StrawberryFrog

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• Commented on Brits: sign petition to kill three-strikes law
  The "three strikes" law to disconnect suspected file sharers is wrong because • It applies punishment after accusation not after a fair hearing, discarding the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" • It applies collective punishment to all users of...
• Commented on Fresh Greens: Cars on shopping carts, 12-hour coffee and rat-eating plants
  the picture looks like South Africa to me. Note the "Diskom" stores in the background....
• Commented on Neutrally buoyant balloon
  @ #2 "jfrancis" asks: "Tie a helium balloon to the floor of a van and step on the gas. Which way will the balloon swing?" Well, I've seen something very similar to this: A helium balloon floating at the roof...
• Commented on ATMs that spray attackers with pepper-spray
  I don't know how long this link will point to the right page, but here's a South African cartoon about it: http://www.mg.co.za/madameve/all...
• Commented on Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA
  Censors are by definition handed the motive, method and opportunity to expand their jobs to protect themselves....
• Commented on Make your own tofu
  What on earth does "exponentially better" mean? That the betterness between it and normal tofu doubles once per hour?...
• Commented on Goats enjoy living in their own tower
  I've been to Fairview farm, near Cape Town several times. Photographic evidence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberryfrog/2392421572/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberryfrog/2392417672/...
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• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
  #37 pecoto You are wrong. Visit Sweden some time....
• Commented on Shirky: "What will replace newspapers?" is a plea to not be living through a revolution
  #1: see the article: "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." I agree that sometimes (ok, often) the news is uncovered by long hard dreary oversight work that just won't be done by an amateur. But Shirky's right,...
• Commented on Dr Mario agitates for universal health care in Mushroom Kingdom
  #9 Thanks for the insightful comment. Finally, someone raising the level of discourse. I wonder what the best way to deal with cranks like #4 is -ignore or respond?...
• Commented on Twisted-wire junk-sculpture automata from Zimbabwe
  @WombatSam Yep, you see the same thing in South Africa too. It looks like this guy takes it to a whole new level though....
• Commented on Charles Darwin/Fairey/Obama "CHANGE" graphics
  Nice picture! But it's not animated....
• Commented on Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials
  There's a simpler way to make a toaster: Get some sticks and wood Build a fire with most of this use a remaining stick to spear the bread and hold it in the heat...
• Commented on Communication with Cats
  So what did the cat do while you were at work? Did he do cast stuff (sleep, mostly) in the office?...
• Commented on Joel Stein: "Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention"
  genes don't mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And Allergies aren't totally genetic. Duh....
• Commented on Report: Pentagon Pro-Troop Group Misspent Millions.
  "How much you wanna bet we see anything but impunity for the crooks in the outgoing administration responsible for this?" What's that in English? I think that it means "I think that the new administration will pursue them". But it's...
• Commented on S&P Returns and the Remarkable Case of 2008
  It's not a bell curve...
• Commented on Lard of the Rings and other "edible books"
  I've seen (pictures of) better LotR food. Here and here...
• Commented on Imprisoned former Daily Telegraph publisher says US justice and prison systems are flawed
  Well he would say that, wouldn't he?...
• Commented on True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through photoshopped covers
  Looks interesting, pity that it died under the load. Stephen R. Donaldson's writing annoyed me, he'd use the word "Excruciate" every hundred pages or so, e.g. "The pain excruciated Thomas". It was like stubbing a toe each time....
• Commented on Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k)
  Well, the client (i.e. not server) versions will come in 32-bit and 64-bit builds, so that's another 10 versions right there....
• Commented on Rooibos tea made with espresso machine
  I had this in Cape Town (South Africa) about a year ago. Lovely!...
• Commented on HOWTO Create perfect fake identities
  @Jeff: not the virtual family. The character that I as thinking of was called "Nigel MacDonald"....
• Commented on HOWTO Create perfect fake identities
  Didn't Charles Stross do something like that in his novel "Halting State" ?...
• Commented on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" graphic novel
  @KnowitallguyfromGizmodo: You're trolling right? I sussed you when you got to the if you like it so much why don't you go live there part. I should have been suspicious when you started with that "commie" nonsense....
• Commented on Help dress the set for the next season of The IT Crowd
  Fail whale Threadless or Thinkgeek Tshirts Demotivator posters Lolcats...
• Commented on UV branding iron for newborns
  Marker pens is a good idea, but they can be washed off, unlike this. I assume that compared to lifetime sun exposure (think of all the sunburns that the average kid gets over the years), that the skin damage/cancer risk...
• Commented on Sneak preview of the Martin Jetpack
  I wonder if they ever manage to rise above the Ground effect. If not, is it really flying?...
• Commented on Octopus with 96 tentacles
  "abnormal regeneration", like in the last Doctor Who?...