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• Commented on Tales from a kangaroo shooter
  "I learned to get tough, how to do some hard, hard work, and how to put aside all my delicate city liberal ideas and face the realities of the food chain." That's great. And when you learn and think more,...
• Commented on Garden Jawa
  Boring / does nothing for me. Star Wars has been mined-to-death....
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  I *am* "impressed." I thought only we Americans were that paranoid....
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Answer to the Question, "WTF is Dairy Drink?" To paraphrase Lt. Data, from a STNG episode: "It's...it's...It's white." Seriously, it's what they call something thinks which needs to sound vaguely wholesome, but which are loaded with artifical ingredients, and contain...
• Commented on The Magicians: a fantasy novel of wonder without sentimentality
  I love the cover. I don't know why. Something about the trees and the water moves me....
• Commented on T-shirt design contest for Fender
  I did a web site for a cheap jerk who wanted to sponsor a one-time photo contest, in order to get (and use) a photo for his home page. He was going to "reward" the winner with a bottle of...
• Commented on Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big
  Wanted: Model for Ralph Lauren clothes. Must be 5'10" and weigh no more than 60 pounds....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I find the new design harder to read, and it takes more reading to locate the articles in which I am interested. Hence, I don't think I will visit as often. We are all entitled to our opinions. My opinion...
• Commented on Wingnut extreme: Glenn Beck says "Story of Stuff" is Commie propaganda
  Since Beck wasn't an adult in 1950, and wasn't alive in 1920 or a hundred years ago, he really has, no first hand personal or mature understanding of why America is or is not as happy during the years mentioned....
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  "The Burqini has gotten a lot of backlash from governments in Europe. But I don't think any government has a right to tell people how to dress." Riiiggghhtttt... You don't think any government has the right etc. etc. etc., but...
• Commented on Red dawn in Australia
  @3 I agree. Anyplace that uniquely has as many deadly snakes, box jellyfish, irikanji, funnel web spiders, blue-ringed octopus, "salties," etc. etc. is unlikely to have me as a tourist....
• Commented on List of books read by backpackers
  "Knots" by R.D. Liang. A very thin book which will have you scratching your head, thinking about it. "They are playing a game. They are playing a game about not playing a game. If I let them *know* they are...
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  I suppose it is possible they just blasted-out this nonsense to serve as a legal catch-all. That way, they can review any link to their product, decide whether it is objectionable (e.g., "hot-linking," as someone else said), and act accordingly....
• Commented on Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book
  I remember the ABZ book from a Playboy magazine feature. "G is for Gigolo" Definitely not a children's book. (Laughs)...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  @28 FutureNerd, "behavior like this protest has so little to do with ***what is wanted*** in an online game" (emphasis added) FN, if you think having the players of *your* online game (if you had one) cooperate in a formal...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  @25 Games don't have rights. They have rules. This is not reality, this is a game. You think this is reality? When you violate the rules of a game, you forfeit something: your turn, the match, your ability to participate,...
• Commented on Irate Chinese gamers block re-launch of classic game by blockading the gates to its cities
  It's an interesting type of protest, massing avatars to shut-down the virtual city. There's a parable or book here somewhere (hint, hint). "The thing is," it amounts to a DoS-type of attack on the service providers, because no one can...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  @14, t3knomanser "Gram for gram, I'll take an accidental release of plutonium over an accidental release of chlorine or fluorine any day." Then you really ought to learn some science. Plutonium is the most deadly substance known. One *atom*, lodged...
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  I liked this. It was thoughtful, nobody was rude to anyone else or Sen. Franken, and he was intelligently explaining why he felt health care *must* be reformed. Anyone who disrupts a town hall meeting (which is *not* a campaign...
• Commented on Video tour through the history of SFX
  Forbidden Planet was the best! The effects when the "Monster from the Id" is trying to break through the force field is utterly incredible, and the electronic music soundtrack...wonderful! I thought this picture was great in black-and-white, but seeing it...
• Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
  @5 'And yet this directly echoes what Kosher consumers expect, and we're all "respectful" of THAT insanity because it's based on religion...?' Gosh, you sound offended. And what pissed you off so much...that some people choose to follow a (religious...
• Commented on Brendan Tang's manga ming vases
  I'd hate to have to describe this object in a police report. Officer: "Can you describe the stolen vase?" Me: "Uh...no."...
• Commented on iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult
  "iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult" P.S. Let's not forget that Steve Jobs "invented" (stole) most of the Mac from the Xerox Alto. Success truly has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. See anyone bragging about...
• Commented on iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult
  "You imitate the best and you steal from the rest." - Joni Mitchell...
• Commented on Appreciation for a forgotten typewriter
  I like typewriters. They are the right tool for many jobs. I used to envy two expensive tools in engineering companies: IBM Selectric typewriters and Tektronix oscilloscopes. If you had those, you were a "real" company....
• Commented on Food and wine as collateral for bank loans
  It will make a fine Simpson's episode: Homer, while visiting Italy, falls into the vault and eats a billion Euros-worth of food....
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  I'm SO glad Rep. Frank responded forcefully to this nonsense....
• Commented on Paul Krassner remembers Woodstock
  Whoops, "personality" - before the pedant corrects me again....
• Commented on Paul Krassner remembers Woodstock
  @23 MDH Re: affected - I stand corrected. Thanks to you and your tapeworm/other pesonality, since "we're" being pedantic....
• Commented on Paul Krassner remembers Woodstock
  @21 My points were a) Townshend has no right to assault people who wander on stage, and b) a solid body electric guitar could definitely kill someone. If, for examnple, I hit you in the head with the body of...