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• Commented on Visit to the home of a steampunk house-restorer
  #1: I partially agree to you, and imma let you finish, but there is lots and lots of Steampunk stuff out there that probably won't even last the next 12 months, you remember this wristwatch thing Cory posted a couple...
• Commented on Art installation celebrates decades of surf culture
  Surf nazis must die! ... had to get that out of my system...
• Commented on BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Paul's because he might be "al Qaeda operative"
  #1: You should read the article again. Cory doesn't compare being prevented from shooting photos with getting blown up in the subway. Rather than that, he states that the main damage is being done by the victims themselves. And I...
• Commented on EFF takes on Volomedia's stupid attempt to patent podcasting
  Actually, the patent has already been granted in the end of july. Ars Technica ran an article about this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/podcasting-patented-after-2003-application-approved-by-uspto.ars #2: I'll just take the liberty of citating some sentences from the article: "While Navar says that the company has...
• Commented on Pretending and games, design, commerce and life
  I'd like mine to be a ridiculously complicated, beautifully engraved steam machine with lots of levers, winds and push buttons. All unlabelled, of course....
• Commented on Rushkoff on writing for a new alternate reality game
  #4: Aren't you talking about the Illuminati Board Game now ?...
• Commented on The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight Awareness
  Disgusting malevolent leech would certainly express it even better. You might even add "scum" on top of it, since this guy belongs to a certain group of people society would be better off without. Btw, Rockpapershotgun mentioned it as well:...
• Commented on National Organization for Women backs Net Neutrality
  2: Don't rely on them commie feminism propaganda, son. Aside from that, I dout that anyone believes into the self-regulation of the free market economy anymore. Save the incurable blockheads....
• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  #8: Better replace all the bibles with SF-stories. Might bring people back to actually think about useful stuff....
• Commented on Robot can hop over 25-foot fences
  /counting the time 'til the first one thinks of sticking a bomb on those cute little robots....
• Commented on Cold-brew coffee maker
  #5: I think those things are called "freedom press" in America now ;)...
• Commented on American copyright lobby attacks Canadian politicians for supporting balanced copyright
  @ #1, #2: American lobbyists should stop. Why make it longer than necessary?...
• Commented on 1945 patent for a one-legged hopping tank
  I wonder how those things would have coped with the recoil from the guns ......
• Commented on HOWTO Handcraft an Achingly Self-Referential Virtual Commodity Fetish Object
  This is hilarious. The best part is the book-shaped token enduser license agreement part which prohibits you from actually reading the book....
• Commented on EVE Online creates exotic financial instrument to combat gold-farming
  @7: There is no way a "normal" user would be able to earn the amount of ingame money needed to buy the PLEXs. In EVE, the process of leveling one's character up is not by grinding or doing special quests...
• Commented on Profiteering torture teachers modeled US techniques after those of Chinese Communists
  My my, the "american dream" surely has changed during the last couple of years ......
• Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
  They should attach a handle to those things and sell them as cups. I bet there'd be quite some people that would like to drink out of the one or the other celebrity ^_^...
• Commented on Germany to build the Internet Berlin Wall
  @#6, Joshp: You might call it a side effect of the recent strengthening of christian conservative parties and politicians. Ursula von der Leyen, who is one of the main contributors of this law, belongs to the CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union...
• Commented on Ikea's free tack-hammer assistant
  This is all very interesting, but the real question is: Will it blend?...
• Commented on Cold dead hand of Frank Herbert reaches up from grave, stabs Dune Second Life megafans in the back
  Man, I seriously hope Second Life goes down for good one day. The idea behind it is good, but the execution is terrible and, frankly, I am especially pissed of by the furries you see EVERYwhere. Maybe if SE ceases...
• Commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
  Streisand effect, anyone? You'd think that most companies should've understood by now that trying to get something out of the web just has the opposite effect ... The "professional" eBook business is still in its infancy - and if they...
• Commented on Amnesty UK's International Women's Day campaign this weekend
  Is it just me or does it really seem like the UK is going downhill on 3rd world country level in a really fast pace? I mean, warrantless harassing and arresting of photographers, cctv everywhere, wiretapping, dna databases where over...
• Commented on Two angry camels in a car
  "Two angry camels in a car" ... sounds like the title of a cool B-movie ^^...
• Commented on People in love with objects
  companion cube, anyone?...