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• Commented on HOW TO Make Some Truly Wonderful Sweet Potatoes
  lady katey @ 32 I remember fluff! It used to sit right next to my grandmother's other two whipped-cream salads: "ambrosia" (creamy fruit salad with marshmallows) and "glorified rice" (kind of like cold rice pudding, mixed with pineapple and lime...
• Commented on HOW TO Make Some Truly Wonderful Sweet Potatoes
  DartVain @ 44 No need to disparage the marshmallow on account of its age. The modern marshmallow-making process is only 60 years old, but there are marshmallow recipes that go at least back to the early 1800s. That said, marshmallow-covered...
• Commented on HOW TO Make Some Truly Wonderful Sweet Potatoes
  What you have there is a really lumpy sweet potato pie. Hold the crust. Hold the custard. I bet it would make a great desert with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream, a sprinkle of cinnamon and some toasted...
• Commented on N.A.S.A. feat. Tom Waits + Kool Keith: "Spacious Thoughts"
  Woohoo! The song was fantastic, but the animation was even better. Thanks, Xeni!...
• Commented on The Eyewriter
  Very cool. Does the software exist to pair this up with text-recognition software?...
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  Phisrow @ 10 I was thinking the same thing. Aside from some over-molds, coatings, and composite materials, the case is already the friendliest part of a laptop. Most of the environmental impact comes from the stuff inside. Batteries and circuit...
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  I think the "middle ground" here is something of a false equivalency. On the one side we have an awful lot of verifiable evidence, and on the other side we have strong feelings, broad generalizations, and an assortment of anecdotes....
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  Jewels @ 16 I'm not 100% sure, but I think you're talking about the H1N1 flu. Please, for the sake people like me who aren't long-distance HTML mind-readers, go ahead and mention your subject near the top of your post....
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  It seems like we're making some pretty rash generalizations about Muslim culture. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, living in every country. That's enough room for the whole gamut of human nature. Judging the entire group by the...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  tp1024@138 I apologize. My last post was unclear about what I considered an exaggeration. Your point about executive attire is a good one. When someone asserted that people should be allowed to wear whatever they want, my first thought was...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  semiotix@133 "My anecdotal X" is sublime. I'm going to adopt it and make it my very own!...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  tp1024@129 You're exaggerating for dramatic effect, and I get that. But you've also raised an interesting point. Disagreement is not the same thing as censorship. Without dissenting viewpoints, this would be a short (and rather dull) discussion. Don't let the...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Tzctlp@120 I think most of the people in this discussion agree that the situation you describe is a bad one. But I also think you're making a mistake when you assume that it's the only one. A quick internet search...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  I think we're demanding an impossible level of perfection out of each other here. Just because someone isn't 100% consistent and rational doesn't mean he or she is an extremist. I don't have much first-hand knowledge, but I suspect that...
• Commented on Dead cell-phones: suspense movie cop-outs
  Anon@26 I liked the cell phone bit in Panic Room too although I can't remember exactly how worked. I just remember thinking that it was kinda clever....
• Commented on Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets
  In this situation, I wonder if a cell phone would be a useful tool. In addition to 911 and your attroney, here are a few places you could call: Call a friend or family member. They can agitate from the...
• Commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
  To my biased and untrained eye, it takes some serious mental gymnastics and a huge dollop of chutzpah to claim ownership over a photograph of someone else's artwork, especially when the photographs make no substantial change to the original artwork....
• Commented on United Breaks Guitars, the complaint anthem
  Hadlock@53 Take a deep breath and count to 10, man. Most of us don't know much about the specifics of this particular situation, but we've been appalled at the way airlines handle our luggage (and, for that matter, our persons)....
• Commented on United Breaks Guitars, the complaint anthem
  "So I promised the last person to finally say no to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in...
• Commented on The Art of Living Dangerously
  Cat, not every risk has to have such high stakes. It can be as simple as trying a new food, even though you might not like it (or even if it might make you throw up for day if it's...
• Commented on Guide to some of the military's rock bands
  Anonymous @ 13 I sing in a choir with an ex-Navy trombone player. The guy's fantastic. He no longer plays professionally, but he does have the skills to be a good studio or big-band musician. Most of the people on...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  Animal Farm The Canterbury Tales Candide The Divine Comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Were all assigned reading (in part, or in full) when I was in high school. Well, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was actually "approved reading",...
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  Gulo Gulo @ 6 I think she was referring to the the likelihood that her son would be harmed by someone he knows, which is far greater than him being harmed by a stranger in the street....
• Commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  I don't think I'll miss the giant squid too much, although I won't say until I see it. What I will miss though (assuming they cut it out along with the squid) are all of the ordinary people we got...
• Commented on Amusement park hires parenting cops to confiscate smart phones/PDAs
  This plan seems deeply at odds with my own experience. Our family outings, especially the multi-generational outings with siblings, children, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great grandparents, would be a mess without cell phones. We split up and regather several...
• Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  Zio Donnie @ 105 I don't have much love for the Kindle's DRM, but I do love it's potential, especially as a reading aid for the visually impaired. Even though a visually impaired person can't operate a Kindle on his...
• Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  Joe @ 104's observation: "If text-to-speech is improved so that the computer voice sounds like a natural voice, it's still going to fall short, unless the text is modified somehow to provide much more information about how each part should...
• Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  I want to give Mr. Blount the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm having a lot of trouble. To me, as a visually-impaired person, it feels like he's pitting his livelihood against my ability to access books. To his...
• Commented on Chinese bluegrass video
  That just made my day!...
• Commented on Conservatives irked by "ostentatiously exotic" pronunciation of Pakistan
  I agree Bloo. As a native of a flyover state who now lives on the west coast, I hate this "Midwestern America is the REAL America" attitude. Most of my flyover family feels the same way....