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• Commented on Pixar Grants Dying Kid's Last Wish to See "Up"
  And the winning comment of the thread is... (#82 posted by failix) > On a side note, whether it was a publicity stunt or not really doesn't matter. The girl died for real. Exactly. Thank you....
• Commented on The Marshallese in Arkansas and other unexpected diasporas
  Takuan at #17 writes: > lessee, "civilization" shows up, sets off some hydrogen bombs and then lectures the natives about not eating turtles because it's mean? well yeah - if you want to group millions of different people's actions over...
• Commented on Avoid toxic people
  pinehead at #11 writes: > William S. Burroughs said it a bit more bluntly in his "words of advice for young people," where advised simply, "avoid fnck-ups. We all know the type; anything they have anything to do with, no...
• Commented on BookArmy: a last.fm for books
  #13: yeah - good old old Library of Alexandria. Now you're making me feel old too. Looks like they became alexlit.com, which seems to be inactive at the moment, with a goal of relaunching the site in 2008. And yeah,...
• Commented on The Dark Side of Dubai
  The article looks fascinating, and matches my feelings about this nasty explosion of flashy money and hubris, but if I may dive off topic... Go to the article, and then choose the 'print article' link, and look at the various...
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  I don't think I've ever heard of a "crisis" which worries me less....
• Commented on Game industry exec celebrates 60+ hour work-weeks
  Anonymous at #9 writes: >> "[T]hey purposefully hired people they anticipated would work those kinds of hours [...]" > "Anticipated," huh? Sounds like code for "we systematically avoid hiring women." I think more critically, hiring below a certain age. I...
• Commented on Man dances in public, videotapes self for 366 days straight "to do something new"
  EeyoreX at #8 writes: > Something "new"? > > 2007 just called. I expected them to say that they > wanted Where The Hell is Matt back, More than just Where The Hell Is Matt, I was thinking how long...
• Commented on Jobriath Boone: Rock's Fairy Godmother
  #7 > What is he doing now (did I miss that part of the post)? The link given in the first post (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/worst-rock-stars.php) [mean spirited but still a fun read if you're in the mood] it says he died of...
• Commented on Rare footage of Krautrock group "Faust" from 1971
  Antinous / Moderator at #5 writes: > Shannon, > > Please peruse the Mod Policy. Eh? I disagree with Shannon, but he's being polite and logically coherent. Does he have to be cheerful as well?...
• Commented on The comic art of Lucy Knisley
  > I had an email exchange with Flenniken a few years back. Tried to convince her that a Trots & Bonnie book would be most welcome . . . she wanted to distribute the strips on a CD-ROM. I guess...
• Commented on The comic art of Lucy Knisley
  It does look a little clear-lineish (though not as crisp), but more than that, it's a dead ringer for Shery(?) Flenniken's old "Trots and Bonnie" strips - in fact, that's what I thought you were posting....
• Commented on Why the Real Estate Boom Won't Bust and other funny books still for sale on Amazon
  Stop! Too fast! I still haven't stopped snickering about Wired with their "The Long Boom Will Never End" issue published before the dot com crash. I'm not ready for more humour yet....
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  The thing that really gets me is that there's no way he didn't know the cells had video, so either: i) he felt safe beating up a teenage girl on video or ii) he was too out of control to...
• Commented on Ted Chiang's story Exhalation -- free podcast
  Ted Chiang is a brilliant writer, no two ways about it - but I'm not much of a fan of story readings. Where did/will the print version appear?...
• Commented on Make a motion-triggered spy cam
  zeroy at #10 writes: > In thirty years of professional electronics work, I have never heard anyone pronounce the 'l' in "solder". If I did hear it, I would take it as a shibboleth indicating that the speaker knew nothing...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  Takuan at #16 writes: > I think I can squeeze Pratchett onto the list ,for sheer contribution if nothing else. I've always liked him, but after _Nation_ I admire him as well. It feels as if he's decided he's not...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  George Orwell Dorothy Parker and H.L. Mencken Not that the three of them would have agreed on much....
• Commented on Barfing Unicorn
  claud9999 at #3 writes: > Oh and I think it was Aqua Teen Hunger Force that cleaned up their gory animations by replacing the blood with a rainbow. Art imitates life. Back when I was writing video games in the...
• Commented on Australian family caged, detained, starved and deported by US customs
  Antinous at #134 writes: > Man On Pink Corner, > > Feel free to host whatever racist and bully-loving > comments you want on your own blog. WTF? Since when being sick of disemvowelment equate to a love of racism...
• Commented on Patrick Farley sums up the Bush Era: "All Circuses and No Bread
  Blaatann: Fair enough. There's nothing quite like having your new flag delivered to you without consultation to give you that "independent" feeling....
• Commented on Patrick Farley sums up the Bush Era: "All Circuses and No Bread
  > The blue Iraqi flag? Can anyone help with an explanation of that one? I seem to have missed out on that particular scandal/screwup/whatever....
• Commented on Frank Frazetta: Rough Work
  I used to work at a games company, next to a bunch of graphic artists. Their preproduction roughs were invariably more interesting and exciting than their polished final work and I used to spend ages digging through them. I'm very...
• Commented on Joel Stein: "Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention"
  When I found out that my daughter had a life threatening nut and egg allergy (and we found out through the allergy unit of a major children's hospital, not through our imaginations) I knew that I'd have a lot of...
• Commented on Susie Bright: The League of Amazing Latkes Q & A
  > The miracle answer to a labor-intensive problem is an old-fashioned potato ricer. Don't ask me what else you do with this thing: I only know it as a latke-enabler! It makes much better mashed potatoes than using a normal...
• Commented on Henrietta and Merna sing "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
  Ouch. You can tell the younger one isn't armed - she looks like she wants nothing more than to shoot herself....
• Commented on Torture in video-games -- a moral dilemma
  zax at #15 writes: > If you are going to jump into a virtual world, be it a book, movie or video game you subject yourself to whatever the authors want to throw at you. Sometimes you may put a...
• Commented on Adventurous teabag danglers
  Very cute - but what the hell is a posh cafe doing using teabags instead of leaf tea?...
• Commented on Boob Job piggybank sold as girl's room decor
  Antinous at #93 writes: > The only disemvowelments in this thread were two commenters being rude to Cory and one just being rude. I can't figure out what you're complaining about. Ok. Well, standard disclaimers about it not being my...
• Commented on Boob Job piggybank sold as girl's room decor
  Antinous at #89 writes: > teapot7, > > Calm your petty outrage. Yeah, I'll make it some chamomile tea or something. But overenthusiastic disemvoweling is still the spawn of the devil. Or did you mean about the Santa's cave stuff?...