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• Commented on Mishap at the Electrical Substation
  "Everything at a substation is hot, in that shock the bejeezus out of you sense." Everything after the comma is gibberish. Even if you switch sense to senses, I'm still clueless. Missing word? Wrong word?...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  Behold! The age of obsolescence! They discovered that things that were built better, needed replacing less often. So began the decline of human civilization. Watch as we see the same principle applied to future prosthetics. (I mean, you don't want...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I love the Wyoming and North Dakota. Those states were BUILT to be drawn. River/mountain based borders are a pain in the butt to get right....
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  @#1 That's the nook. The sony reader allows 3 weeks. It mentions the nook lending time in the article. Also, it's strictly between libraries and patrons, not person to person....
• Commented on Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way
  You could also literally bottle sunlight....
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  Hmm. If the car had managed to drive OVER the two vehicles, instead of just making it to the windshield before stopping, it would have made an awesome BMW commercial. The ad campaign would be called "offroading is for pussies."...
• Commented on Rare alternative version of Beatles track from White Album discovered
  ^Laughs at inappropriate times. It's not "too soon" you just don't like dark humor. Some people do, some people don't. It probably has to do with whether or not they use laughter as a coping mechanism....
• Commented on Geeky maternity t-shirts
  Ok. I am officially going to hell. First thing that popped into mind: Make another version, this time an error message. "Abort, Retry, Fail?"...
• Commented on The American Spirit
  ... Thank you for this. You've put the salt of optimism on my venison of realism, warding off the germs of pessimism. Ok, I really just want jerky....
• Commented on Horror photos and notes on the creation thereof
  Sorry Joshua, the unicorn chasers in October are... different. This is a unicorn chaser for the fake guts article....
• Commented on Is Apple's tablet a kindle-killer?
  E-Ink doesn't cause this http://blogs.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/2007/09/electronic-insomnia-information.html Which is why I am interested in it....
• Commented on What if James Dean had lived?
  @13, He would have discovered eternal life, or the next best thing. Because otherwise he would have died....
• Commented on Retro Remakes: <em>Monkey Island</em> in <em>Crysis</em>
  My god. Some parts of it look like a painting. Someone get him a job. NOW. If he already has one... PAY HIM MORE....
• Commented on 8-bit house numbers
  Sheesh, you could display numbers higher than 255 on 8-bit consoles. It's not like it is that hard... However, I'm with the pedantic mob on this one, it's not an 8-bit sign. It's a pixelated sign....
• Commented on HOWTO make a Bioshock Big Daddy costume
  Very, very nice. More than I can ever hope to achieve. Only gripe is the legs, they get too narrow where the "Knees" attach. Could probably be fixed with some wire and a wider hole. Either that or an air...
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  Also, they should always take off at night to more easily find the pinholes in the giant construction paper sheet which covers the sky, otherwise they might crash into it, instead of passing safely through the pinholes. It was put...
• Commented on Meet the Hon. James David Manning, PhD.
  Quick! We need an uncle ruckus image macro stat!...
• Commented on Breast implant serial numbers used to identify murder victim
  MDH, I'm pretty sure it has. Or at least a one-sentence summary. Like "Well, the head was too damaged and fingerprints didn't turn up anything. But I noticed she had implants..." and they unravel the mystery from there....
• Commented on Chip Rowe's essays
  Well, there goes another nugget of hope for humanity. I have about 206 nuggets left before I flip out....
• Commented on Chip Rowe's essays
  I think most of those "warning label" lawsuits with actual injury are acts of desperation as a result of little to no health insurance. Either that, or are a symptom of the widening class divide. You have billions? Great. I...
• Commented on Depressing 1950s Jell-O commercial
  @Gammablog. See, I thought you were being sarcastic with that Yum! Now I'm not so sure, and feel like a bit of an ass. I probably overreacted. Copy-pasting wikipedia and chemical-fear are two of my pet peeves....
• Commented on Depressing 1950s Jell-O commercial
  Oh, crap. I made a cognitive error. It would be fatal if you used water instead of more Tetrasodium pyrophosphate. Bleh. Silly me. Still, that was just for emphasis, the rest of my point still stands....
• Commented on Depressing 1950s Jell-O commercial
  I think there are people out there who find out a scary fact about a product, then carry that fact around in a text file. They then google terms related to the product, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and edit to taste. Now,...
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  And... just as I clicked "submit" I just realized why there was an alternate meaning. Also, I helped proved the point of the article. What is it about the submit button that gets me thinking more than typing does?...
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  "Here's a test: let's say a meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been moved forward two days. What is the new day of the meeting? If you think it's Friday, you imagine time as something you move through. If you...
• Commented on Let Go, Let Brown
  You'd think they would have used the logo for Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. No, I'm not kidding. http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/paul_kane/pk_volvo_god.jpg...
• Commented on Cat burglar falls off three-storey building across from my bedroom window
  If I ever get desperate enough to rob people, I'm gonna be a cat-burglar... I like climbing and I like sneaking. If that ever happens, I'll be in my forties and too out of shape to even scale a fence....
• Commented on A Few Questions
  1. c, because it is the safe answer, it might be worth a half-answer if (d) is right. 2. c. I don't want mismatched eclairs, so I must do c before I do b. 3. b. Because c would ruin...
• Commented on Bosch Cordless Hammer Drill: light, snappy and blows through brick like butter
  I cannot be trusted with that kind of power. I would just start cackling maniacally and destroy various buildings brick by brick. "YOUR BUILDINGS ARE LIKE BUTTER TO THE DECIMATOR!" That's what I would call it, the decimator. Because I...
• Commented on French cops use racial profiling for stop and search
  Let's pretend I just posted an offensive tirade about how that is not at all racist because minorities are dangerous. There. Now nobody else has to do that. With that out of the way, the French do have a justification....