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• Commented on Just look at this awesome banana peeler.
  I like the catchphrase. If you bought one of these gadgets or used one, you'd be going too far, because the declaration is you should "Just look at it."...
• Commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
  Do any of these products prove intelligent design, or is there secretly an evolving series of improvements to each design (as there was with Ray Comfort's original attempt)?...
• Commented on Motorola Droid ad gets nasty
  Paging Berke Breathed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#Banana_Jr._6000...
• Commented on Oregon Attorney General releases "copyrighted" Public Meeting Manual, will hold hearings on whether Oregon law is copyrighted
  A way to simplify this problem (maybe oversimplify it?) is to ask, "Is it public or is it copyright? Make up your mind."...
• Commented on Camels terrorize Australian outback town
  One of the dudes who coined or popularized the term "Permaculture" was Australian. He has a great anecdote about a woman asking him how to solve her garden slug infestation. He said something like, "You haven't got an excess of...
• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  "because it looked like a trite and opportunistic way to bring in African-American viewers." They're trying to make their first African-American protagonist! If they do it, then they're pandering. If they don't do it, then they're guilty of having all-white...
• Commented on Upscale horseback riding school was CIA torture site
  Why is everyone hating on the torture sites *of color*?...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Make all tens for great justice. Somebody set us up the bomb....
• Commented on Aerobics championship video from 1987
  Unless they were competing for the highest pulse rate after each segment, how is this not a dance competition?...
• Commented on Slow News: designing reflection and contemplation into the news-cycle
  Yeah, I'm thinking there is some existing term that would cover this idea but I can't pin it down either. Bill Moyers?...
• Commented on 1962 fallout shelter design booklet
  From a 1967 pamphlet titled "Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements", here's the absolute best design: a brick snack bar for your basement rumpus room that TRANSFORMS into a small shelter. I like the cushioned bench made of a stack...
• Commented on Robbers wearing markered disguises
  None of the articles I've seen answer the most important detail of this case: Was the chunkier guy consciously trying to be one of the "Sons of Batman" from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, or was he just drawing a...
• Commented on Chess variant from 1934 that pitted agitators against engineers
  Arrggh! Where are the rules for this? Someone please post a link if you find one....
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  You silly electro-geeks. Didn't you see the star? They're expensive because they're endorsed by Paul Stanley, The Star Child. Buh!...
• Commented on Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards
  On the show, they were careful to repeat that the dystonia came up "ten days after the flu shot," so they're only describing the correlation, not the causation. ...Except why bring it up other than to imply causation?...
• Commented on Sony unveils new 3D display
  Why the cartoony critter? The thing they should display is the spinning head of young Michael York groaning: "There is no Sanctuary! ... All frozen! ... An old man! ... All ruins!"...
• Commented on Jolielips, the lip-plumping vacuum system
  The ribs on the vacuum look like little fingers cupping it. Not quite goatse.cxy but definitely goatse.nsual. Hey, I remember survival kit paraphernalia from the 80s that included little rubbery suction devices intended to suck out venom without a person...
• Commented on No cross-dressing at Morehouse College
  "If you got into a fight, the teachers broke it up and announced that after school in a football field, everyone was invited to watch these guys fight supervised." Great way to teach kids not to fight. I'd hate to...
• Commented on No cross-dressing at Morehouse College
  "You mean the same women that take classes their everyday? Or the multiple women (albeit rare) who have graduated from Morehouse College." If it's rare for women to graduate from there, is that because few women want to, or because...
• Commented on No cross-dressing at Morehouse College
  Another way of expressing the headline: "College that traditionally discriminates against women, now discriminates against crossdressers." ?...
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  Your mother is so dumb, when the cops knocked, she told the dungeon master to flush her Bag of Holding. Your mother is so dumb, she thinks Chimera is Russell Simmons' ex-wife. Your mother is so dumb, when she rolled...
• Commented on Air conditioner disguised as cartoony TV
  Very cute, but don't you need those sharp, finny looking things to be exposed to outside air for some functional reason? I can't tell from the picture if they're just painted over or covered by tape or cardboard. I assume...
• Commented on Rogue helicopter pilots and "chameleon lemon-headed coward terrorist pussies."
  Sleepybat: "Is it socially acceptable to laugh at the mentally ill?" Unfortunately it is socially acceptable to be an internet armchair pop psychiatrist and diagnose strangers as being mentally ill. It's nice that you have some empathy for "the mentally...
• Commented on Rogue helicopter pilots and "chameleon lemon-headed coward terrorist pussies."
  "This is the guy who walks into a sub shop with a samurai sword. This is the guy who runs his car headlong into a crowd of pedestrians." emg72 is the guy (or gal) who pushes the stereotype of mental...
• Commented on Cartoon review of documentary about show posters, "Died Young, Stayed Pretty"
  A comic strip about a film about posters advertising performances. I'm totally adapting this for a radio play....
• Commented on Girls Gone Wild scumbag pretends to have brain damage in court
  I'd say he is using a Clinton defense, but perhaps "is" is too strong a word in that statement, depending on what the meaning of "is" is....
• Commented on Fresh Greens: A surprising twist for an ex-Enron-er, building houses for under $3k, presto-change-o chocolates, and goats
  PS - It's nice that the founder of Goat Patrol welcomed the inquiry: 'More people need to take "green" claims with a grain of salt, and the world will never truly make progress toward greater sustainability without a healthy dose...
• Commented on Fresh Greens: A surprising twist for an ex-Enron-er, building houses for under $3k, presto-change-o chocolates, and goats
  Re: goat landscaping. Do we have to accept the premise that lawns should be scaped or eaten at all? I'm skeptical of the claims that tall grass lawns attract more rodents or snakes, or present extra fire hazard, the usual...
• Commented on Court orders Google to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit
  This just in. Someone standing under the monkey bars called Cassandra a "pee-belly". Fearing another attack by juvenile litigants, Google pre-emptively identified everyone who was ever anonymous or pseudonymous. [By reading this comment, you agree to relinquish all expectations of...
• Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
  Johnphantom, it's good to see that your concluding recommendation is just "make sure you talk to the doctor describing it". But I hope you aren't disturbed by the mention of Zoloft being accessible to people because you think it is...