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• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  Grace Jones, Roxy Music... certainly filling the gap Madonna has opened and left empty. As others have said, there's a huge lot of clever imagery, money and marketing here. I hope she has the talent to sustain it and refresh...
• Commented on IBM computer brain simulation as complex as a cat's
  Ask it why it always gets in the way of your feet....
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
  Damn, why isn't that thing guarded with laser cannons?...
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  Something wrong with being happy? Something wrong with being rich and happy?...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Meat Stick Blowtorch
  Gil 1) because vegetables are part of a healthy balanced diet and 2) try hanging on to three flaming meat sticks with *your* bare hands....
• Commented on Stunningly strange cloud
  Definitely faked by aliens walking around in the sky with boards strapped to their feet....
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  I believe she might also have a viable suit against the drugstore which reported her, and the manufacturer of the medicine. If the drugstore believed her purchase infringed the law, do they not have some obligation to warn her to...
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  It's not manslaughter, nor murder. The law, as stupid as it is, assumes intent....
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  "Prosecutor Nina Alexander ... admits she knows Harpold had no intention of making meth with the medicine. That's beside the point" No it isn't. No intent, no crime....
• Commented on Man awarded $63k for Ketamine "overdose" at hospital
  Desired, you'd see something else...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  ... something like an iTunes model with a small cost to the downloader with proceeds going towards digitizing the remaining archive? Yea, I know we paid for the stuff already, but we know the CBC doesn't have the money....
• Commented on Speed-trap-happy cops shoot complaining fire-chief in court
  A judge, cops, lawyers - and presumably court workers, and not one reliable witness?...
• Commented on Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad 1963
  Even more historically significant, at 6:40 we witness the creation of PacMan!...
• Commented on Coin-tosses aren't fair
  try this: Note the face up as you rest the coin on your curled index finger and thumb. Flip it. Now catch the coin as it falls in front of you with your flipping hand now out at elbow height,...
• Commented on Photos of unusual animals
  Cool Rex. I figgered it was some kind of swimmy thing :-) I have of course never seen one before. I thought that with it's Mantra-ray styling that it was deep water. Something I've noticed - about cool looking relatively...
• Commented on Water-fueled "jet pack"
  I need one to water the lawn....
• Commented on Photos of unusual animals
  1) Tapir 2) Shark 3) Sea Turtle 4) Aye Aye Yes it sure would be nice to know the names. I only know the top right is a kind of shark from a poster seen in a doctors office. He's...
• Commented on Water-fueled "jet pack"
  Only 130 grand? not bad.. The baking soda ones are 250 grand....
• Commented on The sad fate of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster
  "viewed by adult intellectuals only" ? Gee. I really wanted to see them!...
• Commented on Carl Sagan on Flatland
  John, it's an imaginary model, not a real place. The map isn't the territory....
• Commented on Carl Sagan on Flatland
  As a 3D cube passes through the 2D world, it will appear differently from it's cast shadow, but be the same object....
• Commented on Wired presents the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs
  "Designs" is indeed the worst chosen word here, and, yes, with that in mind, and evidence of obsession and fear displayed by posters here, dangly testicles prove The Designer is a woman....
• Commented on Richard Metzger's Tell It Like It Is Review of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
  Richard Metzgers wrong....
• Commented on Richard Metzger's Tell It Like It Is Review of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
  Well, when we went to see it tonight the showings were sold out and small children were crying, disappointed, that they couldn't get in... So I don't have an opinion yet, but OOTP only tip-touched the high points. I expect...
• Commented on God Bless America
  "Vote Republican or I shoot this dog!"...
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  The Big Bang is a theory proposed by a Vatican Catholic priest/astronomer interpreting the evidence we had at the time....
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  PHIKUs, it makes The Watchmen even more prescient....
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  Pasty, overweight paranoid white people. What willl America think of next....
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  ZUZU: "I want [medically and scientifically literate and educated, rational] health consumers -- you and I (as the patient), consulted by our [medically and scientifically literate and educated, rational] doctors [backed by decades of proven and effective treatment]-- to make...
• Commented on White tea contains anti-obesity substances
  and and...