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• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  augh, crap... that should've been Schrödinger's, not Heisenberg's, you stupid stupid clone...
• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  Oh my... so, so corny, but I'm still laughing my ass off. Must be some by-product of Heisenberg's principle. Or not....
• Commented on Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay
  There's one little detail people seem to forget when discussing Chávez... as bad as he may be he was still democratically elected and as far as I know it was a fair election. Or this is not the case? since...
• Commented on Homophobia in Venezuela
  GuidoDavid, I think anonymous' refering to an incident a couple of weeks ago, where a pregnant woman and her partner were detained and tortured by the DISIP; her mother reported on that, and the woman later underwent medical examinations which...
• Commented on Newspaper circulation over last 20 years: the great swandive
  With the sharp increase and steady numbers for the WSJ after including online subscriptions, it would be interesting to see the physical and internet numbers separately....
• Commented on Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers and other user-control technologies are legal
  If you're using Firefox, you might try installing FlashBlock; I've had it for a couple of years now, and it works just fine....
• Commented on Shroud of Turin reproduced
  I'll start by saying that this shroud thing is, to me, pure bullshit. Now, I'm no expert on ancient funerary customs, but it has always struck me as odd how nobody questions the fact that you have a perfect full...
• Commented on Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot
  @Stand: Given enough pot, you could have a conversation with Carl Sagan....
• Commented on Dead All Along: Gorey-inspired, Halloween-y, retropop music video
  Excellent, excellent video, but the song is unremarkable, sadly....
• Commented on Alan Moore's new zine: Dodgem Logic
  "Colliding ideas to see what happens" has to be one of the best mottos ever!...
• Commented on New journal about electronic dance culture
  I thought "electronic dance culture" was killed at least a decade ago by The Mainstream Or maybe I'm old...
• Commented on UK Border Agency's pseudoscientific "race-detection" DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts "horrified"
  Demidan: Ha! point taken. Yeah, stuff like that is happening all over the world, but damn, it's particularly shocking when it comes from countries which, not much long ago, were busy fighting against exactly this sort of madness....
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  Like Thaco@41 said: (...) Apple controls their products with an iron fist. Imagine what would happen to Microsoft if they tied their OS to specific hardware (...) that would be the Xbox, right? and that seems to have turned out...
• Commented on UK Border Agency's pseudoscientific "race-detection" DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts "horrified"
  Seriously, what the fuck is going on in the UK? The nonchalance with which these horribly fascists ideas are thrown about is shocking...
• Commented on Oldest bird-like dinosaur
  Ever wondered why reptiles taste like chicken?...
• Commented on Jackson Pollock's name hidden in his painting Mural?
  So... Pollock is the godfather of Unreadable Metal Band Logos?...
• Commented on Scary alien hand in real estate listing photo?
  Not only the alien hand, but did you see that glowing orb by the window?!? OMG, there's all kinds of weird going on there!!!...
• Commented on Upside down house
  So cool! Since I was a kid, I've dreamt of having an upside-down house; I've always thought that ceilings are much more interesting than floors, with all those beams and arches and stuff......
• Commented on How Islamist gangs use chat rooms to lure, torture and kill Iraqi gays
  We make sure they know why they are being held and give them the chance to ask God's forgiveness before they are killed. How merciful....
• Commented on Dinosaur auction
  Am I the only one who wondered how the hell do they know it was a female? And, of course, google is our friend: medulary tissue. more info here and here, interview with the scientist who came up with the...
• Commented on Dictator Wars: social game where you get to be a despot
  not to threadjack, but to clarify: Chava@23: Labels, Chava, labels... nothing is as black and white as you suggest. You can have a democratic façade, while being a de facto dictatorship. That's the essence of modern tyrannies: you do the...
• Commented on Dictator Wars: social game where you get to be a despot
  COG@8: You can bend democracy enough, so as to turn it into a dictatorship....
• Commented on Happy 40th birthday, Internet
  lev3k: Today is my birthday. HOLY SHIT, IT'S GONE SENTIENT!!!! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!! :)...
• Commented on Gorgeous line graph of sci-fi TV themes over past 4 decades
  It puzzled me that they didn't include LOST, but then I realized, no one's sure what the hell that show's about....
• Commented on How Science Reporting Works
  Did you noticed that there's a webzine called ding ding, in the comic linked by SLGALT?!? Has quite the ring, doesn't it?? I'm off to register that domain right now, byez!...
• Commented on Disney buying Marvel
  Anon@55: Marvel would never allow the dumbing down of its brand give them credit. You realize that after the deal, Marvel properties are no longer Marvel's, do you?...
• Commented on Disney buying Marvel
  They can do a Fantastic Three plus that dumb, stupid robot revival, featuring Wall-E...
• Commented on Music downloading penalties are harsher than arson, theft, or starting a dogfighting ring
  (and to movie studios too, while they're at it?)...
• Commented on Music downloading penalties are harsher than arson, theft, or starting a dogfighting ring
  Isn't it time that every government and justice system in the world told record companies to go fuck themselves, hard?...
• Commented on Video snapshot: "Topless rights" protest hosted by Raëlian UFO clone sex cult
  why do you all struggle? In the end you're all just ultimately Cthulhu shit. Word! Ia Ia Cthulhu Phtang, Brother... Ia Ia Cthulhu Phtang..!...