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• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  "stooped so low as to expect the police to solve schoolyard bullying" The hell? Physical assault is illegal. How hard is this to understand? If half of of your co-workers beat you up one day, you'd probably go to the...
• Commented on Hugo Chavez, cannibalism apologist
  "What context would explain praising Mugabe, Ahmadinejad and Amin? I'll take "brutal repression under the guise of anti-imperialist populism" for $500, Alex." That's obviously the interpretation that the BBC was aiming for. Might even be entirely accurate - BBC News...
• Commented on Witch bottle from the 18th century
  That, or you get a genie. Makes the open/not open decision a little tougher....
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  I, for one, fully support the existance of a Glen Beck party. If only to split the conservative vote....
• Commented on 3D scanning with a plain webcam
  Give it a few years, and they'll be using a variation of this technology to make realldolls that look exactly like your celebrity of choice....
• Commented on Heroes and sociopaths: behavioral twins?
  Actually, her entire paper basicly boils down to this: "there are people who are otherwise like sociopaths, but altruistic instead of selfish". Which is sort of obvious, in that every conceivable combination of personality traits is bound to exist, given...
• Commented on Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors
  Checkov's law doesn't apply. Not even a little. It's a law about how to structure fiction. The actual law, in his own words (from wiki): "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking...
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  Actually, about the only thing I like about Lady Gaga is the full-on fashion magazine haute couture imagery brought into the videos....
• Commented on Mishap at the Electrical Substation
  IT LIVES!...
• Commented on Lego hole-punch for paper-meets-Lego projects
  I was actually expecting this to be a lego hole punch. You know, a punch that could be hooked up to technics and/or controlled via mindstorm....
• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  Actually, that was almost the first thing I thought of, right after "why are these idiots using that much strength?" It'd be really awesome for people with various physical problems - they just have an abysmally stupid marketting department....
• Commented on Cop gets 7-day paid vacation for Tasering child
  I tend to consider being electrocuted as an "injury"....
• Commented on Guns 'n Gardens - How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
  I'd be far more likely to trust bladed weapons than guns for one simple reason... Walking corpses are unlikely to be using their internal organs (including brain), so the holes made by guns are unlikely to do much to them....
• Commented on MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
  What I find interesting is what this says about how we view violence as it relates to gender. You can make a video game where you kill and/or main hundreds of guys and and nobody has any problems... The gender...
• Commented on Mac|Life imagines Apple products of the future
  A ipod, surgically implanted into your skull, that prevents you from being able to hear any music that you haven't bought through itunes....
• Commented on Unicornfish chaser
  Unicorn fish aren't even close to the coolest thing in that tank. Mantas, whale sharks... it is the awesome. Though I kept expecting a robot to start criticising the lack of plot....
• Commented on DRM-free top-flight horror novels
  Awesome, they're actually cheaper than paperbacks! Now all i need is a way to read ebooks that doesn't suck....
• Commented on Cataloging the lies in Palin's "Going Rouge"
  I'm a Palin fan BECAUSE she's an embarassment to the GOP. Or would be, if the GOP had the capacity to feel shame....
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  With a bit of training, you can kill a man fairly quickly with your bare hands. With no training, you can rip out his eyes....
• Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
  I'm far more interested in the photo than the math....
• Commented on Replacing a switch on an electric shaver
  Should have been a knife switch. Sure, really dangerous, but the world needs more knife switches....
• Commented on N.A.S.A. feat. Tom Waits + Kool Keith: "Spacious Thoughts"
  Cool video. I suspect it would have been awesome if I liked rap....
• Commented on Comic on the joy of online reading
  It's sort of wierd to see ebooks described as being cheaper - they cost about the same as a paperback, which is what most people actually buy. And paperbacks don't require you to pay through the freaking nose for an...
• Commented on All-in-one ectoplasm measurement device
  Awesome! They've invented the EKG meter from ghostbusters!...
• Commented on USB grenade flash drive
  Given that I've read about them having problems with tshirts that had pictures of guns on them... not a bloody chance....
• Commented on How to destroy the market for used gadgets
  The least interesting thing to me about an console is the online capabilities. I only play single player RPGs and strategy games anyways. For $40, I'd be willing to put up with the relatively lower number of Japanese games as...
• Commented on DRM-free, free-as-in-beer Dutch Little Brother ebook
  Now all you need to do is figure out how to make beer actually be free....
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  The walls of the tiny room they shared for the last two months, glistened in the dim light. He crouched over her corpse, clutching the bloodied knife that had so recently slit her throat. He slammed the knife into the...
• Commented on Pretending and games, design, commerce and life
  I just had to go and look up what, exactly, were tactical pants. Apparently they are basicly just cargopants (read: pants with tons of pockets) with a pseudo-military title. I find the militaristic pretentions silly myself, but tons of pockets...
• Commented on Family's personalized Where the Wild Things Are <s>fresco</s> relief
  It's the only picture book I have any recollection of at all from my childhood. And I still remember it fondly enough that I went to see a play version of it a couple years ago with my two best...