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• Commented on $9,995
  No, no, no Doktor! It's: "It looks like you've blown an I/O Port." "It's just ice cream, I swear!"...
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  Actually, now that I actually go and RTFToS, I think the people joking around about linking Kraft to other sites (as opposed to you linking to them) have it inadvertently right. The way it's phrased, I think the clause is...
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  It's virtually certain that the URL is not covered by copyright -- it's much too short. Copyright is for longer works, like a poem, or a magazine article, or a novel. Trademark is for shorter items and it's much more...
• Commented on What Wikipedia's new flagged revisions system actually means
  @Moriarty There have always been policies Well, no, there haven't always been policies. [Citation needed] ...hey, who inserted that tag? OK, you can check the history of some fairly major articles and see that I wrote the first version of...
• Commented on A $3,000 steampunk thumbdrive
  Why am I reminded of that Winston Churchill joke(*)? (*)A drunken Churchill asks a society matron "Would you sleep with me for a million pounds?" The matron allows that, perhaps, she might. Churchill then asks her, "Would you sleep with...
• Commented on Somali Pirates vs. Egyptian Fisherman: guess who wins?
  @Steaming Pile: Well, the Somalis probably heard about Bernie Madoff making billions on a pyramid scheme and naturally figured Egyptians were involved....
• Commented on When is it OK to eat moldy food?
  derrrr, I mean "especially when it's *not* salted"....
• Commented on When is it OK to eat moldy food?
  @nutbastard: Butter doesn't go bad, exactly. While it does grow bacteria like anything else (especially if it's salted), it gets inedible for other reasons long, long before that stage. As butter gets older one of its triglycerides breaks down into...
• Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
  That last one is an English idiom as well, if not very common: "farting through silk". Google says 83,000 hits....
• Commented on GOOD infographic: largest bankruptcies in history
  KPKPKP also cured my lumbago! Thanks!...
• Commented on Blog devoted to ugly logos
  I think we made their server barf....
• Commented on Dr. Steve Brule: Technologies Stuff
  It took me about two seconds to find this same clip on YouTube so I could post it here, but on reflection I decided not to bother giving Adult Swim any word of mouth because of their stupid region policies....
• Commented on The Green Fairy
  My favorite absinthe story has to do with the one of the factories in Pontarlier that made the stuff prior to the 20th century ban (the town had several, and was the centre of absinthe production for the world). Pontarlier...
• Commented on Superb fan-made Green Lantern movie trailer
  @largemarge: I think it's from a Canadian SF/Horror movie that Filion was in, White Noise 2: The Light. His character has a near death experience, and gains the power to tell if someone is going to die soon....
• Commented on Robert Shuttleworth's NOBOTS
  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD -- WHAT SHOP?!? ((works in Toronto sometimes))...
• Commented on Photo: Stylish Robot
  @Anonymous: Nah, Ultraman has no nose(*). Though I did have to google up some images to be sure. (*)Then how does he...ah, never mind....
• Commented on Homebrew banjo game-controller by RIT students
  ((is wearing his Bagpipe Hero shirt and is happy))...
• Commented on Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth
  Well done...but the edge of space is 100KM -- 62 miles. You're "just" a third of the way there. (Reference: Kármán line)...
• Commented on HULC Exoskeleton
  I'll get it over with: - HULC SMASH! - You wouldn't like it when it was angry...
• Commented on White chocolate keyboard
  @Zenbeatnik: No, no quite...the unstated filip at the end of James' logic is "White chocolate is chocolate because it's made of cocoa beans and all things made from cocoa beans are chocolate". It's begging the question. If you like: "Wonder...
• Commented on White chocolate keyboard
  @James Holden: There's a logic fail there... White chocolate *is* chocolate because it's made from cocoa butter, but just lacks the cocoa solids. You can't make it without cocoa beans. "Toast is a sandwich because it's made from bread but...
• Commented on FCC raids gang-sponsored pirate radio station in Florida
  Police said Senat had been cursing and using derogatory language on the air for about three months Horrors! On the public airwaves? The next thing you know he'll be advocating marriage to dogs and robots....
• Commented on White chocolate keyboard
  @14: It was wise of you to post that anonymously, for it makes it more difficult to mock you as mercilessly as you deserve! Or perhaps you are merely mentally ill, in which case I shall reserve pity for the...
• Commented on White chocolate keyboard
  ...or George Bush is a president....
• Commented on White chocolate keyboard
  White chocolate is a crime against all that is good and holy in the world. This can be demonstrated mathematically....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Lunar Launch Ramp
  Rocket, shmocket. If you're going to do that anyway, just fire your payload out of a really large gun. @3 Anonymous: There are plenty of cargoes that are non-organic which can survive the roughly 1,000 gravities of acceleration you'd be...
• Commented on Feltlight Children: Pul(sew)idth's fabric synths
  Yes, but are they pants-optional?...
• Commented on Legend of "pull tabs for dialysis" lives on
  I've discussed the very same thing with my mom, as she does it to. As it happens, the Canadian Legion just gives money to charity based on the number of pulltabs they collect. It's a way of capping the donations...
• Commented on Liberate Television
  Kill Your Television Ah, Neddy, we hardly knew ye....
• Commented on Weird vine fruit
  Saba nut?...