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• Commented on Hope is fading
  +10. Blame the juggernaut, keep the faith....
• Commented on Jacques Vallee on Boing Boing
  Excellent news! I have enjoyed many of his books. Welcome, sir....
• Commented on Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
  I'm reading Jacques Vallee on BoingBoing! So this is what heaven is like. Nice....
• Commented on Klingon as a First Language
  This would have proven nothing of interest, whether it succeeded or failed. The imprinting of language on progeny is hardly unknown. As a failure, it was a silly waste of time. If it had succeeded, and Klingon had trumped the...
• Commented on Infographic: Projected pot tax revenues
  This is not all that realistic, since taxes is teh socialism. Which equals Satan. Not that the state of Virginia wouldn't benefit in some way. they could use legalization as an opportunity to hand the state's pot crop over the...
• Commented on How to destroy the market for used gadgets
  I guess the notorious RROD problem on XBOX 360s wasn't doing enough to dissuade people from buying these things. Sounds like Microsoft is finishing the job in a novel way....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  @Micah- no, this is the new math way. new concepts are introduced without warning in homework to encourage a parent-child dialogue about it. No lie, this really is what I was told by my sons' teachers, both of whom have...
• Commented on CNN ends a web news experiment
  Agreed, John Dallman. I turn to the web for the news quite a bit anyway, but it always trumps TV news when I am in a hurry and want to know what's going on right now. For that, text is...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  This might indeed be a waste of column space and extended thought, in my mind, if it weren't for this part: But in the hour and a half that I spent on the phone with Dell, I spoke to about...
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  i am totally on board for this. Buy or build some musical instruments, get a journal and sharpen your pencil, stretch a canvas. Make your own culture and share it with your friends. Screw the entertainment establishment. They can keep...
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  hagbard, we should prohibit ANY and ALL photographic, sound and video reproduction. How many people carry permission to wear their AC/DC t-shirt in their wallet? Let's be realistic: none. So better safe than sorry. In fact, I think we really...
• Commented on A bouncy, anti-gravity workout with the new AlterG treadmill
  Since the mechanism that makes exercise beneficial is resistance to gravity, wouldn't it take many hours a week to stay in shape using this thing? The one nice thing about running is it doesn't take too much time to get...
• Commented on Trailer for Collapse, a documentary about coming global meltdown
  I'm siding with Halloween Jack on this one. His comment about Creed sealed the deal....
• Commented on Anti-stress audio
  I took the plunge, and received the SOAP error I requested. Thanks, I feel better already! Seriously, though, it may only be ninety-nine cents, but once they have that CC number... and judging by the quality of the site... I'd...
• Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
  After reading about the Honduran coup related in webcomic form, and now this, I am firmly convinced we should immediately endeavor to publish the unexpurgated books of all religions in comic book form. For centuries issues simply lay, abstract and...
• Commented on Fireplace named world's most beautiful object
  "Further, it does not detract from its surroundings or demand anything from its surroundings" I disagree, I think it demands formality, sparseness, and modernism. That particular interior needs a stone fireplace. "but Beyonce should have won for most beautiful object!"...
• Commented on Media centers: the exciting, the boring; the solved, the unsolved
  Daemon, the things that bothered me about the PC solution, until recently, were hard disk space, lack of A/V device driver support and a main system viewing component that didn't clutter the cabinet in the living room too much. We...
• Commented on Yahoo says Iran claims are false
  The laundry list of previous Yahoo-related posts pretty much says it all. So the fox just passed this particular chicken coop on by, sure....
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  Paul: arty, romantic, humane, sensible and rational.... sigh. that's a tall order for a Friday afternoon. :P...
• Commented on Shroud of Turin reproduced
  "People believe what they want to believe." ^ What ridiculous human behavior doesn't this explain? And sums up the futility of arguing with believers so succinctly. Although I do think the rest of us should go ahead and debunk anyway,...
• Commented on Franken passes law denying fed contracts to companies that support rape of employees
  "This kind of thing is why I can't take libertarians seriously. Justice will end up belonging to whoever draws up the contracts." Bravo, sir. Well said. That's the most useful statement I have encountered in quite a while. Also second...
• Commented on Conservapedia proposes de-liberalized Bible
  "Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages" Waitaminute, you mean the bible is not the verbatim word of god? If it is, this is a sacrilege, is it not? Self-righteous otherfuckas....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  @#48 "I think I'm just going to stop going to the movies" mccrum, please, don't waste that energy on Polanski. Polanski's apologists are not exactly the future of cinema. They represent a past or soon to be past period...
• Commented on Radical ideas to prevent global warming disaster
  @#14 "We are not dinosaurs (as much as evidence can point to it) and we can adapt." True. I think we are adapting, right now, maybe just without realizing. Why is NASA so hot to put people in space all...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  So, Hirst's appropriation of the trappings of out-of-control Capitalism is not so ironic after all....
• Commented on Dick Cheney, proud torturer.
  @30: "So how far back does this go?" Does the name Jehovah ring a bell? He wrote one of the most influential and thorough torture manuals in history. And he clearly loved his job....
• Commented on Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) on "the value of musical sharing"
  Xeni: "I really dig Curt's current solo work.." Oh my God, I do too. Halfway Pleased is an impressive piece of modern pop. I'm downloading it right now....
• Commented on Notes on an attention economy
  I agree with the naysayers, basically. But Dhalgren makes a brilliant point. The attention festival is not a where or when, it simply is, and we make a new one for ourselves with Google (or other aggregating tools) many times...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Snap, I think I broke it with a Burt Ward quote....
• Commented on Report: Deet, popular and potent insect repellent, is neurotoxic
  @33, you're making me wonder about the efficacy of cannabinol....