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• Commented on Whedon fans vow to save Dollhouse from cancellation -- eight months before initial airdate
  All these campaigns to save really staid genre tv are just sad. Why not put that effort into creating something new or saving something more substantive than a tv show? Trying to convince television networks not to be big dumb...
• Commented on Little Brother at NYC's Books of Wonder, May 26, 5-7PM -- CORRECTED!
  An author I really like, Neil Gaiman, has a little widget on the side of his journal counting down to the release of his next book (The Graveyard book, which looks great). It's very inobtrusive, serves as a promotion and...
• Commented on Google and China's "Great Firewall": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
  This seemed like it was making light of a very serious human rights issue. 5 minutes of what looked like something teenagers put on youtube followed by dropping a fence littered with ridiculously stereotypical "Chinese stuff" in front of a...
• Commented on US Air Force wants "full control" of "any and all" computers
  Did anyone else notice that the battle room in that video looks ALOT like the War Room in "WARGAMES"? Y'know, the 80's movie where an innocent teenager looking for video games almost starts global thermonuclear war when the unbeatable military...
• Commented on Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law"
  I'd wager the origin of this picture panic comes from these people having heard in the media that terrorists are "filming targets." That is, of course, nonsense. Did the 9/11 hijackers need to film the WTC to know how to...
• Commented on Bicyclists on LA freeways
  The problem really is that "Ride a bike!" is not a total solution to congestion. Reliable public transit, decreased reliance on distant food sources (all those trucks on the road) and workable solutions for those with health issues precluding them...
• Commented on Bicyclists on LA freeways
  I drive when I need to, use public transit and bike when I can, weather permitting. I think offering a variety of options in urban planning is the best way to go. As for "making a point", I generally have...
• Commented on Darth Vader attacks Jedi knights
  Would this be a hate crime? If the attack was motivated by the religion of the victims, it would seem to be, at least by US standards. You know your Darth Vader costume is FAIL when you have to yell...
• Commented on Grateful Dead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix
  That's pretty sad. The Dead were models sharing their music freely (the taper movement) to build a fan base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_dead#Tapers How that's different from streaming I just don't know....
• Commented on Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
  LOL. Really? Come on, you made a snide remark, just own it man. Taking the literal line on that's just silly. :) I grew up hearing racial slurs for Hispanics far worse than euphemisms and metaphors....
• Commented on Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
  You're extrapolating wildly. You said if I don't know that cockroaches is a common slur for Hispanics I must have come up in Pleasantville, an Idyllic paradise filled with naive denizens one could easily call rubes. I don't think you...
• Commented on Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
  @Antinous So if I don't knee-jerk react to a common metaphor for people scrambling as racist, I'm a rube? Nonsense....
• Commented on Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
  Everything is Racist! Everyone is Racist! You're Racist for thinking that you're not a racsit! Jeremiah Wright! Ahhh! Ahhh! Come on. It's a really common metaphor and I kind of doubt that Chris really believes those people to be cockroaches....
• Commented on Teen in skimpy dress denied prom entrance
  I know this might be terribly unpopular, but I think it's worth saying. Not every outfit is appropriate for ever occasion. I know we all want to wear sneakers to work and casual dress far the dominant mindset, but wearing...
• Commented on Teen in skimpy dress denied prom entrance
  Someone who would wear, essentially, a bathing suit to a prom does not strike me as one who will take news of her rejection from Prom with grace and dignity. Crunchbird caught it, there was a clear dress code laid...
• Commented on Giant working NES controller/coffee table
  I wonder if it gets all gummy and yucky like the old NES contrllers. What? Was that only mine? Call me pigpen....
• Commented on HOWTO Screen-print a tee
  Did everyone catch that Cory has a new book coming out? I've seen precious little about it....
• Commented on Pro-Tibet protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge in SF
  Yay! More meaningless gestures! Reading these comments I see so many people just jumping on the "Free Tibet" bandwagon with abandon. It's not as simple as "China bad/Dalia Lama good" and no matter what Richard Gere, or the Beastie Boys...
• Commented on Large Hardon Collider
  That's about at the level of fark humor. Typo collecting? That's Jay Leno. The question is, which is worse?...
• Commented on British Airways loses 15-20,000 bags since Thursday at supremely b0rked Heathrow Terminal 5
  "Oh no, the ski trip was ruined! Mummy! Our ski trip!" You think the beeb could have found a passenger who was perhaps a bit more put out than some kids on holiday? I imagine a ruined vacation is the...
• Commented on Science project smolders on subway, panic ensues
  Oh it's not terrorism, it's just mad science. I'm...comforted....
• Commented on Gary Wolf profiles Ray Kurzweil in Wired
  So the future of humanity is a bunch of vitamin popping rich people who spent their fleshy lives trying very hard not to die? No drunken artists, no mad adventurers who risked life and limb to explore the earth, no...
• Commented on Documentary examines possibility of US dollar collapse
  You won't see a Germany post-WWI style crash, but you will see massive contraction, especially in the high end consumer markets (luxury cars, McMansions, less of that) with more focus on efficiency. Look at car advertising for clues. Five years...
• Commented on Build a prank camera that shocks a sucker
  let it be known that I consider shocking someone to be a crappy, unfunny prank. So why post a how-to? Sure the information is out there, but putting it on BB just spreads a dumb, cruel gag. What next? How...
• Commented on Tibet: China blocks YouTube, protests spread, bloggers react
  And how many months from now are we all supposed to develop amnesia and applaud China's government at the Olympics? Besides the gag orders, the censorshp, the violence, the crackdowns, are we just to be impressed by the big shiny...
• Commented on Mother Jones on TV's Solitary
  Anyone ever read "The Running Man" by Stephen King? Totally different from the movie (which has it's own charm) with Governor Arnold. In the book the Running Man is just one of the many games on the Network. "Dig Your...
• Commented on Teen pranksters switch off San Francisco's electric buses
  Yeah, seconding (or thirding, fourthing?) the sentiment that these are not pranks. Sounds like something out of Escape from New York. Shutting down a bus line, leaving the bus driver out of contact (though I'm sure they have cell phones)...
• Commented on La Pequeña Amy Winehouse
  UNICORNS. NOW....
• Commented on The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves
  Moonbat: There is a certain sneeriness to bookshop employees. As an over-reader myself I tend to be oblivious to it. I had a guy at bookshop get quite pissy when I asked him for a book by Iain Sinclair and...
• Commented on The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves
  Myopic Books, a fantastic used bookstore in Chicago, has the Bukowski and Dick right up under the register. Along with the Harlan Ellison and Robert Anton Wilson. It's an odd mix of books, but they're apparently among the most likely...