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• Commented on Silly udder pitcher
  One has to wonder what these "non-vegans" call you....
• Commented on "Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it."
  Since when? In all the 25-or-so years I spent growing up in the UK, nobody used "black" except to refer to people of African descent. Perhaps it's a regional thing? I cringe every time my dad refers to "coloureds" but...
• Commented on Off-course pilots were laptopping-while-flying
  Sounds like they were bickering. The story says "they had taken out their personal laptops in the cockpit, a violation of airline policy, so the first officer, Richard I. Cole, could tutor the captain, Timothy B. Cheney, in a new...
• Commented on Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the paranormal industry
  I would love to see some of these supposed studies with "results showing that it does exist". Please, show me a single study with conclusive evidence that one can perform telekinesis, or have telepathic powers. It could have a profound...
• Commented on Beauty and Brazil
  "looking thru a funnel and with prejudice... narrow-minded americans who barely know where South America is located" Nice....
• Commented on Epic Christian painting of historical figures and "lefty" archetypes
  I think this artists' religion is not Christianity but American imperialism. This painting is pure idolatry....
• Commented on Ragdoll Metaphysics: Game Research, Ghost Stories, Alan Moore, and Academia: The Far Reaches of Edutainment
  For that matter, "game" is an inadequate word, but it's the one we're stuck with. Same way the vast majority of "film" we watch isn't actually on film, and most comics aren't actually comical. This was a great article--thanks, Jim!...
• Commented on Retro Remakes: 25 years of <em>Elite</em>
  "Creator David Braben"?? It was co-created by Ian Bell, who deserves at least as much credit for the game. It's sad to see him being gradually written out of Elite's history....
• Commented on Project Needlemouse: Sega tease new HD, 2D <em>Sonic</em> for 2010
  Oh god How many new characters are they going to introduce this time?...
• Commented on One shot: Olly Moss does A Life Well Wasted
  Doesn't "giclée" basically mean "ink jet"?...
• Commented on Mario and Luigi tattooed on someone's feet
  Or the MORGUE...
• Commented on One shot: Keita Takahashi, shoeless and Amused
  About time too! There are plenty of magazines and web sites that have games-as-product covered. Shame their bloody web site is broken so I can't order a subscription......
• Commented on Japanese auto-fogging glasses prevent long stares at the computer screen
  Depending on how they orient the liquid crystals they could arrange for them to be fogged by default and require power to de-fog. That would solve any unpleasant glasses-not-fogging-and-eyes-shrivelling-into-raisins situations. Is this really a problem that people have, though? More...
• Commented on Comic-Con: Harassment and objectification for fun and prizes
  Is the games industry big enough now that juvenile shit like this only tarnishes the reputation of the developer in question, rather than the industry as a whole? Hope so....
• Commented on Review: A day with HP's MediaSmart LX195
  That thing looks like it'll gather dust like nobody's business!...
• Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
  Yeah BULLSHIT he was concerned with the child's safety. Sounds like another bully who was too mentally unstable to become a cop, where he'd be able to shoot cyclists in the head all day long with just a slap on...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  So it's YOUR FAULT all the bees died! Jeez, Mark....
• Commented on Race and book covers: why is there a white girl on the cover of this book about a black girl? -- UPDATED
  I think Jewels Vern was trying to be ironic, although I am not sure what point he was trying to make. Perhaps he was just trolling to be "funny"....
• Commented on Dead Goat Polo Arcade Game
  Very well put, #2 Boba....
• Commented on Baboons ransack car luggage carrier
  Oh, that baboon who keeps jumping on top of the box while the other guys are inside... so rude. Learn some manners, that baboon....
• Commented on Death and Taxes, the 2010 edition
  I would say the US is already pretty damn well defended, to the point of finding other countries to invade and then defend. If anything the US needs to sell off all its surplus stealth bombers and tactical weapons so...
• Favorited Broomba on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on New Rover is a Hi-Def TV Studio, Internet Node
  It mentions that the rover will be an internet node, which makes perfect sense. My question is... what is the IANA country code for the moon?...
• Commented on HOWTO: Balance Your Media Diet
  Gaming is not entertainment? I think you're playing the wrong games....
• Commented on Tweet (#2524209804)
  Q. What's the difference between Twitter and spam? A. EXACTLY LOLOLOLOLOL...
• Commented on Attract Mode, James Harvey, Spacesick tease official <em>Cave Story</em> T-shirts
  Gah! Gimme gimme gimme! The Balrog shirt is mega awesoem. I <3 HarveyHarveyjamesJames....
• Commented on GDGT upgrading self
  The hook is that all the gadget reviews are incredibly offensive and have had their vowels preemptively removed....
• Commented on Kindly old follow: Nintendo's <em>Professor Layton</em> joins twitter
  DETROIT...
• Commented on Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable
  Metcalfe has fantastic lettering skills. Wish more engineering diagrams looked that good....
• Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
  #5 Magian, have you not been reading BB very long? Cory writes at least as many furious posts about the idiotic security policies in the UK and Canada as he does about the US. The UK being relatively more heavily...