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• Commented on FBI seeks "Point Break" bandit
  "may be" copying. right....
• Commented on James Lipton in hilarious LG ad campaign: "Before You Text, Give it a Ponder"
  Subservient Chicken didn't offend enough people to be CP+B...
• Commented on Surprised Kitten: The Boing Boing True Hollywood Story
  In summation: KITTY!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on Menorah Mashups: djBC's seasonal copyright infringement with a little Klezmer
  No Leevees and their classic songs like "How Do You Spell Channukah?" and "Apple Sauce or Sour Cream?"...
• Commented on People speak out on library censorship incident: “It’s dangerous to democracy when an interest group imposes its views on another.”
  It's only ironic if you believe not allowing someone the right to control your life is the same thing as controlling their life. (e.g. they can tell you TV is evil and you should not be allowed to watch it,...
• Commented on People speak out on library censorship incident: “It’s dangerous to democracy when an interest group imposes its views on another.”
  At what point do we remind each other that this is not a question of a certified Librarian with a masters degree in Library Sciences censoring things, but the equivalent of a grocery store checkout worker saying: Caffeine is legal...
• Commented on Fun With the Minneapolis Mayoral Race
  I'm also a fan of the guy running for Manhattan Borough President on the platform eliminating the position of Manhattan Borough President....
• Commented on Fun With the Minneapolis Mayoral Race
  I believe it's just the Rent is Too High party on the ballot, which lessens the appeal....
• Commented on TV admits it was wrong about PVRs
  According to comcast. or TWC. whichever one we have which shows you how much I pay attention....
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  you know she got sent back to Ohio like a week ago, right?...
• Commented on TV admits it was wrong about PVRs
  There's also been some initial research that shows people often can still recall the content in the ads they skipped, especially if they've seen the ad before (in potentially related news, the latest software upgrade for our DVR lowered its...
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: Australian Teen Crafts "Sneaky" Games
  Damnit I just lost the game! *ugh* I hadn't lost in like 6 months too....
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  Your kid isn't really their target anymore, you are. I saw a really interesting presentation a while back about the evolution of military marketing from fulfilling a sense of patriotic obligation to personal benefits to really just targeting helicopter parents....
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  Please... like this is new? Everyone in my high school was required to take the ASVAB for "career planning" purposes. My mom took the call from the recruiter - she said he was clearly reading off of a script based...
• Commented on 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
  I'm still sort of inappropriately giggling at the guy defending the recent attack in Queens who has the "mankind" section of Leviticus tattooed on his arm... I really want to follow him around with the section of Leviticus that says...
• Commented on Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple
  So........... why can't the couple just get a civil union? /cynicism...
• Commented on Farewell, Captain Lou Albano
  It's gotta be way more than 17 episodes - there's 2 DVD season sets!...
• Commented on Big sale on vinyl Obama Hope Rebel flag
  @bcsizemo "Since states control most public school curriculum I wonder what gets taught about the Civil war is different from the South to the North?" ... I grew up in VA (albeit Fake VA, but considering my high school had...
• Commented on The rise of the Flapper
  @ #1 My favorite take on this is:"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their...
• Commented on UK: Treatment of (gay) genius mathematician Alan Turing "appalling"
  So what you're telling me is that if you petition the government, they listen some times?...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  I see the point about the URL itself, potentially, but by that level of standard, any sign calling Obama a Nazi is defamation (and if you say Obama is a public figure, well then so is Beck)....
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  @ #3 The entire point behind the site is that it is a parody of Beck's style of "news" - to continually state things as if they are "rumors" so that he can spread misinformation while still proclaiming to be...
• Commented on Interview with John Marcotte, author of bill to ban divorce
  @ #20 bbonyx http://lmgtfy.com/?q=poe%27s+law /ceases to be amused //making an ass out of uma thurman ///assuming you might as well keep up with the latest technology in pedantry....
• Commented on Man bites off man's pinky during health care rally
  A few days ago there was a story at one of the events where an anti-reformer punched a 65 year old man from the pro-reform demonstration in the face (for calling him a name). I thought that was a massive...
• Commented on HOWTO make ice-cream gyoza
  @ #6 1) instant gratification. 2)it's yummy and has a cool texture/flavour that is very different from baked cookies....
• Commented on Banned books 08-09 from ALA/ABA
  @#24 Rather than going with the assessment that "every other reader" gets something I didn't, I'd rather just go with my anecdotal assessment,just as many people I know *hate* CitR as think it's a masterpiece. To each their own, but...
• Commented on Banned books 08-09 from ALA/ABA
  @#7 Fine, it's well written. It's a piece of drivel. ... If I want to read whiny teenage angst, I prefer narrators I can relate to, thanks....
• Commented on Street-magic wedding proposal
  Best part of this is watching the girls behind her figure it out before she does....
• Commented on XKCD explains how to be a tech-support guru
  I also actually *gasp* use the help menus. But I am totally printing this out to hang on my cube....
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  @ #40 HBL You already lost. Sorry I forgot to tell you....