It's undoubtedly Charlie Brooker.

Here in the UK the plural of Lego is indeed Lego, and I would ask someone to come and play with my Lego. There's some good discussion here about the pluralisation issue.

I've also been doing poi for almost a decade now, although not nearly at the ferocious pace I learnt at in the first four years or so. It's interesting how it has developed over the years, people now learn a whole different way than I did, back before concepts such as flowers, isolations and hyperloops were developed... was lucky enough to be around some of the people who came up with these things when I was very much into it. It's still one of the few things that calms my ADD twitchiness and anxiety, and it's nice to be able to physically push yourself to learn new ways of moving and dancing.

Actually most personality traits tend to be equally influenced by genetics as environment, plus a much smaller contribution from parental influence. I can't think of any examples of "intelligence and behavior" that are more determined by environment than genetics - the opposite isn't true however.

Yes, but if that happens in a locked and windowless room, to observers outside of the room the entire room plus physicist is still in a super-position of alive and dead until they (or the physicist!) open the door to check. For someone outside the building the system of observers outside and the room are in a superposition until they check. See Wigner's friend.

Do you still have the comments from the "hidden sids" that were a feature^Wbug back long ago whereby you could get an empty page you could post to just by using an identifier not matching a story? While trolltalk and its follow-up threads are the ones I spent most time on, there were dozens of the things you could find if spent enough time reading the site, with all kinds of random stuff, one-off conversations and of course sid=signal11 and other ego threads :)

Heh, don't forget a song. Or three, in different languages. I gave up before even finishing sometime while Sam and Frodo were going through Mordor, which was the same, but with rocks. There is no way I can see myself reading any of his "less fun" books ;)

Oh god yes, how many descriptions of babbling brooks, hillocks and so on does one book need? Bored the crap out of me when I read it.

Look for a book called "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber - I've not finished reading it myself, but it supports your position I'm fairly sure.

Increased awareness amongst people and doctors leading to increased diagnosis? I'm not claiming that accounts for all of it (or even most), but it will account for a genuine increase in recorded cases even if the incidence of the condition in the population hasn't changed.