Keir
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Commented on Tiny "Flores Man" of Indonesia declared a new human species
Kudos for the first ever coverage of this I've seen without 'hobbit' in the headline....
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Commented on California to enact energy-saving mandates for HDTVs in 2011
Not ALL televisions. If you're buying a really gross one you can still do what the hell you like. I'm sure there must be a good reason for that, I just can't think of it....
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Commented on iPhone-operated car
Why would it be a Mercedes and not, say, a Dodge? I thought that bit was a bit random!...
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Commented on NASA to irradiate monkeys
that 'revenge will come' pic - am I the only person that still objects to people mixing up monkeys and apes?...
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Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
I think #6 has been reading too much Chekov....
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Commented on IT Crowd comes back for a fourth season!
I was puzzled by this story, until I noticed the Den Of Geek story was from March!...
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Commented on Hobbit advance payment fraud letter
#2 AngusM love it, the news link is a great touch!...
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Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
#4 MDH for the win!...
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Commented on Adventures in ill-advised graphic design: Singapore anti- sex trafficking poster
@15 Error404 - I am built like Americans downstais, never needed any hand lotion or anything....
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Commented on Imaginary Foundation's All-Star Pattern Seekers Trading Cards
did Fibonacci really look like Frankenstein's monster?...
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Commented on Radiohead Song in memory of Harry Patch, WWI survivor and pacifist.
I noticed something really nerdy - the ISRC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code ) in the file's tags is GBSTK0900112, which would normally mean it was Xurbia Xendless (their company)'s 112th recording registered this year (In Rainbows was GBSTK0700001 to GBSTK0700010). First I...
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Commented on Naked burglar caught on video
by the sound of it this is more fucked up than the term 'burglary' normally suggests....
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Commented on British fraud cop quits job, buys huge database of stolen identities, charges fees to people who want to know if their details are in the database
#4 Jeffbell, thanks for that, that is stupid and brilliant, a combination that always does it for me!...
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Commented on Music videos of records on turntables
I remember there was a great guy I subscribed to on youtube that put a load of great ones up, very diverse, and they got taken down :(...
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Commented on Radiohead manager to launch new record label
To be pedantic, he's not THE manager of Radiohead. He's one of four....
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Commented on Life with a 100 lb rodent that sounds like a Geiger counter when it's happy
I first saw one in a kids' story book when I was a kid, really grabbed me....
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Commented on The crap they built where the beautiful old train stations were
I like to pretend that I prefer the new ones, just on principle - the enemy of Prince Charles is my friend!...
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Commented on Homeless people and the Internet
I really like the third paragraph, I can so easily imagine that....
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Commented on Tory MP says it was OK to bill taxpayer for his 500 tree forest, critics are "jealous" of his private forest
That tampon thing was wrong, it was on a receipt but it wasn't claimed for, he wasn't claiming for everything on that receipt. But the Daily Telegraph is on a mission....
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Commented on London Times on the Honda Insight: "Biblically terrible"
Clarkson is a spoilt little brat who never had to grow up. I wouldn't mind him being a total dick were in not for the fact that he is intelligent, and he is a talented broadcaster - shame he's so...
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Commented on Cuba Tiene Hambre: A Viral Video Makes the Rounds
those guys behind him don't look like they've been starving....
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Commented on Kids on boneshaker bikes -- photoset
#2 if it's any consolation i had the same thought...
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Commented on Enigma: Derren Brown's new live mentalism and magic show on UK tour
I saw some of his video of card tricks once that was supposed to be just for magicians once and for me when he explained how he did the amazing tricks that made them even more amazing....
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Commented on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's copyright pants
haha, so it does #2, well spotted!...
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Commented on U2's manager wants the power to cut off your Internet connection
I agree with #1 about U2, but Bono's usually got enough sense to distance himself from stuff like this from his manager, he's done it before. Managers are full of these kind of greedy fantasies, I remember Radiohead's manager saying...
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Commented on Snatch
I'd heard of them, they're pretty famous in their own way, I'd certainly not class myself as a hardcore rock snob. @6 - Didn't that come out on Eruption, Creation Records' second dance label? Did it ever come out anywhere...
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Commented on Darkly Surreal UK Comedy Masterpiece "Jam"
#3 BP yes, in case he changed his mind - then the killer line "Clearly he didn't." Great stuff....
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Commented on Blackened lung cigarette lighters
I knew they weren't British, far too subtle! In the UK it would be a real diseased lung from a dead gut and an arm would come out and rub your face in it....
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Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
#8: "These days, parents have to be over-protective of their children or they can suddenly disappear forever." - Has it really changed?...
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Commented on Orbitron Apocalypto, Or, How I Became a Death-Cheating Toad in Mexico and Broke the Ancient Aztec Alien Curse Put on My Family by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Lost Show Car
Nice headline, I thought of Tom Wolfe straight away :)...
