Michael D
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Commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
I like these chairs, but they're not terribly comfortable: the dimensions are a little smaller than you might expect, and the seat is pretty low. And if you wanted to make one it wouldn't be a bad idea to put...
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Commented on Slate's Dear Prudence: "Should I score pot for my diabetic sister-in-law?"
Despite the lousy and condescending advice here, Yoffe is still one of the only decent things about Slate. Imagine if they assigned the advice column to Kaus, Hitchens, or Saletan ("Call the cops on the friend, shoot the s-i-l, give...
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Commented on Millionth word in English imminent?
When were we all brainwashed that the dictionary decides what words are words, when in fact the dictionary follows US? There is quite a bit of cultural-conservative nonsense out there about how dictionaries that are descriptive aren't real dictionaries and...
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Commented on HOWTO Make a perfect cup of coffee -- the science of ferocious black madness
I don't know. A good coffee experience is much more than the chemistry of roasting and brewing after all, and requires a certain social interaction with other coffee lovers that's hard to replicate at home. A cup of coffee can't...
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Commented on First Movable Type is a fake? (no, not that Movable Type)
Sure it's a fake . . . by the Atlanteans. no other example of the writing has been found, and even the shape and format of the object is unique. And I believe this proves my point....
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Commented on Periscope for Bridge Kibbitzers
@5 Truly! How difficult to imagine watching card games as entertainment today!...
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Commented on Chunk of Stonehenge stolen
five more days till Halloween-- Silver Shamrock!...
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Commented on Telescope tunnel between London and NYC opens today
The cool thing is that it takes 42 minutes regardless of where the tube is... But, but, On that train all graphite and glitter Undersea by rail Ninety minutes from New York to Paris So either Donald Fagan doesn't know...
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Commented on Droste Effect: when a package's artwork features the package itself
Them fancy-pants literary critics call this mise en abyme. I don't know from cocoa packaging....
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Commented on Strange squid with human-like "teeth"
Thanks for the nightmare fodder! I'd been running short on disturbing Tagesrest....
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Commented on Scan of 1961 kids' book: Gordon's Jet Flight
I remember in the early 70s, as a toddler, having my nicest clothes (a suit and clip-on tie) as my "airplane suit"; I don't recall ever wearing it for anything else. That dress code must have been pretty serious, for...
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Commented on Windows users 20% more interested in God than Mac users
Ah, this reminded me of Umberto Eco's chestnut on Mac vs DOS: http://jowett.web.cern.ch/jowett/EcoMACDOS.htm Strange how dated that is now, with his considering Windows some new schism. Vista is a glossy megachurch in Texas. OSX is clearly Santeria....
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Commented on Hidden bear in Toblerone logo
Is the bear hugging Great Cthulhu? Now that makes me hungry for chocolate!...
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Commented on Video compilation of television logo signoffs
"CBS Special Presentation" will forever mean "Charlie Brown Special". I didn't realize just how strong that association was until now....
