• Melody Joy Kramer:
    What is a good visual that illustrates common but woefully misguided advice on how to communicate science?

any 10% of brain demo.

  • Bob Lannon:
    it must be a special kind of hell when you’re the word “semantic” and you’ve begun to lose all meaning and reference.

Literally says, “join the club.”

  • Jesse Spector:
    I see they’ve re-numbered some of the gates at JFK. That’s not even lipstick on a pig. More like mascara on a dung beetle.

Well, it’s NYC. Always better to keep your metaphors kosher.

  • Kelly Guimont:
    My million dollar app idea: What Grows Near Here? Driving by miles of fields and want to know what’s in em.

Sounds like a website that just says “POT.”

  • Melody Joy Kramer:
    The net with Sandra bullock remains the greatest movie about the Internet that had ever been made. Defend and/or discuss.

That position is permanently held by Sneakers.

Which is more dangerous: shaving on train or bus? Train. Any schmuck knows shaving on a bus is impossible, but train is *just maybe OK*.

Train shave tip: have enough time, lest you accidentally turn yourself into Two Face and have to go on a silver dollar-fueled murder spree.

  • Melody Joy Kramer:
    I love this city. Curling up with a book and a mug of tea and doing laundry and enjoying the rain. What a life.

DC and Philly are fantastic cities for bouncing back and forth. Both excellent for very different reasons, & both feel like home.

  • Marco Tabini:
    This feels like as good a time as any to save huge dick pictures in my Dropbox folder and call the file terrorist.jpg.

Well, shit, you can do such things, you’re Canadian.

  • Jesse A. Myerson:
    Raise your hand if the news about Obama’s NSA surprised you. If your hand is now up, use it to punch your own throat again and again.

  • Alexis C. Madrigal:
    What to make of the Apple/Google full-throated denials? Not just “no comment” but outright, “PRISM? Never heard of it!”

. Occurs to me that a denial might be *required* if signing up included a gag order.