I’m not saying players in other sports respect the officials all the time. I’m saying that in other sports officials have a chance to consult with each other and get the call right. Intentionally interfering with officials doing their job is a pretty far cry from calling the ref a wanker.

Basically every soccer tournament I’ve ever seen. Makes no sense (I beat Haiti by 14 goals and you only beat them by 10, so I get to advance) but there’s lots of stuff about soccer that makes no sense, like there being zero consequences for getting all up in the refs’ faces when they’re trying to talk to each other.

The one thing I’d add for non-parents: make an effort to say yes when the parent asks to get together. Even for something that seems like no big deal, like, “hey, let’s grab a drink on Friday,” that actually takes a huge amount of effort to coordinate.

Those are bad charts to have side-by-side, since they have different color scales. On the second chart, there’s one square where he’s hitting 1.000, which is wrecking the scale, and turning all the other squares blue.

The company’s current valuation (according to Forbes) is actually a pretty good illustration of why it was never really valued at $9 billion in the first place (and consequently Holmes was never really worth $4.5 billion. It comes down to common vs preferred stock.

I’m not sure I’d make that presumption, but that’s a good point. What do you think the purpose of women’s sports is?

“women’s sports exist to give them a chance at competing against equal competition”

My experience with torn ACL’s is that they don’t really hurt unless you try to move laterally.

For the people who struggle with math: a 30% discount plus a 20% discount is a 44% discount. (Not that I have a problem with the headline: 44% is nearly 50%.)

For the people who struggle with math: a 30% discount plus a 20% discount is a 44% discount. (Not that I have a…

There are exceptions to this. If you can get a game by shelling out a couple hundred bucks a year to see it, sure, you’re just being cheap. But if you’ve got to install a particular company’s hardware on the roof of a building you don’t own in order to legally see a game, that’s more than can reasonably be expected of…

I thought “Dong” was the preferred house style at Deadspin.

And when they do, we should be able to figure out how they got it.

And I’d wager that the first person who sold that gun illegally (a) bought it legally, (b) makes a pretty tidy profit buying guns legally and selling them illegally, and (c) has had one of his guns used in a murder before.

Wait, was this a theft, or a robbery? The article says both. If some dude skipped out on a bill or snatched $50 worth of chicken off the counter at the take-out place, that’s very different from pointing a gun at some poor delivery kid and making them think you’re willing to kill them over $50 worth of chicken.

Calling Wright’s stunt a “forgery” is giving it too much credit. It was the digital equivalent of pulling John Hancock’s signature off of an insurance advertisement, flashing it at a reporter, and using that as proof of being one of our nation’s founding fathers.

I’m sure the Internet commentariat will tell you you’re doing it wrong, but keep it up! This is one of those “the math only matters if you get the behavior change first” things. (That being said, the snowball method generally comes pretty close to the mathematically optimal method because smaller debts (credit cards…

The banners in the old Boston Garden were great. On one half of the arena, you’ve got rows and rows of championship banners, and a few more banners crammed full of retired numbers. On the other half, you’ve got a bunch of Adams division banners. As a B’s fan, it was kind of embarrassing.

Everything I know about cycling comes from watching the grand tours on TV (mostly the Tour de France), but there are a lot of small things people celebrate that I hadn’t realized before. Stage wins are a big deal, and there are other surprising things that matter, too, like leading the overall classification at the…

Usually these solutions are designed for places where electricity is a luxury. Also, high voltage electronics (even cheap ones) are a hell of a lot more expensive than used tires, which are basically free.

From what I can tell, SIDS is basically, “sometimes babies due in their sleep, and we’re not really sure why.” And most of the solutions are “if you don’t let your kid sleep, he’s less likely to die in his sleep.” We’re basically taking the Nightmare on Elm Street approach to SIDS. And it actually seems to work,…