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• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  The (spectacularly awful) clip at the end is from 'Student Confidential': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094062/ I don't have the guts to see if it is even available on Netflix, let alone queue it up....
• Commented on "Crop Circles" Reveal an Ancient Burial Site a Thousand Years Older Than Stonehenge
  I don't think we can upload .kmz files. There are ways to link to a Google Earth location but I'm full of Sunday dinner so here's the Google Maps link: Damerham, England Ancient Burial Site...
• Commented on Fake DHS "photography license" for fake no-photos laws
  @12 - It says to present it to a peace officer on demand. The same language is used for all sorts of stuff. @13 - It might be better to create a unique "department" for this document, then? One could...
• Commented on Cephalerotica
  @ adunaphel13 -- Although my brain thinks it was Heinlein that taught me, I'm not so sure anymore. IIRC, 'Octopi', although now accepted, is wrong. It should be Octopuses as the root is Greek, not Latin. The pedant in me...
• Commented on Cephalerotica
  @madsci - You're absolutely right, 'Cephalerotica' doesn't work at all. That was my immediate reaction. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss for an acceptable alternative that isn't so polysyllabic as to be unwieldy in the extreme. 'Cephalerotica' is akin to calling...
• Commented on Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft's headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse
  Perhaps unshaven, belligerent, and (possibly) intoxicated is the best one can hope for in a cemetery security guard. As the unemployed look for work, I'm fairly certain that sort of position sits at the bottom of the list until there's...
• Commented on Zoe's Tale, an Old Man's War novel for young adults by John Scalzi
  Thanks, Cory. That looks like a fine choice for our neighbor boy who is also (I hope) reading a copy of Little Brother that I got him (either that or he's moving the bookmark on the sly). I may also...
• Commented on SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot
  Zyklon, I'm sorry you're not happy with this story. It seems you have some special insight into this fiasco so you'll have to forgive me. Are you saying that the search warrant in question was executed correctly?...
• Commented on Wal-Mart to offer own PC repair squad: The SS
  Just another reason to teach basic computer repair along with the utilization skills they (attempt to) teach in schools today. I helped our pre-teen neighbor build his first computer from scratch and now, only a couple of years later, he's...
• Commented on Star Wars photoshopping contest
  One of the better Worth1000 contests I've seen in quite some time. Among the highlights is the Thomas Kinkade alteration. Why anyone pays money for his originals with their greeting-card quality is beyond me....
• Commented on Restaurant lays off waitress who shaved head for cancer charity
  One awful outcome from this might be less fund raising of this nature. I worry that people will be less likely to participate if they fear for their employment. The owner of this restaurant may inadvertently be taking money away...
• Commented on Derren Brown live in London's West End -- astounding!
  @CORESOUP - That is a very narrow and misguided view of what's going on. It also smacks of glossing over the story itself. Derren Brown goes out of his way to point out that there's nothing magical or supernatural about...
• Commented on Codex of Liliputian subnotebooks
  @FNARF -- I was just going to post that. Did the page change?...
• Commented on Cute elephant urinal cleaning robot
  I hope this catches on. That way the women won't have to get right up near the urinal while they're cleaning it. I don't think I'll ever get used to having a Japanese woman wiping down the one right next...
• Commented on Varley's ROLLING THUNDER: third book in Thunder/Lightning Heinlein juvenile tributes, a smashing success
  Thanks, Cory. Heinlein was my third SF author to devour as a child so the nostalgia factor is intriguing. Not that anyone cares but I started with some odd ones; 'Venus on the Half Shell' by Kilgore Trout (Farmer) and...
• Commented on Beautiful high-end moonphase watch
  @MRFITZ, it looks like the basic Korona K1 will start at over $8500. The K3 will probably be much more....