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• Commented on Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch
  Or maybe the exclusive online source for Newscorp content will be Apple. And maybe Apple will use this exclusive news content as the cornerstone of a new service called iText which (along with online magazines, books and textbooks) aims to...
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Soylent White?...
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  You realize if he played by the rules right now he'd be in gym?...
• Commented on Public domain collection of film noir at Archive.org
  Another vote for "D.O.A." And, though it's less of what people think as film noir, "Suddenly" is a real treat, wherein we get to watch Frank Sinatra as a psychopathic killer out to assassinate the President....
• Commented on Flag of Benin Empire may be the best flag depicting a decapitation in the history of the world
  Okay, this even beats my previous favourite flag, that of the Isle of Man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Man.svg...
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  Ralph Lauren's new brand marketing model: 1. Make yourself look stupid. 2. Make yourself look stupider trying to stop people from saying you looked stupid. 3. ?????? 4. FAIL....
• Commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
  It's a Schmoo!...
• Commented on Proceedings of a 2003 seminar about Timeship, a visionary project designed by Stephen Valentine for storing the frozen remains of people awaiting reanimation
  This is good. If this whole Global Warming thing turns out to be real, the people of the future will need something frozen to cool their drinks....
• Commented on Banned Books Week and "most challenged titles" of 2008!
  Or how about: 1. The Holy Bible, by Medieval Peasants Presuming to Speak for Creation 
Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, political viewpoint, anti-ethnic, homosexuality, violence, suicide, offensive language and sexually explicit....
• Commented on Movie posters for minimalists
  "I'm a huge fan still can only see a circle and triangle." Death Star + other ship, whatever it was called. (I'm a Trekkie.)...
• Commented on Madagascar Institute's jet-powered merry-go-round
  Some people have more pulse jets than they know what to do with....
• Commented on Movie posters for minimalists
  They remind me of Penguin paperback covers of the '60s and '70s. Graphic Nothing, I consider that a complement and I hope you do too....
• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  "Um, there's this country called Iraq that we've kind of obliterated." And there's a country called the Ukraine that Stalin pretty much obliterated....
• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  "So you think the communist idea will inherently fail?" Yes, partly because it is a degenerate form of Socialism, but mostly because it fails to appeal sufficiently to people's baser instincts. Capitalism is better at this, and should last a...
• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  Oh, and incidentally, those of you going on about the existence of the rich would do well to remember that for more than 80% of the world's population you ARE the rich....
• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  It's really not practical to try to find fault with the Socialist ideal of "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." It's the practice of Socialism that degenerated into the mess which has dominated much...
• Commented on G20 police uses arrested student as trophy in group photo
  Keneke, I also thought it looked like the protester was posing too. An agent provocateur? Nah, Pittsburgh police wouldn't be as sleazy as Quebec police, would they? http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/22/cops_in_quebec_accus.html...
• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  They are storm drains, but their purpose is not to prevent flooding. Their purpose is to transport precious rainwater beneath the city from the Las Vegas Wash to the Lake Mead reservoir with a minimum of loss. The city then...
• Commented on Magritte painting swiped in daylight heist
  Ceci n'est pas une dame....
• Commented on Augmented iPhone app shows you crappy fast food joints
  "I love the idea of AR...but why does it seem always to be iphones that the applications get made for though?" Well, you pretty much need the built-in magnetometer and accelerometers to determine your orientation (along with the GPS to...
• Commented on Spies in Canada
  Now don't go thinking Canada's that interesting. Fabrice De Pierrebourg has written more than a couple of speculative exercises in xenophobia such as this. Notably, another book of his titled "Montrealistan" claims that al Quaida and international Jihadists are currently...
• Commented on Documentary series about prehistoric stone circles in Britain
  And yet so much of this ancient history lies unremarked and at the mercy of the elements. It has always impressed me how what in the New World would be considered a major archaeological find is in the British Isles...
• Commented on Pears grown in the shape of the Buddha
  Hm. Photoshop?...
• Commented on Water-fueled "jet pack"
  And what happens when you fly a little too high and drag your water supply hose out of the lake?...
• Commented on James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city"
  Such scenes are repeated in Cleveland and many other "rust belt" cities but, sadly, it does seem that Detroit has become the nexus of urban decay....
• Commented on Daily Show on the housing crisis: Why can't Geithner sell his house?
  "I wish you would, but here you are, bothering us. " I forbid you to read my comments because they originate from outside the U.S. There, fixed your problem for you....
• Commented on Daily Show on the housing crisis: Why can't Geithner sell his house?
  "I'm not impressed with you guys. First time I tried googling it, I got a direct link to the episode as my first result." Or we could save the effort of doing that and just connect to BB through a...
• Commented on Daily Show on the housing crisis: Why can't Geithner sell his house?
  "I can watch it in the UK." Your reward for being one of Bush's "Coalition of the Willing"....
• Commented on GPS jammer plugs into cigarette lighter
  Don't try to buy one of these unless you like having your rectal cavity explored. The Taliban reportedly uses GPS jammers to confound U.S. forces. So having one of these likely makes you a terrorist in the eyes of the...
• Commented on Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright
  Heh. Just for fun, I read the Access Copyright website's disclaimer page, where it warns you not to do anything it tells you to do on the front page. "DISCLAIMER NEITHER THE Access Copyright WEBSITE NOR ANY OF THE CONTENT...