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• Commented on Fangst
  Ankast: Angst over the loss of Paul Anka? Bangst: Bad haircut angst? Dangst: Angst over having to put 25 cents in the swear jar? I have to go to work, so I don't have time to think of more, maybe...
• Commented on Google and TiVo team up, strike terror into the nonexistent hearts of TV execs
  "Now, with TiVo's data, collected from millions of digital video recorders across the country, Google can tell exactly which of those commercials are being bypassed." I can tell you right now which ones are being bypassed, for free: all of...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  Sorry folks, Douglas Adams already won this contest: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly...
• Commented on Sound-copying technology and countermeasures, 1890-1978
  @BingoTheChimp: I may be jumping into this conversation a bit late, but I'd like to point out the immense success that Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have had ENCOURAGING sharing of their music. You can't stop the copying, making...
• Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
  The authors, etc., refused to take it. I want to be clear that I don't object to the message on the banner, I merely object to the use of the word 'destroyed' to describe what happened. "When we refused to...
• Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
  I didn't see the poster 'destroyed'. I would agree with 'carted off'....
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  @Jewels Vern: Those pesky oceans, combined with limits on the amount of time I may have to travel to a particular location (and back) on the other side of one such ocean, sort of forces the issue with me. We...
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  Can you afford to throw away multiple copies of vista or 7? Non-transferable licenses, ftl....
• Commented on Arthur Goldwag on the queen of the "birther" movement
  http://img.skitch.com/20091102-gxkq4j3tmpss7smpbxcuurberh.jpg...
• Commented on Money Mules
  @Apreche: They are criminals. They will find a way to harm you....
• Commented on A Tokyo photographer offers tips on taking pro shots with an iPhone 3GS
  Link to site b0rken, oh noes! http://sasurau.posterous.com...
• Commented on Repository of Read-Along Adventure book-and-records
  Even if the files are completely safe, they are completely useless to a Mac user. So much for the internet reaching its full potential....
• Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
  And I bet it's Windows only, but I won't bother trying, as I'm in the UK......
• Commented on Watch What You Say About Welsh
  It is every inventors dream to get a look at just one page of this book, so they can simply invent whatever is described....
• Commented on Power To the People
  So it must be pretty boring in Alaska and Hawaii......
• Commented on Man hunts for poo-squirting con artist in Delhi
  There is no phantom squirter. The shoe shine boys are masters of misdirection. They are dexterous. They are swift....
• Commented on KFC as pot dispensary
  Come for the medical marijuana, stay for the munchies....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  I submit that you who swear off eggs and poultry are inflicting a cruel punishment on the worker grinding the chicks. Someone who does such a job must have little choice in his life but to take whatever work he...
• Commented on Coin-tosses aren't fair
  Rock Paper Scissors (Lizard Spock) ensures the craftier person wins, which is more than fair. Also, (almost) everyone carries the proper equipment around with them at all times....
• Commented on Another misshapen frozen treat
  More girls playing ukuleles, please!...
• Commented on Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate.
  @41: And your SO is a Bad Mirther ....er....
• Commented on Botched building demolition creates real-world Katamari Damacy horror
  @6: The extreme always seems to make an impression....
• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  I'm with JONCRO. Make this film public, library of congress, smithsonian, etc. Put it up on youtube. Of course, as soon as it's up on youtube there will be the inevitable remixes....
• Commented on Somali Pirate talks about how to negotiate ransom, when to kill captives.
  Um, yay: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/cutthroatCapitalismTheGame...
• Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
  @8:Any netbook....
• Commented on Plastic box-latches are surprisingly cool
  We are the biggest bunch of geeks. Anywhere....
• Commented on Cryptic Alaska "blob" is an algae bloom
  This is what the government wants you to believe - 'algae bloom'. First contact has been made, and they are hiding the Truth from us!...
• Commented on BB Video: The 1944 "soundie" that inspired Devo's "Whip It" (Oddball Film + Video)
  Shenanigans! That piece of paper was already torn in half. The girl just let go of it at the right moment. I suspect other old-timey photoshoppery, too!...
• Commented on Abusive "coal-thugs" try to break up anti-mountaintop-removal festival
  Um, pet bear @ 3:40?!...
• Commented on Blackest material ever created. Again.
  bad ass sword? bad pass word?...