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• Commented on How Britain's Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy's expense
  I'm curious about this opposition to electric lighting, and I don't know what the red flag is about. Where can I learn more?...
• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  The hydrogen atom says to the oxygen atom, "Hey buddy, have you seen an electron around here? I seem to have lost mine." "Are you sure you lost it?" the oxygen atom asks. And the hydrogen atom says, "I'm positive!"...
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  Even if the primary market for something is people with some kind of physical impairment, I've never seen the advertisers bring themselves to portray that in the advert. I used to get a junk catalog filled with thirty-year-old models posing...
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  I expect that chefs who crack dozens of eggs rapidly every day just become very good at cracking eggs. A friend of mine once worked at a factory cracking eggs on an assembly line, and can still crack eggs single-handed...
• Commented on BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
  The Pedo-Finder General is itself a reference to the Witch-Finder General....
• Commented on <s>Live-action</s> CGI version of Smurfs in the works?
  I think I would love a live-action Smurf movie which contained John Lithgow painted blue and wearing a floppy hat. Computer generated smurfs would be less wonderful....
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  I now love Bagge's stuff *because* he's a hidebound old fart. I like his Founding Fathers comics better than his Reason stuff, I'll admit....
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  If you're getting all uptight over this, just think of illegal immigration as bypassing regional lockout for people....
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  Or if you think you should be able to read a clock at a glance, instead of having to double-check basic things like, "are the numbers on a CLOCK ordered CLOCKWISE?"...
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  Yes, I think it would have made more sense to have the numbers in the other direction. As it stands now, the cog-wheel is slightly to the left of the 11, which means it is slightly after 11, but if...
• Commented on The Art of Jim Campbell: Seeing In Pixels
  I watched the one video for a long time, and all I could get out of it was different coloured blobs. Then I read that it was a boxing match and it suddenly all clicked. It's similar to the Abe...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  Last I checked, most cars weren't single-person vehicles. Maybe my chauffeur or a taxi driver has driven me to the ATM and I need to access my account from the back seat. Also, I nominate to amend the book's title,...
• Commented on Succeedblog: awesome stuff captioned with SUCCEED
  The succeed blog has much classier posts than the win blog. Using the designated 4chan antonym is a lower priority for me than classiness....
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  It's not a defense kit. It's a retribution kit....
• Commented on Podcast about the Mad Gasser and mass hysteria
  I thought the golden-age Sandman was a super-cool super hero. On a related tech question: The Memory Palace has an RSS feed, but for some reason I'm not given the option to subscribe with Google Reader....
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  And for contrast with modern times, the banner ads have latched onto the keywords and are now advertising interracial dating sites....
• Commented on Cold War Propaganda From The Other Side of the Fence
  The "Same years but different weathers" poster bothers me, because I'm pretty sure 22% is higher than 20%....
• Commented on Cardboard: animation by Sjors Vervoort
  If everything was done practically, I'm very interested in the mechanics of it. Such as at 1:31 how to keep an 8 foot tall figure balanced on one leg from falling or blowing over....
• Commented on Disney gags on "Ho White" beer
  It's not just "draw stuff" but "draw stuff and sell beer with it." Maybe I'll start selling my "Dear god, make everyone die," beer. It's got an adorable cat on the label. Without retroactive copyright extension, (which is stupid) this...
• Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
  I actually cried from reading the pencil notes from Brenda. And the laughable parts of the book make it worse, to think that this was the sort of thing she had to turn to for help....
• Commented on Grown-Ups are Dumb! (No Offense) -- fun book by a 12-year-old cartoonist
  While this 12 year old was centrally involved in the creation of the book, I'll assume she did not edit and produce this commercial. So I want to be clear that I'm not criticizing a 12 year-old, when I say...
• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  Plastic sometimes gets a worse rep than it deserves. There's a huge range of substances which are all lumped together as "plastic." http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_tales_designing_a_successful_plastic_pint_glass_14428.asp...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  #28 toxonix: Menthol is the only flavour that is exempt....
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  #70 adralien: Currently the CPCC pays out the levy money to record companies, song writers and music performers. So the levy may only cover music. On HeyWriterBoy's blog, he floated the proposal to extend the levy to fund TV and...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  #36 das memsen: I'm not sure how you can look at Brazil and Terry Gilliam and somehow not conclude that there is a very strong connection between the two, well beyond Terry Gilliam simply being the first to capitalize on...
• Commented on The Invisible Kingdom, a book about microbes
  Slow-motion footage of spores being shot: http://vimeo.com/2543823...
• Commented on Free parking costs a fortune
  How does the amount spent on parking compare to the amount spent on roads and highways?...
• Commented on TED Talk: Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
  Sometimes I'm enamored with an idea while simultaneously thinking it's bunk. Hollow earth, sunken continents, martians....
• Commented on Photos of unusual animals
  To me the aye aye looks like a Shel Silverstein illustration....
• Commented on As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
  Saimang #12 He's not a Wachowski fan, he's a John Gaeta fan....