Here's hoping she was just arrested by the fashion police, because DAMN.

That'd be tacky at a luau.

That pasty ass still looks better than a Hummer.

@74:

Speaking of deliberate misunderstandings. Darwin's theories and the concepts of evolution / natural selection in no way promote the horrid atrocities you've posited. Here's a passage from The Descent of Man, as quoted in the Scientific American article linked in one of the first comments:

"This is how the original passage in The Descent of Man reads (unquoted sections [included]):

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The producers of the film did not mention the very next sentences in the book:

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil."

So there you have it. Natural selection as you would seem to understand it notwithstanding, the father of the idea felt it to be immoral to apply the concept mercilessly to humanity.

Our morality, too, is a product of natural selection and evolution, having come about to promote group cohesion when the human animal first began living in communities.

It bears repeating:

"Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature."

I have to agree with all the other guys and gals here who've extolled the virtues of the hidden controls and protected screens on a flip phone, but my favourite bit has to be the tactile aesthetics. Which is really just a couple fancy words for saying that it feels very satisfying to begin and end calls by flipping the phone open/closed, as others have said.

Think of it like the cell phone equivalent of those big handle-switches that Dr. Frankenstein would flip on his machinery to begin channeling the power of nature toward his Creature.

I think I might have just said that flip phones cater to mad scientists, but I can think of worse demographics to be associated with.

Huh, how weird is this. I live in Calgary, I'm a CBC junkie, and I never heard a peep about this. How is it that NBC got wind of it over a month ago? Maybe the US media is more receptive to BS and miracles?

Also, @20: 4:30 is considered night from about November to February in Calgary.

@ #37:

BB had Nike ads up a couple of months ago, maybe as much as a year. I sent off an email to the editors voicing some of the concerns that people have mentioned in this thread (perceived conflict of ideology, editorial independence) and never got a response. That said, it hasn't driven me away from BB. Take from that what you will.

Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would've been an even cooler cartoon if the Rat King looked like this, instead of a muscleman in a ratty (pun or not, your call) leather outfit.