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• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  I really don't think that the guys behind the webcomics Wapsi Square or Goats are racist by any stretch of the imagination, and they've been milking this countdown all decade. Frankly, I'm looking forward to getting to the Twenty-Teens, and...
• Commented on Proceedings of a 2003 seminar about Timeship, a visionary project designed by Stephen Valentine for storing the frozen remains of people awaiting reanimation
  Holy crap, Stefan @#1, I thought I was the only one who remembered that short story! Also, Timeship was the name of the worst tabletop RPG ever published. Yes, worse than Castle Perilous. For one thing, there were no timeships....
• Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
  Bob the Angry Flower has lost his free will thanks to your damnable Skynet flapjacks....
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Heh heh. All the rage. I kill me....
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  At a guess, I'd presume the real reason for having women in your culture cover themselves is the notion that a lustful man is approximately as dangerous as a loaded gun. Yeah, but an unloaded gun is... Say, why haven't...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Back in the 17th Century, naked lady-breasts in the streets of Europe were a sign of class and virtue: http://web.archive.org/web/20050925082515/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040517/breasts.html The Long Now is so full of this crazy mixture of repression and expression in the form of clothes, I...
• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  It makes me think that the sun remains "on" pretty consistently, and there may be something to all that....
• Commented on Spinning steampunk jewelry
  And pirates are okay, they're in the Constitution....
• Commented on Spinning steampunk jewelry
  There's evil, and then there evillest: SS-Totenkopfverbände So you might want to watch out making it into "art". The symbols the top Nazis chose were all with an artistic appeal in mind. And it never crosses Godwin's Law when you...
• Commented on New Yorker: Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us?
  noen @#12 "ok, so, Immortality. How much, and give it to me." It won't be for you. It will be reserved only for others. You will get to be their dog, literally. Make sure you put on a good show...
• Commented on New Yorker: Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us?
  MossWatson @#7 "...we simply do not have to accept what nature has given us" That's not "unbelievable arrogance", that's just a given of human life. As soon as we made a tool to make another tool, this what we became....
• Commented on Eid Mubarak!
  I was delighted to discover that Eid-ul Fitr meant that alternate side parking rules were suspended today in New York City!...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  Interesting, Robbo. The serial Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943) was rereleased as Manhunt In The African Jungles (1954). Tagline: "Nazi raiders steal a lost Arab treasure!" IMDb...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  Anonymous, @#17 "Yma Sumac* was also in the film, along with Heston." Amy Camus (New Jersey) Nothing like a few tabloid made-up stories to spruce up the internet, eh, Mr. Winchell? SunVirgin.com An' lookit all them Wikipedia cites... Zoila Augusta...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  Aaand the whole frickin' movie, in color, hosted on YouTube via this site... Miro, launch!...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  Wikipedia Secret of the Incas -- Influence on Raiders of the Lost Ark: The film is often cited by film buffs as a direct inspiration for the Indiana Jones franchise of films, with many of the scenes in Secret of...
• Commented on Raiders of the Lost Ark as a 1951 adventure movie
  Jonathan Badger @#8 Well, except that Raiders was referencing 1930s/1940s serials -- not 1950s stuff. Except... the movie it's largely taken from is from 1954. Secret of the Incas The Heston character is "Harry Steele". Also, beating up Nazis never...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  All protesters would need is some of this... Gas of Peace ...and, well, a bomber group....
• Commented on Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  @#32 But the midget is behind the curtain the entire time, waiting. That's how David Lynch works his magic, Bitgod....
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Feminism is for everybody, Tak. Sing it with me!...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Much as I would like to see a world filled with musculariffic ladies, the current legacy of the human genome favors the male with the more powerful physique. Other animals are skewed this way, often with the female physically dominant....
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  Things have changed. Today, Wal-Mart can take a piece of everyone's paychecks! Same to you, buddy (Slacktivist)...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  What Noctis (@#75 et al) and dr80085 @#82 said. However, I think the English-speaking world needs a professional linguist to explain the etymology of the name Caster Semenya. Because our classy journos don't spotlight these cases at random, you know....
• Commented on Daredevil LA tagger "Buket" of YouTube fame gets nearly 4 years in jail.
  Glenn Beck would have done less time if he had raped and murdered a young girl in 1990....
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  When the domain name is a clear and complete sentence like that, I'd say yes. But it's only defamation if it's untrue....
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  Takuan @#39 one down. This would be mildly comforting if it were not for his graphically descriptions of his efforts to make more of him.   gah, where's that wall of fluff...
• Commented on Pigeons are faster than DSL
  rb3m @#11 Oh, an African pigeon, obviously. No, they'd have to have it on a T1 line......
• Commented on That is not a sufficiently potent botfly maggot unicorn chaser, Mark, this is the strength we require.
  INSULIN (Nobody Scores!)...
• Commented on Fire-breathing dragon boat
  This episode of Subnormality is actually relevant to this article, but only if you read to the end. We are entering a time of great strangeness walking among us in the form of previously-mundane objects....
• Commented on Normalcy is the future
  Now imagine a society revolutionized by a grammar editor that was omniscient... reintroduce it gently back is presented with judicious panache...