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• Commented on XKCD's eye-watering Geocities tribute
  I love some of the malformed names in the source code. For example, under the language tag in one line, he lists: "AMERICAN/ESPA☃ISH" -- the strange character being the unicode symbol for a snowman (U+2603)....
• Commented on British tabloids endanger lives with bad reporting on cervical cancer vaccine
  @Adam_Y "The tabloids are...very high satire." I truly doubt this is the case. If it were satire, it would be more intelligently constructed, with obvious irony written into the work. Consider something like the Onion, nearly every single piece has...
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  I thought Xeni was being sarcastic and the whole point of the post was mocking the supposition that there exists alien life-forms on the moon. If that is the case, the people posting are forgetting rule #1 of the internet,...
• Commented on Roman Polanski on To Catch a Predator
  @ blueelm Please don't dismiss legitimate discussion on this topic because you feel disgusted by the subject. It's also not right to assume that when people have opinions, they are not qualified to have them because they weren't scarred for...
• Commented on D&D camp, circa 1982
  @ hail_diskordia Ironically enough, I recently got into playing D&D after I finally kicked my WoW addiction (one which consumed three years of my young adult life). It really is a fun game and such a good mental exercise; unlike...
• Commented on Nabokov Edits Kafka's Metamorphosis
  Hrm, I didn't realize that Nabokov didn't speak German; my bad. My point still stands however, Nabokov is clearly editing the translation and not Kafka's work....
• Commented on Nabokov Edits Kafka's Metamorphosis
  @ Odessa While you might be right in asserting that "aus unruhigen Träumen" better translates as "from uneasy dreams" than what Nabokov proposes, you must remember that Nabokov is a prose stylist (and a damn fine one at that) first...
• Commented on Man with hair styled as hat
  @Mister Eppy Obviously it's in the shape of a heart....
• Commented on Snapshot: A series of tubes.
  And here I was, expecting this article to be about the internet....
• Commented on Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash
  Damn all you kids and your cell phones and your internet and your Blu-ray movie players and your Sony Playstation 3s and your Facebook profiles and your Twitter and your internet memes and your webcomics and your weblogs and your...
• Commented on Working handcuff keys printed on a 3D printer
  I don't know, seems like a white hat hacker for key technology. I doubt he means any harm and I agree with the previous poster that stuff like this helps technology evolve....
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  Dammit Takuan, don't make me Godwin this thread. Do you honestly believe that killing someone in self defense is just as wrong as killing someone in cold blood? Really?...
• Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
  @ Difference Engineer I always question studies of this sort. It's almost as if the scientists (if you can honestly call psychologists that with a straight face) in question designed the test specifically so it would get media attention. Not...
• Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
  @ Moriarty Still, I think a lot of authors get written off as "nonsensical" when really, they're coming from a place that's very uncomfortable to talk about. This is my problem with literature analysis in general, especially when dealing with...
• Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
  I don't see how Kafka is nonsensical, especially when looking at his more developed works such as The Metamorphosis or The Trial. As far as I'm concerned, The Metamorphosis is a clear-cut allegory about an individual whose inner values are...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @93 What kind of vacuous argument is that? So it's John Hopkins' fault for building a college in a poor district which invariably resulted in an intruder? Honestly, rich university in a poor district is not unusual at all; in...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @82 THIS. I spent a good part of my life growing up in the Philippines. If you lived there and ran outside and yelled "FIRE, RAPE, ARSON!" or what have you, chances are, no one would even turn their heads....
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @Takuan I really don't understand how this is a controversial issue. When you're scared and high on adrenaline, are you really expected to perfectly assess the situation and determine if one should use non-lethal force? This student is not a...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  Just for the record, anyone who honestly believes that the student committed any wrongdoing is either very sheltered or naive. Put yourself in that situation and tell me if you would have acted any differently. What if you called the...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @49 Door knockers don't break into your home in the middle of the night, back you into a corner of your house, and lunge at you....
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @ Gutierrez In Maryland, you cannot legally purchase a gun until you're 21 years old. Considering the student in question is an undergraduate at John Hopkins, it is very very unlikely that he would have a gun in the first...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  @34 Seriously, have you ever left the comfort of your upper-class suburban community? Just because your neighborhood isn't dangerous doesn't mean other parts of the country aren't. Here's an article google pulled up illustrating the homicide rate in John Hopkins....
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  You're also talking about a city where students die every year by getting stabbed by burglars who are "just there to steal stuff." Put yourself in the kid's shoes; you're obviously scared for your life, doped up on adrenaline, and...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  IMDB has it at 7.3 with only 38 reviews. Lower number of reviews often results in rating inflation, meaning that this movie is probably WORSE than a 7.3. That being said, I feel like this whole article is a way...
• Commented on Charles Bukowski's hatred of Mickey Mouse
  Regardless of how you feel about Bukowski, he does have a point about Mickey Mouse. There's been a long-standing debate between Disney and Looney Tunes as to which animated features are better for young minds. While both espouse moral virtues,...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  @11 Oh you. What amazes me is how the people in question are paying for this game just to protest it in-game. All that the company has to do is ban the offenders. By doing so, they will be able...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  @35 Another foreseeable problem would be all the world's art students complaining that they want their money back from their universities as their degrees and years spent memorizing names is now worthless. I suppose the main problem with art today...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  This is why I believe the ONLY way to fix the problems in the art world today is to create a double-blind structure where neither the art patrons nor the art gallery itself knows whose work is on display. That...
• Commented on Guide to N Dimensions
  #4-- My main problem with that video is the narrator invokes a lot of hand-waving when it comes to discussing the underlying mathematical concepts. By not discussing the reason why scientists believe there is a fifth dimension (unification of gravity...
• Commented on Museum's "moon rock" is just a rock
  I can see this as potential fuel for those dumb conspiracy theories you hear about the moon landing being faked....