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• Commented on Charts: 1
  I'm not surprised that longevity research doesn't get more funding, given that the people who would ultimately benefit from it would be the people funding it, i.e. people with money. Here's my logic: When some kind of treatment appears that...
• Commented on DoJ to Congress: We've got better things to do than act as pro-bono lawyers for Hollywood, scrap the IP Enforcement proposal
  We live in an era of fiscal responsibility? Wow. News to me....
• Commented on Annalee Newitz sues the worst scifi movie ever made
  Enochrewt: John Malkovich is willing to do all kinds of crazy stuff....
• Commented on Weight Watchers is an RPG
  And in the online MMORPG "Mabinogi", if your character eats too much, his avatar will gain weight and get thicker. The solution? Get more active (fight monsters) and eat lots of fruits and vegetables, in moderation....
• Commented on McCain's D&D character stats
  I'd say more likely INT 12, WIS 8... he's failed some serious aging checks....
• Commented on Random House asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally
  This is what pseudonyms are for....
• Commented on video: surreal bird formation
  Definitely starlings. Nothing else looks like that....
• Commented on Building festooned with inflatable tentacles
  "Martha, I told you not to eat the green ones. They're for work. Now please get your carapace out of the way so I can get to the stairs."...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Just because someone has the right to do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Just because someone was within their rights to do something, doesn't mean that nothing can be done retroactively to help correct the mistake....
• Commented on Blackwater owner requests Shari’a law to avoid paying lawsuit damages
  Lectroid said: "So.. if the company can't be held liable, that means the individual employees are liable. So Mr. Prince has essentially thrown his employees overboard..." Actually, no... they'll just argue that the employees responsible are the ones that died...
• Commented on Hollywood wants to infect all next-gen video with DRM
  This doesn't worry me. Seriously. If people find that their cable provider isn't giving them what they want, if the system becomes so 'secure' that it's unusable, they will move to other sources. Eventually, any artist who agrees to allow...
• Commented on Brave Men Run: Matthew Selznick's CC-licensed superhero novel/audiobook
  I listened to BMR on Podiobooks and I love it. The characters are well developed, the story has a satisfying beginning-middle-end without throwing out the possibility of sequels, and the pacing keeps you coming back. I'm not anyone whose opinions...
• Commented on Photographers aren't terrorists and vice-versa
  "We can * you, you can't * us." Insert any verb you like. Record. Photograph. Censor. Silence. Vanish. CONTROL....
• Commented on Freeman Dyson on global warming
  Let's say it works. Let's say that a quarter... A QUARTER... of the planet's trees are replaced with carbon-stripping variants, and the CO2 in the atmosphere is drastically reduced... How does this affect the carbon cycle? What happens when CO2...
• Commented on Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure
  At forty, you figure it out....
• Commented on Bad info-graphic: Ikea shopping hours chart
  Heh. Is this the most controversial article of late, or what?...
• Commented on My Guardian column on "the information economy"
  Consider public broadcasting (that is, American style). Yes, noone gets rich in PBS, but people ARE rewarded adequately to create some marvelous content. Shareware works much the same way, though perhaps it needs to be a little more sophisticated with...