Maybe the gormless rich kids give him cocaine.

Could be worse, they could be English.

Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It'd be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. "KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!"

And then they denied that any of them had ever embraced the term, stapled tea bags to their hats, etc.

Oh dear.

"The overriding gist of the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple brought to mind, for DF reader E.G., Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Despite being an enormous Vonnegut fan, I couldn’t recall reading it before. It’s so apt. As E.G. quipped in his email to me, “Only in making all products, services, and experiences equally bad, will we have equality and fairness.”"

"Children's website launched by inmates" ought to be the end of it.

• came in a deck of cards

Carrie Bradshaw And The Methods Of Rationality

Supposedly the head of baseball legend Ted Williams was frozen, but was dropped and cracked at some point. Don't know if that was the same company.

What's racist? Seems to be entirely based on Cheong's decade-plus of well-documented online behavior, not on his race.

Oxman didn’t resign

She's pretty much self-employed and out of academia, so that probably wasn't in the cards to begin with. Perhaps her company will lose some business, but I kind of doubt it. The stuff she does seems sufficiently low-profile that nobody will care that she plagiarized a bit.

I mean, if you see a bit of sculpture in a corporate lobby, you're probably not going to wonder if the designer stole a paragraph in a thesis, let alone care.

Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.