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• Commented on Man hunts for poo-squirting con artist in Delhi
  @ DarthVain (No9) "I kind of agree with the American, and not the BBC reporter. Attacking someone with feces isn't cool. This type of behavior would make me think twice about visiting a country where this sort of action is...
• Commented on Propaganda posters from WWII
  Interesting image - especially when you think Iraq, rather than WW11...the Abu Graib hood, the loose-cannon Blackwater mercenaries, HumVees with heavy metal and hiphop at full volume... think about it....
• Commented on Wikileaks publishes large cache of US neo-Nazi group's emails
  "The Fuhrer made great strides... and we need to follow his example." Like putting a bullet in your head in the bunker? Good move, bub....
• Commented on PowerPoint considered militarily harmful
  Great points by the military man. I agree with Nosehat (11.41pm) that PPT is an excellent aid - but you need to learn to be a good presenter BEFORE learning how to use PPT. It's the structure of the program...
• Commented on UK to introduce "photograph a cop, 10 years in jail" law
  Check this out for incredibly stupid Brit cops trying to overstep their authority: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImC2orpcA4I&feature=related And I highly recommend a great piece here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/03/civil-liberties-stop-and-searchby Brit comedian-turned-civil-rights-campaigner Mark Thomas...
• Commented on Terrible apartment ad -- probably not real, funny nevertheless
  Has nobody noticed that this is blatantly obviously a (not all that hilarious) joke? Duh......
• Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
  A great, great moment. Well done America - and welcome back to the world, we've missed you. Be proud of what you've done and now treasure what you've got....
• Commented on Graphic graphic: UK Office of Govt Commerce's new logo
  Very funny, and the Govt wankers deserve it - but this is also utterly tragic graphic design. It's irredeemably awful, totally lacking in any perceptible thought, style, skill, wit...still, it's said that clients get the work they deserve....
• Commented on Invaders line the walls of Varanasi
  Does nobody else find this unutterably sad? It's not art, it's Western colonialism. We go to strange cities in foreign countries, seek out their holiest places and spray paint them with images from a trivial, mindless computer game. Imperialism writ-large....
• Commented on True confessions of a Nazi scientist in a Commie gulag
  The issue is not whether scientists were treated badly in Stalin's gulags, but whether it's OK to overlook scientists' complicity in the use of slave labour, indeed their dependence on it to carry out their rocketry development programs, and to...
• Commented on Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked Cuba tours
  WTF! Rage isn't a strong enough word to describe my response to this latest piece of totalitarian bullying. As if the absurd US embargo on Cuba weren't shitty enough, the good ole US of A now decides it can take...
• Commented on Tool for mindfulness: Powerseed
  Hucksterism! "The $50 price point was for a beta market test..." In other words, to see if you could get away with it. Last time I saw one of these gizmos it was being marketed as a wear-round-your-neck amulet to...
• Commented on TV star publishes bank details in anti-privacy editorial, gets ripped off
  Clarkson is an arrogant loudmouthed dickhead, long overdue for a dose of comeuppance. This had me LOL - and he should think himself very lucky he got off so lightly....
• Commented on Fox helps itself to photo of blogger's dog
  You should demand fair payment and if it's not immediately forthcoming, you should sue. The arguments that it was only a junior designer/intern making a silly mistake are irrelevant - Fox management is responsible. Here's what you do 1) Find...
• Commented on Egypt plans to "copyright antiquities" such as Sphinx, Pyramids
  I'm with the Egyptians on this. Especially when that ghastly hotel in Las Vegas promotes itself as 'the only pyramid shaped building in the world'. Er...hang on......
• Commented on UK party leader hires Brian Eno as youth adviser
  Jeez, pols - doncha jus love 'em? This man Clegg is only 40, but I swear he was born middle-aged. In fact like all politicians these days, sprung fully-formed from the same mould. And they just don't get it do...
• Commented on Truffle hunting
  The drawback of truffling with a pig is that the pig is drawn to the truffle because it identifies the scent as that of a sow in heat. So when a truffle is found, you have the job of separating...
• Commented on Gutsy ad-campaign for Buckley's vile, foul, miraculous cold-remedy
  These ads are just old-fashioned GREAT - a real idea, clearly communicated; no special effects, no fashionable styling, no plagiarism. Every young agency creative ought to be made to watch them to see how it's done....
• Commented on John Scalzi's snarky science fiction tour of the Creation Museum
  John, congrats on this - particularly your (passionately made) point that whatever you say about it, horseshit is still horseshit. The thing that's truly frightening is that this particular steaming pile of horseshit is also extremely dangerous; if people are...
• Commented on David Byrne considers IKEA as a video game
  Absolutely brilliant observation from DB, one of those "yes!" moments. And it's just great that the game analogy stands up right through the IKEA process - including I guess getting the stuff back home and having to figure out a...
• Commented on British Telecom -- like sticking your head in a blender, but less fun
  @ 17 NIHIL You've got it dead right. Especially about the lies and the efficacy of sticking it right back to them. Sales and Marketing people - in the UK at least - tend to be moronic box tickers, obsessed...
• Commented on P2P users buy more music -- Canadian govt study
  Yeah, this squares absolutely with research way back in the 70s when the UK record industry was campaigning against audio cassettes under the slogan "hometaping is killing music". Somewhat embarrasing then that properly-conducted research showed that those who copied vinyl...
• Commented on ProPublica -- new investigative journalism org.
  @pyros - You reckon that "people could easily do their own investigative reporting if they wanted to". I wish you were right, but sadly I don't think you are. For a start, serious investigative reporting ain't easy - it's not...
• Commented on Dumb lawyers and Flash screw up "No to Knives" campaign
  This is appalling - and it's the result of pisspoor standards in UK govt management of communication and public service advertising. The whole shebang, spending megamillions, is run by untrained, untalented, self-important civil servants who know zilch about the skills...
• Commented on Cops bust water-balloon pranksters
  Sorry, but this just seems to me more hysteria, part of the whole over the top health'n'safety risk-aversion schtick that has become another excuse for The Authorities to get all heavy with helicopters and what have you. Dangerous? Well...yes... -ish....
• Commented on Free poster with a dozen famous conservatives
  This is truly beyond satire. Does the poster really suggest that US Conservatives are lacking a complete education? Well I guess that's right. I followed the link to the YAF site and found that pretty bewildering too - these people...