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• Commented on Spider pizza may be delicious, but I will not be eating it.
  It always amuses me a little how freaked out people get about eating insects & arachnids (I admit to this myself), yet happily consume crab, lobster, shrimp, etc. Their is very little difference between say a small lobster & a...
• Commented on How cats manipulate us
  It's not the cats, it's the toxoplasmoids...
• Commented on Rushkoff: "Google's War On The PC"
  I for one welcome our new Google Overlords. Seriously though, this sounds great. Imagine a $250 Netbook running a streamlined OS for email, surfing, video chat, whatever. Not full of bloat intended for power users w/desktop apps. Now make it...
• Commented on Pockets banned for airport staff
  I think all the workers should be required to work naked, with a wax seal on all bodily orifices. That'll teach 'em to take bribes!...
• Commented on Secret US Nuke Site List Accidentally Published Online by US Gov.
  D'oh!...
• Commented on Secret cabal of Bisphenol-A companies meets to sell the public endocrine disruptors
  I take all EPA & FDA guidelines for safe exposure with a salt lick. Testing for effects of chemical exposure such as BPA are done in isolation. The problem becomes when you have multiple chemicals with similar mechanisms of action....
• Commented on Crazy Rasberry Ants on the rampage
  One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. Kent Brockman...
• Commented on Least favorite plant: asparagus fern
  This stuff has nothing on the Himalayan Blackberry that we have up here in Portland. If Satan has a garden it's full of these! Inch-thick canes with 1/4" spikes that grow so fast you can almost see them wrapping around...
• Commented on David Byrne booking the stage at Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee
  You can tap in to Byrne's personal playlist at radiodavidbyrne.com - a monthly playlist of David's music, a fantastic resource!...
• Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  Assuage your guilt with this mantra: Om Mani Padme Hung - once more 'round the Dharma wheel for you!...
• Commented on Microscopically knit apparel for Neil Gaiman's Coraline
  I'm a fan of teeny-tiny crafts ( I do some mini-origami & some polymer clay work), this makes me want to get my wife to teach me to knit so I can knit little sweaters for my daughter's toys!...
• Commented on Zipper dress
  That model needs a cheeseburger or something. She looks too frail to bear the weight of all that zipper!...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: New Toy
  Make it go fast in & out (in & out) Magical Pig Somebody needs to listen to some Zappa (or maybe already has been!) http://www.lyrics007.com/Frank%20Zappa%20Lyrics/Stick%20It%20Out%20Lyrics.html...
• Commented on Contraband vault packed with guns, money, dope
  Sounds like a great setting for a heist movie!...
• Commented on Lisa Randall on the origin of the universe -- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  Umm, Ada Lovelace day is tomorrow, not today. http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay http://findingada.com/...
• Commented on Obama's Critical Early Test: Corporate Arrogance
  We need to revoke their corporate charter due to failure to serve the public interest. Oh, wait, we can't do that anymore :(...
• Commented on Freak group photo
  Obviously photoshopped, I can tell by the bits & stuff....
• Commented on Madoff to Jail; Hope He's First of Many
  Life in prison's not long enough. In K.W. Jeter's book Noir, the dead are reanimated & forced to work as slave labor to pay off there debts. How long do you think he'd have to work at McDonald's to pay...
• Commented on Visualizing $1 Trillion as an endless field of bales of C-notes
  #7 - a lot of people in Iraq had that same idea. There's something like 10-30 billion dollars IN CASH unaccounted for in Iraq. US $ were literally flown in by the palate full hot from the US Treasury in...
• Commented on New iPod Shuffle moves controls to headphone cord
  It's hard to tell from the photos & limited info available on these, but I suspect the controls will be similar to the in-line remote for my Sony NetMD - the remote cord plugs in to the player, & the...
• Commented on Idiot stuffs cat into bong
  #18: yes, in some parts of the US you could be charged with a crime (likley a misdemeanor rather than a felony though) for something as simple as 2 pieces of metal tubing stuck together in some fashion. In Chicago,...
• Commented on Electrolyzed water, aka <em>el liquido milagroso</em>
  Slicklines sez "But that slick soapy feel it often has? Yeah, that's what it feels like when your skin is getting roached." That soapy feeling is actually soap. The sodium hydroxide (AKA lye) reacts with the oils on your skin...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  My home town of Kimball, NE is right on the way (last town in NE on I-80 before you cross in to Wyoming. If you pull off the interstate you can stop at Gotte Park & see a Titan I...
• Commented on Emailing while asleep
  People have been doing this for a really long time (minus the email part) under the influence of alcohol. It's called a blackout. Back in my heavy drinking college days I would regularly wake up in the morning with absolutely...
• Commented on Japanese Surgical Mask Culture
  This was also pretty common in S. Korea. One additional reason for wearing masks you left out is to filter out the yellow dust during storms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_dust There were times when visibility was down to well less than 1/2 mile...
• Commented on Trouble Coffee: cold press coffee, hobo-inspired art, coconuts
  Man, I love cold-brewed coffee. I got hooked on it back in the late 90's at this little coffee shop in Laramie, WY of all places. Best iced coffee EVAR!...
• Commented on Hindu extremists promote cow-urine soft-drink
  What next? Sweeteners made from bee vomit?...
• Commented on HOWTO learn to program PDP-11 assembler with a modern PC and SIMH
  I switched majors from Computer Science to Psychology back in the early 80s after being forced to program a PDP-11 assembly simulator in Pascal for a required class for my major. The instructor was pathetically horrible, and unfortunately taught several...
• Commented on The Ark: Mobile hot tub and sauna on a trailer
  When I was in college in Larmie, WY back in the late 80s there were several business in town that rented hot tubs on trailers, cost...
• Commented on Cryonics: 1
  #43 Charles Platt - The difference would be that one is a case of "you're alive, but will likely be dead in 6 months so let's keep you alive as long as possible" vs. "You are clinically dead, your heart...