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• Commented on Obey CDC, or Thomas R. Frieden Has a Posse
  something has happened to your commenters - where's all the dissent? the argument? have they all tired of it?here's one: http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm...
• Commented on Canada's top Internet regulator calls Canadians "Internet hogs," pretends not to know about studies showing Canada's poor global net-performance
  hi COry - something is fishy here... all these neutral and CRTC-supportive cooments don't add up... if oyu go to discussions in Canada, they are rife with hatred for the collusion between the big3 and the CRTC. seeing all these...
• Commented on Tupac in Kazakhstan
  "real Kazakhs" ?! "rename the place"?! I'll tell you what needs a change is your Amer-o-centric egos. we Kazakhs have a far longer history and do not need a name change nor do we need your tourist videos. Seriously, your...
• Commented on Report: Two journalists imprisoned in North Korea to be released
  @Antonius because even though I am 'free' to comment, comments have no value @79 what I think is irrelevant, sending Bill C on a mission vs. 'working' on others is a big difference...
• Commented on Report: Two journalists imprisoned in North Korea to be released
  when you mentioned this story a few weeks ago, i asked a question, and I find it interesting and a little shocking that its not discussed here, regardless of anyone seeing the note about it before - why is no...
• Commented on Berlin's luxury car arsonists
  this is called 'car-bequeing' where I come from...
• Commented on Social media in times of political crisis: six "lessons learned"
  some say that twitter helped those in the Iranian crisis - truth is, the Iranian crisis probably just saved twitter... it is inane and the usage was dropping rapidly until this Iranian election. it will probably still drop off the...
• Commented on Skateboarder trips, strips, and disturbs neighbors
  those 'people' were there alright, the non-hallucinated mind just can't accept that...
• Commented on Little Brother fan-trans into Slovak
  I have a question about CC since you don't speak Slovak, how do you trust his translation? ultimately he could re=write the end or something? i once made a music video for the first East European hiphop act to...
• Commented on Canadian ISPs need you to tell the regulator to force Bell to stop screwing them -- and the Canadian public
  "Either that, or they don't know how the Internet works" oh, they know how it works alright: on their terms, like all corporatist-governmental collusion that forms the basis for Canadian 'civil society.' the repeated stories of how Canada has one...
• Commented on Laura Ling Interview from 2005
  and now Gore will be sent to mediate a release? so every time Current gets a 'journalist' in a tough spot, the ex-VP plays the trump card? what if the NYT had two journalists nabbed? would it have come to...
• Commented on Students who went on strike over CCTVs in classroom speak
  Observing a thing changes it...? thanks Cory for this and for beating the CBC with the Geist post below...
• Commented on Fake Chinese antimalarials sold in Nigeria with "Made in India" lable
  I'm not anti-Chinese, but the potential nasty coming out of that huge population is only just starting to show itself i hope its not tiresome that I suggest a viewing of this 15 min film made by an American: http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/haha_america/...
• Commented on Boing Boing Video: Welcome, Miles O'Brien!
  @9 - totally right. Miles was on CNN when the twin towers got hit - he was the smartest of the lot - got out a map and talked about the timing of the event and the planning, while it...
• Commented on Photos from abandoned clothing factory
  it was Gerry's dad, with Kramer as business partner... Costanza's dad had his Florida stuff sold by George...
• Commented on Avoid toxic people
  not doing so well thus far on this one... so if I spend time with someone who challenges my ego (rightly) and I go home and have to have a think about my behavior, then I should avoid that person?...
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  Playboy Journo Bets He Can Endure 15 Seconds Of Waterboarding http://www.playboy.com/articles/lab-rat-waterboarding/index.html...
• Commented on Homer's Odyssey on Twitter
  i'm waiting for Shitter, your laptop makes little wet-farting sounds of all the puerile ideas that come up to waste your existence 'laughing' about...
• Commented on "Marx was Right!"
  @54 & 69- agreed, flip flop philosophy. @46 - me too... well sort of, and it was 1999, and I admit I was a little immature and pedantic (even though I was right) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/streetcred.html?pg=14...
• Commented on Web Zen: Zoo Zen Revisited
  zen and porn are words you misuse repeatedly there's nothing zen about it...
• Commented on YouTube clips as instruments
  isn't that Cory on the Bass? and had to be funk - love the funk. wonder if it would work if you mashed some classical together...
• Commented on Hand-tooled aluminum hard hat
  @14 - ?...
• Commented on Photos from Pripyat, abandoned Chernobyl workers' town
  anyone notice the English text in the photo of drinking glasses about 1/2 way down the page? "The Japan Robot" ?!?! etc... wonder what that's about. here's a vid of Czech artist Monika Naceva in a decayed building in .cz...
• Commented on Hand-tooled aluminum hard hat
  a Brit named C. Langley Aldrich was an expert on trains back in the 1940's maybe he was over in asia after the war building railways? i bet there's an ancestor who would want that...
• Commented on We are Fractal Sheep
  "Our survival as a species (a.k.a. Good) depends on each of us fighting for what we believe in." a nice discussion, but how do you make these grandiose statements that are so easily disputable? You cannot compare the human population...
• Commented on Are the photos of Borneo's monster snake real?
  scale: the average tree in the forest is 40-60feet tall, this monster would be at least 500 feet long - it's so pathetic - somebody pay someone good at this to really get us going would you?...
• Commented on Conan copyright trolls censor fan-readings of public domain stories
  I'm off on a bit of a tangent, so ignore me if you must. the line "reach countries" sets me off a bit, two reasons: 1. I am in Canada, where I watched a CBC national tv show, that had...
• Commented on Mardi Gras, about 70 years ago, New Orleans LA.
  two comments above hint at the reality of the day ('black and white' and 'must be in another part of town where the fun is')... I looked closely, and these folks all seem white and well dressed, so most probably...
• Commented on Interview with creator of $500 Half-Life movie
  a very impressive bit of work, and I mean no offense, but as a well-heeled low-budgeter, I have some problems with this number "$500" - it assumes the computers they work on cost nothing, the software cost nothing, and their...
• Commented on Bruce Sterling: Funeral for Analog TV (video)
  all due respect to Mr. Sterling, seriously, I totally respect him since I heard of him years ago, but a thirty second intro for an internet video is asking too much from the modern audience - and the bad-angled mono-shot...