Is there some sort of drinking game in place for whenever someone questions the "neatness" of a post? (Personally, I interpret the "neat" in Neatorama as a neutral "interesting" rather than a positive "awesome.")

If he is dead (I last heard coma 30 minutes ago), does he count as the third celebrity death?

It's sort of an interesting concept (digital-only encyclopedia in print), but I can't help but wonder why he didn't put it in separate volumes. Surely even the cost of binding would have been cheaper that way, as well.

I looked at the picture before reading the blurb, and I am so glad that wasn't a skin disease.

Vonskippy: speaking of xenophobia, eh? =\

C'mon, who doesn't find being stabbed in the face with a needle to be relaxingly sleep-inducing?

To celebrate, we can increase the chocolate ration from 4 grams to 3 grams! =D

That's probably an interesting program. I'm a little concerned about the implications about the importance of a mere high school education for our security people, however.

konfetka-- Jeebus. Having seen a couple of Jan Svankmajer films (Faust and Little Otik, plus shorts), I don't want to see what he gets up to when he's aiming for really over-the-top creepy.

(...okay, except I sort of do. Doh.)

Anon-- all this proves is that some guys think women are simply objects. Not all...an important distinction. In fact, it'd be rather sexist to presume all men were such disgusting slavering hornbags that there'd be tons of buyers for this.

Sincerely,
a fellow 20-something female

Since when is an axe or a noose "obscure"?

And in defense of studies from the Department of Obvious: common sense answers/presumptions don't always play out as we'd expect. This is why we do experiments to get evidence to support (or not) what we suspect is happening. You also ferret out other possible causes of the same effect.

If the study had provided the opposite conclusion, it would not seem so stupidly obvious. And if done correctly, the researchers weren't going into it expecting to come out with the stupidly obvious answer-- they gathered data, which they interpreted into the stated conclusion, which is backed by their research... which is more than anyone saying "duh" could point to for proof of their own.

Mike S, re:the Hindi phrase-- English has adopted many, many foreign words. Do you think "shampoo" ought to be stricken from the dictionary? (Of course, I hear the word "shampoo" infinitely more often than I've heard *re-checks list* "Jai ho.")

In general...I'm torn. My first impulse is to call this a stupid list full of stupid non-words, most of which will be forgotten within the decade.

On the other hand, there's no "natural law" governing language or what can be considered proper words. If we collectively decide "n00b" actually counts as a "real" word, numbers and all, then it is. "Okay"/"OK" would not, at this point in time, be contested as a word, nor would "puking," "eyeball," or any other Shakespeare-invented word. I'm sure a Victorian would be stunned at the claptrap we utter compared to his more formal style and vocabulary that we no longer use.

I just play The Sims when I want to make miniature kitchens. :)

Oooh, I love this muchly. I always like to try to imagine older places (and all the people passing through) as they were back in the day.

"Brides or grooms who want to impress their prospective partners with their sheer volume of friends are among those secretly padding the guest list with fakes."

I predict divorce within 5 years. If you've gotten to the engagement phase of your relationship and you feel the need to lie about your number of friends (and your partner doesn't know your friends well enough to notice)...well.

This would totally work for a funeral, however.

I know there were already doggy dryers, at least. We went to pick up our dog from the kennel once, just as they finished her end-of-stay bath and put her in a big appliance with a front window, warm air blowing from apparently all directions. She seemed to like it.