Jerril

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• Commented on Man learns that Charles Manson is his biodad
  I think George Bush should be in jail too. But one injustice does not excuse another, and Manson gets to sit his fool ass in custody where he at least is kept away from the public....
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  I'm curious about duck eggs. Other than the size difference, is there a difference with baking (anything else you have to adjust other than the number of eggs)? With the egg as the centerpiece of the dish (whether the humble...
• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  Should everyone just accept that and watch him mess up his life? 'He's not hurting anyone,' and all that, I suppose. *sigh* He's not "messing up his life" and yes, he's not hurting anyone. Including himself, which is a critically...
• Commented on Advisor: What will happen if I clone my dog?
  Yes, but if someone clones your body, you won't be resurrected from the dead. You'll be dead. You'll just happen to have a new identical-twin sibling. He won't even be physically identical, as he's going to be incubated in another...
• Commented on Shackleton's Antarctic whisky found
  Or is that "fortunately"? The final result of maturation is vinegar, after all....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  And yes, stay the hell away from reduced fat/skim milk yoghurts. They all taste funny....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Seconding Liberte's moka yoghurt. It is divine. I'm a little confused why they a) label it fruit on the bottom when it's FLAVOR on the bottom (no real fruit involved here) and b) bother putting the flavoring on the bottom...
• Commented on Sex advice from D&D players
  I get mental images of lawyers formally objecting and citing the relevant section of the game manual whenever there's a disagreement. ... Is that any different from regular rules lawyers? It sounds actually like it would be more civil and...
• Commented on Witch bottle from the 18th century
  does nicotine naturally occur in tobacco smoke? Er, yes. That's why smokers, ya know, smoke the stuff?...
• Commented on Humans are domesticating themselves with smaller brains as a result
  This of course requires there to be enough variability in the population that smaller brained, jawed, and toothed individuals are produced to compete with their mellon-headed cousins (And win). But humans seem to have the physical variability thing down to...
• Commented on Humans are domesticating themselves with smaller brains as a result
  Either he's saying that people with smaller brains, teeth and jaws are more successful breeders, or he doesn't understand evolution. In an environment where you do not need a large brain, large teeth, or large jaw, people with smaller brains,...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  Honestly, I'd settle if they made an iPod that wasn't actively hostile to BLIND people. Seriously, the iPod is like the perfect audio device to be bordering on useless for someone who is blind (A prime market for portable audio...
• Commented on "Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it."
  Greg Louganis is of Samoan and Swedish descent, and was raised by Greek-American adoptive parents. Samoa is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Sweden is in Northern Europe. Samoans are Polynesian. Swedes are white. Samoans are not black, and...
• Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
  The internet: now more soothing. It seems funny phrased that way, but try "distracting thoughts about something on the Internet" - whether it's the best upgrade combination for your WoW character and guild politics, or that story you read on...
• Commented on Inflatable rear seat belts
  Midknyte - in a word, no. The difference is on a couple of levels, but firstly, elasticity is not forever - like the waistband on your underwear, the elasticity will eventually break down, and probably get jamned in the mechanism....
• Commented on Lighting up wood fires, stoves: not so green.
  Why do you think the Industrial Revolution ran on coal? Or why people in developing countries burn charcoal? Or why we've been burning petroleum for the last 100 years or so? All of those result in 90% of the heat...
• Commented on Car Finder app for iPhone
  I drive a silver Ford Focus. Apparently, so does everyone else in my neighborhood (who isn't driving a minivan or an SUV anyways). I've gone to get groceries and come out to find five or six in the grocery parking...
• Commented on Scutigera Coleoptrata: In Your Bathroom, On Your T-Shirt
  @weaponx: you may find this informational link helpful....
• Commented on Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology
  Question: is Darwinian Psychology being the label applied to people abusing/grossly misrepresenting/completely fictionalizing evolutionary psychology? If so, good on her. If she's lumping the loonies in with the actual science, oh god I have a splitting headache and am a...
• Commented on French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has died
  It's only "you know... duh!" because the culture has changed significantly in the past, well, 100 years. And THAT is because of people like him....
• Commented on How scientists determined how many humans two lions ate in 1898
  Now all this said, it only covers people actually eaten, and not any kills that weren't eaten. The researchers did note that their study covers only the number of people eaten, while the number killed may have been higher. They...
• Commented on How scientists determined how many humans two lions ate in 1898
  Yes, the Tsavo lions are intensely famous....
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  Hear hear. The problem isn't with what is or is not in the food, the problem is people using really stupid terms for it. Complaining that your food has "chemicals" in it REALLY is the same as complaining that your...
• Commented on Evolution of heavy metal design
  I prefer the overwrought fantasy art as well. I always took it as a sort of nod that the band isn't taking itself all that seriously, and neither should I....
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  Antinous, that article missed the second half of his story - he wasn't happy just working on a nuclear submarine. On August 1, 2007, Hahn was arrested in Clinton Township, Michigan for larceny, in relation to a matter involving several...
• Commented on Guy in Egypt orders "artificial hymen kit" over the internet, blogs about it
  Yes, there are. Many women break their hymen as children doing physical activities like riding bikes, riding horses, etc. There are also women who are born without hymens. It gets worse - it's not even a simple state of "hymen...
• Commented on Canadian folk singer dies after coyote attack
  Picking you out Ted, but for everyone's benefit - she was 5 minutes into a hike down the trail, and quickly found by other hikers. She was not sleeping, drunk, stoned, wounded, tired, or otherwise incapacitated - she was right...
• Commented on The Hazards of Lab Work
  I will simply say: "girls" who are old enough to be working on their postgrad are more properly termed "women". It's not "men and girls" in my experience, but "guys and girls/gals" - this may be a dialectical difference, but...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  We've got a 25 year mortgage, with 10 years locked in at an obscenely low rate. Slightly higher than prime right now, but seeing as it can't go much lower than it is now, sometime in the next 10 years...
• Commented on Awesome gamer-geek lesbian wedding
  But yeah, I don't see many people pointing *that* out about a marriage these days. Except when some lunatic judge decides to deny the marriage, wailing "Think of the chiiiiiildruuuuun" as he does....