Hal Eckhart

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• Commented on USB grenade flash drive
  Probably not. I was prevented (pre 9/11) from taking a glue "gun" on a plane at Midway. It bore more resemblance to a Jetson's ray gun than any pistol I've ever seen....
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  Senator Al makes me proud to be a Minnesnowtan!...
• Commented on Jesus in caked-on cooking grease
  Can I has Jeezburger?...
• Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
  Jeebus. It's going to take more than a unicorn chaser to wash that crap out of my head....
• Commented on Funny commercial for Microsoft's Songsmith
  Here's an example of this tool in use. Fair warning though, you will need a unicorn chaser for your ears....
• Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
  From the Daily Kos: Some have questioned whether Palin "deserved" this prank. Kossack novelle puts it best: She deserved it for sitting down with no pre-conditions....
• Commented on Detroit suburb takes on military contractor over alleged $2B paid to Saudi prince
  Don't forget that this guy is such a close friend of the Bush family that Dubya named him Bandar Bush....
• Commented on Geoducks: the world's weirdest clams
  How can you possibly mention geoducks without linking to Joey Skaggs? One of the all time great hoaxes by a genius hoaxster....
• Commented on MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC
  Actually, they didn't totally discredit the idea of buying music at all. They just discredited the idea of buying music with DRM. It's not exactly a surprise that M$ is evil and stupid, but it's hard to imagine how they...
• Commented on Jacob Holdt: American Pictures 1970-1975
  Jacob Holdt has an enormous site with a gallery of 20,000 of his pictures at http://www.american-pictures.com/...
• Commented on MIT prof's notorious talk on How to Talk
  This is a great talk. But there's a more recent and much nicer quality video (in segments) on the same topic by the same guy here: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html...
• Commented on Anonymous Message to Pastafarianism / Leaked FSM video
  Here's another hilarious "anonymous" video, this one featuring Ralph Nader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIFEceopAUI...
• Commented on Time's Joe Klein shoves his foot in his gob on NSA wiretapping
  Klein is a "liberal Democrat" in much the same way that Joe Lieberman is a liberal Democrat. In his article, he accuses Democrats and their leadership of being weak on national security, based on nothing more than lies he was...