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• Commented on TV vs Web: consumption characteristics
  Is this supposed to make me feel better about browsing the web for hours at a time instead of taking a walk?...
• Commented on Pathways of Desire: Detroiters carve their own streets out of the snow
  I don't think it's necessarily that "the man" wanted to tell people where to walk, but when "the man" put his streets and sidewalks where they are, the intent was for the blocks to be filled with houses and businesses....
• Commented on Hope is fading
  Ehh, the shirt is new, but conservatives have been pushing the "Obama is a big disappointment" meme since the first month of Obama's presidency. It's pretty clever to couch it in terms of "disappointment," but I'll bet you that the...
• Commented on Sneaky pinball makers' tricks
  I have a 1960 Gottlieb "Wagon Train," and even it comes with instructions on how to tweak it to your desired level of difficulty. Obviously not as advanced as this kind of tweaking, though. Oh, and "Pengo" was an awesome...
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  I think a lot of the natto-hate is due not to the taste, texture, or even smell (come on, guys, we eat smellier cheeses). Well, I, for one, do *not* eat smelly cheeses. I only eat a few mild cheeses;...
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  So, when people inevitably fill out false voter registration cards, and Glenn Beck --- as he is legally obligated to do --- turns these in to the authorities along with all the other voter registration cards that he collected, do...
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  Let me cast another vote against the concept that the piano-playing singer-songwriter version is more "genuine."...
• Commented on Hugo Chavez, cannibalism apologist
  Right on, Antinous....
• Commented on Matt Logue's "Empty Los Angeles" photography book
  So, are these photos altered, or did he just take the pictures really early on Sunday mornings or somesuch?...
• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  The one local book chain that is still doing well here has a fairly conservative bent (the science section is teensy while the religious section is chockablock; The science section being tiny (and occult section being big) is part of...
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  I visited Japan for a month as a teenager, and let me tell you, natto was the most foul-smelling food I could imagine. I understand you grew up on it, but seriously, that stuff was rank. I'd encourage Americans to...
• Commented on Two curious antique Oddfellows items
  I used to work in an office where we had some archeologists on staff. Their big project was a construction site for a new high school (L.A. Central High School #9) where they had discovered a 19th-century cemetery under the...
• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  The problem is that I *don't* even think she's a nice lady....
• Commented on Army Corps responsible for Katrina flood damage, judge rules
  nic0mac, the analogous situation with the police would be if the police put it on record that that would have x number of officers in y number of squad cars patrolling the neighborhood and instead had one guy sitting at...
• Commented on New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven
  I did notice viewing a second time though, that the kids are doing it left handed instead of the normal right handed though. Yeah, they're hitting the right spots but they're doing it with the wrong hand. I think that's...
• Commented on Slider Stuffing
  U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!...
• Commented on Ancient cold-blooded goat had tiny brain and eyes
  Wow! Sounds kind of like koalas --- I just found out last week that because of their low-energy diet, their brains have atrophied and their cranial cavity is 40% filled with cerebro-spinal fluid. As Wikipedia sez: the brain's two cerebral...
• Commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
  Ehh, that might have been a little unfair about the BoingBoing editors correcting errors. I've seen them do it on multiple occasions, just generally not in cases where the headline as written makes a corporation or government entity look worse...
• Commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
  Could the headline be amended to be accurate? I not sure whether BoingBoing or Matthew Yglesias are less likely to amend an inaccurate post. At least the BoingBoing editors don't make Yglesias's sloppy spelling mistakes....
• Commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
  Define "justly". Courts do that. I didn't write the law....
• Commented on Pfizer abandons property it won in Supreme Court housing battle
  It would be nice if someone could force Pfizer to pay the people they kicked out of their houses As RStutzman notes above, in eminent domain cases, the government does, in fact, pay people for their property. Eminent domain gives...
• Commented on Scooby Doo Apocalypse tee
  The problem is that AA shirts only look good on skinny people. Have you seen their ads? You're supposed to look like a teenage runaway. Again, I'm not complaining about the woman, except for her clothing selection....
• Commented on Scooby Doo Apocalypse tee
  Meaty ladies (I say this affectionately) who like to wear nerdy shirts have a harder time of it because honestly AA shirts are cut for pretty skinny people and aren't very stretchy. Speaking as the author of comment #8, I...
• Commented on Scooby Doo Apocalypse tee
  Ugh, this is like the perfect storm of hipsterism. Ironically appreciated old TV show + ironic t-shirts in general + the t-shirt being too small + zombies + Velma + Velma remade as a utilikilt-wearing 21st-century woman of action +...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  Peterbruells - the scary thing about the cheaply-built postwar tract housing is that now it's 60-year-old cheaply-built tract housing....
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  OK, thanks... this isn't my area of specialty (I do have an undergrad degree in Geology), it's just that my skepticism antennae went buzzing with the figures that went up. Certainly we can hope that journalists will get these things...
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  I mean, I'm not arguing *against* there being a huge crisis....
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  I'm with you, man --- I'm not arguing that there's a huge crisis here. I'm just saying that we need to keep the facts on our side. I don't know how many species we've lost since 1970, but it's nowhere...
• Commented on Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists
  Can you show us an example of a member of Congress reading a script written by the EFF? No, I said "if."...
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  Whoa, Hmpf. I thank you for linking to the original report, but your interpretation of it is overreaching. What's declined 30% since the 70s is the Living Planet Index, which tracks trends in large populations of selected vertebrates. It's like...