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• Commented on Record exec arrested for refusing to send a tweet asking Bieber-maddened crowd to disperse
  Just FYI, here's the meat of the article: "We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message," Smith said. "By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger...
• Commented on Kangaroo attacks man and attempts to drown his dog
  Boing Boing, indeed....
• Commented on Sneaky pinball makers' tricks
  I am waiting for you, Lucky Wander Boy!...
• Commented on 16 Golden Retrievers Teach You About Atoms
  Woofium....
• Commented on Cats for Gold: turn your glitter to litter!
  I got more kitties from the local paw shop than I did from catsforgold!...
• Commented on MAKERS tour ends this weekend at Philcon near Philadelphia
  Cory, do you know when you'll be doing book signings at Philcon?...
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  Well, I guess that's the difference between those of us who believe that animals have consciousness (even if on a sliding scale), and those who don't....
• Commented on MAKERS tour ends this weekend at Philcon near Philadelphia
  I know exactly how this happened. A few months ago: Publicist: ... and we'd like to hold an author reading and signing. Is that OK? Free Library: Uh, sure. Last night: Publicist: ... and is everything ready for Cory? Free...
• Commented on Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins
  When he left, did he take one of the offered penguins? Just to, you know, provide closure?...
• Commented on Laser interface for bionic limbs
  Just put one of these in orbit and we'll have... (wait for it...) Orbital Mind Control Lasers!...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  Tingaling went the shop bell. "Oh, hey, you're back." "Yes, I think I've finally decided what to do with this thing. I'll put up a flyer." "It hardly seems worth it. It doesn't exactly look valuable. Looks like trash someone...
• Commented on Tibet is exactly like America's Civil War South, says China.
  I *told* Lincoln that ignoring the right of secession would come back and bite us in the ass. I *told* him, but would he listen? Noooooo!...
• Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
  Ron, thanks for telling us the real story of what happened. I was wondering why someone didn't put a little chalk outline around the fallen poster before it was wrapped up in a poster-bag and hauled away to the city...
• Commented on Pretending and games, design, commerce and life
  I would like my desktop to pretend to be Johnny Depp....
• Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
  @diamondbach (#23): "I knew a guy in college who went without shoes all the time (for years) - he never seemed to have a problem with it. He was a math major." At first I read that as "meth major"....
• Commented on Goldwag: Cranks, Curiosities, and the Process Church
  Neat post. Only, please, don't shout the book titles....
• Commented on The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight Awareness
  There's a little tiff going on right now about Google's Go language. Seems a Mr. McCabe wrote an obscure little language called Go! many years ago, and has entered bug report #9 against the language, asking Google to rename the...
• Commented on Yves Béhar's seven-hour vibrator
  Seven hours? Ahem... "vasospastic disease". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/articles/PMC1128572...
• Commented on Epoch: podcast of my story about the death of the first AI
  And that, boys and girls, is how we avoided the Singularity. :_(...
• Commented on Cheeseburger parts coaster set
  Do not want....
• Commented on The Linder Gallery Interior painting: science, art, and mystery
  The secret of this painting, when decoded, reads: "If you can understand this message, you are too close."...
• Commented on Scutigera Coleoptrata: In Your Bathroom, On Your T-Shirt
  Yay for Scuttling cleopatras! Yay for mustaches!...
• Commented on Wintertime on Mars: lonely Phoenix Lander, blanketed in carbon dioxide frost
  I didn't see much difference in the comparison shots, except that in the latter pictures, the trees were a bit greener....
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  My car gets 320 miles to the tank. That's not ideal for road trips longer than 320 miles though — what are you supposed to do if you run out of gas in the middle of a highway? ;) I...
• Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
  Wowzers! After watching this, I had to visit the website and buy stuff. Sadly, I had to pay UPS as much again as I bought to ship it cross-country. Sometimes I wish I lived near LA. It's like awesome is...
• Commented on James Gurney's art book: Imaginative Realism
  That's Alan Dean Foster's Glory Lane up there....
• Commented on Praying mantis in my backyard
  We have tons of them here in Maryland. It's a lot of fun to touch their antennae and have them end up pointing in different wacky directions. Or to wiggle your fingers and have them follow with their head. Yes,...
• Commented on Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries
  Wasn't there also something where countries (non-U.S.) would refuse citizenship to immigrants with preexisting conditions because they would always be a burden on the healthcare system? I'd love to move and get a job in another English-speaking country, but I've...
• Commented on Elegy Beach: sequel to Ariel, a sword-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic adventure story about the reinvention of software in the age of magic
  Wiz Zumwalt, is that you?...
• Commented on Will the Duggars Inherit the Earth?
  Yeah, but the Duggars are hardly going to go around raping and pillaging across America, amplifying their genes the way Genghis & Co did. Or does the religion the Duggars follow include riding ponies and wearing furry pointed hats?...