Dave Hecht

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• Commented on People in love with objects
  Is this some kind of anti-resistentialist movement? Or is it anti-anti-resistentialist? Love thine enemies? FOOLS! By basing themselves in our beds the objects have achieved the most intimate levels of control! This, combined with their conspiracy with gravity, surely spells...
• Commented on Wall retaliates against vandal
  glad to see #62 recognized resistentialism at work; I believe this is a particularly malignant example of the conspiracy of objects and gravity, against which I am advocating the advent of antigravitism. f'reals....
• Commented on Woman without hands asked for fingerprints
  I wouldn't be surprised if some bureau-rat looked at her blankly and said, "ma'am, I'm sorry if you can't provide us with a fingerprint then I can't give you an ID. I understand you have no arms, but I don't...
• Commented on Tibet and the China Olympics: calling out the sponsors
  Add'l reportage on what Takuan snipped above: China to meet Dalai Lama envoy (CNN) Interesting bit of overlap/conflict in the Coke-Olympics connection: Peter Uebberoth, head of the US Olympic Committee (USOC Docs Page; PDF at Director Bios link), has a...
• Commented on Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
  woke up light in life out...
• Commented on Warren Ellis: Freak Angels
  I have to pony up a comment simply to say it is always nice to see new product from Warren - even if it is a theme or gadget or even character we've seen before (heavens! comics rehashing characters and...
• Commented on Has Hillary Clinton seen the video for the Golden Earring song she plays?
  Reminds me of when her event staff accidentally played Billy Joel's "Captain Jack" instead of "New York State of Mind" and it was broadcast live nationwide. D'oh! She seems to have a knack for these wee slips. http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12044920...
• Commented on Israel eyes thinking machines to fight "Doomsday" missile strikes
  i'd just like to point out something about theoretical destructiveness of advanced technologies: the atmosphere has not been ignited by nuclear technologies, particle accelerators have yet to collapse into black holes, and i'm willing to bet against gray goo. when...
• Commented on Tom Cruise's Scientology video -- and Gawker's legal battle to host it
  from my friend steve, a livejournal with all the videos including the incredible "Freedom of Valor Medal" presentation to TomTom by Scientologist head honcho David Miscivage. http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19413610.html "the whole panoply"...
• Commented on Storefront churches of Brooklyn
  This is great! One of the best things about riding the bus to school along Flatbush Avenue years back was tracking the growth patterns of the storefront churches - at a peak there were blocks that had almost nothing but...
• Commented on Woman ticketed after goats caught mating
  It's refreshing to see this kind of thought in Oklahoma: "I kind of thought if anyone was caught having sex in public, it could have been me," It kills me that she had to fight this on a technicality....
• Commented on MPAA censors torture documentary, gleefully approves of fake torture
  I am consistently amazed at what American society tolerates. It seems that groups such as the MPAA have risen to quasi-cultural-police status, what with their nastygrams, lawsuits, and censorship...these powers that are specifically excluded from government are wielded with abandon...
• Commented on Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them
  Mark - great find, this site looks like fun. You should also know, there is at least one healthily active Flickr group devoted to the same pursuit: You Can't Take Pictures Here! I'm sure there are others; that happens to...
• Commented on Ape Lad's pirate hobo zombie chimp T-shirt -- $10
  Also very important: BRAIN BINDLE!!!1!...
• Commented on €50,000 Corkscrew by Sveid
  Funny timing, a recent auction in chicago had some perfect pairings (or nearly did) for this little gizmo...apparently ~50k (US) can get you an imperial (8 bottles) of some of the fancy sauce: The Things One Can Buy For $54,000...
• Commented on 21 "mega-cities" in danger from rising seas
  @schmod - to echo devophill, most of Manhattan 9the densest area of NYC) remains dry in that scenario, but the coverage of roughly half of Brooklyn (including my house) and Queens still means that millions of people would be dealing...
• Commented on Is Colbert's "presidential campaign" breaking FEC laws?
  TV Watch a bit of further analysis into the Thompson situation. It also mentions something I heard on the radio this morning, and a few other blogs have made mention of - Pat Paulsen, of Smothers' Brothers show fame, ran...
• Commented on Mind gyms for cognitive fitness
  @Ianm - umm...could you possibly be more pedantic? Last I checked (and also the times I checked in the course of getting a degree in cognitive science), neither the improvement, development, or emergence (across evolutionary time) of cognition was solely...
• Commented on Pinhole photography from inside the mouth
  Weirdness! I once had some oral surgery (removing extra teeth or something) as a little kid, and totally hallucinated that view... I love it when artists can capture perceptual states we only think can be in our heads....
• Commented on Richard "Ultima" Garriott owns a Sputnik
  it just clicked...lord british in space..wow....
• Commented on Richard "Ultima" Garriott owns a Sputnik
  "His father brought home gadgets NASA was testing, like the early version of a night-vision scope that Richard Garriott used to track the family cats in the backyard." Totally sweet. Also, as mentioned in the article, Garriott is an investor...
• Commented on Woman dies in security custody at airport
  Some updates from one of my favorite NYC rags, the New York Post. NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum calling for investigation, etc. Some details: "A police spokesman yesterday said the chain connecting Carol's handcuffs had been attached to another handcuff...
• Commented on Visions of the Future/Listography
  Wow! Congrats, this is great! The production looks terrific and I can't think of a better topic to open with than "Visions of the Future"...you guys are the future. Back to my electroshock learning......
• Commented on Woman dies in security custody at airport
  Another angle to perhaps consider - if Ms. Gotbaum was acting in a disorderly, irate, etc. manner, shouldn't that at least set off some warning bells that she was not in a healthy mental state at the time? That is,...
• Commented on Hobo superhero from the golden age of comics
  Anyone see any H's? Or does the sign mean no hobo would approve......
• Commented on Hobo superhero from the golden age of comics
  Without even looking I bet it was Aloysius. Somehow....
• Commented on Karl Marx in soup
  Pareidolia! It has a flickr group!...
• Commented on Burma: 'net cut as brutal crackdown worsens
  BBC TV reported that Japan is sending their deputy foreign minister to investigate the death of the photog. A Burmese journalist they were interviewing in the studio said he had reports from the ground that hundreds are being killed today...
• Commented on TSA: "Sir, this is an improvised electronic device."
  To be fair, no one has managed to blow up a plane or use weapons on board since these measures have been implemented...so no matter how absurd it all is, they can always fall back on the claim that it...
• Commented on Iraq bans Blackwater mercenaries
  Was just made aware of this delightful side-project of Erik Prince (co-founderof Blackwater; he's on the board of this other group): http://www.christianfreedom.org/ Is what it is......