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• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  I think they get antsy because they are kept in a rather confined space. I'm sure you take care of them, and it is a very nice space. But there is no room to run away from this new object,...
• Commented on Karen Armstrong's TED Prize: Charter for Compassion
  Bungo writes: Most of the religions I've come across (including the "Abrahamic" ones) seem to me to be based around getting a largely illiterate group of people to behave in a way that works for society as a whole (and...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Lots of emotional responses here. Me, I'm not a math wizard. When I was younger, I had such math anxiety that I simply could not do math. I didn't know if it was because of the new math or old...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  Good luck kiddo. It is going to be rough, especially going through your teen years, with control freak parents. It is really hard, when you have abusive parents (and make no mistake, they are abusing you), because the fallback position...
• Commented on Pratchett's "Unseen Academicals" - a gift to Discworld lovers and an argument for the importance of sport
  Love Pratchett. Love the Discworld series. I picked up the lot of them as secondhand paperbacks about five years ago, as I was going through one of the roughest times of my life. They kept me alive, offering up humor,...
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  I got a musical top with a more traditional shape about twelve years ago. It lit up, but did not project anything on to the floor. The music did not get so distorted. It played "Wipeout"!...
• Commented on Candy Corn traffic cones on DC streets for Halloween
  Hoo boy. This reminds me of the time I dressed up as a giant candy corn for halloween, and everybody thought I was a highway warning cone....
• Commented on Hello Kitty 35th anniversary birthday bash at Royal/T in Los Angeles
  That Hello Kitty blow-up doll space suit is one of the most terrifying things ever, what with the perky tits, the football abdomen and the heart design over the genital area (guess we should be grateful it wasn't a bull's...
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  Airpillo, you pegged it when you said: The entire point of the idea was trying to stonewall litigation and protect individuals' careers from the repercussions of making bad decisions. "Screw your kids, I have a career to worry about." What...
• Commented on Swedish children demand end to gender stereotypes in Toys R Us catalog
  The folks who are adamant about how this gender stereotyping is good and grand and fine, don't surprise me. Saw it when I was a parent, in my fellow parents. Saw it in the way they raised their kids. Certainly...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  So if you force yourself on a child, that is mental illness, but if you force yourself on a preteen, it isn't? WTF? There are all kinds of mental illnesses that might make the sufferer more likely to commit these...
• Commented on Disney's giant, robotic eyeball prototype
  Some emotion is conveyed by the eye itself; the size of the pupil and such. But mostly, emotion is expressed by that which surrounds the eyes: the eyelids and the brows....
• Commented on For Your Friday - The Spoon Box by The Books
  I LOVE that spoon box. Wonderful!...
• Commented on OUTRAGE: documentary outs anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay
  As a rule, I'm against outing other people. But in situations like this, I'm not. Is this like a stoner politician who is against drug law reform? Not quite. But there certainly is that element of "one set of rules...
• Commented on Mont Blanc's $23,000 pen to commemorate Gandhi's birth
  Holy shit! Their marketing people must be huffing some serious solvents to think this was a good idea....
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  It's late and I haven't read the thread of comments, and have only glanced at the article, but I just want to comment... Driving across the country, the single most horrifyingly depressing place I saw was Vermillion. I remember the...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Abu, If you think, for a freakin' moment, that women are sexually assaulted because of what they are wearing, then you are an uneducated troglodyte. Talk to a rape crisis advocate and she'll set you straight. Grandmothers wearing cardigans get...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  I have mixed feelings about this. You have to admit that real bikinis, in many contexts, aren't exactly neutral either. Would that we had a world in which every person could wear what they liked without fear or judgment. That...
• Commented on Monsters Cereal Blog
  As far as monster-themed breakfast cereal goes, the tastiest of the lot was the original Freakies. It was like Cap't Crunch, only not quite so sweet. Also it did not leave your mouth in shreds. I also really miss Krispy...
• Commented on Iron Melies Moon fence yields teachable moment
  Pipenta likes this....
• Commented on Robot can hop over 25-foot fences
  Sure, it's cute, until he hops over the fence with a bomb. Then it's terrifying....
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  What I'd like to see is a biopic about Alfred Russell Wallace....
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  Hokano, Ow, ow, ow. That was funny! Painful, but funny....
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  "Giant Boozy Ladyparts" sounds like a great name for a band, or a poem, or a boat, or something!...
• Commented on 3D printed silver brooches featuring your favorite landscapes
  I want Arches, the Devil's Garden....
• Commented on HOWTO make a plush cell model
  We used Cheerios and such, back in the day. And I seriously considered having my intro bio college students make a damn model out of Cheerios and M&M's. Anything, anything, to get the little cretins to study!...
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  Oh, and I seem to remember reading somewhere that on those European beaches where topless bathing for women is permitted, it has fallen out of favor. Most women don't, it turns out, find it comfortable in this day and age....
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  I'm not sure how much faith, you should forgive the expression, I'd put in Wikipedia as the bottom line for definitions these days. At its core, Buddhism is not a religion. At its core, Buddhist practice is very much about...
• Commented on Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ
  I always found Gould unbearable tiresome to read. He spent too much time preening instead of getting to the point. I find Dery to be much like Gould in this correspondence. Pinker, on the other hand, is interesting and informative....
• Commented on Filmmaker John Hughes has died.
  I could not get through the video. The intro section with all the short shots flanked by black leader made me sick to my stomach. Not very sophisticated editing, IMO. A rather literal approach matching the film to the music....