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• Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
  Oh, even better: http://www.waitrose.com/branches/branchdetails.aspx?uid=748...
• Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
  The store was Waitrose, in Buxton, somewhere in the UK....
• Commented on What's going on in Bush's mind here?
  As a photographer, I'd like to point out that it is fantastically easy to make a person look sad, happy, angry, apathetic, or however I happen to wish to depict someone. All I need to do is set my camera...
• Commented on The delightful Mardi Gras King Cake
  Fun facts: Babies in king cakes weren't common until the '50s, and even then weren't thought to have anything to do with Jesus. Some people assumed that's what the baby was about, and more people started putting the baby in...
• Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
  IN UR JUNK, BEIN PREZIDENCHAL...
• Commented on Left-handed people more inhibited?
  When one is told throughout their formative years that something which comes quite naturally to them is, in fact, unnatural and harmful, one might expect to develop problems with self-confidence. Being left-handed is a stigma for young people, and mildly...
• Commented on Browse iTunes for music, then buy from Amazon
  Awesome. As long as iTunes keeps enforcing the policies that make me unable to move my music around on my computers, I'll keep on buying from Amazon, and this makes it even easier....
• Commented on Fun with sine-wave speech
  mzng, th pwr xpcttn hs vr prcptn. Mght vn cs n t prcv th n-wrd t b spkn drng rlly n s lrdy bsd gnst....
• Commented on Palin hears rally attendee call Obama "n-word" during speech, keeps on truckin'.
  Baaaw, hiss, boo, this blog isn't exactly what I, a person who contributes nothing to it, want it to be! The writers make no claims about being centrists or being politically balanced, yet I keep expecting them to post things...
• Commented on Palin hears rally attendee call Obama "n-word" during speech, keeps on truckin'.
  I'm kinda glad she stuttered instead of taking the McCain route and saying something like, "No, no ma'am, he's not a n*, he's a decent, family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with." The best way...
• Commented on Anti-Scientology YouTube videos censored by the thousands
  @ anyone who is claiming that Scientology is just like other religions: Most religions don't have prison camps. Most religions don't encourage their "clergy" to have abortions under threat of excommunication. Most religions don't lie about their own belief systems....
• Commented on UK teen faces prosecution for sign calling Scientology a "dangerous cult"
  I love the Guardian, and I love that they're calling bullshit on the cult. Further, I love that BoingBoing is interested enough the subject to bring it even more attention. The following quote from the article is very telling: "The...
• Commented on 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened
  Nice to see the Parliament bombing conspiracy and Operation Snow White talked about in the same article....
• Commented on Site helps you find rotten neighbors
  For anyone who followed the Boulder land-grab case: http://www.rottenneighbor.com/story.php?id=56559 Ha!...
• Commented on Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
  Just about every digital camera under the sun, still or video, is more or less sensitive to the light spectrum immediately outside the human-visible range. You could pull the same trick with a UV light, too. I use IR leds...
• Commented on Return of Diana camera after 35 years
  @ Fnarf Seriously? A Diana knockoff? That's... staggering....
• Commented on Return of Diana camera after 35 years
  $50 is pretty steep for a what amounts to a crappy 120 camera. I'll use my $15 Holga over it any day. There's something really funny to me about the way it brags of having 4 f-stops. I have to...
• Commented on Supreme Court denies Alabama women mechanically induced orgasms
  @ Vertigo25: "This is the same state that only started allowing inter-racial marriages in 2000." The laws were still on the books, but no one paid attention to them. Inter-racial marriages were allowed for quite a while before that. "They...
• Commented on Archibishop of Mozambique: condoms and HIV cocktails will give you AIDS
  Every time someone who holds some sort of religious power opens his/her mouth and says something destructive like this, I have to wonder if the statement comes from genuine belief or a desire for control. I think that the two...
• Commented on Burma: internally displaced demonstrate in rural areas
  There's an AP article out that described how satellite imagery has been used to further confirm suspicions of human rights abuses in those villages: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_go_ot/myanmar_satellites;_ylt=Au8a.VgGxBFk_CpBnSDy.DWs0NUE...
• Commented on Burma: 'net cut as brutal crackdown worsens
  I wonder if the government actually believes that cutting internet will prevent the rest of the world from finding out what is happening within the Myanmar borders. Do they really think that cutting easy real-time access means no access at...
• Commented on Digital photo of pursesnatcher
  @Joe Cunningham I get all warm and fuzzy when I see something about a photographer saving the day. Nice job....
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @skep "... it is possible to show that certain ideas of a god are logically inconsistent with the way the world works." Most Christians are fine with that when it concerns the inconsistent actions or words of their god. While...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @ Skep "the degree to which the Old Testament is rescinded by the New Testament is not, and cannot be reasonably stated to be unequivocal" Sure. I'm just looking at what most Christians tend to believe, at least in terms...
• Commented on Myth of psychotic cat artist busted
  This is awesome. I think we too easily assume creativity is the result of insanity or excessive drug use. It bugs the hell out of me for when someone looks at a piece of art and readily concludes with either...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @ Skep, again! re my statement: "most of the commandments are still valid under the New Testament" I won't deliver verse-by-verse explanationb of this, but stuff like "don't kill," "don't worship other gods before Jehova," etc. were very strongly implied...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @ Skep I'll dismiss any attempts to push Christian propaganda regarding "keep the sabbath day holy" and "don't take the lord's name in vain" as socially harmful BS any day. That's what I rather belligerently called "dumb crap," because I...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @ Cap'n Tim "... more to religion changing to meet the evolving social mores of culture than it does about god giving the hebrews a new service pack update" That's my view of it, and the acceptance of rape is...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @Skep "...is that it is actually God who deliberately turns them gay as punishment for their failure to honor him." Exactly. That's the good stuff, not that silly "OT says this, but NT says this!" The Bible is full of...
• Commented on A year of following all the rules in the Bible
  @ Skep "As I noted earlier, the degree to which Christians feel bound to the Old Testament varies radically... A prime example of this is the zeal with which some Christians attempt to inject the Ten Commandments into government and...