OK, I'll take one of those. Bring it on, shitty universe.

What else you got?

Your coding style can give you away:

If you’ve been programming for any length of time, no doubt you’ve developed your own coding style. Every developer has preferences not only for things like spacing (e.g,, spaces vs tabs), naming styles (e.g., CamelCase vs. snake_case) and commenting, but also how he or she implements certain types of functionality. New research now shows that a developer’s coding style is a type of fingerprint, which can be used to identify who wrote an anonymous piece of code with a high degree of accuracy.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen. Has anyone apologized for that yet? Has anyone been fired for that yet? If you want to fire all of the executives and editors who let that lie be sold to the American people through their media outlets, then I’m a 100% with you. Then we can also fire Brian Williams.

Let’s start: The musicians you don’t know will bore you to death. Maybe you’ve been dragged to the show of a random band and were totally blown away. It’s happened to me! Maybe three whole times, across my entire life. But from a probability standpoint, any given stage will contain far more charisma-deficit oafs capably playing songs you have no emotional connection to, with harmonies that make you pinch your own arm for fun, and with sound run by a guy who is probably preoccupied by a flamewar he started on the local sound-guy messageboard. And you will watch all of this while having a stranger’s entire beer spilled on you. There is no target audience for Dude In Hat Spilling An Entire Beer On You, and yet that’s what we built this entire discipline of art upon.

Kanye, trying to secure the nomination for biggest douché on the planet:

“I don’t even know what [Beck] said. I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We aren’t going to play with them no more. ‘Flawless.’ Beyoncé’s video. And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé. At this point, we tired of it. What happens is, when you keep on diminishing art, and not respecting the craft, and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration. We, as musicians, have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyoncé album, and they feel like it takes them to a different place. And then they do this promotional event, and they’ll run the music over somebody’s speech, the artist, because they want commercial advertising. We aren’t playing with them anymore. And by the way, I got my wife, my daughter, and I got my clothing line, so I’m not going to do nothing that would put my daughter at risk, but I am here to fight for creativity. That’s why I didn’t say anything tonight, but you all knew what it meant when ‘Ye stepped on that stage.”

Beyoncé has already won twenty Grammy awards. She has the most Grammy nominations of any woman, ever; she is #2 for Grammy wins. She won three last night. There's an enormous Wiki page devoted to all the awards she's won.

This is the woman the Grammy's are being disrespectful to, and "playing with".

Or maybe they were disrespectful to Kanye, who has only won 21 Grammys.

Remember, the asshats who are now screaming about the evils of government mandated vaccinations are the same asshats who, four months ago, were experts on public health in general and ebola in particular and were screaming as loudly as they could that Obama wasn't doing absolutely everything in his power (and then some) to stop ebola from killing us all.

But the ebola scare went away as soon as the 2014 elections were over. I wonder what seemingly unrelated event will get them to stop telling people that the government should let parents choose to vaccinate their kids or not...

Too much exercise really can kill you, scientists have discovered, after finding runners who speed along at 7mph or more are doing themselves more harm than good.

A study of 1,098 runners found that those who ran the fastest were nine times more likely to die prematurely within 12 years than those who enjoyed a more sedate pace of around 5mph for two or three times a week.

h/t RobC.

Why must I agree with Megan McArdle ?

I, too, wore the bread bags. And so did pretty much everyone in my school who didn't have rain boots (and there were a lot of us). I always walked to school, even in kindergarten, and my mother (and step-mother) would make me wear the bags when it was raining or snowing because that's the best way to tromp through two miles of wet and not wreck your feet.

Joni Ernst is a doofus, but bread bags over (or inside) your shoes were plenty common in the 70s and 80s, in upstate NY.

Cause and Effect.

Of course that MSNBC story doesn't mention the cause. They just mention that the NWS is understaffed and so is unable to do the job it needs to do. And how this came to be is left to the reader's imagination. Good work, MSNBC - make sure nobody figures out that elections have consequences.

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