There are a couple of extensions that will preview the real URL behind a shortened link. For instance, Firefox has Interclue, Safari has Ultimate Status Bar, couldn't find one for Chrome or Opera but there's probably something.

Of course that doesn't help with SMS or mobile browsers that don't support extensions, but it makes desktop browsing a little more secure.

That’s nonsense. Sure, they’re not working out new material while shooting an HBO special or on a big arena tour, but they absolutely do so at comedy clubs. Even hugely successful ones will make unannounced surprise appearances at the local Laugh Pocket to stay sharp. If you think there’s no standup circuit you just haven’t been looking.

That’s not so much a California thing as a local busybody HOA / city council thing. San Francisco recently cracked down on people parking their RVs on the street and living in them because all the new money here found them unsightly and complained. Now they get to sleep on the sidewalks instead.

So where do people park their RVs?

Right, I’d misremembered the exact methodology. It was on The Wire, as the AC notes, but I’m sure I heard it before that.

There’s a possibly anecdotal story that floats around about some cops who put a suspect’s hand on a photocopier as a “lie detector,” claiming to him that the copies of his handprint proved he was lying, thus inducing him to confess. Pretty sure that bit has made it into at least one TV show, but the story has been around for a while.

> They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

> a corporate raider like Ichan

I shudder to think what that messageboard would look like...

Apple has enterprise tools to deploy/manage/etc iOS that solve what you’re complaining about. I don’t know how feasible they are to set up for home use though.

If something has the word “burger” on the label do you assume it’s ground beef?

I assume you’re drawing an analogy to GMO labeling. The difference is that the whole selling point of Just Mayo is that it’s egg-free. Nobody is being deceived unless they can’t read the label.

I predict they’ll end up changing it to “Just Aioli.” Not as much mass-market recognition, but the people buying this stuff aren’t exactly putting it on baloney and Wonderbread sandwiches anyway.

What fear-mongering? Some people can’t eat eggs. Some people don’t want to eat eggs. Hampton Creek is putting out products for those people. They’re not going on Dr. Oz claiming eggs will give you cancer.

Makes you wonder about where hatchet pieces like this came from. And who lit a fire under the FDA's ass to crack down on the definition of "mayo?"

"A system and methodology by which a liquid is placed into a container" is a one-line summary of what the patent is about, like the headline on a news article. It doesn’t mean the patent covers the entire idea of placing liquid into containers. I have no idea how broadly this patent is actually written, but I’m pretty sure it goes into more detail than that. It's a method of doing something, not every method of doing it.

Fuck Lexmark though, just on principle.