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• Commented on Weta's new cheaper, delightful, detailed plastic rayguns
  http://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/ is the greatest URL I've ever seen....
• Commented on Celebrating obsolete library card-catalogs
  I remember coming across the catalogue for the first time too and it blowing my mind. As convenient as the internet versions are, there really is something wonderful about a card system....
• Commented on Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards
  Completely independently of all the vaccine bollocks, this dystonia is, hands down, the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen. I feel very sorry for her, but damned if I couldn't stop watching the symptoms switch on and off....
• Commented on Scientist: Hugh Hefner Owes Everything to the Evolution of Color Vision
  Mark Changizi has a long history of being basically wrong about how vision works. He likes to think it makes him maverick-y and oppressed by the establishment, but it really doesn't....
• Commented on HOWTO host your very own Windows 7 torrenting party
  "Where's my tiny chair?"...
• Commented on Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past
  I've been chugging my way through the 'Complete Conan' that came out a few years ago, thoroughly enjoying the fact that they really are excellent stories. Howard lets his pre-history seep out from everywhere and Conan is a brilliant hero....
• Commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  The most important thing everyone should get from this article is how awesome More or Less is. You should all be listening to it if you aren't already....
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Wow you guys are angry about a whole lot of tangentially related things. Great photos....
• Commented on Iran: The White House is Tweeting in Farsi
  That might be the single best use of Twitter by a non-nerd source ever....
• Commented on Passive-aggressive umbrella-cops foil Tiananmen reportage
  That was the equivalent of your little brother, after being told to stop poking you, hovering his finger around your face saying 'I'm not touching you'. Too weird....
• Commented on Mars in Crayon
  @Dan #10: Thanks for that, totally brilliant. I love stories of engineers coming up with things like this, especially in the context of space travel. The idea that crayons helped us explore space makes me happy :)...
• Commented on Funny contrafactual animal song for kids
  Awesome - good times with animals. Although as a psychologist I'm amused that the key feature of mice is that they run through mazes for cheese :v...
• Commented on Captain and Mrs. Hook's LP of music for Christian pirate children
  Onward, Christian pirates!...
• Commented on Tweenbots: social robots that need New Yorkers' help to reach their destinations
  He's adorable, and it's awesome that this was so successful :)...
• Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
  No Pluto yet - that's so cool. This would make a simply beautiful poster :)...