I NEED IT NOW.
I expected better than this from Gawker too. Very—OMG WAIT LOOK AT THAT CAT, HOLY SHIT.
At least 40% of people who make this claim don't know that they're basing it off one troublesome study of a tiny sample size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Kanin.27s_report_.281994.29
Do you understand the mechanism by which reaction to criticism of Kickstarter has become so vehement? I've been seeing more and more that the slightest complaint about Kickstarter—whether that it's not great for small businesses, because they go broke while trying to cross that bridge between initial funding and…
Pretty familiar with the industry of "curiosity architecture" and it does not pay well.. in the short term! However down the road there are probably a good number of financial payoffs.
Yes, okay, but hold the phone. Random nutters are emailing sports columnists, calling them miserable people (sure, maybe accurate in this case), and then when the columnist writes them back to tell them to go get fucked (actually, writing back much more nicely than that!), we're mocking the COLUMNIST? Not the dude…