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• Commented on Bhopal, 25 years later: Henry Rollins in Vanity Fair
  Horrific, yes. But part of me thinks Henry wanted to say 'silent but deadly' in Vanity Fair and get away with it....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  The road to Dell is paved with good intentions. @Talia: illegal use of facile tropes. Five yard penalty, loss of down....
• Commented on Snow kite boarder gets carried away by kite
  FWIW, I'm kind of interested in the way different cultures curse. Germans and Scandinavians seem to do a little more religious cursing than the rest of us, 'jaevla' (demon) for example. Latin cultures do comparison to animals - cabrón, buey,...
• Favorited @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) on Boing Boing
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  They walk among us....
• Commented on Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video
  Vanessa and her guy are my heroes; I probably wouldn't have had the presence of mind to make an educational video, much less one this good....
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  Ever see that Golden Eggs clip? "It's not a bra! It's a supporter for my pectoral muscles!" "Dude, that is totally a bra."...
• Commented on Visiting the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch
  @das_memsen Your comic blog is way, way beyond awesome. Bookmarked....
• Commented on As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
  Okay, I don't care if it sucks, it's still awesome. I'd sit through Titanic if it had this many ninjas in it....
• Commented on TSA officer caught stealing laptops at JFK
  @jadedlion If I understand you, you're arguing something like "a few bad TSA employees is not equal to all TSA employees being bad". I disagree. The end result is the exact same thing: if the TSA is designed so that...
• Commented on Paintings by White Supremacist and Alleged Murderer James von Brunn
  Okay, I'll say it: this looks like protest art to me. The girl in the foreground, complete with crucifix hanging on the wall, is contrasted against the decadent, colorful Picasso....
• Commented on Japan's "Herbivore Men"
  "Indeed, she said, it was a return to the norm for Japanese men..." I don't buy it. Examples of manly, masculine Asian men are everywhere if you look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GepZCzikFY0...
• Commented on Brother Theodore on David Letterman
  Oh, my starry eyes. This is genius. If Laibach did standup, it'd be this guy. I am in love....
• Commented on Fox's Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
  Hm... nobody's compared this to that other post about the penis panics. Allow me to be the first. Ahem. 'Hey, that makes about as much sense as that other post about the penis panic.' Actually, the wingers'd probably get halfway...
• Commented on EPA's most-wanted fugitives
  Wang... damn. That guy knows how to look like a million bucks in a lineup. And those pearly whites are *blinding*. I have a new hero....
• Commented on Turtle sex with a shoe
  Horny and doomed to fail to the amusement of others... it's like high school all over again....
• Commented on Crumb, Clowes, Ware, and Tomine together in France.
  Okay, I'll jump on this dog pile. I think Tomine is a pretty good storyteller. I think the comparisons to Raymond Carver aren't entirely just hype. In your *hat*, Waltisfrozen, in your *hat*....
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  Okay, maybe I was kind of being a dick. "Big tent" atheism is sort of a nice idea. I still have this urge to throw up a huge caveat about the framing of what atheism is, but whatever. I'm all...
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  Spinrad, with all due respect, you're fired. Clean out your desk, turn in your badge to the security guard and go home. Motivation's a red herring; what's important is behavior. Trust me, people with the worst possible motivations can be...
• Commented on Naked Baby Plays a Synthesizer (video)
  @#8 domo arigatou, mr. robbo. /me ducks....
• Commented on Japanese Architecture
  FWIW, that third-floor room really does have nice light....
• Commented on Obama's "Disgraceful Abandonment" of Civil Liberties in Extraordinary Rendition Case
  @60: Bravo, Greg. Well, played, sir, well played. For what it's worth, the best movie I ever saw about the usefulness of torture was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOutxGJK5o...
• Commented on Kindle 3
  I can't be the only person who thinks that "Kindle" is the most spectacularly bad choice of names since the Chevy Nova. Maybe they could name their next few products the "Montag", or the "Reifenstahl"....
• Commented on <em>Outlander</em>, this year's best movie about Vikings led by a space messiah to kill an alien dragon
  "I know who you aaaaaaaare!" ...BLOOD OCEAN....
• Commented on Ukuleleaya plays "Crazy G" on customized cake ukulele
  I am in love. This is beyond awesome....
• Commented on Speaker system built into mannequin
  "Objectification", feh. Sometimes crass is good. I don't think anyone would bat an eye if there were a statue-of-David Playstation controller. Hm... now there's a thought....
• Commented on Robot model kit: Chubu 01
  Notice the cool handles / foothold things so you can climb up into the, uh, "cockpit". Very nice. That is one sexy gundam....
• Commented on Broadcom billionaire loses fight to keep e-mail on drug use secret
  Welp, I guess that explains the BCM43xx series firmware....
• Commented on FBI hunted terrorists by checking falafel sales in San Francisco
  @Stephen Lark: I am so renting that....
• Commented on Henrietta and Merna sing "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
  Yes, Virginia, this is where goth girls come from....