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• Commented on Church Tank: The Illuminati's Secret Weapon
  that sounds amazing. please do write that story!...
• Commented on Photos of chicken forming in egg
  @4: you need not worry. The eggs you buy in the supermarket are unfertilized, so no murdering has taken place. Menstruation, yes....
• Commented on UK teen faces prosecution for sign calling Scientology a "dangerous cult"
  Whether or not Scientology fits any one definition of a cult is not the issue. The issue is that a teenager is getting prosecuted in violation of his freedom of speech. If someone had a sign "Judaism is a cult"...
• Commented on Bell Canada: We have to screw up other ISPs' connections or our retail customers will suffer by comparison
  I try to keep from having a knee-jerk reaction to this sort of stuff, but, regarding whomever decides these sorts of things, does having tons of money and power actually make people all of the sudden this greedy and evil?...
• Commented on Zojirushi Rizo: The Rice Cooker That Will Convince the West?
  @16: Rice for many Asian and Asian-American families is ubiquitous for nearly every meal, and in fact at least in Vietnamese, the word for 'rice' is the same as that for 'food' or 'meal'. As such, it's extremely handy to...
• Commented on Zojirushi Rizo: The Rice Cooker That Will Convince the West?
  I don't understand: to those that own a Zojirushi, what does this do that the cheap ones at the Asian market don't? Can it cook more rice, or cook it faster or something? I've seen some rice cookers that can...
• Commented on JaseZone's social networking chain-letter
  #6 makes a good point. However, isn't there an element of fraud here? This profile was designed to appear as his own, and as he created it. Surely there is a difference between observing someone's public information and impersonating someone,...
• Commented on HOWTO Bake a gorgeous vegan herb bread
  #25: I do not think vegan/vegetarianism is absurd, merely a bit silly. As I said, I think there are three possible motivations for living a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle: for better health, for better environmental stewardship, and to avoid a moral problem...
• Commented on HOWTO Bake a gorgeous vegan herb bread
  Regarding calling this a 'vegan' bread: it's true that many breads, like focaccia, are vegan. But (do I really have to say this?) many are not since they contain milk or eggs, so it's useful for some people to have...
• Commented on Torture Couture
  I think this is really nifty. Yes, probably no one will wear that anywhere but on the runway, but that's not the point. No one will decorate their house with the Duchamp toilet or dance to most modern music. We...
• Commented on Coin jar calculator
  I grabbed several handfuls of coins out of my change jar and they averaged 2.35 cents/gram. But the standard deviation was a whopping 0.68 cents/gram, so the distribution of coins in each handfuls was rather volatile, to the point where...
• Commented on Brazilian Company Gives Away iPods Inside Popsicles
  clearly these should have been called podsicles....