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• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Have you heard about the nutjob Harlan Kilstein's "Finger Healing for Swine Flu"? "Sit comfortably with your back straight but not stiff. Place your palms together and clasp your fingers. Keep one thumb upright, and encircle it with the thumb...
• Commented on UK stamps to feature famous album covers
  I came across a site yesterday that is making covers for sketch books from old LP covers - http://www.vinylux.net/Vinylux/Album_Cover_Sketchbooks.html - and is also making fruit-bowls and stuff out of old vinyl records....
• Commented on What's wrong with Search Engine Optimization
  Completely naïve and spurious advice from this Derek Whatisface. ""Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again." Good luck with that. I have many posts at #1 on Google - through quality backlinking. And they stick. Google doesn't...
• Commented on Early 1990s TV commercial - pay $2 a minute to hear a story that will make you cry
  Oh God...that is killer. That is brilliant. So good it makes me want to cry. Thank you so much. I needed that....
• Commented on Singapore's second-creepiest animatronic exhibit
  You know what? That's probably pretty close to how the British brass reacted. My old man was there in '42. In the Australian infantry. Captured by the Japanese and incarcerated in Changi, Sandakan and Kuching for the rest of the...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  I have it on good authority that a wall in Damien Hirst's 'hood is about to be graffitied with "Hirst is a wanker" by a group called themseves "Friends of Faber pencils". They're planning on using it as an installation...
• Commented on Beatles Complete on Ukulele
  "While not the worst Beatle song it might be the worst one written and sung by John. Consider the unfortunate first line. "I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man." " What? I had to...
• Commented on Disneyland Paris's smoking area/stroller rental
  I find it rather sad that the #1 French Tourism Attraction is not the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre or even Notre Dame but...yep, Disneyland Paris - over 15 Million visitors a year....
• Commented on Surfrider's "Catch of the Day"
  That seafood is off. TreeHugger ran this six months ago....
• Commented on The Easybeats, "Sorry" (1966)
  The Easybeats "Friday on My Mind" was a better song than this. It was #1 in Australia, #6 in the UK, #16 in the USA, and charted in several other countries. In 2001, it was voted "Best Australian Song" of...
• Commented on More finance news from The Oracle
  Please write out 100 times "irreverent"....
• Commented on Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"
  Hmmm...you pick up on the teacher's spelling of confrence but you lead with "An teacher in Austin". Tut tut....
• Commented on Man charged over viral baby-swinging video
  Yeah well it is Queensland - the Texas of Australia. When crossing the border from New South Wales you turn your watch back 20 years....
• Commented on Video from the Presidential Campaign, Republican Division
  "God Bless The U.S.A" - you guys just don't get it do you? It's time you started thinking GLOBALLY not just of your own selfish interests. Videos like this make me want to puke. Of course this poor deluded fool...
• Commented on Winter wonderland was a dump
  The English "Telegraph" has the story too - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3543914/Santa-and-three-elves-attacked-at-fake-Lapland.html They say Santa was punched by an angry customer and three of his elves attacked....
• Commented on Geeks try to cook Gordon Ramsey's fancy recipe
  Hey, I just discovered that these are the guys behind the first Machinima feature flick "Bloodspell" - http://www.bloodspell.com/film/list I dig what comes up first on the screen - "This is NOT a warning from F.A.C.T. Photography of this film is...
• Commented on Geeks try to cook Gordon Ramsey's fancy recipe
  The basis of a soufflé is a white sauce to which a solid of some sort is added AND beaten egg whites to make it rise and become light and airy. Soufflés are really not that hard to cook if...
• Commented on Neurologist recounts the time he was conned
  There's a similar scam to this in Paris at the moment. The con-artist picks up a thick gold ring near your feet and says "Excuse me sir...you dropped this"...then he looks at the "18ct" inscribed on the inside (making sure...
• Commented on Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate
  That's the best thing BB has posted on the great debate. Brilliant. And Chinese Jet Pilot's link is a humdinger too!...
• Commented on John Cleese on Sarah Palin: "Monty Python Could Have Written This."
  "I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there."...
• Commented on Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
  "the paranoid anti-government figures"? Huh? I don't see that. I see a kook maybe but isn't that what the USA is all about? Isn't it there in Amendment One of your Constitution? To wit - "Congress shall make no law...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  "Parmesan" - here's more from Merriam-Webster - "Parmesan of Parma, from Middle French parmesan, from north Italian dialect parmeźan"...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  "Parmesan" entry from Wikipedia - "Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard, fat granular cheese, cooked but not pressed, named after the producing areas of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, and Mantova, in Lombardy, Italy. Parmigiano is simply the Italian adjective...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  @ Apashiol, "parmesan" may be a French word but the cheese is sold here in France under its Italian name "Parmigiano-Reggiano"....
• Commented on Sarah Palin in 30 seconds
  @ Wigwam Jones #35 Mate, HMAS Stirling is clear across the other side of the continent from New South Wales (NSW) in Perth, Western Australia (WA). But I've no doubt you were there if you were sucking on that cats...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  @ Rob, you can't copyright ideas - such as the idea for a movie. But you can copyright a treatment or a script of that idea. Wouldn't you want that if you came up with the idea for a blockbuster...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  J5IVE Is taking a lyric line and melody from my song and putting it to your video without permission "interpreting" or "stealing"? I'm saying it's "stealing" - I don't think it "fair use" at all. I don't buy the "cultural...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  What?! J5IVE writes "once something becomes part of the cultural canon, the creator can no longer unilaterally dictate its significance/meaning." Really? So I can create any work of art - music in this case - and anyone can come along...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  Yep...under the Act that's NOT deemed "fair use" of copyrighted music even though its pretty innocuous. And I'm not sure YouTube was "using copyright to suppress political remix in election seasons" as you claim. They seem to be pretty arbitrary...
• Commented on In Washington and on Wall Street, it's harder to figure out who is negotiating for the pirates and who is negotiating on our behalf.
  The East Africa Seafarers Assistance Programme (stet) is officially known by its (shortened) acronym S.A.P. and their charter includes "design, co-ordinate and carry out training, cultural and leisure activities for all seafarers"....