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• Commented on Best bit from Harpers Weekly
  I believe we've seen similar art on Boing Boing in the past. Ahh, found it: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/15/crazy-sculptures-of-.html...
• Commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
  Also, "There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual...
• Commented on The Narc Who Got High: What In The Heck Is The Big Deal?
  Nutt Sacked, Reformers Testy...
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  I see that everyone else has already jumped on the ridiculous. And just to take another shot at those sweet aesthetics, those pictures are to sell the idea, the real deal would look more like a factory. See container farming:...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  Any extra smokers get in insurance payments they make up for in too dead to collect social security....
• Commented on Copyright enforcement versus privacy
  When you call it stealing you concede the argument to their terms. They don't stop having the song when you make a copy. It's unauthorized duplication, no more, no less....
• Commented on Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence
  This post demonstrates how the all seeing eye of JVT sees you....
• Commented on In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor.
  Everyone agrees it was better when they were institutionalized to be abused behind closed doors where we didn't have to see it. The demand for such ignorance is just resurfacing as barred jails rather than white padded rooms....
• Commented on Warren Ellis: "The future is small."
  I hope that by the time we are at that level, we can pack and make useful data in much smaller spaces....
• Commented on It's not easy being a tamale street vendor in Los Angeles
  I used to love the late night suicide dogs being sold outside of the clubs. They weren't too suicide-y for me, as I'd spent 4 years building my tolerance in Tijuana....
• Commented on US Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as "Security Headaches"
  A little disappointed that the "full spectrum" only goes "from an all-out blockade to doing nothing at all." What about an all out subsidization of social networking media? They could offer classes on responsible use and encourage use to improve...
• Commented on Anger and the science of decision-making
  I was under the impression that rational expectations was just a general theory for estimating what a person might do in a given situation, and the specifics could be ferreted out later when more information was available. And that we,...
• Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
  Farrah Fawcett dies and goes to heaven. God says, "You were a good woman, I will give you one wish." Farrah says, "I want all the children of the world to be safe." And so, God kills Micheal Jackson....
• Commented on Reverse-engineering SSNs from publicly available data
  I remember seeing this list of the worst events for privacy a couple years back: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/ten_worst_priva.html...
• Commented on Junk science and cocaine scares
  The blood of the ghosts isn't on the hands of the users. It's on the hands of those that support criminalization....
• Commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  My favorite ludicrous plan is Globus Cassus....
• Commented on Billboards versus the attention economy: critical essay from 1960
  I honestly was not making an attempted threadjack. Just trying to illustrate that not all offenses to people's aesthetic sense should be regulated into oblivion....
• Commented on Billboards versus the attention economy: critical essay from 1960
  How is this different from opposing gay couples because you might see them together in public?...
• Commented on Bus tours of AIG executives' homes
  Remember when a small Danish newspaper received massive death threats and riots raged throughout the middle east over a cartoon of Mohammad? Wasn't it largely believed that the local governments were fanning the flames to the best of their abilities...
• Commented on Explanation of the Uptick rule
  He pays interest on the borrowed share....
• Commented on Shirky: "What will replace newspapers?" is a plea to not be living through a revolution
  It's not so much a revolution as a decaying corpse. And the mushrooms growing on it are delicious and give plenty of nifty insights. One thing that I look forward to as the quality journalists migrate to the interwebs. Is...
• Commented on Happy Pi Day!
  Pi day is happy birthday to me!!! I taught my 2 year old to recognize π a couple weeks ago for the fun of it (it's way fun, trust me). Also, I'm a jerk and like writing the date yyyy,...
• Commented on Searching for an Honest Bank
  I had a good experience working for a local community bank. Left, though, to be a stay at home parent/grad student....
• Commented on Cyborg bugs
  Would you like to know more?...
• Commented on Biography of the last Chinese eunuch
  Perhaps one day there will be a book about the last woman that was "circumsized."...
• Commented on It's on: Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux-powered GPS
  Screw that, too lame. I'm applying for a patent for the use of vague patents as a means to sue other companies for supplemental revenue....
• Commented on Christian Bale takes David to the Dentist (video mashup)
  Now you can roll your own! http://www.ugo.com/movies/christian-bale-soundboard/...
• Commented on World crisis charts fed into Songsmith
  What's wrong with porn?...
• Commented on Petition to make clean water a human right
  Watch out, this is the line of reasoning that turned into the Terri Schiavo travesty....
• Commented on Expert responds to Brit politico who swore to make more copyright despite admitted facts
  I'm guessing his "moral case" is an extension of the if value; property fallacy. Also, so happy to have fingerless gloves for typing, mousing and gaming this Winter. My fingers get cold!...