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• Commented on Beloved artist to nation: "Keep Your Mouths Shut"
  I'd hope reasonable people could agree that WWII was a serious enough threat to justify telling folks not to talk about troop movements or weapons stored in factories, though not serious enough to justify, say, interning all citizens of a...
• Commented on Marxist critique of Crayola Factory Tour
  Is this what passes for comedy in Marxism? I'm glad we beat the Commies....
• Commented on Junkyard workers enshrine tree that grew to lift a car
  Mr. Frauenfelder, you are delightfully credulous. Every week, I am absolutely floored by the wonderful world you apparently live in, where trees lift cars, and giant, mythic animals make ski tracks in the high mountain snow....
• Commented on HOWTO Click Train Your Dog
  Any animal can be classically conditioned. Dogs are social animals, though, and are uniquely tuned to social cues, like anger or happiness. Clicker training to me seems like training a lab rat. It takes more discipline on your part, but...
• Commented on Giant Jules Verne diver takes to the streets of Nantes, courtesy of the Sultan's Elephant people
  Mantini, you gimmicky bastard......
• Commented on Odd photo of the week
  And a lesson: Low-rise jeans are for girls....
• Commented on Daydreaming brains are afire
  Work like this is nearly useless. It has no explanatory power. First: the pretty lights are, fundamentally, blood flow carrying energy to "active" parts of the brain. If you don't know what "active" means, that's ok, neither do the scientists....
• Commented on GOOD: Lake Mead is drying up
  Low-flow toilets, low pressure faucets, and rainwater harvesting are all good stuff in the desert, but fundamentally they're a way to distract people from the real problem. Farming uses 80-90% of a desert community's water. Golf courses, green lawns, and...
• Favorited Britain's "Great Firewall" set to restrict access to Wikipedia on Boing Boing
• Commented on Hamster on whether organic food tastes better
  Hi Kids! Time to learn that science is a soul-crushing descent into nihilsm! To truly validate the results of this experiment, you have to 1) switch the right and left positions of the organic and conventional foods, and 2) test...
• Commented on Hillbilly Comics: America's Zaniest Hillfolk
  "Offensive?" These are my people. My Grandpappy's last name was Hill. 'Cause that's where he lived, and ain't nobody remembert any other name. None of them would find this offensive, because they know they're better than you. You wouldn't survive...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  In Illinois, just outside of St. Louis, is the Blue Springs Cafe (http://www.foothipies.com/). Yes, the pies are lovely, but it has the best, down-homiest cooking on your whole route. Ho-made meatloaf, fried chicken, catfish, mmmmm.......
• Commented on Muntadar "Shoe-Tossing Iraqi Guy" al-Zaidi: Jailed, Beaten, Status Unknown
  I know the USA is teh evil, but ya'll need to see past that to see this current event clearly. He embarrassed the *Iraqi* government, and the *Iraqis* are punishing him. This is an issue with convincing a society to...
• Commented on McCain-Palin campaign dumps Blackberries loaded with personal numbers, internal email
  Whoah, thanks for pointing out that forgetting to erase information makes an organization unqualified to run the Executive branch. I'll sure remember not to vote for those guys in the upcoming election! Hey, wait a minute......
• Commented on Scientists extract images directly from brain
  Spoil-sport alert: There is a theoretical limit of resolution for fMRI, because it is based on blood flow. Even if you can resolve a single vessicle, the blood flow still tells you that there was activity surrounding that vessicle that...
• Commented on British censorship of Wikipedia prevents anonymous editing
  Oh, and also: According to the site that you can't see (thanks censors!), the art was pushed on the band by the record label, deliberately trying to generate controversy and therefore sales. Not exactly high art. To be protected, for...
• Commented on British censorship of Wikipedia prevents anonymous editing
  For you Brits who can't see the image: It's bad. It's a naked girl, maybe 9 or 10, in a provocative pose. This is just another example of the uncomfortable position defending speech puts us in. Yes, freedoms should be...
• Commented on Google releasing speak-to-search iPhone app
  Is that Jack Bauer? It looks like Jack Bauer. Jack? Is that you?...
• Commented on When a Fire Hits the Taxidermist
  French soldiers routinely patrol Paris?...
• Commented on McCain To ACORN: You Are 'What Makes America Special'
  I thought changing your mind was a sign of a mature, nuanced politician? Is McCain a *gasp* flip-flopper?...
• Commented on Scientist who did groundwork for Chemistry Nobel now works for $10/h at a Toyota dealership
  At least his idea wasn't just poached. There's nobility in giving your work so that the science can proceed without you, but nothing but a wretched, futile anger in having someone run off with your idea and bring it to...
• Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
  #66 - You have no idea what my affiliations are. Don't place your own empty-headed partisan motivations on others. Your lack of class is showing. I go to right-leaning sites to refute their rumors about the Democratic candidates. Credulous acceptance...
• Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
  For a group of people who write about science and technology, ya'll are awfully credulous when it comes to anything that reinforces your political beliefs. One person, who is a noted political adversary, says she told him this. That's weak....
• Commented on Rare MLK speech on civil disobedience
  Remember, kids: True civil disobedience means you go to jail. Listen to Uncle Henry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau). No having Mommy and Daddy's lawyer get you out....
• Commented on Plants make aspirin-like chemical
  I work in this field. Reading about work done in my field always makes me distrust everything I read about other fields. This has absolutely been demonstrated before outside of the laboratory. This is just the first time it's been...
• Commented on The Ellsberg Paradox
  As usual, why buy this book with the tortured, illogical description of the paradox, when Wikipedia does it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsberg_paradox The Wikipedia description makes sense. Check it out....