Baldhead

Recent Actions

• Commented on It's healthy for kids to get dirty
  my standard comment seeing the "kills 99.99% of all bacteria" bit on products: "hey that's the same percentage that's harmless!" if you aren't about to do surgery you probably don't need it....
• Commented on Record exec arrested for refusing to send a tweet asking Bieber-maddened crowd to disperse
  I only get concerned about "All time" lists that happen to be mostly made up of stuff from the last year. Which happens *ahem* all the time. This kid's list is kinda shallow but at least he's got a couple...
• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  almost nothing built before you were born is considered an "eyesore". People never talk about how an old dam "destroyed" the local ecosystem ("replaced" is better since the fish in man made lakes seem to love it) but will readily...
• Commented on 16 Golden Retrievers Teach You About Atoms
  evey video i ever saw on the subject explained it better and faster....
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  my thought on the new song is this: the sort of thing that Grace Jones night have done when younger. might still do really....
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  My cooking idol was the late, great James Barber, who used two knives (one big, one small) and wine bottles instead of rolling pins. anyone who needs this best stay away from my kitchen....
• Commented on Meow Mix
  I must disagree with many here. that was aweful. Like the sort of thing a late- 80's homemade rap video might have....
• Commented on IBM computer brain simulation as complex as a cat's
  did they cover the cores with fur?...
• Commented on Maricopa deputy steals defender's paperwork during a court case
  This is clearly tampering with confidential defense documents. Nobody who isn't a lawyer, judge or defendent is allowed to touch them. That goes beyond contempt if you ask me. I can't doubt he was looking for a specific document for...
• Commented on Guns 'n Gardens - How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
  The facts of easily breached base, use of a shotgun (deemed largely worthless in ZSG) His weapon choice is poor. He's doomed....
• Commented on How to destroy the market for used gadgets
  there's always a work- around to all problems. and it still looks like a good price for a stand- alone box. I can't get acheivements! Oh no! wait a sec achievements are totally meaningless in the long run. like Trophies...
• Commented on Hiney Virus Update
  While the main point of the article if good some of the individual ones used to support it aren't so good. For example: - Only 8% of flu- related deaths are directly attributable to the flu. -Fair enough but what...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  i figured it wasn't that people don't laugh at windows user but rather we shake our heads in quiet disbelief, like if we saw someone let their dog do the driving....
• Commented on Lawmakers read script written by biotech/drug giant's lobbyists
  I think the important thing her, really is the lobbyist quote: "This happens all the time. There was nothing nefarious about it." unless I get my meaning of "nefarious" wrong could it not be commonplace as well as nefarious?...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  that seems like a terrible idea with no potential quality to it....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  terrible, terrible instructions....
• Commented on Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
  So the thing that actually made money for the bands- the concerts- is making them more money today. Good. Labels are losing money in a big way- good, or bad depending on what your point of view is. I'm not...
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  I find so many of these fancy clocks impractical because staring at it a minute then doing an quadratics equation isn't my idea of efficient time- telling. not so with this one. but I only wish I had $2300 to...
• Commented on Beautiful infographic: "The Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe"
  "lacking the Tetragrammaton"? Uh... it's at the top, merely spelled as "God" in this version. Tetragrammaton literally means "word having four letters" and those four letters are "YHWH" also rendered "Yahweh" and these days usually called "god"...
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  I think that it was simply a screw-up. Sometimes the simplest explanation really is the correct one....
• Commented on How the ambient sound at Walt Disney World works
  i think the best thing they could do to help out the music in malls on the holiday is NOT play christmas music. Hearing 15 different recordings of "here comes santa claus" in one day will incite violent thoughts in...
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  @34- A lot of adults in general have seemingly forgotten what it was like in high school. Hence the parents who want to pretend their kids aren't drinking, smoking and having (or even thinking) about sex. Point out to them...
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  Teenagers have sex. Some good some bad and their literary counterpart should as well. Parents who think otherwise probably don't know that their 15- year- old daughter just tweeted about giving her first blowjob. I am a little worried about...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  "Energy worker"? Electrician?...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  The lanyard is the stumbling block, as it fits with the iPod connector and only iPods have them. On the other hand I can think of no reason to own an iPod unless it's a Touch (all the extras) or...
• Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
  ignorant hick says: in china? how can they tell?...
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  does this include politicians who use songs in ads without permission? that would make elections very amusing....
• Commented on Crucixion and beheading for child rapist in Saudi Arabia
  a fence is a deterrent. the cinsequences of crossing it are a punishment. not the same thing at all and I have no idea how people getting them confused. this execution isn't happening out of a belief that doing so...
• Commented on Anti-Alan Grayson smears in context
  #4... which woman was called a whore? Enron execs, as a group, were given this name. we'll point out later how few of these execs were in fact women....
• Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
  nobody said they buy the music they downloaded. just that they buy AND download. I have many, many downloads. I also have many many albums. some downloads happened after purchase attempts failed (couldn't find or found in rare extra expensinve...