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• Commented on Muppets singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  A. That blew my mind. B. That was from the original Muppet show? At the end, it shows Kermit in front of a very modern PC. And of course the original Muppet show was from 1976-1979....
• Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
  Palin went to 5 (five) colleges before she got her BA. She was mayor of a painfully small town. She was governor of a state whose entire population is smaller than 50 cities in the US. She left her first...
• Commented on Spectacular slow card-flourishes from Dimitri Arleri
  Video: watched. Mind: blown....
• Commented on Animated video for Flairs' "Trucker's Delight" (NSFW)
  How can this be called NSFW or NSFK... Its perfectly innocuous... You people are so provincial....
• Commented on Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins
  Paul Nicklen's subconscious speaks: "Oscar? For 'March of the Penguins'? I got your penguins right here! :obscene gesture: I love penguins! For breakfast, lunch, dinner, between-meal snacks!"...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I can hear the (republican) senators right now: "razzle frazzle Franken thinks he's so smart that he can draw his state or all 50 states razzle frazzle i could draw my state if i wanted to but i dont want...
• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  "Wow, thats really inappropriate!" Wow, another american who's never been exposed to buddhist/hindu/asian culture. let's move on....
• Commented on Anatomical vegetarian ad
  Great now every time i see ginger i have to stifle a gag reflex. :shakes fist: Damn you, vegetarians!...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  i dont get how this is in boingboing. wtf? if it was frog-flavored or hemp yogurt or yak's blood yogurt: ok....
• Commented on Auction for a private tour of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles with Leonard Nimoy
  how could someone bid $30k for sarah palin and NOT bid $5k for leonard?...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  This gives me a "It rubs its lotion on its skin ..." vibe...
• Commented on Pop Up Lunch NYC: temporary nosh-surfaces for New York's streets
  The thing I tend to notice at the mobile lunch carts is: huge amounts of trash in and around the cart, obviously left by previous patrons of said cart. Better that they have no place to eat so that they...
• Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
  The thing thats hilarious (or terrifying) about the 9-11 truthers is, they eschew all smart or book-learned experts EXCEPT THEIR OWN. There can be 1000 structural engineers who will tell them to excruciating detail how and why the towers fell...
• Commented on Man in breathalyzer costume charged with drunken driving
  .16 is a lot of alcohol too....
• Commented on Sikh Holy Men Wearing Spectacularly Large Turbans
  Whats the big deal? This happens every laundry day....
• Commented on Comic strip explains World Wars in five minutes
  This is a brilliant political cartoon. The WW1 must be new, because I was already familiar with WW2 from at least a year ago. The guy has talent. Whats next? Roman Empire? The Crusades? Viet Nam war? Napoleonic wars? This...
• Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
  "this is important, fundamental myth" that shows how wonderfully liberal the anglican church is that its own bishop admits that, in fact, the bible is myth (and not "literal, inerrant fact"). You go, bishop!...
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  look, im not passing judgement. Just that her use of the word "patient" and "boyfriend" reveal some logical inconsistencies that she herself is evidently unaware of. I'm sympathetic, but I promise you, that guy is getting sex from somewhere. and...
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  "I've been with my boyfriend for about six years, but we still haven't had sex. Uh, not trying to be obnoxious, but if this woman has a boyfriend of six years and they havent had sex, that guy's not her...
• Commented on Magic dots
  #2: Yes, you're right! It does create a visible image-- however, you do have to stare at it for a long, long time for it to become evident....
• Commented on San Francisco police officer arresting skateboarder: "I'll break your arm like a fckng twig."
  What kind of camera was the guy carrying: fisheye lens and apparently small enough that he could tape the guy the whole time holding it at his side undetected-- curious what model it would be......
• Commented on Trotsky: the graphic biography
  I just never understand why Communism (whether Stalinism or Trotskyism) is (or was) so fascinating to the left of the democratic first world. They always ignore the brutal and obvious reality of Communism while looking off to some distant glorious...
• Commented on Microsoft announces an end to coffee rings
  "How wonderful. Now I have to make sure my couch and chairs color-coordinate with the BSOD!"...
• Commented on Death row Inmates' last words
  -- Yo, Death Row inmate, I'm really sad for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Gary Gilmore had the some of the best last words OF ALL TIME!!...
• Commented on Ninja Drive
  so, how sick am I? first thing i thought of was that this product can only result in a news article wherein a kid gets shot by a scared cop who mistakes the drive for a weapon....
• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  even if you're using $100 bills as ballast, i dont see how a yacht can cost $1.2 billion......
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  Hasn't this already happened before? Right now, a Donald Pleasance character is lecturing the police about how dangerous the escapee is, and the self-satisfied cop is pooh-poohing Pleasance about how "dont worry, we'll catch your loony". Of course, we know...
• Commented on Griddleville: amazing cartoon made entirely by one dude.
  I have touched the face of an animator god....
• Commented on Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video
  WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN....
• Commented on Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad 1963
  Slide #11. A Man Talking To a Computer. Slide #12. A Man Talking To a Computer. Slide #13. The Larch....