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• Commented on Cartoonist Lucy Knisley's comic strip about a 7-day-fast
  Right there with you, Boba. Very cute comic, but I made the mistake of reading it before eating all day. I don't suggest doing that....
• Commented on Flickr set of behind the scenes photos of Obama watching election results
  What an awesome view of election night - Props to Obama for releasing all of his flickr photos under a Creative Commons license....
• Commented on Banana clip tray makes ice bullets
  This would go perfectly with that vodka in the bottle shaped like an ak-47 http://www.vodkakalashnikov.com/home.htm...
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  I wasn't trying to insinuate that it was a horrible thing, or look down on anyone. I've just never seen sellers being given a hard time here in LA, even when I've seen alcohol being sold at stands on street...
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  @#37 You obviously haven't been peddled to by Mexicans on every street corner with flowers or bags of oranges or whatever else they have in hand in LA. It's worse in the San Fernando Valley, I've seen booths everywhere selling...
• Commented on Claymation zombie film
  That blood smeared bow and smile at the end was adorable!...
• Commented on Wild monkey loose in Japanese subway eludes police
  I've read that monkey sightings are on the rise in Tokyo. Just a day later, there's monkey commotion in Harajuku: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/operation-capture-monkey-in-harajuku/ I think they're mass migrating from Nikko in search of better hot springs. As for the screaming it's hard...
• Commented on Wild monkey loose in Japanese subway eludes police
  @ #6 Pink Tentacle has some cute pictures and a video of the excitement: "あ！さるが逃げました!" http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/video-monkey-on-the-loose-in-shibuya-station/...
• Commented on Roomba with animatronic chimp head
  Jeez-Haven't laughed this hard in a long time, my stomach hurts. Creepy fantastic! I vote this the best roomba hack ever....
• Commented on Sound of jello wobbling
  "Jelly entices us into a strange but compelling world of organic ***." Very much something I expect to see on the back of a pron flick. ...I can't stop giggling at that noise! I think I'll turn this a ringtone...
• Commented on Californian drivers, put your phones down
  I welcome this law. There is a disproportionately large amount of cellphone wielding reckless drivers here in LA. If someone is being an idiot on the road, 80% it's been someone yapping away....
• Commented on Video of "Japanese Only" signs in Japan
  (ack, lost a long comment and writing again) The xenophobia in japan has been getting worse, from what I can tell. There was the recent raping of a 14 year old girl by a US Marine in Okinawa that they're...
• Commented on Jake von Slatt's video response to steampunk monologue
  Tell me I'm not the only one excited over Datamancer and Von Slatt being at maker faire this year. (Steampunk singularity in the Diamond Age come 2015? Does that mean we're all going to be having lots of tantric sex?)...
• Commented on To do in SF - Tibet rally on April 8, Richard Gere, Desmond Tutu
  That billboard is awesome, I wish I were up in the bay area to see it. For those interested, I noticed studentsforafreetibet.org had an sms alert system set up for the torch relay in sf: "SMS Alerts for 4/9 Text...
• Commented on Zaphod Beeblebrox-inspired teddy bears from Douglas Adams fan-club
  @11 Those sound highly improbable....
• Commented on Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to domestic military operations
  @138 I didn't realize there was any sort of optimism in that statement. I honestly don't think it's a problem that can be solved(easily or at all). I was implying the vote was hacked, and that solving the ignorance of...
• Commented on Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to domestic military operations
  Oh man, reading/comment latency for the grand ultimate loss. @Nick D #90, I completely agree with this...
• Commented on Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to domestic military operations
  @Takuan Is it true that the majority of Americans have really been made to believe that Iran is our biggest threat? It just seems like such a stretch for people to jump on, propaganda or no. I think one of...
• Commented on Science project smolders on subway, panic ensues
  @#2 Heh. For full effect, it really should have started smoldering in an elevator(partially because it was a model of an elevator). Extra credit if he put models of 'terrorized' citizens within the model, as well....
• Commented on Scientific embroidery
  I like this a lot. It gets a lot of information explained in a simple way....
• Commented on Social worker befriends mugger
  It brought to mind the same scene in Peaceful Warrior for me too, #68 There's also a similar Buddhist story (it's in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, but I don't remember it's origin) of a Monk and a Thief, where the...
• Commented on Tibet: nearly 1,000 jailed in Lhasa, Dalai Lama offers to resign
  There are pictures of the victims: (extremely graphic) http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/article.php?id=1337...
• Commented on Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows
  I just want to speak up in a way that is heard. I wish I were in a position of power....
• Commented on Tibet: more deaths, injuries in Lhasa as crackdown grows
  Not to be a cynic, I for one will do what little I can, but do you really think the US (or Canadian) governments I might petition would really take a stand? And do you think the Olympic committee is...
• Commented on Tibetan protests in Lhasa turn violent as Chinese forces crack down
  http://www.rfa.org/english/tibetan/2008/03/14/tibet_protest/ From radio free asia, atleast 80 Tibetans are dead, they're busing off and shooting innocents: “We saw two dead at Ramoche temple, two in the garden, two at the Ganden printing house, and those Tibetans who went to take...
• Commented on StormWorm botnet lashes out at security researchers
  It's the internet's very own little lich king....
• Commented on Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge.
  I've been in the general LA area for many of it's huge fires now. The 2003 fire came a mile away from where I was staying at the time and scorched my partner's backyard. I think it's unfair to say,...
• Commented on Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge.
  The smoke and smell is unbelievable. There's another google map hack put out by the latimes that has frequently updated information on all the fires currently devouring southern california....