Dave Faris

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• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  It's pretty easy to dismiss the people who follow Beck and Palin as idiots or subhumans or troglodytes. The fact is, even if they are snake oil salesmen of the 21st century, they have an audience for a reason. And...
• Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
  Watching this and some of the other videos linked at the end of this one, I'm impressed how much she seems to know about applying make-up. I also find these videos oddly compelling to watch... kind of like those Joy...
• Commented on Growing penis tissue in the lab
  Sounds like a bad pickup line....
• Commented on DC sniper to die today
  Everyone that is still alive who was born before Oct. 2002 has... Everyone who was born before Oct. 2002 probably didn't fear standing in a gas station, pumping gas, and thinking that any minute, a bullet could come screaming through...
• Commented on DC sniper to die today
  Interesting ... he was supposed to be executed on Oct. 14, 2004, on the second anniversary of the murder of one of his victims, but the appeals process has delayed it more than 5 years....
• Commented on DC sniper to die today
  His recent pleas for clemency are in such ironic bad taste as to be almost laughable, if it weren't all so tragic....
• Commented on Brand New discusses our logo
  both suck Never underestimate the level of petty hatred of random internet users when it comes to change. Even the most progressive site visitor cries crocodile tears when they perceive even a slight change....
• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  I'm wondering if it's illegal to jam a radio signal in the UK, or blocking cellphone coverage in an auditorium or what have you. But I'm with you, Knodi -- it sounds more like the billionaire was dazzled by some...
• Commented on Rage
  Gigolo Joe, whaddaya know?...
• Commented on DIY fisheye lens
  I'm very disappointed that there's no duct tape involved....
• Commented on Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb
  well, it's a subtle difference, I guess, Takuan -- if they get blown up by their own device, it demonstrates a certain level of stupidity, as opposed to being taken out by some other method....
• Commented on Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb
  I guess I'm the only one who questions whether they actually blew themselves up, and weren't taken out by a missile, just because the voice-overs said they blew themselves up?...
• Commented on Photos from Kraut Fest 2009
  That's an excellent photo, Mark. The look on the cute girl's face is great....
• Commented on Profile of skeptical guru James Randi
  Thanks for pointing me to this article that I might have otherwise missed, even though I, too, thought they gave a little too much space in it to Uri Geller....
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  I'm all for space exploration as such, and there's no denying the paradigm shift that occurred when people saw the Earth from the Moon. Maybe #1's question might be better considered if it were "why keep doing this?" With maybe...
• Commented on Profile of skeptical guru James Randi
  How about love or admiration?...
• Commented on The Los Angeles fires
  Out here on the east coast, we don't have to burn down the land. Our clouds do that all by themselves....
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  You driving your Prius to Starbucks for a Macchiato is pointless and greedy and evil. That's a marvelous straw man you built there....
• Commented on Cool scene from dance show: Shadowland
  So, wait. He turns a woman into a dog, and then into a woman with a dog's head, and then he kicks her out of the house? Kinda misogynistic, isn't it?...
• Commented on Random ham radio trollfight audio (explicit)
  Interesting. Be satisfied at least, Rodney, that when you get disemvowelled, there ends up being no difference between a phone and an iPhone....
• Commented on Random ham radio trollfight audio (explicit)
  If they were internet trolls, you wouldn't have bothered making a post about them. S&M trolls communicating via messenger pigeons -- now THERE's a blog post!...
• Commented on David Byrne: Kindle DRM means "you are f*cked"
  Amazon made a big mistake. When they yanked those copies of 1984, they should have replaced them with a legit copy, at a loss. Half of the ire and hatred of Kindle would have be averted....
• Commented on David Byrne: Kindle DRM means "you are f*cked"
  How do we get Cory off this hobby horse of hatred?...
• Commented on US Senate cyber security bill sparks debate, "internet takeover" fears
  Brk bm wld nvr d nythng t hrm bngbng, bt h mght pll th plg on Mtt Drdg....
• Commented on US Senate cyber security bill sparks debate, "internet takeover" fears
  He'll be too busy pulling the plugs on grandma to pull the plug on the internet....
• Commented on Boing Boing in TIME's "Best Websites of 2009"
  Xeni and company are all multi-billionaires by inheritance and only run this site as a public service.... ...and THEY FIGHT CRIMES....
• Commented on Boing Boing in TIME's "Best Websites of 2009"
  I'd venture a guess that more people read boingboing than read Time magazine, at least in the key 'hipster' demo....
• Commented on Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages
  Before you run out and get a copy ... "The video-enhancement will appear in the September issue of Entertainment Weekly, but only in what sounds like a relatively small subset of the circulation: The promo itself will be in every...
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  For what it's worth, Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and frequent Fox News pundit, claims that CNN failed to mention that the woman that Barney Frank schools is actually a Lyndon Larouche democrat on her twitter feed. I don't really...
• Commented on Slate's Dear Prudence: "Should I score pot for my diabetic sister-in-law?"
  How many people do you know that have been arrested and forced to spend years in prison because they had a couple cases of beer?...