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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  Seriously, why does anyone give a fuck about this guy? He's either an emotionally stunted manchild or he's figured out a way to get a lot of media attention. Either way, not worth our time....
• Commented on Man's Medical History Reads Like a Horror Novel
  Whether it's an innocent Ouija board effect or a straight-up scam, who can say, but this is DEFINITELY facilitated communication These people are widely used with non-communicative autistic people, and studies have shown that when you whisper a question, show...
• Commented on Trompe l'oeil back-garden sink-hole
  Wow --- this is really, really cool!...
• Commented on Ballad of the Monster Manual
  Why is it that songs about geeky topics are always really bad?...
• Commented on "Where Are Your Keys?" a language fluency game
  As a side-note, this game sounds interesting. I have no problem with it, just with the phrase "open source" being thrown around in dumb contexts where it has no meaning....
• Commented on "Where Are Your Keys?" a language fluency game
  Why is this being called "open source?" Because he tells the rules on a website? Is chess "open source" because everyone knows the rules? How about poker? This is ridiculous --- can we agree as a society to only use...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  #33 --- I've never read a book, and I've never sexually assaulted anyone. Coincidence?...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  This library is in Nicholasville, not Lexington. Nice fact check. Immersion ruined....
• Commented on Teenage Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got A Secret"
  I've got a secret --- the singularity will never happen ever....
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  To #24, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm not going to go out of my way to tell people they're believing a bunch of obvious nonsense, but if you have a dragon's soul inside of you, PROVE IT. If a...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  Hahah! No role-players allowed! Just, you know, the REAL vampires, the REAL dragons living in human form, and the REAL people who can use "energy" to affect the physical world. Absolutely NO deluded manchildren playing pretend! We don't want any...
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  This just in, car drives places....
• Commented on Big Head papercraft Hallowe'en costume
  Ha'llowe'en is my favorite holiday next to Chris'mas and my b'rthday....
• Commented on Praying mantis in my backyard
  Consider getting a few dozen more mantises, and maybe they can eat your bee infestation....
• Commented on HOWTO host your very own Windows 7 torrenting party
  Stealing stuff is totally hilarious, amirite? Screw MiKKKro$oft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on 2010 Moleskine desk calendar for $3.74
  http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/privileged_little_artiste?utm_source=onion_rss_daily...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  "I have to use the police website if I want to make a police report." See, I got this line once, and I said, "I don't have a computer," and guess what? I was able to make my report right...
• Commented on 2010 Moleskine desk calendar for $3.74
  What's up with moleskine fetishization? I mean, it's a notebook....
• Commented on Noted steampunk arrested for tweeting G20 demonstration
  First they came for the stupid Steampunk magazines, and I said nothing ......
• Commented on Zombies Calling: snappy popcult zombie comic in the Scott Pilgrim mold
  ZOMG ZOMBIES how fresh and original!...
• Commented on Wingnut extreme: Glenn Beck says "Story of Stuff" is Commie propaganda
  Can we live in a world where Glenn Beck is a dumbass AND the Story of Stuff is preachy and overwrought? I say "yes." THAC0 (lollerz D&D omg), can you please shine your brilliant light on the sheeple of this...
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  Walton wasn't a nice guy, but WalMart haters need to face one fact --- as someone who grew up in a rural place (coal mining area, but no mining happening anymore), the WalMart supercenter opening was a godsend. People could...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Why is "hermaphodite" insulting? Seriously, though, if you're going to segregate athletics by sex, and she's got male sex organs inside her secreting male hormones, case closed. Anyone who is outraged about this would not be outraged if Usain Bolt...
• Commented on Banksy mural accidentally painted over
  Seriously, though, isn't this how regular building owners feel when graffiti artists practice their art without permission on walls they don't own? I know this was a mistake, but I'm sure Bansky has put up shit without permission numerous times...
• Commented on Boston's amazing Papercut Zine Library needs a home
  blv hv grt r lctn tht shld b prfct fr ths cllctn f zns. http://snprl.cm/r3k...
• Commented on Delightful crosswalk sign alterations
  Uh-oh, I've just been DICTIONARY BURNED by #23!...
• Commented on Delightful crosswalk sign alterations
  Let's not debate whether or not this is funny (I mean, it is if you're 15, but whatever) -- let's talk about how the word "hack" has come to lose all meaning. Pranks and vandalism are now "hacks"? Any change...
• Commented on Steampunk science museum show at Oxford UK
  How on earth was I not invited to participate. I hate to have to keep sounding like a pompous blowhard, but I am the most-ripped-off person in the Steampunk art movement! Seriously! I came up with all of this stuff,...
• Commented on Zombaritaville - song lyrics rewritten as zombie tunes
  OMG!!!!! Zombies put into the lyrics!!!!! I have literally never seen anything as hilarious and original in my life....
• Commented on Campaign to get UK government to apologise for hounding Alan Turing to his death
  I can't wait for this to happen --- a bunch of people who were not even in the government when this happened apologizing will certainly bring Turing back from the dead. I sincerely hope this effort gets off the ground...