@Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana: I think dated and frumpy is just what's in style right now. I walked by a boutique window yesterday and they had a female mannequin wearing an oversized men's button-down shirt, an oversized black vest and baggy men's trousers with tapered ankles. I said, out loud, to nobody in…

@delirium.megans: Her stuff is in it pretty regularly, anyway. Especially in the sections where they try to recreate a runway style with non-couture clothes.

@HerdingCats: I used to work in a lab that developed DNA tests for clinical labs. We never worked on rape kit testing, but I can give you an idea of where that number might come from. A typical DNA test will have numbers that look like this:

@NatalyMor: Ha! All pink and spiky and covered in ants.

@MissFiFi: If the case comes in from outside the hospital (ie, if her family physician did a biopsy and then sent her to a specialist at the hospital) they'll usually send the slides to the hospital for pathology to review. Sometimes, though, they don't review the slides. In this case there were two outside pathology…

I don't know the nitty-gritty details of what the hospital did, but based on what's in the linked article it sounds like she was one of many, many people with cells that can't be clearly determined to be cancerous or not. It's not uncommon for a biopsy to be borderline, and the docs want to err on the side of caution…

@JohanPaladin: Yeah, this looks less like a photoshop job than a MS Works '95 job. Yipes.

Are these photographs? Or artistic renderings? They look painted.

@FriedPeeps: Wait, you mean I'm not supposed to be embedding rusty nails in my ice cubes?!

@FriedPeeps: I've been using Nalgene bottles for water for about 15 years now, only recently switched to steel. I've always had trouble with the Nalgenes developing funk over time, even with regular washing, but just figured it was par for the course. I have a 40 oz steel bottle (bigger than my biggest Nalgenes) that…

@maythetechbewithyou: I've found I get more funk in my water when I use plastic bottles than when I use stainless steel bottles. I only use the Nalgenes for times when I'll be able to wash it thoroughly between refills. My stainless bottles I can keep refilling many times without a thorough wash and my water still…

@quatrevingtquatre: Pffffff. I live in seattle and have a kick-ass raincoat and boots. I walk the dog about 2 hours a day and walk to work, I need coverage! Umbrellas don't do shit here.

@Edie Spencer: Not true for everyone. The first places I lose weight are my chest and butt. The stomach is the last thing to go.

@rather be a geek than your groupie: I think he's pretty skeezy, too. I enjoy watching him fall on his face.

This is one of the reasons I'm glad to have an androgynous name. The only downside is I get a lot of mail for Mr. Kerry.

@Nic Michael: Supposedly the aurora borealis was visible from near Seattle, which is about the same latitude as N. Wisconsin. You may have just had bad timing. My folks have a place in Sayner (not far from Eagle River), I'll ask them if they got to see anything.

@Stereo Heathen: The gauze wrap. "Gauze wrap" sounds like they just put something on it to make him feel better. Bandage sounds like there was a legitimate injury which needed to be treated.

@tomsomething: How do they know the cow doesn't suspect? Hmmm?!

@waterborne: To someone trying to minimize his injuries it makes a very large difference. It's all semantics.

@TVs_Frank: I still prefer to say "jag-you-are" though, because I think those cars are a sure sign you're a jagoff.