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• Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
  I think it's something more along the lines of the German-style Geballte Ladung, basically an improvised bomb where several grenades are wired around another that is used as the single detonator. In terms of art it's difficult to reconcile western...
• Commented on Soviet war painting gallery
  Looks to me like an anti-tank grenade bundle....
• Commented on Mutton Busting: children riding terrified sheep.
  I grew on a sheep farm - I was free range, so were the sheep - though after their tour of the pastures they slept in a barn and I slept in a house. I can say with great certainty...
• Commented on Copyright protects critics, but leaves fans out in the cold
  Why the presumption that criticism is necessarily negative? The whole point of a critic is to hep people onto what is worth checking out. Many critics do still ocassionally give good reviews. It's actually very, very easy for a critic...
• Commented on Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction
  Regarding the passenger pigeon's demise, one of the staples of French Canadian cuisine is tourtière, a double crusted meat pie. Guess what the French Canadian name for passenger pigeon is? If you guessed tourte, you're right. It's made with a...
• Commented on Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books
  @15, @17 I have 6 of the full-sized Billy bookshelves I bought well over 10 years ago that are holding up OK completely full, only the one with my oversized books is bowing at all, and structural stability hasn't been...
• Commented on We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? (Update: It is not!)
  I hope they fix this problem if the only kind of headphone you can use is made by Apple... because frankly, Apple headphones are pretty lame & make everyone around you a little more uncomfortable. All I know is that...
• Commented on Speaker system built into mannequin
  Sean Blueart - a "hacked" woman? Really? Perhaps if we called feminism and/or gender/sexuality studies "gender hacking" or "gender punk" people around these parts might take it more seriously. :D...
• Commented on Speaker system built into mannequin
  Sophomoric at best, sexist at worst. *bakes woman-shaped cake*...
• Commented on Regulator to hear Bell Canada network throttling case
  Bell doesn't throttle encrypted torrent connections. 'Sayin....
• Commented on The BJD scene (not what you think)
  Yes, though I didn't realize Perky Pat bore an uncanny resemblance to Avril Lavigne....
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  So was Outremont......
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  #24 - ooh, you got me - I'm racist against Anglo & Allophones! Funny that, being an ex-Ontarian who only learned French after moving to Montreal... I've noticed that the politicization of language makes a lot of people a little...
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  PPS @ Soultrance, just enter your address on this Elections Canada form and it will tell you where your nearest polling station is....
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  It's the same as voting federally - if you're on the list, you just show up with ID and vote away. voter information for Westmount Ville-Marie...
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  Nice catch on the by-law, I scanned that as by-election - the mind is a funny place. I didn't know that about the US difference, very interesting... but hey, here in Quebec lawyer & avocado are the same word so...
• Commented on Personal endorsement for Anne Lagacé Dowson, candidate in Westmount-Ville-Marie, Quebec
  To another Outremont upset!...
• Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
  True, but you can see a small scale version of that process fairly quickly - some of the proteins in cream will form a skin, which is the protein turning into a solid. When you bake a fish the eyeball...
• Commented on Iran: You Suck At Photoshop (updated)
  oops, forgot to post the page link for my #7 post there. Sorry. http://www.flickr.com/photos/greynotgrey/2655634249/...
• Commented on Iran: You Suck At Photoshop (updated)
  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2655634249_0351f1f4c4_o.jpg...
• Commented on Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment
  The law as a whole sounds like bullshit, but the siezure & destruction rider is no big deal, you can get a 4GB usb drive for 30 bucks even at big box retailers now - no need to worry about...
• Commented on Drug war horror stories to boil your blood
  "a suburban San Diego housewife who will spend the next 20 years in jail because she was peripherally involved in a heroin deal while she was in college in 1975" uh... peripherally involved? Supposedly moving nearly a quarter key a...
• Commented on Report: Chinese factory producing "Free Tibet" flags for export
  cowicide - "So you end up giving money to a communist, fascist state" By definition, communism is the opposite of fascism. Both can, however, be totalitarian....
• Commented on Behind TV "military analysts," the Pentagon's hidden hand
  “We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you” Yeah, "back", that's the word they used. I bet. :D...
• Commented on Evolution of Yeti imagery
  I think I found an even earlier legitimate white-furred Abominable Snowman - "Man Beast", 1955 (Jerry Warren). There's another 1964 whitey too, in "Seven Faces of Dr. Lao". According to the IMDB "Man Beast" was released 1956, not '55, but...
• Commented on Evolution of Yeti imagery
  Yup, that predates the Bumble by 3 years......
• Commented on London cops declare war on photography
  TERRISTS!...
• Commented on Haunting sf story podcast: "Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk"
  For those of you that prefer to read than be read to, I found a text version on revolutionsf.com . The site has link issues, so here are the 3 sections as direct links: http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3249 http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3249&page=2 http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=3249&page=3...
• Commented on Augmented reality system filters out moving objects
  You can already do this in Photoshop CS3 by converting the layers of a psd containing all the frames to a smart object and changing the stack mode to median. Here's an example: jnack.com/adobe/photoshop/fountain/...
• Commented on Toronto's Queen St W burns
  I lived on the top floor of 619A above suspect for 3 years, before moving to Montreal in 2002. I can see my old living room and front bedroom window in the photo. I still miss the neighbourhood, but even...