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• Commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  Weren't people like this supposed to be going Galt right about now? Why the fuck are they still bothering us?...
• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  I am amused to note that "Going Rouge," subtitled "An American Nightmare," is actually a collection of essays about Palin from Salon and various other sources, published in conjunction with the book, with a similar cover and obviously confusing title....
• Commented on What if James Dean had lived?
  #13 What if Nikolai Tesla had lived? Because really, that would be so much more awesome than some random actor. Um, Tesla _did_ live. He died at age 86. Just how much tragically wasted potential do you think we're talking...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  Well, at least they found something more worthwhile to protest than just demanding that they don't get decent healthcare....
• Commented on Japanese V-Sign
  Huh. If only there were Asian people we could ask......
• Commented on Homes with Tails: Homeowners providing their own fiber
  Yeah, I don't know how many homeowners are going to get past the sequel to "Fiber for Dummies," the 1,100 page masterpiece, "Getting Sued by your RBOC for Dummies."...
• Commented on Debate Uncut: McCain audio reveals profanity, insults hurled at Obama
  Oh, "and sometimes" y is considered a vowel here. I was never sure....
• Commented on Man flies personal jet wing across English Channel
  "In a final flourish, he did a figure eight as he came over England" England reported feeling used and humiliated, but meekly admitted that it kind of liked it. A little bit....
• Commented on Pig traps woman in home
  Get thee to a piggery!...
• Commented on Pentagon researcher unveils World of Warcraft terror plot
  I guarantee you not one of the people that came up with this believes it for a second. This is typical, "we need to be visibly coming up with important shit to justify our jobs" stuff. A relative of mine...
• Commented on DC-area mayor whose dogs were shot dead in botched drug raid to speak out
  Um, all you people going on about how funny the tank thing was do realize that most state police departments, major city police departments, and a growing number of rural Sheriff's departments HAVE TANKS, right?...
• Commented on Most read articles in MAKE, Vol. 14
  So they're mobile terror devices... cool! (Unless you work for the government, of course, in which case they're mobile security devices.)...
• Commented on UPDATE: Virginia politicians use lies to scare Democrat-leaning Virginia Tech students away from voting
  Waldo @ #9 - I went to VT a bit, um, earlier than you. And the reason you could do that (move your registration from home to Blacksburg) was because during the time I was there a student sued for...
• Commented on Working Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic
  So Medeco has based its business model on the claim that they can make an object into some kind of special shape such that nobody else can form matter into that shape? Seriously, WTF? A key is just a piece...
• Commented on Working Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic
  Is there anything here that isn't true of all key locks? And hasn't been true of all key locks since the very first one was invented? i.e. if you know exactly what the key looks like, you can make another...
• Commented on Parents question why Ozark police used stun gun on kid with broken back
  @36 Markfrei - actually TFA makes it pretty clear that it was a Taser attack. The headline reads stun gun, but the article uses Taser several times, including in a direct quote from the attackers' police spokesman. I'd be interested...
• Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  1) Did you vote for FISA? Thank you. Come again....
• Commented on Cassette tapes are big business in prison
  For the second quarter of fiscal 2008, Pack Central reported revenues of 57,300 packs of smokes, 316 blue bags, and four punks, up from 32,000 packs of smokes and 112 blue bags in the corresponding quarter a year earlier....
• Commented on Man's replica Batmobile
  14 - a house near me was recently built on a very premium but very small and weirdly positioned lot, and they did indeed have a turntable built into the garage beneath the house. The company that put it in...
• Commented on Man's replica Batmobile
  Okay, I confess, that is freaking awesome!...
• Commented on Spammers discuss breaking Craigslist verification system
  #29 Oh I couldn't possibly write a short, pithy essay on a topic I've carefully researched for less than, oh, $3.16 plus one and a half cents per thousand pageviews. :-)...
• Commented on Police smash car window to "rescue" reborn baby doll
  "If you leave an imitation IED visible in your back seat, have you any right to be surprised when you return from shopping to discover the Bomb Squad have destroyed your car in a controlled explosion?" I suppose that depends...
• Commented on Spammers discuss breaking Craigslist verification system
  "It's always easier to destroy than to create." Yeah, sort of the way Craigslist destroyed local newspaper classifieds, thus largely destroying local newspapers entirely, and once that was done turned itself into a useless cesspit. Seriously, why does anyone use...
• Commented on White worm-eating slug discovered in Wales
  White. Slug. Eats worms. Sounds like my cousin Josh. I don't think he's Welsh though. Hell he could be. Boy ain't right....
• Commented on Building demolition based on old Japanese game
  Wake me when they can make the building taller by carefully removing a big chunk of the fifth floor and putting it on top......
• Commented on Amazing videos shot with consumer grade HD video cameras
  Middle class parental hysteria in 3... 2......
• Commented on Building demolition based on old Japanese game
  So... ummm... when does it all blow up?...
• Commented on George Lucas and JJ Abrams, gloriously photoshopped.
  Yeah, I had to reread that to be sure too, I suspect because I was so surprised by the implication. That being that Joi Ito took the original photo of Lucas and Abrams. Someone else photoshopped in the phaser and...
• Commented on Olympus WS-110 digital voice recorder
  Man, I'm actually having real, honest to god deja vu for the first time. Didn't we have this discussion (possibly about a different model, but complete with somebody claiming not to trust any of them and insisting on taking real...
• Commented on Devo sues McDonalds
  Yeah, but do they actually have a case? This reminds me of when the girl from DeeLite tried to sue Sega for sticking her in a videogame (Space Channel something). They'd actually been negotiating with her to license her likeness...