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• Commented on Wintertime on Mars: lonely Phoenix Lander, blanketed in carbon dioxide frost
  I thought the song would be Elton John & Bernie Taupin's Rocket Man, with its line, "Mars ain't no place to raise your kids/Matter of fact, it's cold as Hell"....
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  What makes you think that the majority of Brits won't agree with the BNP's aims? I see you resolutely squirming away from explaining, disowning or apologising for the rabble-rousing exageration that I keep quoting. Yet again, you post something for...
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  [..]a population schooled to passively accept what they're served by the government. You really don't see how insulting you're being to the British readers of Boingboing, do you?...
• Commented on 10 Million Bats, and David Attenborough
  Actually, at least one too many "actually's" there. Actually....
• Commented on 10 Million Bats, and David Attenborough
  A US ton is actually 2000 lbs, so a metric tonne at around 2200 lbs is actually heavier....
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  What makes you think that the majority of Brits won't agree with the BNP's aims? My point is that I'm British, and most of my friends are British, and a bunch of the commenters on this thread are British and...
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  I think Rob's translator module is on the blink. It's not a British English phrase I'm aware of....
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  What makes you think that the majority of Brits won't agree with the BNP's aims? I do wish you'd stop setting yourself up as a greater authority on Britain than the people who live here, Antinous. Here in a moderate-sized...
• Commented on Rare photos of a North Korea amusement arcade
  It's somebody who moved while the camera shutter clicked. It's probably dimmer in there than the picture makes it seem, and the shutter speed was dropped to compensate....
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  Anonymous, your ennui is getting in the way of our panicking. Could you just sit in a corner and not bother anyone until you fade away, while the rest of try not to fade away? Thanks....
• Commented on Ralph Lauren, at it again
  What's with all the scare quotes in Cory's article? Has the Guardian given up on italics?...
• Commented on Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong
  Kiloseven, before you do the math, you should do the science. Although CO2 is about 3.5% of the greenhouse gases (most of the rest is water vapour, as you say), that is not to say that all greenhouse gases have...
• Commented on The Demons' Night-Parade: Splendid Japanese yokai (mythic monster) scroll found on eBay
  Is the Hyakki Yako based on a natural event of some kind? Does anyone know?...
• Commented on Boing Boing Moderation Policy
  I'm not sure whether this is a technical problem, perhaps it's just a design one, but I don't quite see the point of the Recent Comments box on a particular thread bearing just the recent comments for that thread. I...
• Commented on How Safe is the HPV Vaccine?
  But men are part of the chain of infection; women aren't being infected with HPV out of thin air. So even if it makes no difference to male mortality, vaccinating men could still save lives, especially if female coverage is...
• Commented on The magic of Japanese space-saving products
  ”ママ！　トイレ　いきたい！” "Mama! Toire ikitai!" "Mom! (I) want to go to the toilet!" Not surprising, really....
• Commented on Watch What You Say About Welsh
  Surely you only need to pay if you go over the Severn Bridge, i.e. if you're driving there from the south of England, not for any other part of the long border between Wales and England?...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  Man, the Selenites have totally got WMDs! What do you think caused all those craters?...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  The day Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, he opens hostilities on the Selenites! Oh, irony!...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I daresay I shall get used to it, but my initial impression is that it's a shame you've lost that all lovely white space, and I really hate the massive blocks of black at the top of the page; it...
• Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
  This is going to be, uh, nice when they can put it on a Predator instead of needing a Hercules to haul it around. Spot a terrorist, zap a terrorist....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  Failix, there are other film-makers. If we cinephiles lose what few movies this man has left in him, then it's a small price to pay for the rule of law. But I'd rather live in a world without any movies...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  Ugly Canuck, the movie Polanski made is The Pianist. The Piano is the one that takes place in 19th century New Zealand. Also, with drugs and alcohol in the victim a rapist doesn't need to threaten violence. Plus, you know,...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  It's in the nature of things that Polanski knows a lot of people in Hollywood, and he has probably been spending a not-inconsiderable amount of energy in the last 30 years bringing all his influence to bear to make sure...
• Commented on Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
  So, they couldn't have taken a toe-print?...
• Commented on Liar: YA suspense novel that elevates the unreliable narrator to a new level
  Glad to see they changed the cover to something a little more representative....
• Commented on Tweet (#4463974099)
  I am pretty quiet about being a Mac user, as it happens. I got sick of how merely mentioning the fact would invariably cause some unstable PC-user in the room to fulminate about the evils of Mac-users for hours....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Any other British readers reminded of Viz comic's The Bottom Inspectors?...
• Commented on Dead cell-phones: suspense movie cop-outs
  Didn't Mulder's phone keep showing him text messages to go and kill someone once? Then there was the time IRL that Mossad rigged someone's cell phone with explosives so that when he answered (and they confirmed it was him) it...
• Commented on Daily photos of a healthy cervix for one month
  Well, that's not something I expected to see today. Objectively, though, I have to say that it is a healthy looking specimen. Only one question I have: what's the orientation of the picture? Is the top of the picture 'north',...