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• Commented on Conscious "coma man"'s words seemingly delivered via discredited "facilitated communications" technique
  NPR had this story yesterday, and many listeners have complained, along with me, that the story was accepted so credulously. Hopefully they will follow up with the sad truth. And in response to Nanuq, the family will never accept that...
• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  Isn't this like thinking you're "married" to Miss November? Or if Miss November and a calculator had a baby, and you married that? What happens if her software becomes corrupted and she freaks out? Will he ever get his MP3's...
• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  There's a huge wind power proposal off the coast of Massachusetts, and among the most vocal opponents are the late Walter Kronkite, and several high profile members of the Kennedy family. Their arguements are that it would be an "eyesore"...
• Commented on Music video with naked human furniture: Valley Lodge
  Wonderful! All I have to say is that the light-switch at the end could have been a LOT worse. Don't pretend you don't know what I mean....
• Commented on (Re)cycler: YA science fiction that tackles sex, gender with a lot of smarts
  Definitely NOT YA Fiction, back in the late 70's, the National Lampoon Magazine published two stories, "My Penis" and "My Vagina", in a somewhat similar vein. They're pretty damn funny, IMHO. I found them here: http://www.tgfa.org/fiction/MyPenis.htm http://www.tgfa.org/fiction/MyVagina.htm...
• Commented on How private equity firms make billions by driving companies into bankruptcy
  Oh for christ's sake! Nothing about the scumbags at the top surprises me anymore. None of it makes sense, none of it can make sense. If people actually knew what was going on in the "financial services industry", there would...
• Commented on 1967 dance video - "Do the Tantrum"
  I'm a square white guy, and that video pretty much encompasses the history of the square white guy dance, in its most perfect form....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Dear Cory, Best. Headline. Evar. But, seriously. Or is is Butt, seriously? Sadly, this may come to pass, with TSA screeners, inspecting your ass. It's the only way to be sure, they will say, and just take more of your...
• Commented on Twist Barbie
  Shonen Knife supposedly wanted their name to be The Osaka Ramones, but their publicist said no, fearing legal action. Years later, when they were playing with the Ramones, one of the guys told them that they should have gone with...
• Commented on Computers' limitations, as seen in 1967
  Is that an illustration of John Hodgman?...
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  Hear hear! It's time the Dems grew a pair and started standing up to the crazies. I seem to remember a long time back when somebody stood up to a crazie and said: "You have done enough. Have you no...
• Commented on Are red-headed people more sensitive to pain?
  As a redhead, I'm grateful for the excuse. thanks....
• Commented on Holiday Inn signs - now and then
  I suspect that the new sign was designed by the same agency that designed the new Shell Oil, er, I mean BP signs. Suspiciously similar....
• Commented on Shrink: I will create a WoW guild of shrinks to treat WoW addiction
  To quote The Rutles' Ron Nasty: "I want to start a war for peace." What happens when WoWers get addicted to the shrinks? Infinite regression, that's what....
• Commented on Music downloads offered on Chinese military's new website
  I'm sort of scared to download these. Will they come with patriotic "guests" for my computer? Will listening them activate my Manchurian Candidate programming? Will I feel like playing a game of solitaire? Will the red queen tell me what...
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  I agree with Illson. Racism is the real motive. The other night on ABC Nightly News, they showed footage of a representative's Town Hall meeting as it was highjacked by a birther nutcase, who laid out (shouting and sobbing) all...
• Commented on Man of the Year Million
  When that day comes around, will he be able to yell: "Tonight we're going to party like it's Nine-hundred-ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine!"...
• Commented on Neutrally buoyant balloon
  When I was a kid, we used to attach groups of Legos to the strings of new balloons until we had weighted them down to the point of neutral buoyancy, so they would float in the middle of the room,...
• Commented on The greatest pharmaceutical commercial ever?
  "Can you even dye my eyes to match my gown?" "Uh huh!" "Jolly old town!" When I first saw this commercial, I thought it was a SNL parody, when they started stating the "side effects". Turning light irises brown, possibly...
• Commented on Jacket That Helps You Breathe in an Avalanche
  Katamari!...
• Commented on BBC exposes three psychic mediums
  Sadly, self-delusion trumps reason every time. Be it psychics, truthers, birthers, scientologists, or weneverwenttothemooners, once they've truly bought into the program, and started believing their own propaganda, nothing can shake their faith. Have some Kool-ade....
• Commented on Homemade oatmeal stout and Heath Bar ice cream
  You can get Guinness ice cream at a restaurant here in Atlanta, and it is truly amazing. Subtle, but still distinctive of Guinness flavor. This ice cream is made by a wholesale only dairy, and they will not sell you...
• Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
  Oh, you know how I feel: http://blacknewblack.blogspot.com/2009/07/yet-another-rant-about-rich.html And somebody is going to accuse me of being an "Eat The Rich" liberal. I would never consider eating the rich. They would taste terrible, like a horrible mix of tobacco, bad (but...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Sony
  All that comes to mind is.... Bob Crane....
• Commented on Laser Portraits
  Isn't there a pretty awesome portrait photo of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura (TOS) against a laser background? I've searched for it, but can't find it, despite the "awesome" powers of Bing....
• Commented on TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real
  This arrow has fallen well short of the mark. Honestly, if you have to torture logic that badly to try to make your point, aren't you just protesting a bit too much? Sure, the history of relition is 99.9999% torturing...
• Commented on BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen
  Uh, shouldn't this have a standard: "Don't Try This At Home" Warning? If you just happen to have a big bunch of mercury and a jug of liquid nitrogen sitting around, that is....
• Commented on Judy Garland impersonater does 40 years of Over the Rainbow in 4 min
  Wonderful and sort of creepy. Dead on in it's subtlety, moving from the innocence of young Judy, through the overblown, slightly slurring middle, through to the earnest, grasping, crying older Judy. She knows the story, and how to tell it,...
• Commented on Photo: Stylish Robot
  No one would have suspected he was a robot, except for the red jacket. Who wears a red jacket, seriously? Perhaps he is colorblind, and thinks it is gray. He head it made of steel! Eats sushi from a pail!...
• Commented on Telos 5000: The amplifier that costs more than a house
  One more of the near infinite reasons I hate the rich. They have to invent useless crap to throw away their money on. Economic downturn my tuchis! Damn the poor, full wasteful spending ahead! Where's my monocle?...