Rick.

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• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  What's the danger factor of throwing a snow globe at someone's skull?...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  @#*: A snow globe from Thailand. Now I've heard everything....
• Commented on Put This On: web video series for dudes on "dressing like a grownup"
  This makes me roll my eyes as much as that What Not To Wear show. I don't choose jeans based on "spectacular beauty" and I don't think the old cowboys and goldminers did either. I buy the same Levi's I've...
• Commented on Typhoon, Floods in the Philippines: first-person BB report from Audrey N. Carpio of The Philippine Star
  Barely covered in the media. Even on boing boing hardly anyone cares. Just isn't as sexy as a tsunami. :-(...
• Commented on I love Bladerunner, therefore I require these t-shirts.
  I bought the Morrie's Wigs shirt just in time to show it off at comic con. Not the best place for a line from a scene from GoodFellas, I guess, since not one nerd mentioned it!...
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  It sounds like introverts and extroverts are just fine and normal. It also sounds like they can both be assholes about it....
• Commented on Can Bejeweled fight depression?
  Which is why you have to play the endless version where there are always moves. Then you quit whenever you feel like it and not when you run out of matches....
• Commented on Haunted Mansion 40th birthday video
  I was at Disneyland yesterday and rode the Haunted Mansion twice. Mostly to marvel at the new bride's chamber. They added some neat things in there....
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Equilibrium: I have a corner of the baby....
• Commented on Mugshots from 1903 in curious series
  Prison today would be so much less scary with ascots....
• Commented on Report: Deet, popular and potent insect repellent, is neurotoxic
  Are kids getting high on this stuff yet?...
• Commented on Mandy Godiva, by Dean Yeagle
  And to #8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCL0SBCDzOE...
• Commented on Mandy Godiva, by Dean Yeagle
  Dean's a great artist and a lovely man....
• Commented on Video about wannabee amputee
  Completely fascinated by this....
• Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card
  Must be going around: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31920273/ns/us_news-weird_news/ Exact same amount....
• Commented on Soldier won't go to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe Obama is the president of the United States
  Al takes a drag off of his cigar, then exclaims, "Sam...Ziggy says there's an 87.3% chance that you're here, in Honolulu in 1961, to make sure Barack Obama becomes president!"...
• Commented on Weather Channel: no more smooth jazz
  I bet they already have "Rock You Like A Hurricane" cued up....
• Commented on Amid censorship outrage, China's state-run TV reports that "Google Porn" causes memory loss.
  Did he have pictures of his fellow student's palms?...
• Commented on Rushkoff on "The Great Facebook Land Grab of Aught-Nine"
  "Many of my sons' college-age friends laugh at anyone with a fakebook page." They sound like a bunch of pretentious assholes. And I bet they ALL have Facebook pages....
• Commented on R. Crumb's Book of Genesis excerpted in The New Yorker
  On the internet for a decade and you people still don't have a crap email address for just such an occasion?...
• Commented on Music Video: Jay-Z "Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.)"
  Daft Punk are robots. The end....
• Commented on Living Lounge Chair
  There's a whole park of shaped trees here: http://www.gilroygardens.org/attractions.html...
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  It's amazing how Axe and similar companies have tricked an entire generation of men into thinking that using (and more accurately, overusing) their smelly perfume can get them laid into infinity. Any time I smell this stuff, I just think...
• Commented on Prop Hate
  I find it funny that anyone would be surprised that California would vote this way. Aside from LA and San Francisco, the majority of this state is made up of rednecks. Even within LA, you can drive 10 minutes and...
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  What's with all the tanks? Hey, pal...quit biting my arm! What's happeni--...BRAAAAINS!...
• Commented on Mouse Guard: kid-friendly RPG where you get to play a mouse with a sword!
  It's also a fantastic comic book with gorgeous artwork. Go David Petersen!...
• Commented on "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop
  Let these fuckers get married already. It's the simplest solution ever to anything....
• Commented on Julia Dales: beat boxing champion
  But we have to celebrate the pretty white girl, right? Right?? Just speculating......
• Commented on TV Documentary: Survival of the Half Ton Teen
  I love and hate that The Learning Channel has turned into the "freakshow" channel. Last night, on TLC, it was Oldest Conjoined Twins. If it ain't women having 50 kids it's oddities of humanity. Soon it'll be just two-headed fetuses...
• Commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  Didn't we learn this from Super-Size Me?...