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• Commented on Auction for a private tour of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles with Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Nimoy now has one of the most genuinely creepy yet somehow dignified faces on the big or little screen....
• Commented on Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto
  Some of you people are just pissed off that your favorite politican(s) didn't think of this first....
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  And this is book "mind-bendingly awful" because...? A lot of it sounds like common sense, really....
• Commented on Magic dots
  Our secret space overlords have finally devised something more brain-numbing and addictive to the human race than either teevee or Tetris. Your DNA is almost ready for harvesting. Just continue to divide the dots. Everything will be fine......
• Commented on Paul Revere & the Raiders - "Him or Me"
  Nobody in the 1960s had foreheads, I guess?...
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  Notice, MacHeads... Windows XP is running on the laptops. That's right. The laptops on the f-ing Space Shuttle run Windows! Ha! (I'm kind of surprised the screensavers are the stock WinXP logo, though... you'd think NASA would use SOMETHING more...
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  @97: "Swanky T-shirt"? I don't think I've ever heard those two words used together before......
• Commented on Meat tenderizing ring
  Wearing this virtually guarantees you won't get your finger bitten off by an idiot at a rally....
• Commented on Astronaut Alan Bean's paintings
  @7: Sorry to hear about your soul dying... Hope you get it back soon. Seriously, the first artist EVER to set foot on the moon, and his work is deemed "boring"? It's a miracle that his persona combined the extraordinary...
• Commented on How to speed read
  Two words, dude: "Lapel microphone."...
• Commented on Meeting cost ticker
  Tried three times. It doesn't work....
• Commented on Photos of famous people with their faces turned upside down
  I guess, technically, it's not their faces that are turned upside down, but their heads and bodies......
• Commented on City of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
  Anybody else think the first article title ("Learn to Swim... It's Worth A Try") is hilarious?...
• Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
  #16: Judging by the artist's use of the language, I'd say she's from the UK, wouldn't you?...
• Commented on Gnarly Videos
  Too many drugs. Some people are taking WAY too many drugs....
• Commented on DIY electric VW goes 82MPH
  So can it go 82 MPH or 87 MPH? Title say one thing, GPS says another. I need to know, people....
• Commented on Sound Opinions music podcast
  Ack! Our Chicago secret has been revealed! Oh well. Enjoy, world....
• Commented on Economy will get a lot worse -- The Economist
  A... Directory... Of... Wonderful... Things...?...
• Commented on "Your business card is CRAP!"
  He spends 25 years designing his business card, but hires an amateur to run the camera? (I especially love the part at 1:31 where he leans forward. You can see the cameraman practially knock over his $25 tripod in an...
• Commented on $39 gold plated fuses for audiophiles
  Dem gold fuses is wack, yo. (Or something like that.)...
• Commented on Make your own paranoid British terrorism poster!
  Let's all print poster-sized copies of various citizen-produced versions of this billboard. Plaster them everywhere. Soon, the real ones will utterly lose their impact (if they ever had impact to begin with.)...
• Commented on German retro-futuristic group-dancing
  It's like dry heaving, and dry humping, and country line-dancing all rolled into one activity!...
• Commented on Reuben Margolin's kinetic wave sculptures
  Now THAT is truly a Wonderful Thing! Bravo!...
• Commented on Truck with raised trailer smashed into overpass
  Phazeaction: How about pulling alongside, honking, waving -- anything but what they did, which is nothing. Nothing except being a waste of gravity....
• Commented on Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth
  This is cool, and something I wish I'd a a chance to do as a child. However, the first time a commercial airliner accidentally hits an ascending 4-pound balloon sensor package launched by enthusiastic but clueless amateurs, causing a puncture...
• Commented on Obamasnacks - banned in Indonesia
  #9, this is the front desk with your wake up call. No? Still gonna hit the snooze button? OK. Fair enough. Call you again in three years, when several Constitutional Ammendments have been thoroughly buggered, the dollar's worth zero, our...
• Commented on Mystery sonic boom in California
  Let's see, it was in California... a state containing the highest concentration of military flight-test facilities and some of the most special-use military airspace in the country... do you suppose it could have been a sonic boom from an airplane?...
• Commented on Stabbing pen
  #24, Whatchu mean 6061 aluminum isn't aircraft grade? Of course it is. There's at least 50 pounds of it in my airplane, along with about 800 pounds of 2024-T3....
• Commented on Shamwow vs. Zorbeez: "This does not smell good."
  Billy and Vince: Slightly annoying. The hosts of this show: Stupendously annoying. Gotta love how she suggests "doggy-style," then actually bends over. Classy....
• Commented on Battery charger with LCD display
  I have one of these chargers, and it's one of the best consumer products I've ever purchased. No kidding. It restored several proviously "dead" rechargable batteries to full functionality....