Cell phones in general have created a world in which employers essentially expect you to always be available as now the expectation is everybody has a phone with them at all times.

Whose to say the park is unsafe? Not everywhere is riddled with criminals waiting to steal children. How about we allow parents to make decisions about parenting?

The "closed circuit" in CCTV does not mean "no computers, no internet" as one person said. I work in the IT Department of a financial institution. Each of our branches has "CCTV security cameras" that are directly connected to a DVR in the branch. The DVR is connected to the branch's local LAN, and therefore…

I live in the Western suburbs of Chicago. I live 1.2 miles from the elementary school my children attend. Because we are within a 1.5 mile radius of the school, buses are not an option. Despite my pleas to the district, they are unwilling to add a stop or offer us a paid option.

@Annaleen was asking about what kind of articles we'd like to see more of. This is a good example of what we don't want. Please stop publishing trashy trolling shite like this. There's an endless well of it. Endless. Please don't pull from it.

Mildly concerned by the sheer number of gizmodo readers thinking microwaves give you cancer. Non ionizing radiation folks.

This is really rad.

That's really not a blower, though, it's a heat gun.

This picture nicely shows the difference between precision and accuracy.

The Mist

Nice reading to go with Dan Carlin's ongoing "Blueprint for Armageddon" series on Hardcore History ;)

I believe he's referring to the rumor(?) that originally they planned for the Falcon to be destroyed and were foreshadowing it with that dialog.

"It's a powerful symbol of America's economic decline,"

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You have my pity.

Um, hello? Space X?

1,000+ year war over what basically amounts to poor communication and really poor first contact mixups. I would call that disastrous.

Schlock Mercenary. Nominated for 4 Hugos, but never an Eisner. Over 5000 consecutive days of space mayhem, trouble, explosions, attorney drones and mad science. Godlike panda-shaped AIs and a hero that looks a huge greenish turd with a plasma cannon. The earlier art may have been a bit primitive, but the…