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• Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
  So. Completely. Awesome. The next time someone tells me how great the 50's or 60's were, I'm going to send them this link......
• Commented on Macoto Murayama's computer illustrations of flowers
  These are amazing. Where, pray tell, can I see larger versions???...
• Commented on Time for obscure Finnish acid house performed with hacked synths!
  Hmm, I have to agree that this is underwhelming, given the simultaneous(?) use of 10 TB-303's. @Nosehat - thanks for pointing out the Prelude in 303 Major track. I went to the Ceephax site, they have all kinds of free...
• Commented on Van Halen had good reason to ban brown M&Ms in their concert rider.
  Heh, you can definitely tell the people who have some vague experience/understanding of how tour riders work versus the "$80K OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!1" people on this thread. Entertaining reading. Also: I have a friend whose friend's band opened for Loverboy when said...
• Commented on White Mischief steampunk variety night returns to London, May 23
  1) Dr "stmpnk", pls crwl nt scldd crnr nd d qtly. gt trd f y bt 2 wks ftr y frst shwd p. 2) How can it really be Journey to the Center of the Earth without Rick Wakeman, about...
• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  Thanks Freddie! :-)...
• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  @86 - can you create a smaller (~1-2MB) version for easier downloading and use? Audiomulch sometimes chokes on files that big......
• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  I can't believe nobody has linked to this: http://www.negativland.com/dumb/blog/?p=149 Far, far creepier!!!...
• Commented on .44 caliber revolver is the world's most powerful NERF gun
  Darwinism + Dude Who Failed High School Physics = This Video...
• Commented on Miro free and open video player goes 2.0
  Q to the BBers who have used this - would this be a good replacement for the massive suck that is Windows Media Player? I ask this specifically as someone who would use it much more for music than for...
• Commented on Nikon's AF-S f/1.8: a fast, cheap lens for DSLR newcomers
  *gurgle* *drool* This is the lens I've been waiting for! I have a D40, and the kit lens is basically decent at everything and great at nothing. I've been wanting a 35/1.8 lens like my film SLR has, because it...
• Commented on Galbraith and Keiser discuss beheading bankers
  Jamie was one of my professors in graduate school - probably the best one. He's a great guy, and blindingly intelligent. And, obviously, he has a wicked sense of humor! I have to admit, I've never heard of Max Keiser...
• Commented on Top X: The best places to buy the worst gadgets
  @1 & @11: Same here...I was stifling laughter with tears in my eyes. This bears repeating: "Do go ahead and sh*t in the hot tub in the company of four other grown men you've never met after downing 10 tacos...
• Commented on Fuck You, Razr: The Monkey's Paw of Cellular Phones
  Heh. It's funny that this is up on BB now: I just recently managed to get rid of my RAZR, which I only had for a month. It failed more spectacularly than any other phone I've ever had...what a piece...
• Commented on Illustrated tombstones of alleged Ukrainian mobsters
  A Daewoo? Srsly? I mean, come on - at least lie on your tombstone and say you had a Merc or a BMW. OTOH - this is proof that garish bad taste isn't limited to mobsters of the Italian-American persuasion......
• Commented on Cop roughs up teenage skateboarder on video
  malcolmkass - not a big deal? This guy is a public officer, and should be held to a higher standard than some random person who "had a bad day". Supposedly, the police work for the taxpayers, not for themselves or...
• Commented on Cop roughs up teenage skateboarder on video
  I'm sure this will do wonders for Bawlmer's image, especially considering this is at the Inner Harbor, which was created to get tourists to return to the city (it's basically like a shiny mall in the middle of a decaying...
• Commented on Radio volunteer sets station on fire over playlist dispute
  mercermachine - I'm right there with you, I miss Austin, too. Been gone for over 4 years now...odd as it sounds, it's stories like this that make me want to go back! On another topic, this radio station shares an...
• Commented on Vodka fan nearly kills self by glugging 2l rather than surrendering it at airport
  Fnarf: vodka is horrible stuff. Real liquor has, you know, flavor. BLASPHEMY!!! (Okay, settling down now...) It all comes down to what vodka you drink; i.e. Grey Goose or Belvedere or such, as opposed to something clear in a plastic...
• Commented on Vodka fan nearly kills self by glugging 2l rather than surrendering it at airport
  Madjo - agreed on the stupid rules (and this guy is and idiot, too). I used to love flying, but these days I hate it; ridiculous, arbitrary "security" procedures that do nothing but piss people off and empower some $9-an-hour...
• Commented on Vodka fan nearly kills self by glugging 2l rather than surrendering it at airport
  I love the "Maverick Spirit" tag on this article I'm going to remember this every time I go through airport security and have to deal with that liquid-carry-on bullshit...
• Commented on Texas science ed. officer forced to resign by Bushie hack for promoting evolution
  "I thought it was the "fundies" that were home schoolng now, as they don't want their children in the "religion-free zone" of public education?" Ken - you obviously haven't lived in Texas, because if you did you'd know that, in...
• Commented on Fun clip of Beatles' "Help!"
  Heh, the visual setup is a humorous metaphor for the Beatles: Jon in front, controlling the action (as it were); Paul immediately behind looking alternately engaged and completely bored; George looking mostly annoyed, when he isn't obscured by everyone else;...
• Commented on Cheap billionaires
  "...he splurges on...the occasional upscale cravat..." Who the hell wears cravats anymore?...
• Commented on TSA warns TSA to be on the lookout for anti-terror agents
  While none of this comes as any surprise to me, I fear that this is a minor issue in the bigger picture. I fear/expect that the GAO report in question [which revealed that federal agents were able to smuggle onto...
• Commented on The Week on the fall of the music industry
  I could write a dissertation on the idea of music's "disposable-ness" in the modern era, but I need to get back to work... So, to make it [somewhat] quick: I think a lot of people miss the fact that we're...
• Commented on Michael Brown, FEMA's Katrina boss, offers S.D. wildfires advice
  Consultancy is the afterlife for political appointees...it also often can be read as "I'm not very good at this, but I'll be happy to tell you how YOU should do it, if you pay me a lot of money." Besides,...
• Commented on How it feels to die
  I can't help but think of Ned Flanders: "Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins the movie by telling you how it ends. Well, I say there are some things we don't want to know. Important things!"...
• Commented on Free poster with a dozen famous conservatives
  @JIMH (#66): Ur postur r so much awsum!!1!1!...
• Commented on Cops complaining about cops writing cops tickets
  You know, I thought of something: traffic tickets are subject to open records requests (at least I would think so, in most places). You could very easily work backwards to figure out who the complainers are (take the details and...