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• Commented on What's the deal with the 250 mini-earthquakes at Yellowstone?
  Maybe the big, unspecified disaster in Cormac McCarthy's The Road was the Yellowstone "supervolcano" erupting. That's a little spooky to think about....
• Commented on White Supremacists Plotted to Assasinate Obama, Behead Black Children
  If there's one thing that I find reassuring, it's that most white supremacists are probably too stupid to actually carry out such plans....
• Commented on Reason on why Republicans need to get their clocks cleaned in 2008
  I placed an early vote for Obama yesterday (and for Rick Noriega, the Democratic challenger to Senator John Cornyn [R-TX]). I know that the odds of Obama winning Texas are slim to none, but it feels pretty good that, for...
• Commented on Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved
  I won't be too surprised if I turn on the tv news within the next couple of days and see a news conference with McCain saying that he's dropping Palin from the ticket. I have to admit that I would...
• Commented on Manga guide to databases
  I like the idea of instructional manga and comics, but why do they have to have fairies and cutesy bullshit like that?...
• Commented on How to find neighbors who think they are registered but probably aren't
  This might be a dumb question, but is the Adam Savage who submitted this the one from Mythbusters?...
• Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
  Anyone who believes that the earth is about 6,000 years old simply does not have the intellectual seriousness necessary to be anywhere near the Oval Office. Such a person does not live in the same universe that I do. Is...
• Commented on Pinhole skull-camera
  Wow. That's fantastically macabre. I love the picture that was taken with it....
• Commented on Sarah Palin: spammer and digital secrecy scofflaw.
  I find Palin's comment that the Iraq war represents "God's will" to be rather worrying. I don't think that it's a great leap from that to "God told me that we need to nuke Tehran" or "God told me that...
• Commented on Large Hadron Collider hasn't sucked us into a black hole (yet)
  I so badly wanted the LHC to open up a portal to another dimension through which some kind of horrible H.P. Lovecraft beastie could enter our world. I'm so disappointed. :(...
• Commented on Electropop remix of the oldest Japanese song ever
  #3: WTF? Japan is part of the world, and the oldest song originating in the part of the world known as Japan is therefore the oldest Japanese song in the world. What's so difficult about that?...
• Commented on Electropop remix of the oldest Japanese song ever
  Most excellent. Anything that feeds my 8-bit/chiptune/vg music obsession is always welcome....
• Commented on Mad Magazine's War on Bush collection
  Does this book include any material by Sergio Aragones? I enjoy his MAD work a lot, and I also like Groo and his other comic books a lot....
• Commented on Discuss a different sf author every day during the Science Fiction Message Board's Author August
  I would refer anyone who argues that Burroughs "couldn't write for shit" to Richard A. Lupoff's excellent [i]Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs[/i]....
• Commented on Discuss a different sf author every day during the Science Fiction Message Board's Author August
  I have a lot of fondness for Edgar Rice Burroughs (even though some of the Tarzan books are super-racist), so I'm always glad to see him get attention....
• Commented on Brides demand breast-surgery for their bridesmaids
  Xopher #42: Heh, good one! I forgot about Godzilla vs. Hedorah (or, as I call it, "Godzilla vs. the Shit Monster"). :)...
• Commented on Brides demand breast-surgery for their bridesmaids
  Anyone who makes these kind of demands of their bridesmaids must have a really ugly soul....
• Commented on Brides demand breast-surgery for their bridesmaids
  Yikes! This goes beyond being a "bridezilla." I would say this is more like "bride-Ghidorah" or something else. It's stuff like this that makes me a little allergic to weddings in general....
• Commented on As price of fuel soars, so does a dirigible renaissance?
  I wonder if riding a Zepplin would be a more gentle experience than an airliner. I once got really airsick on a commuter plane that kept circling the San Luis Obispo airport during a storm, and it was one of...
• Commented on Ford dealership uses bigoted radio ads to sell cars
  I really hope that Keiffe doesn't start a promotion like this: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/buy-a-car-get-a-free-handgun/...
• Commented on Ben Stein: "science leads you to killing people"
  It really irritates me when people thoughtlessly attack science like Ben Stein has started doing recently. Science can be put to bad uses (and, of course, so can religion), but I see the most basic function of science as a...
• Commented on Argentinian "gnome" scaring the bejezus out of kids
  Here's the perfect audio accompaniment for this story, "The Gnome" from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VMu5vi_7A8M If you like creepy gnomes, be sure to watch Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now....
• Commented on Vintage kid tattoo books for sale
  The thing on the cover on the left looks a lot like the big robot from the old Japanese alien invasion movie The Mysterians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians http://www.monsterlandtoys.com/godzilla/yujikaida-mysterians.jpg...
• Commented on King Corn/Count Smokula
  Nom nom nom. I has many corms. http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ihasmanycorms1.jpg Sorry, couldn't resist....
• Commented on Harper's Weekly excerpt
  Why is it that we need pubic lice anyway?...
• Commented on American Manga: Wired's downloadable mini-comic explains the history of the form
  I meant "left-to-right," not "right-to-left."...
• Commented on American Manga: Wired's downloadable mini-comic explains the history of the form
  Ack! I've been reading manga for over ten years, but I've [I]never[/I] been able to get used to reading "unflipped" manga right-to-left. I agree with Maggie that doing a "manga" that was originally written in English is pretentious. If I...
• Commented on Creepy Michael Jackson fright-mask
  Anyone else think that it looks a little like Barbara Steele in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960)? http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/54/54_images/54_steele_basacloseup.jpg http://photos.bravenet.com/272/478/925/3/1B28C6E7E7.jpg...