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• Commented on Book about extreme fashion subculture in The Congo
  Sorry to nitpick, but it is "la" sape, and "les" sapeurs, minor article mistakes, but still. Also, it is interresting to know the origin of the word "sape", it is actually an acronym : Société des Ambianceurs et Personnes Élégantes...
• Commented on Cheese sculptures
  This is not cheese anyway, just american orange edible soap....
• Commented on Scientist: Hugh Hefner Owes Everything to the Evolution of Color Vision
  @ ncm > We evolved light skin in europe because at the time, it was covered by ice and dark clouds, thus making it a difficult place to live for dark skinned people, whose skin absorb less D vitamin (black...
• Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
  Sure, right away : Et mon cul c'est du poulet ! And my ass is made of chicken ! (take me for an idiot) Poser un lapin. To drop a rabbit. (to stand someone up) Plaquer sa copine. To tackle...
• Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
  Some other french idioms : And my ass is made of chicken ! (take me for an idiot) To drop a rabbit. (to stand someone up) To tackle your girlfriend (to break up with your girlfriend) You don't teach an...
• Commented on Taser releases new "shock shotguns" - safety tests MIA, but they're on Twitter and Facebook!
  Edit : Some news report in english of the Besancenot/Taser trial. http://www.france24.com/en/20081021-libel-case-goes-court-over-taser-stun-guns-justice-besancenot-france...
• Commented on Taser releases new "shock shotguns" - safety tests MIA, but they're on Twitter and Facebook!
  To add to the criticism about the Taser company, in France they are charged with violation of privacy and corruption of a higher public servant, for their spying on a far-left activist (Olivier Besancenot) who was questioning publicly the health...
• Commented on Hot off the haute couture runway
  It is inspired by the Bedouin women's traditional mask : the Omani burqa. And for those who rant about France "ban" of the burqa, the french law only states that if you are a student or a public servant, at...
• Commented on HOWTO disassemble a banana
  Wrong ! Take the stem and snap it away from you, it will stay attached to a portion of the peel, thus providing a nice handle to start to peel the banana....
• Commented on Invention of the space-coffee-cup
  Rules 34 implies the apparition of a video named "two astronauts one cup"....
• Commented on Gallery: chair designs from the future
  Design hurts your butt two times, when you buy it, and when you sit on it....
• Commented on Video: 1,000 frames per second
  For those who wonder what's up with the rugby players in pink at the beginning, it is actually the "stade français" the rugby team of Paris. Once a regular rugby team, with beardy machos, they turned into a pink gay-friendly...
• Commented on Music Video: Oiled up bikini girls using power tools
  Arf, in France, feminists had this clip banned from tv. Screw you witches we got da interwebz !...
• Commented on Jokes from the Cultural Revolution
  That anecdote is notoriously attributed to Christopher Colombus. Sounds to me that giving credits to Mao for that is part of the Chinese state propaganda....
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  I think they work on the basis that gorillas won't hurt you if you look retarded....
• Commented on Nicole Paquin "Mon Mari C’est Frankenstein" Scopitone video
  Don't know if it is the right place for it, but if your not narrow-minded like troofseeker up here, you can try to listen to www.zvok.fr is is a web-music blog, done by artists from the french web-comics scene. They...
• Commented on Mareva Galanter's faux Scopitone videos
  Haha, funny to see she's got that trendy etiquette out of France, in the country she is more famous for being Miss France 1999, posing nude in Interview and FHM, and making shampoo commercials....
• Commented on Science of baby rhythm
  More seriously, a team of french neurologists is studying the same "beat regocnition brain function", but in paralised adults and with the same tools (EEG+beat loops), to create a cheap and effective way to tell if a vegetative patient is...
• Commented on Dell Adamo: Even thinner than the MacBook Air?
  Salvatore Adamo is a soapy crooner from belgium, very successfull with the elderly ladies. It cracked me up to see the badass "Adamo, coming soon" and picturing overjoyed grandmas waiting for it ! http://www.adamosalvatore.com/...
• Commented on 130,000 inflatable breasts missing at sea
  this story reminds me too much of the similar lost in sea bath rubber ducks to be true. What a great advertising for an already in $4.3 billion of debt publisher, to make up a totally fake (and totally free)...
• Commented on From the makers of "Bacon Salt", a new type of sandwich spread
  If you read the package on a Bacon flavored Pringles can, it says "suitable for vegetarians" wich is like the best way to ruin your pleasure, since you can't stop wondering "how can it taste like meat if the isn't...
• Commented on Shoe cabinet affirms tribal query: Yes, you can Kick It
  Looks like you can easily make the same whith wood and two industrial plastic brooms, although i would not recommend it for expensive leather shoes....
• Commented on Apple? No. This is iOrange.
  I wonder what Orange (the french mobile network operator and Internet service provider), thinks about that rip off, they must be quite pissed, since they got the exclusivity on iPhones in France, and this add is clearly a rip off...
• Commented on New US RFID passports manufactured offshore at a huge profit, transported by unsecured couriers
  They tried to do the same thing here in France, any french citizen willing to visit the US had to get a RFID biometric passport, also manufactured abroad, but they had to give up after the threat of a massive...
• Commented on Kids' Dalek video
  Looks like they did this during they vacations in France, the houses looks like the ones in Provence or Luberon. More and more brits in those regions, these days (to my pleasure, they bring they cute daugthers)....
• Commented on Automobile farmers of 1936
  Old articles like this one are an obvious proof of the disastrous lobbying done by the petroleum industry, the technology for bio-plastics was available decades ago, but they managed to promote petrol as the only source of polymers. It is...
• Commented on Interactive map of "history's greatest journeys"
  Mike Horn's adventures ! He descended the 7,000 km of the Amazon River on a hydrospeed, did the circumnavigation of the world along the equator, and completed a non-stop 20,000 km route around the Arctic Circle during the polar night....
• Commented on Adaptive Path and Mozilla: future of Web-browsing video
  When the woman is browsing on the desktop, (what they call "the special view") it looks like they took inspiration of the ocean web navigator used in the anime cowboy bebop by the character Ed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Yv1niIqus...