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• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  Idea for a reality tv show: a Gordon Ramsay styled web guru "helping" web designers: "This site is absolute SH*T! Look, I can't even read it on my PHONE. Do you think I might want, just MAYBE, if I were...
• Commented on Dale Dougherty: Sharks and Daemons
  Haven't read this but I had the same kind of heebie-jeebie feeling when I first watched Connections all those years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g...
• Commented on Touch and Go over at Touch and Go
  @6: Chicago has an overlooked music scene? All I can say is I'm glad Calexico just released Carried to Dust--they'll have time before their next one...but wait, they're with Quarterstick, right?...
• Commented on Embroidered MRI slice
  You could make patches of the common athletic injuries and sell them--"ACL tear", "Rotator Cuff" etc. I'm sure it would be a hit. Or maybe sell them to orthopedic surgeons?...
• Commented on Japanese V-Sign
  Herm....semi-related and maybe nsfw: http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/foriegn.html...
• Commented on Japanese V-Sign
  @mojave: enthusiastic guest blogger sharing a culture. do. not. sweat....
• Commented on Research on snap judgments based on people's faces
  @Xopher Are these characters from the North American/gay version of Rapelay? I'm going back to the Dahl commentary. Less confusing....
• Commented on Amazon Sells Rape Simulation Game
  @218 "Have they learned nothing from the Wii?! They should make a rape simulator the WHOLE FAMILY can enjoy!" Don't ask why but I just googled "wii sex". I am now sad....
• Commented on Amazon Sells Rape Simulation Game
  @210: "Both times I was taken aback and stunned. I thought it was truly F&%#$ and would not participate in this, as much as I loved them I could not breach this limit even in play and intimacy. This was...
• Commented on Research on snap judgments based on people's faces
  @1: that's "facial" profiling. The article itself tends to bear out Roy--babyfaces can overcompensate and become jerks (I'm paraphrasing). The graphic just seems to say if your brow is furrowed rather than arched and your mouth is tight/clenched rather than...
• Commented on Roald Dahl's "writing hut"
  That's what I need--no distractions and Wi-Fi-proof walls. Doesn't look particularly filthy to me, though....
• Commented on Video: "Plane crashed a few blocks from my house. I filmed it."
  "Thou shalt not overload our servers" It's in really small print in the TOS agreement....
• Commented on Amazon Sells Rape Simulation Game
  @190: The argument that rape is a crime of violence, not sex, is relatively new. While well meaning, it distorts the reality that rape is a crime of both violence (or the threat of it) and coerced sex. This argument...
• Commented on Amazon Sells Rape Simulation Game
  Rape fantasy has been around since the dawn of time. I'm guessing it's not going away any time soon. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2563409/TASCHEN-Neret-Erotica-Universalis Also, check out the recent NYT Mag article on female desire: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=7&_r=1&ref=magazine and you'll find a troubling discussion of female...
• Commented on Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)
  Small doses. I would have liked more "contexty" clips, and more comic relief a la: "I had her tested for aids" and "toodle-fucking-oo", but then it probably would have been a 2-hour vid....
• Commented on Quicksnap: the better ice cube tray
  Note the cube size is proportionately smaller--that's not good news. Also, moving parts on something that is continually exposed to a freeze/thaw cycle may be problematic(al)....
• Commented on NY Times: The Los Angeles of Ry Cooder and Mister Jalopy
  Everyone should own at least: Ry Cooder Chicken Skin Music Paradise & Lunch Boomer's Story Into the Purple Valley Music by Ry Cooder (soundtracks)...
• Commented on Great opening lines from sf
  I admit it's stretching things a bit to call it SF--closer to fantasy or the dreaded "magic realism", but the opening of Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is stellar. Then again, so is the whole book: "When the phone rang...
• Commented on Great opening lines from sf
  Hmm. No "Gravity's Rainbow"?, no "Infinite Jest"?...
• Commented on Police warn UK man that taking photos of "hooded teenagers" is illegal
  +1 to coveralls (#27)--is it really one of the photos he took or is it stolen from a flickr group? Maybe he should stop worrying and embrace lomography....
• Commented on Rival Rainbow hippy factions brawl
  ...thus proving my theory that TC Boyle (Drop City) is one of the Top Ten genius novelists working today....