The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Stephen G:

Charlie @ 91: Yeah, I've got a hate-on for the media culpability in the whole Wakefield business. It's nice that The Sunday Times did an investigation showing that Wakefield was cherry-picking his already-slim data; it would have been even better had The Times not been part of the 2002 braying hordes decrying vaccines.

The entire Wakefield MMR incident makes me want to stab people. If you plot UK measles incidents versus MMR vaccination rates, you can see very nicely how MMR vaccination rates dropped below the CDC's estimated herd immunity rate for measles (83% to 94%, and the UK MMR rate hit 80% in 2003 and has hovered around 85% since).

Jim, this is a great post, and something I'll point people to when they make noises about childhood diseases not being that bad any more.

Holy shit.

Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. He won.

What is to come will be hard, so hard, like shoveling water out of a deep hole in a downpour. It will be demoralizing. It will drain away our hope.

When that comes, remember tonight.

Oh, goodness. That picture is waiting to be turned into a lolcandidate referencing Joe the Plumber.

Having read through as much of the Derbyshire op-ed as I could, I skipped to the bottom, there to discover that he got a shot in at women scientists. He approvingly quotes an anecdote from "Godless" about geneticists (women of "non-trivial attractiveness") versus genomicists (men). You can guess which set Godless and Derbyshire think are doing the real work.

Shinydan @ #4, also do not forget the 27% crazification factor.

With the help of PVC-adhering spray paint, a dremel tool, and some odds-and-ends, I've been working on a model of the gun from Portal. Eventually it'll show up in a video.

Mike @ 41: That convention was recorded, filmed, photographed, blogged, and twittered within an inch of its life. Now my children can have the joy of watching video of me before saying, "Really? They had you talk on a panel about lolcats?"

To pull a JvP, I got to talk to Matt for a bit at ROFLCon. He was warm, witty, and a lot of fun, and somewhat astonished both at the attention he'd gotten and that Stride Gum was willing to sponsor him without turning what he was doing into a big commercial.

If you've got some time to kill, I highly recommend watching the ROFLCon panel with Matt Harding and Jay "Tron Guy" Maynard on surviving internet fame.

I'm now hoping I THINK I HERD SOMETHING becomes a widespread catchphrase.

Holy cats. As someone who in his misspent youth wanted to play keyboards like Rick Wakeman, seeing another kid get to play such gloriously overdone music while wearing a cape and having Jon Anderson himself sing vocals is making me at once turn green with envy and red with joy. I am a veritable stoplight of mixed emotions.

Mary Dell @3:

Greetings, gentlebeing! Vote early and also often!

"(And it looks like they forgot to color in the Britain dot in the Climate Change section.)"

It's not that they forgot, it's that the icy blue fill color just melted away.

Well, nifty. In fact, a whole truckload of niftiness wrapped in an easy-to-carry package.

To add to what Scalzi said, if you follow the whole referer url back (which will look like http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=[your page]), you can see the reviews people have written about that particular page. Though in some cases it's like YouTube comments: you really don't want to see them.

Charlie @105: Either that or it's stepped cliffs all the way down.

abi @71 & 73, I usually use "partisan hack", which combines the connotations of "hack" with "views politics as a sport with clearly defined sides" and removes the idea that we're concerned with how well written their press releases are.

I'll add my voice to the chorus of congratulations. It's nice to see a newspaper article about something I have at least passing knowledge about that does the topic proud.

Bruce @ 85, Gesso @ 94: The sockpuppets who are having a midlife crisis are easy to spot, as they run around in Berluti shoes with the laces down, the threads around their worn spots flapping in the breeze.

I'd missed the Code Monkey dance the first (or second, or third, or...) time around. As someone who's taken advantage of Jonathan Coulton's use of CC licensing, it makes me happy to see what people are doing with his music, and that he both allows and encourages it.

Janus @ 29: The VOs in general bothered me, until I realized that not all of them were the problem. The ones that fit with the noir conventions were just fine. It was the ones that were undoubtedly added due to network notes that were grating, the ones that explained in great detail things that you just saw or were about to see.

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