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• Commented on Try the beef in "Wikipedia flavor"
  I've heard it tastes pretty good (citation needed)....
• Commented on Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
  Full Throttle?...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I hate it. It looks like all the Big Media pages now. (Plus, since I go through this via Google Reader's RSS -> Next function, I get to see the stupid links I don't care about because I've already read...
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  My money is on them prosecuting with intent for someone to rule the law stupid, and they considered this as good a chance as any. How else do you get them to call off a stupid law?...
• Commented on Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads
  I'm actually looking forward to seeing this abused by the first spammer/malware guy who can figure out how to fake an accusation letter, and starts spamming the companies with accusations against the people who passed this bill in the first...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  #10: All of the things on there are phrased as: "I heard somewhere that.." or "I don't know if it's true, but I heard that..." or "I'm not saying it's true, but it would be horrible if..." And if the...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  By way of response, I have registered TheGuyWhoMadeThatWebsiteAboutGlennBeckKilledAndAteSevenBabies.com Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?...
• Commented on American copyright lobby attacks Canadian politicians for supporting balanced copyright
  Heck, American lobbyists should stop meddling around in their own country's business....
• Commented on How a one-hour meeting can ruin a maker's day
  I'm currently in a place where I have a meeting every other week, sometimes less. No regular meetings. I could actually use more. I'm losing the team feeling. But once upon a time I had three calls every day, and...
• Commented on Cat burglar falls off three-storey building across from my bedroom window
  There is, I think, a large difference between advocating breaking someone's leg for committing a crime and being pleased that, due to the criminals own actions, he broke his own leg. Assuming that he was a criminal, that is. That...
• Commented on Ginormo Sword: a hack-and-slash commentary on video games
  As someone above points out -- the moment you turn on PvP the shallowness is gone -- Which is the entire point of an MMO; you're engaging other players, and I don't know how many AIs are deeper than a...
• Commented on Scientists search for a 3-foot, spitting earthworm
  It's true! I fought them in both World of Warcraft AND Guild Wars!...
• Commented on Rushkoff: "Google's War On The PC"
  I recall reading somewhere that the Google OS is designed for netbooks -- I.e., for places where you DON'T have (or want!) the epic uber power of a desktop machine. And I can agree with them there. If I'm buying...
• Commented on Sony patent for any object as vidgame controller
  Wait. Sony just filed a patent for technology previously demonstrated by Microsoft?...
• Commented on FBI terrorist interrogator on the uselessness of torture and the efficacy of cookies
  I'm for prosecuting the people who actually did the torture. How else are they going to learn that "I was under orders" is no excuse?...
• Commented on Life Inc
  I found this interesting, as far as I got in it. There's this new invention called 'paragraphs' that makes reading lengthy text much easier. You should look into it....
• Commented on Reaching for the Apocalypse
  Also: Who wants to be the person who sat on a potentially life-threatening bit of news rather than act on it? You can defend "It wasn't as bad as we thought" (with "BECAUSE WE WARNED PEOPLE") far better than you...
• Commented on Science fiction's contributions to science terminology
  I think I dislike the implication that science fiction isn't part of science. I also seem to recall reading that some form of positron/positronic/et cetera was initiated by Asimov....
• Commented on Killing BadWare via a Community
  OpenDNS looked interesting up until I found out it overrode the "No such page" codes -- then straight to the 'badware' trash with it....
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  To add a slightly different angle to the perception: I got to explain to someone just the other day, that the Nifty Free Tool that they found online is actually the moneycost variety to corporate customers, which as employees for...
• Commented on High-resolution Tetris
  Make this 8+ player and suddenly it could actually be fun....
• Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
  I'm pretty sure making a bomb threat is illegal, actually. Placing an object that says "BOMB" on it near an airport wouldn't strain the imagination to be considered a bomb threat. And, let's say some passerby saw it -- not...
• Commented on Bike with band name sticker shuts down airport
  This would be, I think, one of the few legitimate uses of "We can't take that chance". If someone finds a package that identifies itself as an explosive at an airport (or the grand central station, or whatnot), then I...
• Commented on Real Deal bush-hats made from Brazilian truck-tarps
  So it's what, a knock-off Tilley hat?...
• Commented on M&M's printed with faces
  I'd like to order some emblazoned with my first initial -- M -- do you think they'd allow that?...
• Commented on Joel Stein: "Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention"
  Darnit, aelfscine -- now we're all vulnerable to Windigo Psychosis! THE CURSE HAS SPREAD!...
• Commented on Religion and nanotechnology
  Honestly, I don't think this is a causal relationship. I would see America's love of science-fiction to be more at fault here. Terminator, The Matrix, That One Episode of Star Trek, Jurassic Park ... not nanites in particular, but there's...
• Commented on Science fiction buttons
  The URL for this page says "Science Fiction Butt". I approve....
• Commented on I made this, you play this, we are enemies -- the weirdest goddamned game I've ever played
  I've played the philosophy version of this game before. Which means I've now played to completion TWO versions of this game. And someday I may know why....
• Commented on Pope Benedict: teh internets are teh suck
  As a citizen of the Internet, I read the summary of what the Pope had to say and must admit -- yep, sounds about right. Read the actual article and it didn't sound any worse. The title this is posted...