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• Commented on Galileo's fingers found
  Jake, that's my Facebook icon! (With me and the missus reflected in the armillary instead of those two suspicious-looking strangers.) I have a bunch of photos from the museum on Flickr as well, if you're interested....
• Commented on Fangst
  Is fangst better or worse than ankhst (the ennui that overtakes fans of Neil Gaiman's Death)?...
• Commented on Galileo's fingers found
  I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I got to the Museum of the History of Science this summer and found it was being renovated, with Galileo's middle finger on tour somewhere. Still a nifty museum, though, even...
• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  Yeah, yeah. :P It should be a gammadion: four gammas with the corners pointed toward the center, so the space between them creates a voided cross. Tell this Michiel guy to make one of those next....
• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  Silk for caldé!...
• Commented on Homophobic murder in Puerto Rico. Cop: "he deserved it" for his lifestyle
  Did the cop actually say "He deserved it"? The quote I saw was "People who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen." The quotation marks make it look like the former, which turns the...
• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  We have them here in Korea and they're confusian, but go the other way. Apparently they're confusian here, too, Anonymous....
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Santa's Knee, are you sure it wasn't Going Rouge?...
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Didymos, that's from the Eastern Orthodox Lesser Blessing. For Catholics (which is what we're talking about here), the priest is just certifying that there are no evil influences in the water. You're correct, though, that there are people who ascribe...
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Erzatsen, holy water is just water that has been sanctified. It's no more guaranteed to be disease-free than graveyard dirt is guaranteed to be worm-free. Its purported benefits are entirely spiritual, not physical (vampires notwithstanding)....
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Anonymous, my point is that the laws already exist. I propose that we obey them, although working to change them is also fine. In MA, that means a) I can't blow through a red light, but b) I can pass...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Incidentally, I just found out a friend of mine got hit by a car while biking today. He's about as conscientious a person as you could care to meet — polite, genteel, pathologically horrified by the thought of inconveniencing or...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  You also promise not to pass me on the right or ride next to my car in the lane. I am continually amazed by the bikers who are angry when a car passes them in a lane, but who will...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  I'm a cyclist who stops at red lights and stop signs (more often than a lot of drivers in Boston), who only goes onto the sidewalk or crosses on a WALK signal after I've hopped off my bike and become...
• Commented on Artist turns village into optical illusion
  Looks to me more like we're looking at the town through a sheet of plexiglas with holes cut into it....
• Commented on Zombie/Scooby Doo mashup illo
  What do you mean, "making"?...
• Commented on Chess variant from 1934 that pitted agitators against engineers
  I'm guessing, on no evidence, that "Middlemen trying to become Bankers" is their clever way of talking about pawns being promoted. I, too, would love to see the rules, though it looks like a custom set of pieces would be...
• Commented on Mighty Boosh Halloween Costume: The Spirit of Jazz
  Even if they found a black actor to play the roll, (would that have been so hard?) It would have been hard to find a black Noel Fielding, yes. Most of the characters on that show are played by two...
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  MarkM wrote, I promise you, that guy is getting sex from somewhere. You're talking out your ass. I promise you, you don't have a handle on how all guys would behave in situations like this....
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  Based on the NYT photo, it looks like this is the knife he took to school: http://www.survival-school.org/Default.aspx?tabid=246&ProductID=102 You can see he's working on getting out the bottle opener in the picture. jacord is correct in saying it's "similar to the...
• Commented on Invasion of the giant blobs of "sea mucus"
  Quick! Somebody call China Miéville!...
• Commented on Hallowe'en is safe
  The article ends with a quote from the city council about frightened seniors. It's not clear to me whether this is a measure to keep kids safe from poisoned treats or an attempt to set a curfew for prankster teens....
• Commented on "Close. The. Box. Walk away"
  This reminds me of my "Warning: box may contain cat" photo. Gus-Gus isn't an owl, of course, so the coolness factor is lower. (Don't tell her I said that.) http://www.flickr.com/photos/jere7my/300289284/in/set-72157594381839819/...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  My eyes! The goggles do nothing!...
• Commented on Conservapedia proposes de-liberalized Bible
  They say, "Additional less important guidelines include [...] recognizing that Christianity introduced powerful new concepts that even the Greek and Hebrew were inadequate to express, but modern conservative language can express well." In other words, there is knowledge in the...
• Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
  So, what, they mounted a big magnifying glass on an airplane?...
• Commented on Mad Men on Sesame Street
  Old-timey Sesame Street seemed to parody types rather than whole shows (Guy Smiley, for example), which I think gave a them a more flexible platform for the sketches. Anonymous @ 12, I have two words for you: Monsterpiece. Theater....
• Commented on Can't Take It With You - A Landmark Muslims in America Photo Exhibit
  Wow, Dhalgren, you really turned into a square after leaving Bellona....
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  If a totalitarian Christian theocracy arose somewhere in the world and forced all of its female citizens to wear a cross — on a necklace, or on a charm bracelet, say — would you try to tell American Christian women...
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Arkizzle@268 — Be careful you don't make the same mistake some of the anti-Islam posters here are making. Christianity doesn't "aim" to do anything, because it is not a single-minded thing. It has no will. There are only Christians and...