That cover has clearly been Photoshopped! I will pay $10,000 for unretouched images which prove that Lena Dunham is not a Greco-Roman bust. Read more

I was probably the first escape artist since Houdini's day to perform an inverted straitjacket escape on live radio. Read more

Hey Joel, I have a question about the fix. Will responding to pending comments have the same effect as clicking the star-button to promote them? I think divorcing the two (so that star-clicking bumps a comment to the front page, but responding alone doesn't) would do a lot to reduce the power of trolls. That is,… Read more

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to… Read more

I'll be frank: I've been doing a lot of the behind the scenes complaining about this from my end because that's the only thing I can do. As some of you might know, I started out as a mod and worked my way up. I've seen a lot of shit, even with the old system in place (and not just from one site - I modded all the… Read more

No doubt, but if that's what they need to do to keep the lights on, it's fine by me! Just keep those 911's coming. Read more

Can this be my wallpaper?

It's a jaloptical illusion: Do the wheels spin forward or backward?

Very nice, I like. How much?

i can watch this all day.

the want is unbearable

Sorry for the delay in my jumping into this conversation. The universe has been keeping me quite busy lately, but I'm always happy to see long threads that debate applications of the laws of physics. A sure sign that science is trending in the world. Read more