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• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  God, or the last 2,000,000 years of evolution which left males with the instincts toward polygamy and females with instincts toward longer term relationships? Society is healthier when we discuss sexuality, gender, and human sexual behavior openly: abstence-only "education" results...
• Commented on To the Moon, Alice!
  @Phikus because after so many missions to the moon, it's still completely boring!...
• Commented on Mandy Godiva, by Dean Yeagle
  That reminds me. Why was the loli Wikipe-tan pic deleted from my profile?...
• Commented on Embed virtual worlds
  O3D (the open source remnants of Google's failed Lively) should make a more interesting platform than Adobe Flash. FREE DMTRY SKLYAROV!!! ...ahem......
• Commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  The problem I see here is that every pound you're spending on moving art treasures from London to Scotland is a pound you're not spending on de-escalating the conflict and getting the Russians back to the negotiating table. Also, all...
• Commented on Richard Feynman plays the bongos
  ... or, more likely, a djembe?...
• Commented on Richard Feynman plays the bongos
  The accelerando in the first video wasn't very smooth. Perhaps it was intended that way? As for the second video, well, bongo drums are always a pair of drums tuned to different pitch, almost always played together. It's impossible to...
• Commented on Using a 1964 modem to dial up to the Internet -- Boing Boing Gadgets
  The 300 baud ("Bell 103 dataset") is the second-generation modem. Here's a picture of a 110-baud Anderson-Jacobson 110 baud modem, also in a wooden chassis. Those were introduced in 1959, shortly after Bell Labs announced their 110 baud modulation frequencies...
• Commented on School newspaper archives go online, embarrassing student writing and shenanigans become permanent record
  If it gets so bad that you think it's interfering with your livelihood, your local courthouse offers an official change of name (for around $250 in California.) You can send a copy of the court order to your former employers...
• Commented on BA getting rid of first class in new planes
  Now if the British tax code could only be made more progressive to match....
• Commented on LA cop union buys stake in newspaper, demands critical writers be fired
  Oh like that isn't going to backfire. Clearly some cops have been raiding the evidence locker....
• Commented on Milk: The Gateway Drug
  Eric Holder said a few weeks ago that he was suspending federal anti-marijuana efforts which were permitted under state law. The new drug czar is promising, too. Not much, I know, but it's something....
• Commented on 4,032 page Agatha Christie book is over one-foot-thick
  What does it weigh? Can that model even lift it off her lap?...
• Commented on My Martha Stewart appearance is online
  I still LOL whenever I remember when she had Snoop Dogg on!...
• Commented on Bob Graham's much-scoffed-at little notebooks are more reliable than the CIA's records
  When the CIA was saying those Iraqi artillery support weather balloon hydrogen electrolyzer semi trailers were "mobile bioweapons incubators" or whatever, I actually placed a call to Langley and talked to a public relations guy about all the reasons which...
• Commented on Starbucks Twitter campaign hijacked by documentary about Starbucks' union-busting
  This is the only thing I've ever read about Twitter that made me feel like I might be interested in it....
• Commented on Lessig reviews Helprin's embarrassing infinite copyright, bloggers-are-stupid, Creative Commons is evil book
  Helprin's stance in favor of Forbes et al's regressive flat tax is much more distasteful than perpetual copyright. He props up both with excruciatingly florid prose which amount, under the surface, to just a bunch of anecdotes....
• Commented on Too much cola causes muscular weakness
  The average U.S. diet is deficient in calcium, magnesium, and potassium, to varying degrees, as well as iron if you're female. (If you're male, it's very easy to get too much iron, which can cause odd side effects like discoloration...
• Commented on Crazy Rasberry Ants on the rampage
  Invading computer equipment? Clearly this is part of Brian Molko's plan to take down depleted uranium ammunition manufacturers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3PusV3DTc...
• Commented on Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO: The Guggenheim and Falling Water
  The Gugenheim is so tiny, and their Fallingwater is pretty skimpy too; sheesh! Sometimes LEGO phones it in. This Fallingwater is much nicer....
• Commented on Web Zen: Talk Like a Pilot Zen
  AWE1549: ah this is uh cactus fifteen thirty nine hit birds we lost thrust in both engines we’re turning back towards laguardia L116: ok yea you need to return to laguardia turn left heading two two zero ... L116: cactus...
• Commented on "Here. My Explosion..." a tilt-shift feature film by Reid Gershbein
  P.S. The supernatural aspect reminded me of Fanny and Alexander right down to the supersaturated white when we witness the supernatural occur. (As opposed to the oversaturated color in the rest of the film which, frankly, looks fantastic.) Also, the...
• Commented on "Here. My Explosion..." a tilt-shift feature film by Reid Gershbein
  continuity: when the main character is demonstrating the phenomenon to the women on the beach, she pours what is clearly clear fluid from her thermos instead of coffee into their paper cup. I loved the visual effects, the whole look...
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