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• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  Kids have been targeting those that are different since before recorded history. We had no WWW or cartoons with mature themes on TV when I was in middle school - we still picked on others (and given an excuse they...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I think it would be much more interesting to get them to attempt to draw maps of other countries and states. You could start with something easy like Italy and then throw in something like Scotland or Siberia. Limiting this...
• Commented on Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) on "the value of musical sharing"
  @WIBBLY: Irony or case in point? I also can not hear what Mr smith has to say on the value of sharing because: "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."...
• Commented on Julia Nunes: "God Only Knows" on the Uke
  This is a really powerful demonstration of the way that technology has concentrated many hundreds of thousands dollars worth of equipment into something anyone with a bit of talent and a dream can afford. Good luck to her....
• Commented on When is it OK to eat moldy food?
  Sipping on a tasty mix of fungus mixed with hops and malted barley. Ahh refreshing. Wait is yeast a mold? Better crack another one just in case it's going to kill me......
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: an overview
  It doesnt seem so different from the English approach to the natives when they possessed Australia. Or for that matter all that different from the approach Europeans used in taking North America. It doesnt make it right. I'm just not...
• Commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  If these figures have been normalized to 2009 dollars then they are truly scary. If they are in historical dollars then the Louisiana Purchase is probably the most frightening of all. BTW does the Marshall Plan include the rest of...
• Commented on Kevin Kelly reviews The Deniers
  I don't feel qualified to enter this debate, I haven't studied theology. But since a number of people have commented that they don't feel qualified to comment on the science and then gone on to comment anyway, I wont let...
• Commented on Japanese Surgical Mask Culture
  They've being doing it forever in Japan, but in Hong Kong (where I live) I dont recall seeing a mask in public before SARS. During SARS though, 90% of the population was walking around in masks and a miasma of...
• Commented on Electronic Frontiers Australia spokesman receives death threat for opposing the Great Firewall of Australia
  @AEON, No SX also has a direct path to Hawaii from New Zealand and even if it didn't it affects only ISPs in Australia....
• Commented on China's neo-con nationalist youngsters go online
  So there are some chinese people who are proud of their nation and get offended when anyone dares to suggest that there might be something wrong with it? Phikus has demonstrated (granted less violently then the examples quoted in the...
• Commented on Debunking the climate-change denialists' talking-points
  The really disturbing thing is that the "debate" on global warming has become a religious one. When a debate descends to cries and counter-cries of heresy, it stops being a debate....