RainyRat

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• Commented on Jesus on clothes iron
  @mycophage - sorry, I tried....
• Commented on Jesus on clothes iron
  Interesting point - if Alan Moore was Jesus, would he believe in himself?...
• Commented on Jesus on clothes iron
  Looks more like Pareidolia to me......
• Commented on Sad, hurdy-gurdy Happy Birthday rendition from dying electronic candle
  I remember passing the bin enclosure round the back of my last flat in mid-January, to hear a very faint, tired-sounding electronic rendition of "We wish you a merry Christmas" seeping forlornly out of one of the bins. Funny and...
• Commented on Animated map of US unemployment stats since 2007 (spoiler: we're fading to black)
  So what's the deal with Cherry County, Nebraska? It doesn't change colour at all during the animation. No job losses at all, or did they just not file their population stats?...
• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  Hey! I can see Russia from my house too, and I live about 5,000 miles away. It's called Google Maps. Get with the 21st Century, people!...
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  Ye gods; dead behind the eyes, looking like they're made out of plastic; have we stumbled on the same place that Miley Cyrus came from?...
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  He points out the case of Eben Byers, the socialite son of a wealthy American industrialist, who died in 1932 after drinking more than 1000 bottles of a "medicine" made up of radium dissolved in water. There was a WSJ...
• Commented on What You Still Don't Know About You
  For a rather depressing take on the concept of where humour comes from, try Asimov's "Jokester"....
• Commented on XKCD: the limits of anti-static wrist-strap protection
  Of course, with a properly set-up TENS unit, you can do the exact opposite, and it's much more fun....
• Commented on Reading Radar API mashup
  I've never set much store by Amazon's automatic recommendations - last February, I was exhorted to treat myself with a romantic gift for Valentine's day. Suggestions for said romantic gift included "Struwwelhitler", "LAN Cabling, 2nd Edition" and "The Complete Cisco...
• Commented on Boing Boing guest blogger: Connie Choe!
  @Lobster: That's a great idea! In fact, we could t[CENSORED.CENSORED.CENSORED.CENSORED]ntil it explodes....
• Commented on Boing Boing guest blogger: Connie Choe!
  politics makes me sleepy and large crowds of people make me hyperventilate So presumably if you experienced both at the same time your brain would start rotating at high speed?...
• Commented on Shroud of Turin reproduced
  "it looks so lifelike[...], and therefore they say it cannot have been done by an artist. Hang on, what? It looks lifelike, and therefore can't have been created by mortal hands? So Garlaschelli's version should have been more of a...
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  @2 - The link is to Bruce Schneier's blog, and I think His Bruceness was speaking hypothetically. At least I really, really hope so......
• Commented on London bus with 16 CCTV cameras inside
  They've been around for a while, at least up here in Edinburgh. The ones we've got just have a single screen at the front of the top deck, that cycles through the views from all the cameras (or, occasionally, displays...
• Commented on Struggled Reagans: casting strange adult movie
  Hang on, hang on - I can see at least three paragraphs in the photo there. That's 60% too much plot for a decent porno....
• Commented on Floating, bright-colored marine tools
  Anonymous@17: Thanks for that. Was beginning to lose faith....
• Commented on UK Pirate Party launches
  UberDave@1: Something wrong with: faith_in_humanity++;?...
• Commented on Visualizing a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book
  #7 - Thanks for that. I suspected that all was not quite right with that book when I got told to remove a non-existent item from my inventory in the second paragraph that I got to. I wonder if I...
• Commented on Visualizing a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book
  I used to love the Jackson/Livingstone books, although I'd love to hear from anyone who actually completed "Rebel Planet". I'm still convinced that my version had a misprint or a missing page or something....
• Commented on Latvia says no more British bachelor parties
  Belgian@24: Find a Scot and tell him that. Go on, dare you....
• Commented on Terry Pratchett on the right to die
  "degradpulsorying"?? WTF?...
• Commented on Tenacious D to replace Beastie Boys at SF Outside Lands
  I have to say that I enjoy JB's musical stylings; sharp and deeply irreverent. I just wish he'd stop trying to act....
• Commented on And now, a motivational message from our kitteh life coach.
  #6: "Can I haz"?!? I CAN HAZ!! Grammar, boy, grammar!...
• Commented on Latvia says no more British bachelor parties
  Whenever I've been in America, I always seem to get mistaken for an Irishman; I used to assume that this was because of my fairly soft lowland Scottish accent, but I'm now wondering if it's just because I can stand...
• Commented on Pantsed celebrity photoshopping contest
  Good lord! He's got a huge ackman!...
• Commented on Bug-eyed steampunk monster mask
  Reminds me more of this: http://www.eagleleather.com.au/ProductDetails/1295/PUPPY-HOOD But that's just me....
• Commented on Hammer as "cure" for constipation?
  I think there must be something (else) wrong with me: the first thing that popped into my head about half-way through the article was "I could have come up with a WAY better excuse than that..." I think if I...
• Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
  He wasn't doing too badly. Right up until "going forward". Grrr....