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• Commented on Good News from the Large Hadron Collider
  I doubt anything bad will happen, but I'd feel a lot better if Gordon Freeman was there clutching his crowbar....
• Commented on <s>Live-action</s> CGI version of Smurfs in the works?
  Check out the current season of Dexter if you want to see a naked John Lithgow. He's not painted blue at least....
• Commented on The 100 greatest quotes from The Wire
  "Perhaps the closest US TV has ever come to a landmark novel." What about Babylon 5? The Wire was great, but the story seemed to be planned one season at a time....
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I bet if I tried to draw a map of my province, it would be pretty bad. People in Saskatchewan would have it easy. People in Nunavut would be screwed....
• Commented on Canada's "TV tax"/"Save local TV" squabble explained
  I have a thought about another possible reason behind this. The digital transition. I think that CTV and Global are pushing this "Save Local TV" thing hard right now so that if they don't get fee-for-carriage, they can close down...
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  My first car was a 1990 Chevy Caprice. It was white rather than blue and it wasn't a cop car originally. That thing was a boat. You didn't really park it, you docked it. It accelerated better from 80km/h and...
• Commented on I Submit This Brief In Support of Why We Should Totally Get It On
  mcn, what the hell are you talking about? This was written by a woman to a man....
• Commented on xkcd: volume 0
  It's $9 to ship to Canada. Which isn't bad compared to some shipping rates I've seen from the US to here. Thinkgeek's shipping to Canada seems to start at about $25 for a single item and goes up from there....
• Commented on Dead cell-phones: suspense movie cop-outs
  Considering I can see the cell tower from my kitchen and I still get "no service" popping up on my phone every once in a while, I have no problem with people not being able to get a decent signal...
• Commented on You and the Pirates
  To qualify as CanLit to me doesn't just mean the author is Canadian. It also has to take place in the past, preferably during the Great Depression or pioneer days. And preferably in a location where if your dog runs...
• Commented on Puerto Rican education system bans kids' books
  Wow. My grade 11 English class teacher showed us the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. That would be the version with 16-year-old naked breasts. If a teacher did that in Puerto Rico, would the heads of the people banning...
• Commented on Canadians vow mass-mooning of US spy-blimp
  Mooning is just as silly. Burn a few drums of oil at the edge of the city, and that takes care of that. It's Sarnia, they already burn plenty of oil and other nasty crap there....
• Commented on Ript: the dude equivalent of a padded bra
  Does it come in 3XL?...
• Commented on City of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
  And they didn't remove the background too well either. Look at the white glow on the hair and mouth of the kid on the left....
• Commented on Hummingbirds' superspeed dive bombs
  If we're going to measure by body lengths per second, I'm guessing there might be insects who will shatter these records. And then the birds will be all "Well, it's really about absolute speed anyway" and the humans will point...
• Commented on Fear And Loathing: The Board Game
  We can't stop here! This is bat country!...
• Commented on Town bans hoods, hats, shades in banks
  Why does this give me the urge to go into my local bank wearing a ski mask just to see what they'd do?...
• Commented on HOWTO be a good sports-parent
  #8, I totally agree with rule 3. I used to umpire baseball and can't understand how spectators 30 feet away and 10 feet up in the stands think they have a better view than the ump of whether the ball...
• Commented on Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
  #31, Labatt was founded in London, Ontario. John Labatt was originally from Ireland....
• Commented on Hospital Food Photo Blog
  So is the bottom-right one supposed to be meat or chocolate mousse? If it's meat, the colour is horrifying. If it's mousse, why is there gravy on it?...
• Commented on 4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish
  I don't think car driving is a very reliable indication. There are plenty of Mennonites near me and they're strictly horse and buggy. There are some that drive, but those ones don't follow many of the other traditions either and...
• Commented on People who use barrels to catch rain from their roofs breaking law, says State of Colorado
  There's a town in Ontario called Wingham that is buying rain barrels for residents. The intention is to delay some water from entering the sewage system during spring melting....
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  @49, Rampage was 3-player. The only arcade I ever had semi-regular access to as a kid was at a campground. I'm pretty sure all the games in there were bought used. They had a vector graphics Star Wars game, Golden...
• Commented on Primatologist Frans de Waal on the recent chimp attack
  I've often thought that it's a good thing that cats don't cooperate. If ONE little kitty cat can maul you, imagine what a pack of four or five cats could do. Uh-oh. My cats cooperate with each other. One will...
• Commented on Blackjack card-counting iPhone app illegal in casinos
  That said, you still don't want to get caught counting cards, even if you're not using a device. Why? It's not like they'll beat you senseless and leave you in an alley or somethi...oh....
• Commented on Japanese Surgical Mask Culture
  Is it part of the Japanese work ethic to go to work even though they're sick? Yeah, thanks for bringing that virus to work so you can infect all of your co-workers. Oh, you're wearing a mask so you won't...
• Commented on Mistrial declared in 12-year-old girl's alleged assault on police officer
  I think it's obvious that these officers suspected that the 12-year-old girl was really River Tam and having watched Serenity recently, realized how dangerous she is....
• Commented on Ghastly working conditions in a Chinese keyboard factory
  The thing I'm most surprised at is that keyboards are made by hand. Isn't that ideal work for robots? I guess it's cheaper to hire 50 people to do what 1 robot could do....
• Commented on EFF to judge: Let's webcast the RIAA's lawsuit
  Well, if lawyers hate the light so much then where did we all those photos of Obama showing off his abs in Hawaii? He's a day-walker. Duh....
• Commented on How to get rid of Vimax ads
  Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?...