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• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  If you're wearing what you want, and have the choice about whether to do so or not, then you're not oppressed. If you are one of a group of girls who die from smoke inhalation inside a burning school because...
• Commented on Nano Song
  Loved the completely uncommented grey goo :D...
• Commented on Japanese Apartments
  @#28, Redsquid If this was a post from a foreign visitor to America about facing similar challenges many commenters would scream racism. === You may have missed the comments in this thread where they said just that. how the American...
• Commented on Brits: rally to save your right to photograph the police, Feb 16 at Scotland Yard
  #13 Yes, most people here are literate to some degree. And no laws will be coming into effect the day before. That fact doesn't preclude any kind of protest against any laws that might be coming in the week ahead....
• Commented on Brits: rally to save your right to photograph the police, Feb 16 at Scotland Yard
  Who decided to hold it on a working day? *sigh*...
• Commented on Borribles: wonderful YA fantasy novel in a new edition
  Yes, if you remember the Wombles, then you will get a thousand times more out of the Borribles... at least the first book. As I remember it, from when I was a kid, the highlight of the later books was...
• Commented on VIDEO: Foxes on a trampoline
  From another site: (http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/02/foxes-on-a-trampoline.html) - which also has another fox-trampiline vid, Hello! I'd just like to let you know that you are posting MY video without asking me, the original owner! I OWN this video, and I would really like...
• Commented on VIDEO: Foxes on a trampoline
  THIS is the best video ever, this week, fersure. If only it were longer....
• Commented on On Darwin's birthday, 4 in 10 believe in evolution
  To paraphrase Pratchett, I don't believe in evolution. I know it too well. It would be like believing in the postman. 39>25, yay. 39 I would be real interested in the percentage of non-churchgoers who marked themselves as believing evolution....
• Commented on Kittens Inspired by Kittens After the Dentist
  #13: agree! Also, Hodgeman! Hodge... wait, who is he?...
• Commented on Hans Moravec's slide on computer power and intelligence
  #25,#30 - good catch, I must've been asleep when I wrote that. Asleep, or stupid, which is my more normal state. #51: thanks for posting the link - in context the image makes a lot more sense, and the article...
• Commented on BB Video: Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, pt. 2 of 6 / Cheetos Boredom Busters. (This is an ad)
  Personally, I heartily approve of cheetos, because of this ad. Not because of the *content* of an ad they did nothing about but fund. but the fact they are willing to throw money at BB and just *trust* that good...
• Commented on Neil Gaiman waxes sensible on Kindle Audiobooks and the redonkulous Author's Guild
  I *did* rip off an author recently - I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(novel) from piratebay. *Damn* fine book. So I bought it in paper form. But I felt guilty, still. I was spending money on something I'll never use, causing a little...
• Commented on Unintentionally Erotic Video: Butterfly Technologies efficient toothpaste tube
  Zan: I view it the other way. All other things being equal, if a toothpaste company could get away with making zero waste, in return for slightly reducing the amount in the tube, they'd go for that: less paste means...
• Commented on Hans Moravec's slide on computer power and intelligence
  (following assumes 1flop ~ 1 instruction, within an order of magnitude, which is IMHO reasonable) Our best supercomputers now can do 1 petaflop. That's 10^15 operations per second. Humans are, if I understand this diagram, 10^9. That's 10^6 less. So...
• Commented on Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)
  Awesome. Hilarious in its unremitting repetitiveness, and well-punctuated by those occasional deviations. Great pacing. But the best one of these I've seen is still the Dr Who one :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtG5dK_HaGg...
• Commented on Weird ice balls in London?
  #39 "Troll-eggs" and #59 "Katamari" - thank you anonymouses for making me crack up :D This thread is indeed glorious, though I do admit it veers scarily towards mere /b/-style "made of win" instead....
• Commented on <i>The Inquirer</i>: Add NVIDIA G92s and 94s to failing GPU list
  Since they're the only GPU maker who bothers making stereo vision drivers, I sincerely hope the Inquirer is wrong. DirectX Stereo vision is just too cool for gaming, for them to go under. Shame most people haven't even noticed it...
• Commented on 101 Classic Computer Ads
  Note to self: adblock plus is *freaking awesome*... but it will block all ad images you *want* to watch, too....
• Commented on Lotus working on making Hybrids noisier. It's a joke, right?
  I think there has to be a better option. If a small subclass of the population is unable to hear the cars, then target that subclass, not the entire population. For example, in banks, you don't have the cashiers talking...
• Commented on SpaceX Falcon 1 craft launch live online (as in, now)
  imipak @#49 - looks like the Dragon will not be travelling manned until well after 2010. http://spacex.com/dragon.php gives their planned launches: 1 - 2009 - 5 hours Launch and separate from Falcon 9, orbit Earth, transmit telemetry, receive commands, demonstrate...
• Commented on SpaceX Falcon 1 craft launch live online (as in, now)
  Thanks Toaste @#62 - that's some good info. Looks like each of their failures is being learned from. It's just a shame that so much of the wetware knowledge that went into Apollo and such is long gone. If they'd...
• Commented on 3D fan-illustration for Printcrime
  Awesome - wonder how many of us have red/cyan glasses by our keyboards for just such an occasion. I'm glad I do! [Unrelatedly: commenting from boingboing.hexten.net is broken and has been for years afaik: maybe comment links could be made...