Remarkable new concept

Retail staff are human and should be treated as such.

Skeletons, gnomes, or dachshunds?

The Rude Pundit looks at crèche sets. Uses language.

ETA: And Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen

Thanx to Metafilter

The zone of pure doubt

A Shabbos date line

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

“We are finally living in the cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.”

Dr. Alexander actually said that about the jolly new pastime of using Twitter to cause seizures, but it also applies to the latest technological wonder from the prison-industrial complex, requiring prison visitors to visit by video, which doesn’t work very well but makes lotsa money for prisons and capitalists.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Alarmingly plausible

Childproof lock added to White House nuclear launch button.