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• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  Many happy Returns, or should that be "A" buttons?...
• Commented on Gentleman arrested by fashion police at LA airport for wearing his living lizard suit
  Coming IN to LAX, from Australia....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Thank you, Steve. You have achieved the single most desired result of my favourite grassroots campaign. http://foxnewsboycott.com/...
• Commented on Spectacular slow card-flourishes from Dimitri Arleri
  Better than OK! That's some hypnotizing stuff there. (They call it "cardistry", apparently)...
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  Looks like he wants to set up something like ACORN for wingnuts....
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  I remember reading an interview with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, about 1982. They had just toured the US and were charting with "Brass in pocket", you know the filmclip where she appears as a waitress in a short skirt....
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  Lisa describes the first performance as "Norah Jones-ish music", as though this was artifice and the Lady Gaga presentation is a true and unique aesthetic. Perhaps if she had sung her ballads dressed in only underwear....
• Commented on Video of Tiny Tim performance mentioned in Pynchon's Inherent Vice
  This should be played at the Copenhagen Climate Summit opening....
• Commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
  Rick Roll your MP's with pirated MP3's, then dob them in to the IP cops....
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  Looks like it is equipped with built-in webcam....
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  Have to say, after much thought on the subject, this is no Photoshop tweak but a simple case of the anomalies that arise when rendering a 3D figure on a 2D plane. "Foreshortening" is what the artists of pencil and...
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  Is that the "Pelosi mouse" being kicked?...
• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  There has been a heat wave in Adelaide, South Australia, for the last 10 days or so. 40+ deg C every day and koalas are dropping their usual mistrust of humans and are begging for water. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz6fwDph8wQ...
• Commented on Orgy: the game from 1967
  In much the same memewidth, from 1974 - Organized Crime The Board Game. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1133...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  Warning. Do not use after smoking PCP....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Would be better to teach your daughter Roman numerals....
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  They finally posted something I suggested....
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  By all means, Rupert, please retreat to whatever haven you care for. There is a quite active movement calling for Google to boycott Fox/News LTD "content". http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/news-aggregators/ Give me a few days and I will put together a Hosts file/AdBlock...
• Commented on Folk covers of punk classics
  Sara Lee played bass for the Indigo Girls through most of the 90's. Ex-Gang of Four bass player, one of the most influential bass guitarists, along with Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads, in modern music....
• Commented on Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays
  Those tubes are pumping Vodka directly into the bloodstream of Ms Fisher, I imagine....
• Commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
  I remember reading Harlan Ellison's collection of New Wave SF, "Dangerous Visions", in the '70s. Mind-blowing stories considered to be too weird by most SF magazines. But they all depicted, in a nuanced sort of way, the world we currently...
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  They have been running an ad on Australian TV for some years now. I always thought it to be an offering from an environmentalist group as it mainly discusses global warming. Only recently I noticed this Supreme Master logo at...
• Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
  Love a good lemon soda/sparkling mineral water. Best with quinine added for extra sharpness....
• Commented on Copyright documentary from Australian radio
  Perhaps "Oscar" could populate his rather emaciated blog with more telling topics about the ABC - how it as become a whore for Murdoch's "Australian" and every other right wing "think-tank" (Tax Exempt Lobbyist) you could imagine. The Lowy Institute,...
• Commented on Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries
  Got my Zoloft yesterday, $5.30 AU....
• Commented on The real HAL 9000
  I can't let you sing that, Dave....
• Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
  OMG, my 2 year old has trouble remembering things, becomes irritable and aggressive at random! It's Alzheimer's disease!...
• Commented on Mickey Mouse comics drawn by concentration camp prisoner
  Like Virgil as the guide in Dante's "Divine Comedy"? Nice touch, but what would Walt do?...
• Commented on Track where US gov bailout trillions went with augmented reality mobile app
  Would be better if you could track each individual derivatives trader. Then you could follow them around with one of those cardboard video cameras....
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  Drunkest BMW goes back for more fail....