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• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  Actually, Jere7my, the sign of Pas was a voided cross. In other words, a block with a cross-shaped hole in it. It came apart into four L-shaped pieces. (I'm just nit-picking because you beat me to the Wolfe joke.)...
• Commented on BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
  And he has the power to excommunicate you with bell, e-book, and Kindle....
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  Wasn't this an episode of Mythbusters?...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Here in NYC the way it works (or the way it used to work when I was a kid) is that the libraries have children's and adult's sections. If you're a kid, you can get a card that lets you...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  As an adult, I don't think I'd recommend The Black Dossier for an 11-year-old. On the other hand, 11 is a pretty good age for occasionally reading things that adults don't think you should read. Certainly I was reading stuff...
• Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
  I'm sure it can be defeated by proper height and width attributes....
• Commented on <s>Live-action</s> CGI version of Smurfs in the works?
  Fans of 2-D animation might want to check out "Un tour de Manège", a short piece from some students at the Gobelins art school. It's 3-D CGI, but they did a great job of giving it a unique 2-D look....
• Commented on Peter Bagge comic about Ayn Rand
  Jonathan, Karl Marx never killed anybody either. George Washington, on the other hand, killed lots of people (and owned slaves!). I assume you and Peter Bagge therefore prefer Marx to Washington. Ayn Rand herself idolized William Edward Hickman, an infamous...
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  With the price of meat what it is, when you get it, if you get it.......
• Commented on Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
  Chanttojah, MGM doesn't need to get paid for every copy of the film that they distribute. In fact, movie studios routinely distribute free copies, or arrange for free viewings, when they think this will create more sales. The most recent...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  The issue here -- or rather, the main issue -- isn't really the ads. The main issue is user control. If you've been reading Cory's writing for more than a few days, you'll have noticed that he's a big advocate...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  But does anyone make a yogurt-flavored coffee?...
• Commented on Sweet, inadvertent Sesame Street PSA for gay marriage
  Boba Fett, this would have been around the same time as Free to Be You and Me, which also encouraged kids towards gender egalitarianism....
• Commented on "Star Ship" Chandelier Boldly Lights Where No Lamp Has Lit Before
  If it were a more literal representation, the company would have to pay big bucks to Paramount....
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  Diamondbach, Richard Hofstadter died in 1970, so he isn't promoting anything....
• Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
  The original article says "editor", not "copyeditor". I've never worked at a newspaper, but I get the impression that an editor at a paper has a higher level of control over the writing than a copyeditor at a book publisher....
• Commented on The OpenOffice Mouse
  Is that both a scroll-wheel on the front and a trackball on the side (facing away from us, but you can sort of see a little bump)?...
• Commented on Shoes made out of bread
  These'd go well with those French cheeses that smell like feet....
• Commented on Latest Nerd Merit Badge: "Full Stack Web Developer"
  Dabdiputs @3, "silicon mining"? For the real full stack, you should start with a universe full of hydrogen and a tunable gravitational constant....
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  This page says yes, it was vodka, and it was a Russian warehouse, and nobody was seriously hurt....
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  Prurience is a funny thing, and very context-dependent. There's one case I recall from my years in art school: Our model for that day was a particularly attractive young woman, so my (male) friends and I were extra-eager to draw...
• Commented on ICANN haz cheezburger (Update to "Xeni on Maddow")
  The latest version of MacOS X lets you write out kanji on the trackpad with your finger. Maybe other languages' characters as well. (I'm still using Leopard, so I don't have this feature handy to try out.) So even if...
• Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
  Hawley, I've also bought things that I'd previously downloaded. I have friends who have as well. According to the survey the survey that's the topic of this thread, a lot of people have. The reason people think you're trolling is...
• Commented on Vegas uses computers to nab card counters
  Cmoney22, please calm down and don't insult the other commenters. You appear to be arguing with, and insulting, people who agree with you....
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Mitch, are you talking about the HTML tags themselves, or just the page text?...
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  A friend told me once that the 7-bit ASCII character set was designed to be able to support all of the major languages of the Western hemisphere -- English, Spanish, French, Portuguese -- provided that your output device was capable...
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Rob, or how about "ebαy.com" or "ΕΒΑΥ.COM"? (That second one spells eBay with capital epsilon, beta, alpha, upsilon.)...
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  Thinking about famous superheroes, it seems like all of the radiation-caused ones are published by Marvel: * The Fantastic Four (cosmic rays) * Spider-Man (radioactive spider bite) * The Hulk (gamma bomb) * Daredevil (radioactive isotope in the face) *...
• Commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
  I think what some people may be forgetting here is that our heterosexist culture sexualizes matters for homosexuals that aren't considered sexualized for heteros. For example, a teenaged boy and girl couple, walking down the street hand-in-hand, is considered sweet...
• Commented on D&D on multi-touch table
  Maybe, Jimh, but I'm attracted to any technological innovation that keeps the other players in my group from rolling their dice off the edge of the table and under the couch....