So, the vast majority of vendors (72%) charge the exact same for weddings as they do for other events, but the headline here and elsewhere is all about how “Wedding Markup is Real.” I think the more interesting news is that Wedding Markup doesn’t happen nearly as often as people think, in spite of the fact that…

Well, I suppose this is about as believable as acupuncture...

Yup. Alt med proponents like to claim that acupuncture is old and therefore true. Anyone here think a two-thousand year old powered airplane design would be better than what we make now, or actually work at all? Anyone?

“Acupuncture is Chinese rather than Western medicine so it’s not well understood by many folks. But it works for many things and is based on thousands of years of study and practice.”

“Minimalist wallets are a great way to cut down on all the junk in your pockets, but if you want to go all in, Make shows you how to make a wallet and key holder combo out of a piece of leather.”

Is that artisnal? How long did it take you to make the spring steel from hand mined iron ore and carbon? Modeling it after a common stationery binder clip is a clever touch... I’m thinking $600 would not be too much to ask for that iconic tranformative creation.

“To be fair everyone gets called a whore on the internet. Its like the internets way of saying hello.”

Yup, cast as babies. And grew up, not surprisingly since they weren’t cast as for their acting ability, to be terrible actors. Yet managed with impressive luck and savvy to turn their moderate looks and acting chops into hundreds of millions of dollars of net worth.

At this point, the blaming Chiplotle is probably just a knee jerk reaction. So far, the pathogens in the various outbreaks haven’t actually all been traced and matched to Chipotle. I think Chipotle has become a bit of a scapegoat.

TBH this one looks ‘shopped to me (I can tell by the pixels and the fact that I’ve seen many ‘shops in my day). No, but really— the lines of her panty front and right garter are all warpy looking. It’s possible that’s really how it looks . . . but idk.

Versatile? I’d say “useless”, except as an interesting trick.

I came to the comments to say exactly this. It is much quicker (and easier to remember) to just twist the cord into a natural circle as you coil it. I also don’t recall being taught this, just figured it out from necessity as a musician.

Sailor name: alternating half-hitch coil.

Works for me via Firefox. I am signed into Google on firefox using the same account as my phone. And it gave me an error when my phone was off. This is real time only.

Yeah, I’m rather surprised by how many news outlets showed the full photo above the fold. Not cool. But, in an era where we are showing videos of cops shooting people (also not cool, above the fold) it is not surprising.

Thanks. So using Sync means I'm using my computer and devices as always on file servers, and while it is "fast" it isn't actually faster than my asynchronous DSL upload connection unless my other devices have other connections to ht net or other people *already* have the file to take advantage of peer swarming.

I'm not getting how bit torrent is appropriate for this application.

I hope those are clean balls not used, dirty balls. Dirty balls are disgusting, especially all over your kitchen. :-0

Ahem, that memo you asked about? If one is Christian it's called the Bible. And it is antigay in a number of places.

For bad responses it is hard to beat the blog post by biologist and Social Justice Warrior PZ Myers: