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• Commented on Opium dens of 1889 San Francisco in photos
  perhaps the third hat is the photographer's....
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  surely the bic tracheotomy is already an established part of western culture? the only answer is to fly naked. business class never looked so unattractive. 'hello miss? may i downgrade my seat? please?'...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Visualizing Sound Waves (Now With Fire!)
  'Does anybody have any ideas for making a fast fourier transform out of propane and PVC? :-)' i think you'd have trouble getting the spectral breakdown acoustically (doing it digitally would be cheating). helmholz resonators wouldn't give you enough pressure,...
• Commented on Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood's insane "Selectable Output Control" kill-switch
  solution: stop watching hollywood. 98.56% of it is guff anyway. or go to the cinema if you feel you must....
• Commented on Feature documentary film about psychedelics
  why do all psychedelic imagery have to contain a) bright colours, b) heavily recursive abstract imagery, c) translucent figures? could the psychedelic movement exist without the moog? i propose a new psychedelic aesthetic that involves simple non-repeated black and white...
• Commented on Dear Britain, please stop helping the fascists
  'One point of note is that the Times article claiming the BBC is 'congratulating itself' fails to cite any particular source, although of course they will certainly be congratulating themselves privately for putting together such a spectacle.' the murdoch press...
• Commented on How private equity firms make billions by driving companies into bankruptcy
  Frog: 'Why did you sting me? now we'll both drown' Scorpion: 'Because I'm a scorpion.'...
• Commented on Flag of Benin Empire may be the best flag depicting a decapitation in the history of the world
  'Okay, this even beats my previous favourite flag, that of the Isle of Man' which HAS been animated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_6hdGZ6gU&feature=related...
• Commented on Ouija boards and dial plates
  i love the way that spiritualism keeps abreast of the times. the Fox sisters figured out they could crack their toe joints around the time the morse telegraph was becoming widely used. mediums claimed that their spirit guides had trained...
• Commented on Rachel Maddow interviews Tom Ridge on politicizing terror threat alerts
  it's probably a cold thread now, but: http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/orangealert.html...
• Commented on Smash-and-grab robbers clean out Apple store in 31 seconds
  they might at least have waited until the new paradigm-smashing omniscient mini-tablet-iphone-book was launched....
• Commented on The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU_q5xrnto...
• Commented on Dery: "Head Case" in Cabinet Magazine
  ah luvs deh readed cabinetz. it am make fer deh big werds an dat get teh laydys likin meh....
• Commented on Steampunk butterfly
  i just got a childhood flash-back to ian miller's stuff... http://ian-miller.org/images/chickenfishred1600em.jpg...
• Commented on Cheezy-poofs marketed as "organic carrot stix"
  'Mmmmm... pressurized corn gruel sprayed through tiny nozzles and coated with dye...' i prefer wheat smashed relentlessly to a powder, mixed with fungus, salt and sugar, left in warm conditions to go all gassy, then subjected to heat until it...
• Commented on PsiWheel Under a Glass Container video
  oh come on! it's obvious. The whole room is on a turntable and is being moved backwards and forwards. the paper stays stationary because the toothpick sits on the axis of rotation....
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  is there a collective noun for ambergris theorists?...
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  i think it was in 'skeleton crew' - an anthology of short stories....
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  @4 - i was thinking the same...anyone report mesmerising colours on the surface?...
• Commented on RIP Michael Jackson
  @13: a mortadela window, however, might facilitate more child-dangling due to extra strength/flexibility caused by the pork-fat cubes acting as a composite binding medium....
• Commented on World's Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire
  this engladdens my heart...
• Commented on Videos of People In Trance States
  it's a bit dry, but Gilbert Rouget's 'Music and Trance' does a pretty thorough job examining what's going on with some of these ceremonies....
• Commented on The incredible "ear stones" of fish
  instead of growing their own otoliths, crayfish absorb sand particles into their statocycts. there's an oft-tried experiment whereupon the biologist replaces the sand in the crayfish's tank with iron filings, which are then absorbed as otoliths... "during the first 24...
• Commented on Poop on the moon, and how to protect it
  http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html...
• Commented on 1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud?
  well it seems to have disappeared from the christie's catalogue......
• Commented on Anti-slacker/pro-maker tee
  yeh, idle 'helping hands' are the devil's playthings. is that t-shirt made from goat's hair?...
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  there was a young zombie from fleet, who consisted of pus-drooling meat. his true love dropped by, and accidently smashed open her skull in a terrible farming machinery accident, but at least he had something to eat....
• Commented on Pool rules at Florida condo complex
  pus?...
• Commented on Moist, and other words people dislike
  bad: moist, doily, morsel, ramekin, bib, spittle, husk, cusp, chum. good: plinth....
• Commented on Hunt for the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In's secret AM broadcast
  mmm. peli-case in orange. *sigh*...