If it's not a 15C, it's just a toy.

Got it.

I don't get the one about the BMW either. Would someone please enlighten us?

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It's stuff that I find interesting or useful enough to share with others.

The fact that feminists are dealing with this level of sexism means they've come a long way.

I remember reading about a court case where a woman was acquitted because text of the law in question used male pronouns.

But where's the white glove?

It's a spectrometer. LC/MS stands for "Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry".

Got that from acronymfinder.com.

I do NOT want the tickets. Instead I would like to say that I read about 40 different web sites daily, and Neatorama is one of my favorites. Please don't let burnout cause you to stop running the site. It's definitely one of my staples, because on most of the other sites I get news or technology info, while here I get neat stuff. Neatorama is one of my "fun" sites.

Good but, I agree, too long.

Remember that Chicago used to be called "The Second City" because it was second place in a few key metrics.

I'm a geek and proud of it.

These are great! I wish the images were larger though--I'd like to have some of them as wallpaper.

Regarding the executives, it's not completely true that they all disliked it. I read The Making of Star Wars, and there were some executives who came out of the screening crying because it was such an emotional experience. My memory is faulty, so it may not have been the first screening, but Lucas definitely had people in the whole spectrum between dislike and total enthusiasm.

You know, it's different strokes for different folks. I play Puerto Rico and Settlers, yet I also enjoy Scrabble. I grew up on Scrabble, long before Settlers and Puerto Rico existed.

Here are the 101 words that are now accepted. Note that there are ten vowel-vowel words only if you count "Y" as a vowel, otherwise there are five.

Also, here's a Scrabble game that broke three North American records.