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• Commented on Weta's new cheaper, delightful, detailed plastic rayguns
  The names alone are worth a benjamin....
• Commented on Cigar box ukulele kit
  A uke post without the obligatory cute girl playing one? Man, this place has gone downhill since the redesign....
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  I have a simple rule: Don't eat food that's pretending to be another food....
• Commented on Papercraft mecha: Metabots
  Wouldn't it be easier to decorate then assemble?...
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Modern Warfare, Spore Islands</em>, and <em>Half Minute Hero</em>es
  The thing is, they didn't. There's no "pacifist bent" to pull off. "Gee, ain't war hell?" isn't pacifist, especially when followed by "...but ain't it fun, too?" The writer's claim is hollow; at best it's a weak attempt at helping...
• Commented on MJ's funeral cost a mil
  I wonder if that number includes what LA had to cough up for services. Probably not....
• Commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  the woman is a friend of mine and we are trying to not have this spread viral. I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that it's an Associated Press video, so it started way past viral....
• Commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  I dunno, looks like the old guy in the green jacket was on top of it pretty quickly. And let's be fair--people that drunk are like little kids: Turn your head for one second, and they can get themselves into...
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider: Now This Is Just Getting Ridiculous
  So long, and thanks for all the bread....
• Commented on UCLA: livers for sale!
  The thing is, once you legalize selling organs you pretty much ensure that the only way to get one will be by buying one, and that just ain't right. Not to mention the types of assholes that will be drawn...
• Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
  In the name of modern, international metropolitanism, Shanghai should be celebrating public pajama-wearing as the future. Don't they get ST:NG in China?...
• Commented on Praying Mantis consumes grasshopper.
  Sadly, the mantis was really praying for a caterpillar, but a bug has to take whatever the bug god provides....
• Commented on Arthur Goldwag on the queen of the "birther" movement
  There are still people who think that the Kenyan birth certificate is real? Or,uh, "not false"? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/21/orly-taitz/alleged-obama-birth-certificate-kenya-hoax/ "...We e-mailed the purported Kenyan birth certificate to Salim Lone, spokesman for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, to see what he thought. Here...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  All companies are accountable to their customers as well as to their shareholders, because customers choose which companies to pay and for what goods or services. They can't pay their shareholders if all their customers leave them because of crap...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  People are not dying in the streets beacuse they don't have health insurance. The Harvard study that says 45,000 Americans die each year because of no health insurance puts the lie to that--unless literally "dying in the streets" is a...
• Commented on Taste test: Togarashi
  Based on the book excerpt, the chiles work the same way as alcohol does (read the 'Why This Works' part)....
• Commented on The Cove director on watching his film with the dolphin hunters
  Japan is a rich nation with access to vast amounts of knowledge in native Japanese. As such, many of them do not learn English adequately to participate in worldwide discussions on such sensitive subjects... The Japanese are a gentile people...
• Commented on DWI in motorized easy chair
  RTFA. His 180 days was stayed for 2 years probation. And would it still be an amusing little story if he hit a pedestrian, or caused a car to swerve and splatter some guy on the sidewalk? Luckily nothing awful...
• Commented on Eagle Vs. Reindeer
  But what about giant eagle versus megareindeer?...
• Commented on RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan: "We geeks man, we geeks!"
  I did not know that knowing perl was a precondition for geekiness. So should people like musicians that consider themselves 'band geeks', in the interest of geek purity, stop referring to themselves as such unless they can fix a Windows...
• Commented on HOWTO make a Glenn Beck Diaper Halloween Mask
  Yes. It's at wingnutdelusionsofpersecution.com...
• Commented on HOWTO make a Glenn Beck Diaper Halloween Mask
  Well done, sir. Well done....
• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  @mellowknees Has no one read 1984? I got a chapter into it and then Amazon deleted it. How's it end?...
• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  Absolving the actors is kinda stupid....
• Commented on This Side of Jordan - Violent jazz age novel by Charles M Schulz's son Monte
  Schulz...
• Commented on T-shirt design contest for Fender
  The foundation's organizations is pretty puzzling. The stated goals are admirable, but going through their site you learn: - It was "Formerly Named The Guitar Center Music Foundation"; - The Fender brand was apparently licensed for use by the Foundation,...
• Commented on "Happy Splasher" could face charges for driving through puddle to drench kids
  If this happened near Bath nobody would've batted an eye. I could see how this could cause a hydroplaning tragedy. Besides, when I was a kid, we splashed in our own damn puddles. We didn't have fancy motorcars to do...
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  Subtract one "documentary" from previous sentence....
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  Real. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49547 From a 2007 French documentary entitled "Le Premier Cri", a documentary about natural childbirth around the world....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  No Latest Comments sidebar? That sucks....