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• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  I'm looking out my living room window at the lights of the container ships mentioned above as I type this. While there are more than there were two years ago, Singapore is constantly ringed by these ships. 'Secretive' and 'sleepy'?...
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• Commented on Nanoengineers created blackest-ever black metal
  Pure, true black? NOM NOM NOM! Still waiting for a pure black textile, tho....
• Commented on Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips
  One simple and so far overlooked explanation as to why m and n have degraded so badly could be that those keys just weren't created equal. Spent a summer working at a plastics factory (third shift, depressing as hell, another...
• Commented on Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips
  pH definitely plays a part. My laptop, below the keyboard and a portion of the (plastic) steering wheel in my car have lost their coloring where I rest my right palm the most. And don't even get me started about...
• Commented on Analyzing Bush based on his favorite painting
  @#9- Horse thieves were not petty thieves. That was a hanging offense. I'm just sayin'....
• Commented on Scan of 1979 book of the future
  Gah! Now I see the Pointess Museum as the Pointless Museum. Must dial back the prozac!...
• Commented on Analyzing Bush based on his favorite painting
  I always thought that was the great thing about visual art-- that it could act as a catalyst for your own imagination. You see a man on a horse, riding frantically up an incline. Other horsemen are -- following? Chasing?...
• Commented on Analyzing Bush based on his favorite painting
  I always thought that was the great thing about visual art-- that it could act as a catalyst for your own imagination. You see a man on a horse, riding frantically up an incline. Other horsemen are -- following? Chasing?...
• Commented on Scan of 1979 book of the future
  At first glance I read The Pointess Museum as the Pointless Museum. I think I need to up my prozac....
• Commented on Shepard Fairey's Obama poster
  @22- If you say you work for progressive campaigns, I won't argue. Though I notice you don't say liberal, or even Democratic campaigns. To quote Niels Bohr, an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes which can...
• Commented on Shepard Fairey's Obama poster
  #19: "...problematic for the campaigns message of one nation and unity given the the Right is already overly concerned about the culture wars..." This comment has so many problems, I hardly know where to begin. 1) Anyone so rabidly right-wing...
• Commented on Isabella Rossellini's bug porn
  Not quite factually correct, that post. In still #2 she's a snail. Slugs and snails are hermaphrodites with both male and female sexual organs. When they mate, each snail will fertilise the other, and each snail will then produce offpsring....
• Commented on Filial piety: letting your father-in-law nurse at your breast
  Rumors of Haw Par Villa's defunctitude are slightly exaggerated, at least in Singapore. Daily tours from 9 to 7, and free admission. :)...
• Commented on Anton LaVey's Black House now condos
  From Wikipeida: "Unlike Theistic Satanism, which is rejected by the Church of Satan as Christian heresy rather than Satanism, it [LaVeyan Satanism] does not literally worship Satan, but rather uses "Satan" as a symbol for people's natural inner desires."...
• Commented on I Pirate Music t-shirt
  It's just a shirt everybody....
• Commented on Nextwave Agents of Hate: merciless attack on underwear pervert comics
  meh....
• Commented on Radio volunteer sets station on fire over playlist dispute
  "He seemed like somebody who was young, enthusiastic, had a life, was a professional and was educated," Dickens said. That describes half the crazies in Austin. God I miss that town....
• Commented on Has Hillary Clinton seen the video for the Golden Earring song she plays?
  #52 dutch muslim: Just curious, but how would you know he/she was American? They look an awful lot like Canadians, I hear....
• Commented on Cyberpunk bronzes of Christopher Conte
  I think it has more to do with digits that could pierce your flesh being creepy....
• Commented on Southern racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black"
  Takuan, just my opinion, but when you try to steer a conversation towards a predetermined if worthy outcome, the *best* you can hope for is a bunch of politically correct lip service masking the antipathy of the prodded. Is racism...
• Commented on Defining a perfect blogging tool
  What Clumpy says is true, but I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. I learned more about html fromblogging with blogger than I ever would have otherwise, being a non-techie....
• Commented on 500 Euro notes not welcome here
  ..."not-made-of-paper stripe" sounds like a security thread. I remember when they were introduced in the US in the late '90s. My brother the no-longer-juvenile delinquent made a hobby of pulling out the thread without otherwise damaging the note....
• Commented on What happens to blog-posts after you click Publish
  Wow. Franz, you just may be the universe's way of telling me I'm on to something....
• Commented on What happens to blog-posts after you click Publish
  Teresa rocks :) But I actually got over the statcounter madness a couple years ago. Decided if I really wanted people to read what I write, I had to write about what's important to me, not what technorati thinks is...
• Commented on What happens to blog-posts after you click Publish
  Actually, I think my blog would have a different infographic: 1. Click publish. 2. Black hole opens. 3. Giant sucking sound. 4. Repeat. :)...
• Commented on Donkey Kong monster truck
  I prefer the squishy foam ones. Cheap, disposable, fit any eardrum, readily available at any building supply store, and they come in a variety of colors to match your earwax....
• Commented on Tussaud's bad wax heads up for auction
  I also vote Kelsey Grammer for #2. I thought #3 was Dennis Miller and #4, Victoria Beckham....
• Commented on Donkey Kong monster truck
  Monster truck rallies are teh goodness. But don't forget to bring ear plugs for the little one, as the decibels can almost literally reach ear-splitting levels....