Sam Smith saw something unjust and called it out publicly. That’s what you’re supposed to do, and he was right to do it. Anyone’s standards not met by Sam in this one case are unrealistically high.

Brian Cranston in puffed sleeves? Yeah, that’ll work.

I was a little disappointed that Outlander didn’t take home the big win, but then I remembered that awards like this only mean what we assume they mean. The Wire didn’t win any Golden Globes. Battlestar Galactica didn’t win any Golden Globes either. Neither did Star Trek: the Next Generation. To me, the Golden Globes…

The problem is that the large group that needs private lessons may not realize that an online system such as this is inferior to one-on-one private lessons, and think they can save time and money (not to mention the excitement of using technology in a new way).

It’s a nice thought, but piano teachers have been trying to use video conferencing for at least a decade, and it hasn’t ben cracked yet. A local college also tried to have an online class. The problem is that teaching piano is both highly interactive and also requires, beyond a beginner level, auditory accuracy. And…

Best of luck in all your future endeavors, Mark. While I suspect you have a bright future, at the very least we can all say you’ve had a bright few years, which is more than a lot of people.

Friendly reminder: 14 years ago Italy abandoned their ban on blood donations from gay men, in favor of a system which instead focused on high-risk behaviors. There has been no change in the incidence or prevalence of HIV among donors. They found a way to make the system work without discriminating.

I may not be President Obama’s biggest fan, but even I can admit that he’s had to deal with a bunch of ridiculous shit on top of all the duties of being president during his two terms. He’s had to deal with a shitload of racism, he’s had to deal with people lying about him and demonizing him, he’s had to deal with a…

Yeah, um, no. The movie’s concept is a risky one under even the most ideal circumstances, not being like Batman or Superman movies that we already know will be successful even if they suck (see Man of Steel). We’ve already found out that they’re going to have to settle for PG-13, despite having writer/director David…

That’s a perfectly legitimate viewpoint.

I appreciate the answers. My concern is less about “millennials”, and more simply about the current economic and business climate meaning that we’re facing a job market that’s completely different from our parents, and which not only require a whole new set of life hacking skills to navigate, but come from serious…

The last major overhaul of the interface of this and the other Gawker websites seems tooled toward tablets. I’ve found that when I’m browsing Lifehacker or io9, it’s a much more enjoyable experience on my iPad Air 2 than on my laptop hooked up to an external monitor.

“Internet outrage” isn’t just one thing. Some of it is just outrage for outrage’s sake, but some of it is very much legitimate and is about speaking uncomfortable truth to power and privilege.

If people are worried about this stigmatizing immigrants, maybe they shouldn’t limit the anti-sexist training to sexism which is predominantly in a particular (immigrant) culture. I think it’s funny we’re all pretending that sexism was just solved and a thing of the past in Norway until Muslims fleeing a civil war…

Legos. Every year, I asked Santa and then my parents for more and more Legos. I managed to spend a good 8 hours a day, every day, for maybe 11 years, playing with Legos and not only did it never get boring, it got more fun and interesting over time.

Just say no to pseudoscience.

Amen and halleluja. Bob created a ton of great content for Escapist before they let him go under mysterious circumstances (at around the same time they let go of Jim Sterling). He’s seriously talented and great at making analysis of media fun and interesting.

On the one hand, man is it fucked up for a white woman to don blackface and try to pass as being black. It’s clearly an attempted hijacking of very real class oppression by someone who is a member of a privileged group. If she is a feminist, she’s doing just about the worst job I can imagine at it. What she did goes…

I thought the “Would U” articles were satirical, making fun of all the times that the reverse has happened with prominent women, being stripped of agency, personality, accomplishments, and reduced to mere sexual utility. I thought that was really clever.