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• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  And as usual "China" is a modern construct, the imperial past as far as far back as the Western Chou is replete with foreigners coming to what is now China, integrating and entering the gene pool. The greatest period of...
• Commented on SGI releases personal supercomputer
  See.... I'd love to have something like that if only my ESRI software(Desktop version) would run on windows server ..%$@#$ I'd take my quarter trillion point Lidar data and render a couple of mountain ranges with Millimetre accuracy....
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  So do you think Charles Saatchi really hate the English art scene? Are did he reeaaly hate the English art scene. Ultimatley he's responsible having started the game by paying astronomical sums for all that dross. Give me Goya by...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  "He even remembered that on a certain afternoon, he woke up in his bedroom with his mind full of the image of the purple Taoist rob" Or as Lao-Tzu might say, was he dreaming of the Purple robe? Or was...
• Commented on Bang Bang Club
  More photos from the Bang Bang Club http://www.digitalfilmmaker.net/Bang/bang_frame.html It is only by witnessing horror that we get the strength to fight it....
• Commented on Former French President says Bush invaded Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog's apocalyptic mission
  @141 Only if you accept that forging a birth certificate is part of Obama's character as evangelical christianity is part of Bush's. Besides if you bothered to read even a selection of the comments a healthy skepticism and a desire...
• Commented on Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate.
  Indeed TQBF, she's got an Eastern European fembot accent to boot. In soviet russia the birth certificate laughs at you!...
• Commented on The Black Widow
  From the Iowahawk page. ""TOO MUCH: The above (go)cart, which is equipped with T-21-A engines, is considered unsafe for 1/4 mile competition as pictured. The thrust/weight ratio is such that speeds over 160 mph are reached within 4 seconds."" You're...
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  Hmm... if it was racism, wouldn't they be sayign he born in Canada? Or has that euphemism passed from parlance of late....
• Commented on A Few Questions
  b. Oh hey I live here, cool. Hey bob, you want to get married now? d. I always put the Eclairs in a separate drawer. f. Sorry, wrong address. d. Red Lobster. Duh! e. Is R2D2 filming?...
• Commented on Time-lapse sim of Earth's land mass movement
  Hi. The reason the simulation is only the last 650 Million years, is that continental reconstruction gets really iffy before that (Now is that Western Australia, Siberia or the Amazon attached to Quebec?. Now about the disappearing Atlantic ocean, from...
• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  Indeed, this habit of partial quoting to skew the quote has got to stop. It's fine to bring it to our attention, but don't selectively quote it so that they come off as anti-open source dumbasses. And shame on everyone...
• Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card
  @22 All the tabloids seem to be is hysterics and vulgarities over celebrities and demi celebrities. Things like this never make it in, much less get commented on and solved (such as happens here in Boing Boing)....
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  To all those people who say "This shouldn't be here" are you part of the editorial board here? By coming to this site we are implicitly agreeing to subject ourselves to what our hosts and their invited guest bloggers put...
• Commented on North Carolina "sewer monster" is not a new Chris Cunningham video
  I'm surprised anyone can sit on a toilet in the city after seeing that. Just wait until they "migrate" through the pipes of some major office building seeking warm, human, blood....
• Commented on "Crop Circles" Reveal an Ancient Burial Site a Thousand Years Older Than Stonehenge
  The differences between the photo's are due to weather conditions. The image above comes after a period of drought. The disturbed earth the comprises the archaeological features doesn't retain water as well as undisturbed earth around it. It's a subtle...
• Commented on Ghostbusters and the Angel of NYNEX
  I'm deeply disappointed that this is not real....
• Commented on <em>Transformers 2</em>: "Have you ever fallen into a city-sized Cuisinart?"
  If I recall the critics also panned "Ishtar"....
• Commented on World's Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire
  "This image looks straight at the North ridge. The SE ridge used for the first ascent is visible in sihouette on the right, where one can see the named features such as Gannet Green and Winkelstein's Steeple (named after the...
• Commented on "It's something called the Internet"
  How much effort would it have been to add a disclaimer? Like "We know it sucks that Hulu are being geoblocking asswipes but this clip is worth posting and Hulu's the only source for the content. We're working on getting...
• Commented on Junk science and cocaine scares
  There are few states of the human condition more miserable and more degrading than cocaine and opiate addiction. Perhaps sniffing gas or glue? I think we should make all industrial solvents should be illegal. The fact is we just don't...
• Commented on Stiglitz: America's double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world
  "Everyone in the third world is up in arms." That's how we know the crisis has legs....
• Commented on R. Crumb's Book of Genesis excerpted in The New Yorker
  That's very cool about Rick Griffin, I enjoyed his 60's concert posters immensely....
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest winner!
  ..."you're much too thin"......
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest winner!
  ... and they thought he had kicked the bucket... (andyhaven's should win on topicality alone)...
• Commented on Damien Hirst's giant replica of a kid's anatomy model
  h Damien... the Zha Zha Gabour of the art world "Famous for being well known". What we tend to forget is that there is an awful lot of dross produced in any period. Right now all art has value because...
• Commented on "Pet Spa," an automated dog-washing unit
  Or they tangle with a skunk. I would definitely drop my cat in there without hesitation if it came back smelling like it lost a battle with a skunk. (I say this after dealing with skunked cat on several occasions)...
• Commented on Police shoot stuffed animal with Taser
  No not Hobbes..... Tiger =/= Cougar. Mrs. Robinson maybe......
• Commented on Carb overload: Bread Bowl Pasta
  Having lived in Italy, yes you do eat bread before pasta. However, since the portions are small, and the ingredients are fresh the net impact is relatively small. THOSE Things are d)none of the above, made to the lowest common...
• Commented on Statues of Lenin with a boner for communism
  ^ I don't know who you are but you owe me a new keyboard....