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• Commented on Face painting art
  Imaginative, yes, but... um... ewww....
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Oh, I had assumed it was a kit for defending =against= bicycles. But it's actual a motor vandalism kit, it seems....
• Commented on Crucixion and beheading for child rapist in Saudi Arabia
  No sympathy for the perp, but I trust Gandalf on this one: "Deserves death? Many that live deserve death, and many who die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too quick to deal out...
• Commented on ICANN haz cheezburger (Update to "Xeni on Maddow")
  Look, I've seen enough science fiction to know that English is spoken on pretty much all planets in the known universe. Chinese, only in the 34 Tauri (2020) system, and other languages, pretty much not. So it's clear that allowing...
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  Excuse me while I run, screaming. Aaaaaggggghhhhh!!!...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  Whatevs. They should have had male strippers too, though....
• Commented on Laura Levine photography at Brooklyn Museum exhibition of Rock & Roll photography 1955-present
  One of my all-time favorite photos. Ah, Bjork......
• Commented on Soft mobile morphing robots
  It's a baby rover! Be seeing you......
• Commented on Can you tell if people are dangerous by looking at their face?
  I'm working on setting up a Reverse Phrenology practice, myself. Instead of merely predicting personality traits based on the shape on your head, this cutting-edge medical technique (pioneered on Discworld) actually induces desired new personality traits by changing the shape...
• Commented on Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage
  Awesome, truly awesome....
• Commented on The American Spirit
  @48, I read that with my blurry morning eyes as "Tron Age superstitions." But that's around the same thing, when you think of it. ;-) Gettin' more ponderful, I find the word "superstition" a rather useless term. Really, all a...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  The ban is ridiculous, in my opinion, but it's great to see that, should I ever want another kretek, I can make one myself, or buy a re-packaged clove "cigar." Mmmm, cloves......
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  Count me as one who is likewise baffled that =anyone= could defend or apologize for Polanski here. It's an outrage that he's evaded justice for so long, and I applaud his arrest. And while I empathize with the victim's current...
• Commented on Vintage ads from a contrafactual history
  Wow - I went to high school in Tavares (back before the orange groves all died), and never expected to see it featured in a bb post. Love the "Climb Mt. Dora" poster (there is no mountain there, not even...
• Commented on Twist Barbie
  Yep, that's the Knife alright - though the remix does trippify their sound quite a bit. Their "Tortoise Brand Pot Scrubbing Cleaners" song remains my favorite. Naritaina!...
• Commented on Touchable holography
  Sounds like it's more of a force-feedback thing that actual touch....
• Commented on Steampunk rugged corset
  I find myself in hearty disagreement with Mojave and Jewels Vern here; the model is quite lovely. But Quibbler is right, that hammer should be retired....
• Commented on Haunted Mansion 40th birthday video
  One of the (few) benefits of growing up in Central Florida was the fact that, since so many teens found work at Disney, we always had a good supply of complimentary "magic key" tickets (this was in the days of...
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  You go, Barney! Exactly the kind of put-down such nonsense deserves....
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  I find it very strange to think moving a meeting forward could mean making it later. For me, forward means moving a calendar event closer to me, and back, farther away (into the future). For example, when a project deadline...
• Commented on Self-healing surfaces
  I'll be impressed when science can not only create self-healing materials, but in such a way that they are grown from a single molecule that encodes an entire self-building machine, of a vast variety of types depending on what is...
• Commented on 1950s Beauty Pageant Judging Guidelines
  @12, I agree - 3 is much more my cuppa than 7. But even so, beauty comes in so many shapes, it's ridiculous to use a chart like this....
• Commented on Designer thermometer looks like a clock
  Must be nice to live in an area that only needs a humidometer to go up to 90%. Back in Florida, it would just stay pegged all the time....
• Commented on Oleg Sharov plays "Flight of the Bumblebee" on accordion
  Dude, that's not just an accordion, that's a free-bass bayan. Sweet box. The button layout is such that you can transpose to any key simply by shifting you starting position - all the rest remains the same. Much easier than...
• Commented on Giant clock made with human bodies
  Also, how do you tell the minute hand from the hour hand? Not to mention a millennium hand... and shrimp....
• Commented on 80 year old wind up bear polishes his spectacles, over and over and Over
  @#1 definitely beat me to the punch, Rupert Giles was my first thought as well. Of course, if it really was a Giles bear, it would also get knocked unconscious on a regular basis....
• Commented on Music and the mind
  I've come to think of music as the mathematics of emotion, and these studies seem to support that. It would be very interesting to do some studies with folks from a variety of different cultures....
• Commented on Cheap Trick releases an album on 8-Track
  The new album, issued on Cheap Trick's own label, is comprised of 12 songs... Comprises 12 songs, you mean. Or you could say is composed of. But please, let's end the horrid misconstruction "is comprised of."...
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  What an eejit......
• Commented on Stoned wallabies make crop circles
  Headlines like this make me happy. :-)...