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• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  This is one of those things that strains my relativism. There's a lot to be said for accepting someone else's choices, but in this case I wonder what would happen if his dad came up and smashed his DS on...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Of course, as long as Net Neutrality is still around, you can just go to the sites directly, and not use Bing at all! Naturally, this is intended to start a precedent so that Neutrality is NOT still around, but...
• Commented on Short papercraft film on the beauty of the book
  With all the echoing and noise I could hardly understand a word he said, but it was gorgeous....
• Commented on MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
  Why not just cut the power? No illegal downloading then, and it completely shuts down their homes, possibly letting them freeze to death if they don't have gas. Better yet, raze the entire town....
• Commented on Americans watch about 5 hours of TV every day.
  A lot of older people watch tons of TV. Whenever I go to the retirement home where my grandmother lives, I see room after room of people staring at TV's. It's honestly fairly frightening....
• Commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
  This is one of those videos that hopefully we'll be able to look back on 30 years from now and laugh, but for now it's rather disturbingly accurate....
• Commented on Farewell, Captain Lou Albano
  The animation is at: http://www.eviltrailmix.com/animutation/ Then click on Captain Lou Albano's Steady Descent Into Madness. The scary thing is that the audio clip must be from some real thing he did! I recall reading that for a while his shtick...
• Commented on Arizona Republic quotes psychics as experts on the future
  A more accurate depiction of the relationship of the Future and Newspapers: Future: I'm the Future! Newspapers: Hey there, wanna buy a classified ad? Why do you have that fork in your hand? Future: OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM...
• Commented on Babytattooville 2009 - a terrific, intimate art experience
  Between this and TED, we can make sure that both art AND science are locked up for the idle rich. Hooray?...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Trying not to be the sort that just hates anything new, but damn is the font big. There's plenty of easy-to-download add-ons for zooming in, and many browsers have it built in. As for aesthetics, eh, it'll probably grow...
• Commented on The American Spirit
  *wonders if 'None of them have validity' was an option* *runs off*...
• Commented on Concept watch uses rolling tapes to tell time
  I'm kind of amazed that there's this aesthetic revolution going on in a technology that's dead as a doornail. I'm 30 and I don't know a soul my age or younger that wears a watch......
• Commented on UK Border Agency's pseudoscientific "race-detection" DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts "horrified"
  God, who the hell decided "Children of Men! Let's just do that!" *shudder* And #12, I agree. This is where they want to be in 10 years, they're just seeding the idea out so it's in people's heads and they're...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  Gaaaaaaahhh What were the demonstrators even doing? Standing about? Chanting a bit? Definitely a reason to pull out the freaking death squads....
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Agreed with 175 and 178. Cultural relativism is fun and all, but oppressing women isn't quite the same thing as choosing whether to fast from dawn to dusk. Do we just smile and nod at any culture's accepted practices? After...
• Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
  Do you know what helping kids and old people is? Socialism What did those old people ever do for you? And those kids? They never gave you anything, never even worked a job! The best part of such rhetoric, of...
• Commented on If distance education was Zork
  Feh, maybe this is the case for an actual university that offers online courses. When I worked at University of Phoenix, I took one of their courses (for free, thank Cthulhu) and all the "prof" did in there was write...
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  There's people that don't say 'Legos?' Wow. Also *bops the prescriptivists on the noodle*...
• Commented on Stop-motion Lego tribute to 8-bit video games
  Holy damn. I really liked the Pong wall. :)...
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  This seems almost more like a dialect question than anything else. If someone tells me a meeting is 'moved forward,' that means 'sooner' to me. 'Pushed back' means 'later.' Similarly, if someone says 'torch,' I think of a flaming brand,...
• Commented on Scott Westerfeld's ass-kicking, bestselling YA novel UGLIES as a free, DRM-free download
  Didn't We by Yvgeny Zamyatin pretty much cover this? And Brave New World?...
• Commented on Photo of the day: Bill Clinton with Kim-Jong Il
  Well, now we know KJ-I is alive, but he sure doesn't look much more than that....
• Commented on Test compares the way humans and chimps learn
  #8: Hey, Nim Chimpsky was great at language, if by 'language' you mean randomly spewing out the five words he knew with a total lack of syntax. ;)...
• Commented on Test compares the way humans and chimps learn
  "children, on the other hand, continue to do the meaningless motions that they were taught." In before 'And that's why we have religion.' ...even though it probably is....
• Commented on What Worked Then
  Pictures like that reinforce one of my great thankfulnesses in life: I was not alive during the 1970's. And it really has very little to do with the TV....
• Commented on Vanish: self-destruct your own data
  Could this be done to someone else? Is it retroactive, or can it only work on new things you've posted? Can you edit an existing post so that it gets vaporized?...
• Commented on Leverage season one DVD: crime drama about Delta force who take down corrupt corporations
  The really good news is that Burn Notice exists, and you can watch that instead! Leverage seems like TNT looking at USA and going 'Oh crap, we've got to have an answer for that!' Much like their 'Trust Me' retort...
• Commented on Great meltdowns melted into one (Rob Thomas music video by Walter Robot)
  Agreed, actual meltdowns would've been way better....
• Commented on RIP, Charles Brown of Locus Magazine, one of science fiction's grand old men
  I got turned down for a job as his assistant because I was too male....
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  No, it literally is 'ultimate.' When UFC is finished, all fighting everywhere will be done. Forever....