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• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  How come Rick Santorum never warned us about the possibility of man-on-videogame marriages?...
• Commented on Good News from the Large Hadron Collider
  Higgs boson: "Damn, but these paparazzi are persistent!"...
• Commented on Handcuffed, suspected bank robber eats alleged stick-up note
  I've never tried to eat a Post-It note, but I wouldn't think it's particularly good to eat. I bet that next time round he'll write his notes on something easier to swallow, like rice paper. "We're just getting the money...
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  A colleague who worked in Tokyo told me that some of his friends from France flew out to visit him, and he took them to a restaurant. When the time came to order, he ordered natto. The waiter leaned over...
• Commented on BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
  I am the very model of a Pirate Finder General My remit runs from a to z, from animal to mineral The government has issued me with pow'rs plenipotentiary To seize you and to pack you off to any penitentiary...
• Commented on Hippos don't like croocdiles climbing over their backs
  "'Crocodile Jackass' continues after the commercial break ..."...
• Commented on Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
  "Three strikes doesn't go far enough. It merely prevents members of what we in the media industry refer to as an 'infringing family' from downloading music from their own home. But there's nothing to stop repeat offenders from going to...
• Commented on Placenta fluid massage to treat soccer player's injury
  "It cannot hurt, and if it helps, it helps." There speaks a man who's ready for magic healing crystals, aromatherapy, ear-candling, and every other kind of 'medical' quackery. Enjoy your placenta, Robin....
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  No one blamed the navigator. That last-minute surge before the hyperdrive cut in wasn't anything he could have predicted. But what's done was done, and for six weary weeks they had jumped at random, desperately seeking for familiar constellations. None...
• Commented on Hypothetical peek into the feverish mind of Rupert Murdoch
  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte If Rupert Murdoch wants to consign his propaganda to the black hole of unfindability, I'm in no hurry to discourage him....
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  You know, I've been enjoying the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, but they just didn't turn enough of the population into criminals or justify the kind of intrusions into people's lives that I'd really like to see....
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  Here's a revolutionary idea: instead of making more things disposable, why not focus ur collective creative genius on building things that you aren't expected to replace every other year. Oh, right. Because that's not how it works....
• Commented on How scientists determined how many humans two lions ate in 1898
  One of the lions also tested positive for cocaine use, while DNA samples taken from the other revealed a possible link to an unsolved homicide in Chicago in 1892. Plaster casts of paw prints taken near the scene have been...
• Commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
  Apparently the pirates aren't just going out to sea and wandering around until they see something that looks juicy. An article that I read somewhere recently quoted one of the pirates as saying that they had associates on shore who...
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  Human fiddler crab?...
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  I'm fine with Nick Griffin and the BNP getting the Two-Minute Hate ... so long as two minutes in the spotlight is all he gets. After that, let's move on and leave him and his little band of retro-blackshirts to...
• Commented on Leech provides evidence to convict robber
  "Yeah, I got turned in by some slimy no-good low-life bloodsucker ... what? No, not one of my partners this time."...
• Commented on Toyota marketing stalks and terrorizes woman, claims she consented by doing an online personality test
  Is there some brain virus that infects marketing people after a while, and makes them think Incredibly Stupid Things are a good idea? Whatever it is, it's clearly extremely contagious, because when the first person proposed this particular scheme, he...
• Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
  ... ask [accountants] if they can track the revenue we lose because passengers booked away or chose not to fly and they look at you like you have nine heads ... This is where we need to help them out...
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  Silly rabbit, skyscrapers are for humans. In the US, a lot of prime agricultural land - flat, fertile, well-watered, close to markets - has been used to construct sprawling suburbs. I'd bet that you could do better by increasing population...
• Commented on Flag of Benin Empire may be the best flag depicting a decapitation in the history of the world
  "I knight thee Sir ... oops, sorry about that."...
• Commented on Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
  @LOBSTER wrote You look deeper into these sob stories of the poor winners and you find that they didn't know how to handle money even before they won. Well, obviously not. The fact that they were buying lottery tickets is...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  I wonder if you could make a parabolic reflector that could send the sound back to the source and, if so, how big/heavy it would need to be?...
• Commented on More on the LRAD sound cannon at Pittsburgh G20 protests
  "Could you describe in your own words what happened?" "I was walking in a public place, wheeling my bicycle, when I was struck from behind without warning." "I see. What happened then?" "I turned around, and saw a large, heavily-built...
• Commented on Hobbit advance payment fraud letter
  Dear Friend You are probably surprised at hearing from me. I am Frodo Baggins, a hobbit of the Shire, adoptive son of Bilbo Baggins, a celebrated TRAVELER and ADVENTURER. Among the many valuable objects bequeathed to me by Mr Baggins...
• Commented on Navigation system uses crowdsourcing for route guidance
  There's a great hack just waiting to be done here: get your friends to follow the same route over and over again, until that 'route' becomes the standard. For extra amusement, have everyone do it on bicycles and make sure...
• Commented on France adopts law that lets entertainment goons take your family off the net if one member is accused (without evidence) of violating copyright
  All the people who are recommending making false accusations of piracy (as a tactic to demonstrate the stupidity/injustice of the law) are missing the point. @baldhead (#5) has it right. Accusations of piracy from large corporations will be accepted; accusations...
• Commented on Street vendor selling ID cards, Thailand: random road snapshot
  #5 While I don't disagree with your description of Khao San Road (and the whole Banglamphu area) as a cesspool, it's not exactly the Gomorrah you make it sound like. I can't say that there are no prostitutes working Khao...
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  #37 There's a great SF story to be written there: John Carter seen from the other side. "But, Prince of Helium, the black dators are attacking again - we need you to rally the defenses! This is no time to...
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  I had an eerie feeling of "But I've read this on BoingBoing before ..." and wondered if they were resetting the Matrix. Fortunately, Google confirmed that you had indeed posted about this previously. Smith/Linebarger seems an unlikely candidate for 'Kirk...