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• Commented on Super Mario gloves
  Isn't the past tense of "wing" "wang"? So, the just wang it....
• Commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
  Asimov didn't believe in his "three laws". Every story was an exploration of the absurd consequences of assuming them....
• Commented on Damning interview with Baby Einstein founder
  Clark was also a big Bush supporter....
• Commented on US Department of Defense adopts "open source guidelines"
  The .mil link in the memo 404s, the memo doesn't appear in the list of cio-nii memorandums on its website, and "Performing the Duties of the ... CIO" now isn't Wennergren; "(Acting) CIO" is listed as on the website as...
• Commented on Art That Illustrates the Danger of Antibacterial Everything
  The bacteria in our guts are fully equipped to apply operant conditioning, and to manufacture psychoactive chemicals to manage the behavior of their host to their own apparent benefit, and the possible detriment of their host. It is possible that...
• Commented on Scientist: Hugh Hefner Owes Everything to the Evolution of Color Vision
  This must have happened before we came down from the trees and had to develop dark skin. It might explain why we keep evolving light skin....
• Commented on Ethics of robots that kill
  It's way, way too late to be talking about this. We already have autonomous robots running loose, and they already kill indiscriminately. Sometimes they are obliged to pay out money when they do, but they have plenty. The robots are...
• Commented on We're in the Future: Scientists Warn of Robot Overlords
  Sorry, it's way, way too late. The takeover happened more than a century ago. The robots that took over are called "corporations". They are still constructed, in part, of human components, but any such that do not function properly in...
• Commented on Change.gov is going through some changes
  Here's what I posted under "Vision": I imagine war criminals, duly convicted in the Hague, sentenced to live out their natural lives in open-topped cages atop 50-foot posts, on a freeway median strip somewhere, just close enough together that they...
• Commented on BB's community manager beats MSM on breaking tiny but neat-o election news
  I call FAKE! It's a commonwealth, not a state. (Clue: circle)...
• Commented on Election 08 as a Dungeons and Dragons campaign
  Back in the '70s, my brother called D&D "My Guy Does This". I have been unable to think of it by any other name since. My Guy Does This....
• Commented on True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through photoshopped covers
  I will take the opportunity to complain here about Mercedes Lackey. Furthermore, let us excoriate Jack McDevitt, e.g. the first line from Chindi: "The Benjamin ... was at the extreme limit of its survey territory"....
• Commented on In Washington and on Wall Street, it's harder to figure out who is negotiating for the pirates and who is negotiating on our behalf.
  This is hands-down the most brilliant thing I have ever seen on BB. Mark, all is forgiven. (Xeni is still in dutch for mentioning her iPhone in headlines.)...
• Commented on Rockbox 3.0: turn your old iPod into new h4wtness with free/open software
  Matt: you can make it look any which way....
• Commented on Rockbox 3.0: turn your old iPod into new h4wtness with free/open software
  [Great, you can't enter the less-than character even with HMTL escapes. Humbug.] ... not yet fixed the buf that makes it crash if you push the "rewind" button, if "keyclick" is turned on. So, better turn off keyclick: nSettings/General Settings/System/Keyclick/Keyclick/off....
• Commented on Rockbox 3.0: turn your old iPod into new h4wtness with free/open software
  ... not yet fixed the bug that makes it crash if you push the...
• Commented on Rockbox 3.0: turn your old iPod into new h4wtness with free/open software
  OK, installed on my Sansa e240. Be sure to install a decent "theme" from the "Extras" page; the default one looks like ass. It appears they have not yet fixed the bug that made it crash if you push the...
• Commented on Chenman's Great Wall fashion photography
  Of course there is no such object as The Great Wall. It's a brilliant marketing construct. Certainly there are lots of walls in China, some very old, some very photogenic (not the same ones), but they don't connect up to...
• Commented on Nostalgic look at old paperback anthologies of comics and humor mags
  Bummer: Did you notice only one of the arms on her knee is hairy? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!...
• Commented on Nostalgic look at old paperback anthologies of comics and humor mags
  The fine print on the cover pictured insists it's "an original publication, not a reprint"....
• Commented on Virus that infects larger virii
  Not only that, there's no such word as "virii". The right word is -- big surprise -- "viruses". At least the headline didn't say you took the picture with your iPhone....
• Commented on In search of the penis thieves
  Reminds me of the joke with the punchline, "Western doctor always want operate. You wait two week, it fall off by itself!"...
• Commented on Free papercraft game-terrain
  For gamers of "a certain age"... Gamers' Desiderata Crates. Ramps too....
• Commented on Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0
  YACMP: "Yet another crappy Mono program". As if we needed one....
• Commented on Water ice found on Mars
  Ice, at the north pole. Who could ever have guessed?...
• Commented on BB Gadgets song: "Apple Store Is Down"
  Apfelschmerz: (noun) the painful realization that your Apple products fail to make you truly happy....
• Commented on Star Wars sand sculpture
  I always had my suspicions about Yoda....
• Commented on Spokane County employee run to ground by Feds for taking pic of weigh station
  There's only one way to answer a question like that: "Couldn't you find an honest job?" I use it most frequently at airports. It has always worked well for me....
• Commented on Man whose house was hit by five meteors believes he is targeted by aliens
  Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Five times? Alcohol....
• Commented on Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 Recreation Coming to Computer History Museum
  No, it was that the metal alloys they had weren't strong enough. The gears would have broken ("spalled"). I like to name my computers after parts of the Analytical Engine -- cog, mill, rod, lug, adder -- the last two...