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• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  Yep. Too easy. It's evocative of a wasp's nest which most animals will naturally stay away from....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  So Google will index the BLOGS that link to Murdochs sites. So what? This slows down no one an will only directly hurt Murdoch. I think most other companies will wait to see how this effects Murdoch first before jumping...
• Commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  Wow. He pays them the wages THEY EARN and let's them return after vacation. What a pioneer for workers rights....
• Commented on Instructions for building an autonomous sentry gun
  LOOK OUT! It's using Windows! Surf to one bad webpage and we're all DOOMED!...
• Commented on The awfulness of Windows vs. the creepiness of Mac
  @HUGH Yes. Mac user, wife is mac user and just bought my mom a mac. Dock suxs. Doc sucks too. Use ODF. Also Linux users too....
• Commented on The awfulness of Windows vs. the creepiness of Mac
  @ZADAZ Yes, they are all tools. But to extend your metaphor, a hammer would never be used as a screwdriver. And although you have a swiss army knife with all tools piled into one tiny unmanageable package, I'm not relying...
• Commented on The awfulness of Windows vs. the creepiness of Mac
  ... And people who know they are sheep and their product is a horrible demon stabbing them in the eye with a red hot poker who get mad at those who try to alleviate their pain deserve to live in...
• Commented on Meat tenderizing ring
  yep agree with #13. Brass knuckles are across multiple knuckles thus distributing force across the whole hand and braced the blow on the palm. This thing will snap your finger and twist and puncture your other finger. Mostly for show....
• Commented on Happy 40th birthday, Internet
  And before anyone says anything, yes, Al Gore actually did help create the internet because without his pushing in congress to open this up to the public, it would still just be a military project....
• Commented on Prank: humans "on display" at zoo
  Ah to hell with them. Let's bulldoze their habitat and plant trees....
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Looped on my third try with : "I juggle cabbages with a vigorous zeal when I'm not playing piano for a living."...
• Commented on Are red-headed people more sensitive to pain?
  This explains SO much. I have to take 3 times as many Advil as my wife in general and the localized aneasthetic the dentist gives me ALWAYS wears off fast and he has to give me twice as much; he...
• Commented on Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government
  @12 Excellent. Let the 'Birthers' come. Obama needs to take a tougher stance and give them all a 'boot to the head'. I want to see him stand at the podium and just say this one line from Army of...
• Commented on Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government
  He was counting on Gawd to pay his taxes. Hallelujah!...
• Commented on Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22
  I loved Ray Bradbury when I was a kid. Read his books, watched Ray Bradbury theater and the adaptation of 'something wicked'. But as I grew up, I adapted. I'm 40 now and me and my wife are both some...
• Commented on Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22
  I'll send my Birthday congrats to him over the 'damned internet' as he so frankly put it....
• Commented on America makes nothing except weapons -- UPDATED
  NEWSFLASH PANTOGRAPH!! That list does not include food of which the US exports tons to third world countries every year and subsidizes those exports. That's a list of MANUFACTURED DURABLE GOODS. Like VCRs, camcorders, plastic tumblers, etc. I don't quite...
• Commented on America makes nothing except weapons -- UPDATED
  Yep, thats a chart of durable goods. That doesn't take into consideration entertainment, software, books (including textbooks), farming, etc. America dominates in software and entertainment but yes, we farmed out all durable goods manufacturing to other countries who do not...
• Commented on Ask Google to guarantee privacy for the future of reading
  @#15 And what makes you think Google is just handing over information without legal warrants? In my example I showed how this has always gone on and still does go on but the article spreads fear and panic about a...
• Commented on Ask Google to guarantee privacy for the future of reading
  Since when did you think the books you read had anything to do with privacy? The FBI can request the books you read from libraries. I worked at Amazon from 95-97 as lead buyer and we frequently had requests from...
• Commented on Vanish: self-destruct your own data
  Cute tool but not useful for business. Business need to keep track of their communications and store them (IM, Email, etc). Something like this would be in violation of those standards and could get you into alot of hot water....
• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  @CAFFEINE ADDICT Then you are an incompetent tree monkey as I switched an entire office of 50 just THIS WEEK with no issues to Firefox. They don't even realize they are using a new browser and are impressed that it...
• Commented on Woman takes revenge on tow truck driver
  No tow truck is left in neutral; they would roll while the person was trying to strap the car or when they started getting out of the car. This was definitely staged....
• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  Their response was that it costs money to support and that again is a lie and an excuse by those who are uninformed and scared of open source software. Those who are in embedded positions and who only know how...
• Commented on Creepy unmarked cage for people in Superior, Colorado
  It's a faraday cage. It keeps the government from controlling you with their mind control machines from their spy satellites. This gives brief respite to the paranoid....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Naturally of course that last comment will have me come up on some FBI list so just allow me to justify that by saying: AIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIEIE! (that's the best throat shoat I can manage)...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  As a self respecting web developer, I henceforth declare jihad on the 'moms'....
• Commented on Lawyer asks judge to force rival to wear nicer shoes
  Well if we really want to be honest... I would also like to motion that all lawyers should henceforce pronounce the word lawyers like liars so that we know what they really do for a living....
• Commented on Under the Sun: Gordon "Violent Femmes" Gano's jangly and playful new solo album
  Ah. Beautiful. Please remind when this is out or else I will forget and miss this wonderful album....
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  Seriously... why do you guys keep posting this stuff? We know FOX news is insane. We know people who watch it and it panders to are insane. We know the Bush administration was insane. I'm trying to get past the...