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• Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
  Clenchner, The story I heard (and I'm no scholar on these matters) is things like 'no milk and meat together' was based on the condemnation of an old ritual tradition of boiling a calf in its mother milk (clearly ritualistic...
• Commented on Genome wager between Lewis Wolpert and Rupert Sheldrake
  Sheldrake's a loon. Wolpert will probably get his wine in 20 years, while Sheldrake gets publicity for his crackpottery now. The bet should really have been on whether or not there will be any evidence of 'Morphogenetic fields' in 20...
• Commented on What sort of things are possible if Project Natal works as promised?
  Please, no one ever let Cross near a game design session. Invite Joel to UI design meetings tho....
• Commented on National Review cover illo of Sonia Sotomayor
  @oldtaku#16 I disagree. Without context (I have none, know nothing about her), it's utterly innocuous. http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0905/chair_sonia_sotomayor.jpg Looks like her, and the quote that clearly means something I'm unaware of, superficially makes it clear she's not asian, and seems to equate...
• Commented on Practical joke cocktails: freeze Mentos into the ice-cubes, add to Diet Coke drink
  @Sednaboo#19 Done. Soda poured over ice didn't fizz at all with the addition of mints that worked on soda in a can (that was a mess :D ). There was little carbonation left....
• Commented on Users asked to design their own MMO levels make up really easy games
  It might be an indication of what people are playing the game for. They seem to WANT to cater to the role-players, but I doubt that alone is a significant enough player-base to keep them afloat. If the missions aren't...
• Commented on Timelapse: gallery installation by Hush
  From the ratio of unique ideas to number of artists, it should be pretty clear that your impression of artistic originality has never been the case, SD. Art is a product of the artist in his environment, and that includes...
• Commented on John "Game of Life" Conway: particles have the same kind of free will that people have
  Often the question in "free will" is, if you could rewind reality, would everything happen exactly the same way - i.e. is everything we are just a fated consequence of our chemical reactions, with no variability, or would we be...
• Commented on Our "Missing" Chromosomes
  I'm not a bio scientist, so this is mere hypothesis, but I think a lot of people are missing 1 thing, and its implication. This mutation, like down syndrome, isn't just an isolated event. Part of our genetics is the...
• Commented on Xeni, I Think We're Going to Need a Bigger Unicorn
  Put a check in the "completely fails to understand why this would freak anyone out" column for me. The ease of commenters to supply info on other hairless non-human primates is interesting, I wasn't aware of the phenomena before....
• Commented on PG&E wants to beam power from space
  Oh yeah, http://www.solarenspace.com/ this is the website design of a company I trust to beam megawatts of power from space to earth's surface......
• Commented on "Hold that thought."
  #2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_(instrumental)...
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• Commented on Man coughs up 30-year-old nail
  Tak, the magnet is always 'on', but once you're in the donut, the machine moves and/or varies the field rapidly. What's being sensed is diagmagnetic response of water to the changing field. I would have figured he'd notice some pressure...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  At least Zawan maintained a single identity throughout the thread, and wasn't a hydra. Dunno if we can rightly even call him a sock puppet. Also, he gave answers that, while ignoring or denying the factual points (he already admitted...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  Maybe Zawan thinks that an adapted creature is sort of a stretched form of some base creature. Like a giraffe isn't a base-line giraffe, but that it's really an orange cow with a long neck, and if you removed all...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  It's just that when you have a process that is partially random and iterative, you can have things happen that seem the outcome of intelligent intervention. - GregLondon The way I like to think of it is that brute force...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  More simply, adaptation can exist in today's environment. We can see it, we can observe it, we can demonstrate it. You cannot say that about evolution because we need an audience that has spanned millions of years to prove it....
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  Subrosa, I'll go out on a limb and say that he probably believes in evolution of the existing animals from the original god-created kinds, or 'baramin', but THOSE were all really separate and unique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Created_kind The problem is all these...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  Stop acting like evolution has anything to do with god. You're getting it exactly backwards. As someone stated earlier, no one would care about creationists if they weren't actively attacking the teaching of evolution in science classes....
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  Someone who proposes to believe in the scientific method ought to know it's impossible to prove a negative. That's blatantly untrue. For the simplest example, If A is true, then Not A is untrue. There, proved a negative. You're talking...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  but for some reason the "parent forms and the intermediate links" just aren't there! ...so convenient. Just to clarify and highlight, in the whale evolution example, the scientists responsible for discovering and assembling that information are certain that they have...
• Commented on Dramatic readings of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
  This is why I'm almost certain Zawan is a troll. All three of his examples of "things that never changed, really!" are themselves illustrative of evolution. We have a progression of 'human' skeletons that have more and more apelike as...
• Commented on Tab-Dock: Zippo meets Pez
  Excuse to carry around zippo shell to play around with? I've honestly heard "I smoke so I can carry around a lighter" from a real person before. Although it looks like the mint dispensing mechanism is bound to the lid...
• Commented on FDA may regulate e-cigarettes
  Uhm, public use of an aerosol device for a highly addictive and toxic drug? If the absorption rate is very high, cool, but I'd guess you're exhaling a fair bit. Sure, I wouldn't notice and really wouldn't even mind, but...
• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
  So, a financial-buff friend of mine was telling me that the plan, as stipulated by the bailout agreement, was to save AIG from immediate collapse in order to sell off assets and shut down in an orderly fashion. A gentle...
• Commented on Xeni on the road in West Africa: Ritually Stolen Penises and Vaginas - Not a Joke Here.
  @17 & 18, There's a danger in making up justifications for really stupid arguments. You not only make out your opponent to be smarter than yourself, you also trick yourself into buying into their insanity* (not that I expect penis...
• Commented on Fingerprinting blank sheets of paper by scanning them
  Reasonable usage: scan the paper as you're printing a coupon or ticket for redemption, then print the 'fingerprint' code on the edge. You can then verify that it's not an unauthorized copy (assuming no one cracks your scanning and hashing...
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  I freely admit that I don't fully understand the process. I've repeatedly said I don't fully understand it, that I can't fully explain it Sorry then, I read every post you made in this thread twice or more and missed...