 10 other actors that you can say similar things about. It's good for TV as a whole that there are SO MANY incredible actors doing incredible work on the small screen these days, but it certainly makes it painful when you have to choose a "best." Especially when certain shows are habitually…

Wouldn't they be in different categories? Lead Actor for Cranston and Supporting for John Noble. Not that everyone wouldn't consider Noble a "lead" in the show but that's the category he's submitted himself in before. Of course that's still a horribly overcrowded category.

I did appreciate that the original email didn't say "Follow this link to reset your password" but instead "Go to zappos.com and reset your password there." Encouraging good email habits is always nice.

Well I obviously read it, but I get stuck on step 3, the "make a short list" part of it. I have so many choices that are close/acceptable driving distance, accepted by my insurance, and have good hours, that I just find it daunting to just randomly pick some to start calling. I suppose this is not a bad problem to…

Using my insurance's "Find a Doctor" page, I came up with a list of more than 100 therapists of various types within 10 miles of my house. How the heck do I even narrow it down? I have a few recommendations from friends but they are all further away than I want to drive, so it's not really any help. (Ditto my regular…

Holy WTF? That was freaking incredible.

When scuba diving, you're supposed to equalize your ears every 5 feet or so, BEFORE you feel any pain or too much pressure. Of course, when you're scuba diving, you don't have to worry about holding your breath, so you have plenty of time to do this on your way down to the bottom. I am a fairly new diver and feel…

Here's your alternative to waiting those weeks (this is how it worked for me on my phone, at least. I assume it will be the same for the iPad): Backup your iPad on the computer you can use now (with iTunes 10.5). Then do the update to iOS 5. After the firmware update, sign in to the App Store and go to the "Updates"…

I'm curious, is it not possible to turn off the wifi on these Kindles-with-Special-Offers? Because I assume they need the wifi or 3G to download the actual offers (and nefariously collect your information) but with my Nook, for example, I usually prefer to keep it off altogether unless I'm actively downloading a book.…

Yeah, it seems like a couple paragraphs are missing from the article.

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I will be really curious to see as detailed a comparison as possible between the Kindle Touch and the Nook Simple Touch. It seems that the differences have become few in number. From what I can tell: Kindle is cheaper (when purchasing the Offers version), Kindle has better PDF support, Kindle has this new X-Ray…

The Nook Touch uses the same IR technology for the touch screen. I read many hours a week (at least 1 hour on weekdays and several more on weekends), am currently at 20% battery charge, and literally don't remember the last time I charged it. I think it was the week before Labor Day. The touch screen can't eat much…

You beat me to it. The first living recipient since Vietnam was Salvatore Giunta ([en.wikipedia.org]) - awarded in 2010 for actions in Afghanistan in 2007. The other was Leroy Petry, awarded in July, also for action in Afghanistan ([en.wikipedia.org]).

Dammit. Double posted. Sorry.