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• Commented on You and the Pirates
  As a snarky prairie girl myself I have to say this book is very appealing. As a fan of Canadian literature I can't agree with the statement that it's "dull," but there is a certain earnestness that pervades throughout the...
• Commented on Happy 40th birthday, Internet
  LOGIN? Nah, I think he was going for the world's first LOL....
• Commented on Snake regurgitates hippo
  This is the chapter of The Little Prince Saint-Exupery didn't want you to see......
• Commented on HOWTO read the secret forensic dots in your laser-printer output
  And if I don't have a colour cartridge in my printer? I'd heard about this before and wondered if it was a response to the Unabomber being done in by his manual typerwriter. Some FBI guy realized that if Kaczynski...
• Commented on Bigfoot press release, by Graham Roumieu
  I'm so glad he's OK. I love that guy....
• Commented on Celebrity robot tee
  I think the one immediately below the tin woodsman is a centurion from the new BSG....
• Commented on Drum kit as table
  It's been said by those who know me that a quick way to get me to confess to anything is to merely threaten me with the torture that is a drum circle. This then, is my worst nightmare incarnate....
• Commented on Gary Wolf profiles Ray Kurzweil in Wired
  Kurzweil needn't worry about a heart attack. His liver will no doubt give up the ghost soon. That many supplements have GOT to be toxic....
• Commented on Interesting anti-graffiti sign
  This reminds me of the passive-aggressive notes website: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ (which I think BoingBoing first introduced me to)...
• Commented on U2 manager blames silicon valley's "hippy values" for making him less rich
  What Mr. McGuinness apparently fails to realize is that a major cause of the current sorry state of the music industry is that they sat down and looked on as the technological boat sailed right past them. They continued to...
• Commented on Scrabble Gram suggests naughty answer
  Now that I've seen the dirty answer I can't for the life of me see the proper one....
• Commented on Orwell's ill-tempered rant on bookselling
  It's true we only remember the bad customers. There were certainly plenty of good ones. I worked at my bookstore for more than 10 years. As much as booksellers love to tell war stories about the insanity of customer service...
• Commented on Orwell's ill-tempered rant on bookselling
  On my first day of my bookstore job many years ago a co-worker said to me, "before I started here I had respect for two things: books and people. Now I have respect for neither." I quickly adopted that position....
• Commented on Mitch O'Connell's glitter graphics
  Shiny things!...
• Commented on Top 20 most bizarre experiments of all-time
  Yikes, didn't Ted Bundy murder a handful of women at FSU in 1978? I expect the novelty of approaching strange men on campus and asking them if they wanted to sleep with you wore off after he was caught. I...