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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  I wish Sal9000 and his new wife all the happiness in the world. The west(tm) needs to get over the whole "Japan has odd vending machines and is teh WeeRd - everybody stare!" thing at some point. Really. The attacks...
• Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
  There's nothing cruel about exposing ignorance. They are not attacks on the 'unintelligent' (though one might be tempted to percieve them as such given the anti-intellectual attacks typical of the American wingnuts) They are pointing out a very very real...
• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  I wonder if his PSP wife has any idea that this ceremony has taken place?...
• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  I was under the impression that all birds were afraid of round objects? At several farm equipment stores around here they sell similar round, inflatable objects with concentric circle patterns to scare off birds who would otherwise pilfer crops....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  I skimmed almost all the comments - is no one going to comment on the awesomeness of the post's photo? I would have loved to see a Bush/Cheney version....
• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  I used to live on a little island in the south of Kyushu which had a turbine to serve the small villages energy needs. I always found it an attractive site and a welcoming landmark each time I returned home...
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  Awesome. Glen is living the dream - making money for hamming it up on his show (now a traveling show it seems) for throngs of devoted followers. A money spewing congregation hanging off his every sound byte. If I was...
• Commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
  Maybe it's because I'm not British, (or because I'm not very smart), but every proper noun in this thread sounds like it's a person/place from Harry Potter. (Crawford Tillinghast, Mandelson, Corfu)...
• Commented on Origami hats for the faces on the money
  Here's the book link - Osatsu de Origami: link and the DVD for mental training! link...
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  RevEng makes a good point - people kill people. The only solution is to ban humans from flight and send robot drones in our place. Perhaps these robots can also go to work for us, flying to our boring meetings...
• Commented on Upscale horseback riding school was CIA torture site
  Was the beautiful buxom CIA agent performing said torture dressed in those high black leather boots with a red jacket and holding a riding crop?...
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  But that's the only way to get your health back in GTA IV! (hey, the main character is sorta Russiany, it's relevant!)...
• Commented on Jim Muir benefit poster by Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman
  @Anonymous16 Spot on! I'd buy you a beer if you weren't so anonymous. I'm always surprised when people are shocked that the actual prosumer of the art is taking a percent for his labor. It's generous enough to give of...
• Commented on Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot
  @Moriarty Nah, you could set a limit to the 'level' of the rendering and output a fairly detailed model. Uh.. wait a sec, was that a rhetorical question?...
• Commented on Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot
  The effect is stunning. There have been other not-quite-3D/2.5D style attempts at this sort of thing in the past, beautiful in their own right, but the impact of the Mandelbulb visuals are amazing....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now With Fire!)
  That was so m.e.t.a.l !!!...
• Commented on I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
  "Narwhal chaser" doesn't exactly roll of the tongue though, does it?...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  I scuttled all my travel plans this winter to visit the US. It just isn't worth the potential laptop-confiscation, de-liquification, ass-provocation, or snow-globe repossession. Enjoy your lack of revenue this holiday season 'Mmmericuh....
• Commented on Remixing the default Twitter avatar
  1 Vote for Wolverine....
• Commented on I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
  I think I need a unicorn chaser for this... unicorn chaser?...
• Commented on MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
  This is precisely why I haven't seen a movie in a theater in over a decade. While there hasn't been a massive organized boycott of moviegoing (to MPAA member films) yet that I've seen, people are giving up on tired...
• Commented on The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight Awareness
  The more you try to bury something, the more people are going to want to talk about it... Gotta hand it to those edgy indies!...
• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  While I sympathize with the manji/swazzy defenders let's remember the context here: The purchaser is an AMERICAN woman at a DOLLAR STORE in FLORIDA....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Is this one of those damn puzzles from the "Nightmare" setting on Silent Hill?...
• Commented on The Running Man: behind the sketchbooks of Adam Saltsman's <em>Canabalt</em>
  Love love love for this game... but reading the notes and gaining insight into the creator's head is double-plus great. Aesthetically Reminds me of "Out of the World". I know the point was to make a simple game, but I'd...
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  "I have a great deal of respect for engineer from 70 years ago that could make neat stuff from iron-age tools." Too bad this was an anonymous comment because I was going to nominate it for perhaps one of the...
• Commented on Growing penis tissue in the lab
  You forgot a period in the headline. It should read: Growing penis. Tissue in the lab...
• Commented on Gallery of antique radio tuning dials
  Dead Dead Sexy. Does anyone else swoon for the Zenith logo like I do?...
• Commented on Fake Steve Jobs v. NYT over Zynga-gate
  Oops, looks like he posted an apology one post later. http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/ny-times-fights-back.html Way to go NYT - you bought yourself another week of relevance!...
• Commented on Zoomable cell size application helps you understand size of tiny things
  I can't adequately explain just how much I have always wanted to have a visual explanation of this very scale... containing several of these very objects. Thank you!...