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• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  mermaid - You can buy Cel-Ray at NYC delicateness catering to the Jewish population....
• Commented on Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans
  Most non Jews can't enjoy Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray, which is celery soda. NYC and NJ Jews, OTOH, know it's G-d's chosen beverage for accompanying a pastrami on rye. Also Gulden's spicy mustard, and a small plate of half sour pickles....
• Commented on Scooby Doo Apocalypse tee
  Bought one in men's Large. Will wear it around and see what kind of comments I get....
• Commented on Grateful Dead Archivist wanted at UC Santa Cruz
  Budget troubles? Could those possibly be caused by, I don't know, something like a sudden collapse in the value of endowment funds?...
• Commented on Cellphone contracts getting even better!
  But if you can't trust giant corporate media outlets to truthfully report business news that many reporters, media shareholders and sponsors have stake in, who can you trust?...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Making yogurt, then experimenting to make frozen yogurt out if that is an experiment in biology, chemistry and physics that you can eat! I'd suggest using the icecream maker to freeze the yogurt, though, as keeping it in motion gives...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  If that's true, hopefully he's not the only pastor in the church network, and if all of them have the same anti-gay bigotry and whacked out ideas on how to deal with a gay child, then yes it's a problem....
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  When you said - And perhaps a postscript to those inclined to write off what I have to say simply on account of my conservative position on sexuality - if you think these parents we are writing about are blinkered...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  Depends. I know plenty of moderate Muslims. If he were living in Iran, no. If he were in the US, sure. There are liberal Mosques here....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Antinous @ # 34 - So don't use those recipes. Substitute home made yogurt....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Make your own yogurt and don't buy pre processed crap. That's more in tune with the Maker ideology of BB, right?...
• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  As a pro-feminist man, I find the obsession over Palin's pregnancy to be strongly misogynistic. It's been depressing that liberals talk about it. I don't include Sulivan in that, he's a conservative who was stupid enough to get gulled by...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  I'm going to buck the trend here and hope for a better situation than "escape". It would be nice if there were a pastor figure who the parents might respect who could tell them to stop locking the poor kid...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  davidould - Want to or not, this discussion is about how the parents of Anonymous perceive sexuality - that it's a choice, that if their kid is allowed access to anyone with a differing opinion, something awful will happen, and...
• Commented on Fist sledgehammer
  The only true two handed weapon!...
• Commented on Graph compares rock music quality with US oil production 1949-2007
  No! The solution to the oil crisis is to TOTALLY ROCK OUT!!! *air guitar*...
• Commented on Sweet, inadvertent Sesame Street PSA for gay marriage
  A minor quibble, but why not say "same sex marriage" rather than "gay marriage"?...
• Commented on Science fiction from outside the English-speaking world
  In case anyone is interested, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards is expecting to start up in 2011, and should be a good resource for translated F/SF...
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  If only Google would pre-emptivley de-list Newscorp properties....
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  I am not skeptical enough to discount the possibility of the existence of vampires You should be - with that low a skepticism threshold, you're an easy mark for con artists, peddlers of quack nostrums, and general bullshitter. but the...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  Re: the DRM - I think it's that the limit to the number of computers an iPod will "recognize". So, in a sense, DRM is built in, just not to the music. There are workarounds, and it's never been an...
• Commented on Taste Test: Persimmon
  Mortis @ # 13 - Dude, you can buy soju online. You can have all of my share. Ever. Blech....
• Commented on Taste Test: Persimmon
  It's supposedly great with soju, too! You'd need something to cut the flavor of soju, that's for sure....
• Commented on Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend
  I think I see a side plot for a Charlie Stross novel in here somehwere....
• Commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
  Let me be the first to express hope they make it out safe....
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  But doe she turn his trucker cap backwards before beating the other guy?...
• Commented on Musicians call for release of torture soundtrack details
  No one it's getting it. It's the prolonged sleep deprivation that's actually, real torture, not the music....
• Commented on Father kidnaps daughter's killer
  A good doctor, but no Roman Polanski?...
• Commented on 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera
  I'm not taking sides one way or the other. I'm just saying that I think it's unlikely that these guys said what the photographer alleged they said. So, you're calling him a liar, which is taking a side. And you're...
• Commented on Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism
  I remember one proto-AIDs denialist who insisted that there was no such thing as an HIV virus. He kpet on at this even after he'd met someone who's *seen* one, claiming that she had no idea what she was talking...