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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  I want to know what he's going to do when the DS breaks, which is inevitable. It's probably a variation of that whole "people in love with objects" fetish, previously reported here: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/18/people-in-love-with.html There was one woman who married a...
• Commented on Couple survives car crash in their house
  "...after a drunk driver allegedly tore into their home..." "...when a motorist allegedly drove into their bedroom..." So that's an alleged picture of an alleged car on their alleged bed?...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  I say the moon had it coming! What about all that full moon madness over the years? Who is responsible for that? THE MOON And then there are the werewolves. WEREWOLVES! Who unleashes their monthly rampages? THE MOON If we...
• Commented on Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past
  Apartment? This is small-town Texas. There were no apartments back then. He lived here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&om=1&ie=UTF8&hq=&layer=xc&sll=32.126249,-99.165342&sspn=0.0189,0.032015&ll=32.121596,-99.171932&spn=0.003026,0.00478&z=18&cbll=32.121598,-99.172029&panoid=MEA0rX6CWMrn2Z3jJFr5Ag&cbp=12,166.02,,0,3.59 (I was honestly surprised that Google had managed to get there)...
• Commented on De-touching the lollipop-headed Ralph Lauren image that prompted a legal threat
  Now her left arm looks like Popeye's....
• Commented on Portable office built into a steamer trunk
  I'll take four of them....
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  #1: Lin Carter, "Under the Green Star"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Star_Series --- It really doesn't sound like Cordwainer Smith. The details were probably fictionalized quite a bit, but Smith/Linebarger's life doesn't really sound like Allen's. Chances are, it's nobody that anybody has ever...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  The local news has more details: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/20920863/detail.html "Guglielmi said the student told the man he found inside his garage to leave and the man accosted him. That's when Guglielmi said the student defended himself, cutting off the man's hand and...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  Yes, the burglar has rights. But so does the resident, and as far as I'm concerned, the burglar's rights stop where the resident's rights start. We can look at the thing with perfect 20/20 hindsight and say "well, if he'd...
• Commented on Beloved artist to nation: "Keep Your Mouths Shut"
  The Germans did install an automated weather station in Labrador in 1943. It only worked for a few days, and then stopped. In the late 70s, a researcher found out about it, and sent word to the Canadian government about...
• Commented on If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay - parenting book full of things you don't need to worry about
  Before our first kid was born, we took a parenting class the women's clinic offered. There was lots of generic advice, but one thing really stuck out. I called it the "Funny Looking Kid Video". They'd show a picture of...
• Commented on Soldiers as patriotic pixelboards
  This is a shop. I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time....
• Commented on Photos of my fifth handbuilt guitar
  Don't ship it on United Airlines....
• Commented on Taser shotguns: mine shall be in green
  You'll put your eye out, kid!...
• Commented on George Bush Goes Skydiving
  He's had a plane shot out from under him. Once you've had something like that happen to you, faux-dangerous things like skydiving just aren't all that much....
• Commented on Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change
  The American Chestnut Foundation is doing the same thing - breeding blight-resistant hybrid Chinese/American chestnut trees. They're aiming for trees that are at least 15/16ths American, and that have physical characteristics of the American trees. They say they'll be ready...
• Commented on Chinese grifters posing as brides work the countryside
  What's happening is that they get an ultrasound to determine the sex of the child, then abort if it's a girl. It's quite illegal, but that never stopped anything before. The same thing is happening in India. It's going to...
• Commented on Stephenie Meyer vs. 4chan -- XKCD
  The title for /b/ was changed to "Twilight Appreciation Station". I think it's hilarious....
• Commented on Man who drove into City Hall gets 10-year sentence
  I had that music from The Blues Brothers running through my head while watching this....
• Commented on Crazy Rasberry Ants on the rampage
  "They form a carpet of ants over acres that is several inches thick." I cannot find a picture of this. Lots of other info, and videos of ants swarming around, but you'd think that there would have been at least...
• Commented on Fake DHS "photography license" for fake no-photos laws
  It's fraud. IANAL, but see: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001028----000-.html Specifically: "knowingly possesses an identification document or authentication feature that is OR APPEARS TO BE an identification document or authentication feature of the United States" (emphasis mine)...
• Commented on Edison's prefab, permutable fireproof concrete houses
  This is one of those ideas that looked great on paper, but didn't work out so well in practice. See http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/edison.htm and http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1996/3/1996_3_50.shtml This is not to say that concrete homes can't be built well, you just have to approach...
• Commented on iSupply: iPod Shuffle's components costs only 28% of its retail price
  I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that Apple's hardware is overpriced. But seriously. With Apple, you aren't paying for just the hardware. You're paying for the "Apple Experience", whatever that may mean to you. It's like Coca-Cola. People make a...
• Commented on Terrifying, Gory Workplace Safety PSA Horror-Video
  About 15 years ago, they showed us an office safety video called "Thrill Seekers". http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3607537523109200691 I'd forgotten the deadpan delivery, but remembered the unintentional hilarity....
• Commented on Fox News discovers 4chan
  I'm just sad that they don't allow comments on their stories, because I'm sure that 4chan would be bringing a little bit of /b/ there....
• Commented on What powdered mineral would you keep in your PVC bracelet?
  My first thought was cremains. "What's in that bracelet?" "My dad."...
• Commented on Sending your video camera around the sushi conveyor
  #22 "Who can find a wonderful thing for Norway? Fee" Another wonderful thing about Norway: Clay Shirky's "The Power of Lutefisk" http://www.shirky.com/writings/lutefisk.html...
• Commented on Nanoscale "What Is It?" quiz
  Gallium?...
• Commented on Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software is illegal
  So I can't read bedtime stories to my kids anymore? I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear that....
• Commented on Neil Gaiman on the humble button
  On reading this headline, the first thing I thought of was a button that, if pressed, would make something humble. I think I'll go make some coffee now......