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• Commented on Terry Pratchett on the right to die
  oh god. *is heartbroken*...
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  Zombie: one who zombs. I zomb, you zomb, he/she zombs. Zomb (verb): to munch brains....
• Commented on Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles
  I used to watch reruns of this show when I was a kid, and I loved it... true, some of the skits were just embarrassing to the victims, but others were pure genius. My favorite was the one where they...
• Commented on Tables with tentacles
  The one on the right reminds me very strongly of the Tree Keeper's peculiar vehicle....
• Commented on Hand-tooled aluminum hard hat
  It's the modern version of Achilles's shield! No, seriously, think about it. A hard hat is basically modern-day functional armor, right? And this one's engraved with scenes that have immediate meaning to the wearer, etc... the parallels are endless! [/classics...
• Commented on Lockheed airship video with epic music
  My immediate reaction was, "Where did the hippopotamus's head go???" Somebody should intercut this with the footage of that uncanny-valley military robot that jogs about on what looks like two people's tight-clad legs. And then add Yakkity Sax :)...
• Commented on Fox News "sexpert": Obamas Do A Lot of "Fisting."
  AAAAAGH! I need Listerine for my brain! ...Thanks a lot, Fox News. Way to "show respect for the office of president" or whatever it was you used to screech about Bush....
• Commented on Photo of young Obama
  The hat. It boggles the mind. Never mind the joint/cigarette-- THE HAT, guys, look at it!...
• Commented on Self-embedding disorder among teens
  As a child I was convinced that I had a small pebble embedded in my forearm. It didn't frighten me, though, and thankfully I had the sense not to rip up my arm to dig it out. Occasionally I would...
• Commented on Steampunk sewing machine
  I thought all non-electric sewing machines were inherently steampunk, without any brass necessary...Or is that just me? @Qurve: only because people insist that something made to look artificially old-fashioned = steampunk. Most steampunk does look artificially old-fashioned, but not all...
• Commented on Multicolr - stunningly elegant Flickr tool
  The best thing, though, is the error message popup you get when you click on too many colors-- "In accordance with common sense, decency, propriety, sobriety, and the Search Limitations Act of 1729, we respectfully inform you, our dear user,...
• Commented on Playing the Presidential Election Dozens (aka yo mama political fights on Twitter)
  Heehee. Just like I remember from childhood, except funnier... Yo mama so fat, McCain refers to her as "Those Ones." Classic!...
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  To: Evidence Re: Lizards (uncooked) I know you keep saying that the lizards didn't evolve, they just grew, or adapted to the environment. Perhaps in this case you are right-- we won't know until they do the DNA tests. But,...
• Commented on HOWTO kill/block an RFID
  What year did they start putting RFIDs in passports? Also: what would happen to you if you tried to get on a plane with a nonfunctional RFID in your passport? Given the state of things, I doubt they'd believe it...
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  Evidence just mixed up "advocate" and "abdicate". Advocate: to publicly recommend or support. Abdicate: to renounce one's position, or to fail to fulfill one's duty....
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  SPANDRELS! That was the word! But don't mention spandrels (or Stephen Jay Gould) to people studying how language evolved, it tends to make them froth at the mouth. Though I can't say I much like the idea that the capacity...
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  Like Racer X said: evolution is NOT intentional. (I had a great big paragraph about this, but then I looked at the rest of this post and decided s/he had already said it more succintly than me...) What a lot...
• Commented on Man uses hedgehog as weapon
  At least it wasn't a porcupine....
• Commented on Man repeatedly calls late wife's voicemail
  Same here-- two students in my school died in a highway accident two years ago (along with almost the entire family of one of them). One of their parents kept calling his daughter's cellphone several times a day, afterwards, just...
• Commented on CHAIRman Mao
  The crowning touch is the elongated toes. That demented thing wouldn't be half as terrifying if only it didn't have those toes....
• Commented on Gogol Bordello's punk gypsy
  At the beginning of a five-hour bus ride to Boston last year, my sister put on the first song of a really huge Gogol Bordello playlist and handed me her iPod. God only knows how the woman next to me...
• Commented on Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual + "Stunning": Calpernia Addams.
  If you meet a transsexual who appears (on the surface, anyway) halfway through the transition, and you honestly can't tell whether they're a man becoming a woman or vice versa-- how do you go about asking what pronoun to use?...
• Commented on TED 2008: Philip Zimbardo on The Lucifer Effect in Action
  The reason for all of this can be explained by something that happened a few years ago. When I was fourteen, I went to every adult I respected, and demanded to know why people go along with things they know...
• Commented on Martin Luther King, Jr. playlist
  I've heard the full "I Have A Dream" speech played at school each year... it sends shivers up my spine each time, even though I know it nearly by heart. I wish more people could speak like that today. If...
• Commented on Shiny metal garbage city: Chu Enoki's RPM 1200
  Likewise. This has brightened my day considerably....
• Commented on City made of shiny disposable plastic objects from $0.99 stores
  P.S.-- @ #3 Wangleberry That is such an ignorant thing to say... I do see the resemblance to a Hindu temple, yes, but (a) like Takuan said, Hindus do not worship objects, and (b) since when do Hindu gods look...
• Commented on City made of shiny disposable plastic objects from $0.99 stores
  That is what I have always thought cities should look like... Let's all get together and build a real one....
• Commented on Steampunk anthology
  I agree about James Blaylock-- but Jeff VanderMeer and Hal Duncan are in there, which kind of makes up for it....
• Commented on Timeline of Bill of Rights under Bush
  For over half of my short life (I am seventeen now) I was a fervent patriot who believed every little thing they fed us in school about America being great and just and righteous. When my parents and grandparents told...
• Commented on Rudy Rucker art show in San Francisco, Nov 9-11
  wish I lived in SF so I could go to all these great things... how about posting similar stuff in NY? I know it must exist out there, but it's so hard to find out about......