HotPepperMan

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• Commented on Another Global Disease Bites the Dust?
  I am still trying to work out what "Cattle Plauge" really is......
• Commented on Skull-a-Day meets Mutter pathology museum
  I agree wholeheartedly with Cory regarding the Mutter Museum. It really should be in the book 1000 places to visit before you die. My wife is from Philly. While visiting her I intended to spend just a couple of hours...
• Commented on BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Paul's because he might be "al Qaeda operative"
  I believe a simple argument is the wide availability of images of tourist locations. Just Google 'St. Paul's Cathedral' or even simpler, fire up Google Earth and Street View. Voila! The REAL problem is people allowing the police to do...
• Commented on Neutrality takes no side but that of convenience
  Minarets are not exactly 'Swiss' now are they? It is a bit like having the first skyscraper or a neon-bedecked fast-food outlet in a quaint English village, or even windmills that can vaguely be seen from the shoreline....
• Commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
  #2 - there's the girl, the nurse, the sorceress, the tart, the queen, the THREE witches (where are the warlocks?)... what more do you need. Also, many of the roles are androgynous. Is it me or does 'The Broken Man'...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  What most people are missing is that the channels which feed into the internet and provide a LOT of news information are key to the provision of information. Regardless of the type and quality, it is still 'news', 'information', or...
• Commented on On the power of "bhaiya" (Hindi for "big brother")
  What is the point of linking to a blog when 95% of the content is already displayed? Here is the rest of the entry: "filling him with dreadful certainty that her outrage has reached his mother’s shamed ears back in...
• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  Is that "Hawkin" or "Hawking"?...
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  Forget 9/11, I just wish people would know the simple difference between "losing" - sustaining a loss - and "loosing" - setting free. After that I will believe in anything......
• Commented on A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS
  #5 & #6 - but I do sell pictures... and the Rebel is just my point and shoot. I shall not get into the semantics of 'fancier rigs' nor the overuse of the word 'professional'. I believe there is a...
• Commented on A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS
  Over zealous in the attribution of 'professional' or 'pro'. The pictures are 'nice' but certainly not 'pro'. Give me my Rebel XTi any day over these rather cruddy shots. So much enthusiasm, so little thought in the use of words....
• Commented on Type design experts, browser makers, take another crack at webfonts
  So THIS is where the new BB design was obtained from... Personally, I need a web site to be usable and functional rather than pretty. Most developers and designers seem to forget to ask themselves the simple question: "Does it...
• Commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
  They had a similar scheme in Germany in the 30's......
• Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
  This is not 'free' if there is a requirement to install a special down loader and also provide a ridiculous amount of personal information....
• Commented on Tumors Can Grow Faster Than You Think
  OMG!!!!! Zombies BWR I have a mutant DM Tumour. Give me a break! 'twas the jabbie......
• Commented on The Pakistan Blogistan
  I have lived and worked in Pakistan and have many fond memories of the country. I was there with my wife during (and after) the earthquake. It is a wonderful country to visit and, from my own experience, significantly safer...
• Commented on HOWTO reproduce a key from a distant, angled photo
  Here is the "SourceForge" of lockpicking... http://toool.nl/...
• Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
  Two girls, one fridge. Putting that thought aside for a moment... I have several problems with this fridge: 1. You can see the back. 2. Everything is identifiable. 3. There does not appear to be a macro-community festering in a...
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  Hmmm. Setting up a special interest group that intends to air and advert that is anti-special-interest groups. Not sure, is this not an oxymoron?...
• Commented on How to Sample Wine Without Looking like a Clown
  Hmmm. I appreciate it is a demonstration but... if I was tasting wine from a glass that dirty I would have to ask to see the kitchen also......
• Commented on Swine flu fears from Penny Arcade Expo
  Chicken-Licken, the sky is falling. What is it with the "Swine Flu will kill us all" panic mentality? When there is little you can do about something like this there is nothing to worry about. The old adage: 'You have...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  #106 PADRAIG Whoa, someone has rattled your cage. Resorting to insults is perhaps a little out of line and somewhat emotive. Simply put, and without resorting to any socio-political viewpoint, the problem is that there is neither the infrastructure or...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  #85 So THAT is how Dan made his money!!!!...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  #82 "Producing meat is vastly LESS efficient and requires MORE input energy, land, ressources etc than producing the same quantity (cal for cal) of vegetable based food. I thought everyone knew that." Sorry, you lost me with your reply. I...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  #69 Can I claim half a dozen as the speedifier is broken? http://www.james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=JJ--faib7to&...
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  What is wrong with this? Regardless of the stance people make regarding eating meat or not, the society we have in place is based upon a NEED to produce large quantities of food in order for the structure to remain...
• Commented on Jayson Blair, life coach
  Regardless of any individual (and my comments are not focused on any specific person here): How can anyone with a long history of deception be trusted? The old saying: "If I told you I was lying would you believe me?"...
• Commented on Court orders Google to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit
  Hmmm. The term 'skank' is option to different definitions. Without seeing the article itself, she could have been calling her a Brazilian dance... Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skank ... additionally, she could have been mistaken regarding her ethnicity and thought she was one...
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  What a lot of semantic twaddle! It is clear that a lot of people did not go to the link and read the article. There was not ONE study but several. The conclusions arrived at (there is a joke there)...
• Commented on Eclipse Phase: CC-licensed tabletop singularity RPG
  Am I the only one who thinks that this game looks incredibly boring and likely to be played by people who wear dark framed spectacles, wear black shirts, and have BO?...