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• Commented on Heroes and sociopaths: behavioral twins?
  Had I known that I could cash in on my misspent youth as a dungeon master by publishing research on the similarities between chaotic evil and chaotic good alignments, I most definitely would have been a psych major....
• Commented on Sleeping Beauty cosplayers at the aquarium
  The Georgia Aquarium is very photogenic. By far the best attraction in Atlanta....
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  Get that girl a sandwich, indeed. http://gtgas.blogspot.com/...
• Commented on Upside down house
  Uncanny. I'm also in the childhood dreams of upside down houses camp. I used to daydream about what would happen if gravity suddenly reversed and everything fell to the ceiling....
• Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
  Vaya con Dios....
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  I completely disagree with the author's assertion that parties in general are boring to introverts. Boring parties are boring to all parties involved, but extroverts tend not to register or acknowledge them as such since they're too busy doing that...
• Commented on Film decors by the Brothers Quay
  No. No. No. I just got back from a week-long vacation in the City. I really wish this post would have shown up 1-2 weeks ago. Oh well....
• Commented on Tramaine de Senna: Double Dub
  Sorry, what I meant to say was, "Riddim. Get that girl some Riddim!"...
• Commented on Tramaine de Senna: Double Dub
  Yeah, I myself could have used a little drums and/or bass. The music was very pretty, but it felt out of sync the with energy of the performance....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  Yuck. Pain and suffering make for poorer quality meat. Animals that have comfortable, stress-free lives taste a whole lot better than those who don't. No offense... just saying....
• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  @48 I was thinking more of the rampant use of the term "white trash" in some of the early comments. There's nothing wrong with hating on someone because they have shitty taste in music, or are vulgar, sexist, macho, etc....
• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  Hating on people because of their socio-economic background. Way to stay classy, Boingboing commenters....
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  [sighs] http://www.translationparty.com/#1831244...
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  *ahem* Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start...
• Commented on The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation
  Great cover art....
• Commented on Are red-headed people more sensitive to pain?
  I'm a half breed, or day-walker as we like to be called. (My brother is fully red-headed, I have brown scalp hair but a very reddish beard). I've had Novocaine completely wear off in the middle of both filling and...
• Commented on Time for obscure Finnish acid house performed with hacked synths!
  There are any number of reasons one may want to mod an old synth like a 303. Besides the common mod to add midi implementation, there are quite a few performance enhancing mods that augment the instrument's filters, envelope generators,...
• Commented on Van Halen had good reason to ban brown M&Ms in their concert rider.
  Hmmm. It must be behind-the-scenes-of-rock day on the internet. My buddy forwarded me an link this morning to a very tongue in cheek concert rider sent out by Iggy Pop's roady. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html Its a very interesting mishmash of sophomoric malarkey...
• Commented on Documentary on the Church of Satan from 1970
  I for one would never trust anyone who doesn't keep up his yard. It shows a distinct lack of moral character....
• Commented on Carl Sagan on Flatland
  3 dimensions have never felt so claustrophobic....
• Commented on Hammer as "cure" for constipation?
  I've never gotten constipated from eating too many cherries. Quite the opposite, in fact, but I'm sure the diuretic effects of alcohol consumption played a part in this gentleman's discomforting digestive condition. Let this be a lesson to all of...
• Commented on David O'Reilly's animated video for U2
  First, it's spelled Negativland. Their name is taken from a song by 70's krautrockers Neu!, hence the Germanic spelling. Secondly, as interested as I may be in the animation, I'll be damned if I request 1 byte of U2's music...
• Commented on Under the Sun: Gordon "Violent Femmes" Gano's jangly and playful new solo album
  Solo? It looks like he's got a full band in the video. I think that a "solo album" is a piss-poor way to describe what's going on there. So what, all those other musicians don't count because they weren't in...
• Commented on Music and the mind
  Here is the completely backwards approach to the same topic: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.500-eavesdropping-on-the-music-of-the-brain.html A prof at Trinity College designed software to convert MRI data into ambient music as a means to detect patterns that weren't visible obvious. Perhaps these two studies could...
• Commented on Saving the tasty Mangalica pig from the brink of extinction -- so it can be eaten
  I misread the title as being "Mangelic Pig" (as in man+angelic). I now have a name for that electroclash boyband I've always wanted to start....
• Commented on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! season three DVD out soon
  SPAGHETT!!!...
• Commented on Newspaper asks poets and novelists to cover the news for the day
  Its good that some of us realize that the figurative and the factual are not mutually exclusive....
• Commented on Cartoonist Lucy Knisley's comic strip about a 7-day-fast
  I've thought about doing this diet, or something similar. I have several friends who've done it. The idea of cleansing my digestive tract is very appealing. However, there are several factors that make it very likely that I'll never try...
• Commented on Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker!
  #34 Hulu is a internet video service similar to youtube that was recently thought up by America's entertainment industry as a way to hold on to advertising revenue in the brave new world of free streaming video. It is basically...
• Commented on Damien Walter's 2009 <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">parkour</span> free running showreel
  I wonder how long it will take for this to become an Olympic sport?...