Yes, 9 people died:

I think he meant all the figures in the piece are characters from John Hughes movies. It’s not just Ferris Bueller.

Prior to Airplane! (and later, the Naked Gun series), Leslie Nielsen was known primarily as a dramatic actor. Even in Airplane!, he pretty much played the straight man. I think it’s great that he ended up being able to show such great comedic acting chops.

“In this case digital, by its very definition, in an approximation of an analog signal. Constrained by the sampling rate that it was recorded at.”

“more surprising that the vehemently pro-free speech Wales was invited to talk publicly at all”

If they have access to the console, they can start in single user mode and get everything (unless the drive is encrypted).

And essentially no roads lead to San Diego, at least as far as this map is concerned.

It’s funny, I just sent a Gizmodo article from last year to a friend, which detailed the major technical differences between Apple chargers and knockoff chargers. The upshot being that there were very real differences which made one more expensive than the other, and some of the things you gave up with the cheap…

“But sometimes, you spend a bunch of money on a thing and it winds up being totally worth it.”

“I’m not in love with the silicon material”

“legitimate challenges to modern adulthood that didn’t exist 50 years ago”

The last time I was in Beijing was at the end of 2010, and my lungs started hurting about the end of the second day there. And the smog is even worse now. I have no plans to go back anytime soon...

Was anybody else hoping for a massive sneeze when he had all the tiny parts laid out, or am I the only horrible person here?

The level of negligence displayed by VTech should put them out of business. No SSL? You’ve got to be kidding.

The Seafort Saga by David Feintuch. It’s the only series where I stayed up all night to finish a book more than once. On a work night.

It’s ultimately the MTA’s responsibility for accepting the advertisement, isn’t it?

“Finally I had figured out that they were going to take me for all I was giving, and put out nothing in return.”

“Maybe what I’m really trying to say is that MY midwives were great about EBM and patients taking an active role, and my friends who went to OBs often had a different experience. Biased samples”

Sounds great, as long as you’re also mentally prepared to deal with a personal infant mortality rate from the 1800s, and have saved up enough money for a funeral (or two, since a lot of the things that can go wrong at the last minute can also take out the mother). It’s totally your right to expose yourself to that…

“As investors, rather than creditors, they’ll be right at the bottom of the list for getting their money back”