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• Commented on Lenora Claire's new "doNUTS" web series
  Betty White did pose nude when she was younger: http://www.chicasbond.com/peliculas/chicas/bettywhite/BETTY%20WHITE.JPG Until Unicorn Chaser hits the market, I will leave it to others to uncover nude Bea Arthur pictures....
• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
  Anonymous @ 10 stole my thunder. England wasn't an agrarian society in 1867 when Capital I was published. Marx's friend and benefactor Friedrich Engels had notably published The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 decades before. Marx...
• Commented on Saving Newspapers, Part MMIX: Collude and Conspire
  I the NYT should do as Rupert Murdock's Sun and add a Page 3 girl. That would most certainly increase circulation. If you don't know what Page 3 is, see: http://www.thesun.co.uk/...
• Commented on Pro baseball player traded for bats, dead from overdose
  An accidental overdose of heroin, methamphetamine, the stimulant benzylpiperazine and alcohol? Good thing he wasn't trying to do himself in. Is that like a regular night out for some people?...
• Commented on Norway's public broadcaster sets up its own torrent tracker using same code as The Pirate Bay
  Satan @ #4: You can get most of the past ten years here: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives.htm It is more work than downloading a single BitTorrent file, but probably faster. And be glad you are not dealing with French CBC (Société Radio-Canada). I...
• Commented on Re-Engineering Fundamentalism
  Clumsy technological allusions aside, Paul Spinrad's idle ramblings here demonstrate a lack of understanding in a number of areas, but most strikingly in history. Let's take the Protestant Reformation for example. It was no people's revolution by means of the...
• Commented on OLED Walkman X1000 up at Amazon UK
  It looks much thicker than the iPod Touch, which means it really might not be smaller. And is sells at the same price. What's the point here? Is this for the Apple-haters? They got Zune....
• Commented on Charles Bonnet Syndrome, seeing demons, and the Talmud
  I know there are kosher-certified eye drops, so if cats are not kosher.......
• Commented on TED2009: psychologist Jennifer Mather
  Humbolt squid eat each other--not to mention human divers--so calamari is still on my list. It's only fair....
• Commented on The ultimate ray gun pen
  $130 is half way to a low-end Mountblanc, or a whole lot of medium point Paper Mate Write Bros. pens in my case....
• Commented on US Airways bumps Flight 1549 survivors up to super-elite status for a year
  Mike Estee @ #3: "Act of God?" This was an act of geese. Canadian geese, no less. No only is no one doing anything about this, these foreign geese are actually protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I, for...
• Commented on China's labor unrest worse than suspected
  I remember when giving MFN status to China was an outrage to many--no, it wasn't about human rights. It was about Communism. Of course big business has sold a us bill of goods with regard to global free trade (rising...
• Commented on Haunted Mansion running shoes
  To be clear, in Canada I have found they refer to all gum or rubber soled casual shoes with laces "running shoes" or "runners," much like many areas in the U.S. say "tennis shoes" instead of sneakers. Cory, I believe,...
• Commented on Haunted Mansion running shoes
  "Running shoes?" You can take the boy out of Canada.......
• Commented on The Art of Norman Saunders (book)
  Montauk @ #6: These were pulp book covers. What would you expect? I don't find them any more lubricious or demeaning than the covers of current romance novels. What's more I think the stuff from the '30s - '50s was...
• Commented on Video of Charlene Chua creating an illustration using Adobe Illustrator
  I paused it and pulled the cue point with my cursor slowly. She's not showing more than 1/10th of the work involved....
• Commented on Video of Charlene Chua creating an illustration using Adobe Illustrator
  It loaded, finally. However, I think that took much more than 60 minutes. I want to watch it in real time....
• Commented on Video of Charlene Chua creating an illustration using Adobe Illustrator
  The video takes way too long to load, but let me just say I'm glad she's not using bloody Photoshop....
• Commented on Young girls married to frogs for disease prevention
  Well isn't this a switch? Usually Frenchmen are known for spreading diseases rather than preventing disease--well at least social diseases, that is....
• Commented on Photos of London shopfronts
  Emily, Love the one that merely says "Surgery." Frightening! Is this the result of a two-tire health-care system? "Let's all go down to the corner shop for an appendectomy, then a curry." Amazed...
• Commented on Two-headed fish likely caused by toxic water
  Hey, Nonny, Nonny Moose @ #9: Shouldn't you say "two or more larvae?" What's more shouldn't you write out the numbers ten and under? In any case, Websters says "larvas" is an accepted form of referring to more than one...
• Commented on Archaeology of a hippie commune
  How the hell could hippies afford to live in Marin County?...
• Commented on Photos of London shopfronts
  @9: Thank you, Rebbi. I knew Muslims buy kosher sometimes, but not vice-versa. Didn't know if dairy and meat together was haraam. @6: When I was a little kid, the mention of cheeseburgers gave rise to someone imitating John Belushi's...
• Commented on Photos of London shopfronts
  Could a cheeseburger be halal? Just wondering....
• Commented on The Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008
  Sean Hannity is number three? Wow. Not tooting my own horn, but that means I've done work for the top three on the list this past year. Actually considered putting subliminal messages in Hannity's Freedom Concert: An Evening of Patriotism...
• Commented on How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
  I've just realized that I have no radios that produce white noise. Curse you, digital age!...
• Commented on A moment of magical surrealism at CES infuses BBG blogger with mundane wonder
  SNEJ@#4: I agree--well, more of a reverse firewall, isn't it? I like to know what communications are going in and out, especially on the Web. I also like to know when non-pirated software is calling home. _________________________ > Is "bah...
• Commented on Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
  Most rules in English do make sense. Even very useful, disambiguating ones like the subjunctive case are disappearing. Most languages do have a standard form, and as remarkably comprehensible as far-flung speakers of English are to one another compared to...
• Commented on Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
  But pedantry is good fun, and I just cannot take Lord/General Melchett seriously on this subject....
• Commented on Sock monkey goddess
  I don't usually dig this craft stuff, but that's frickin' cool. BirdbrainedBB@#2: Mother issues?...