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• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  The truth is, deficit spending is the only thing propping up our sorry economy over the last year. The republicans knew that as well as the democrats back when Bush authorized TARP at the end of his term. Demonizing a...
• Commented on Artist turns village into optical illusion
  I'm surprised the owners let him do this. I wouldn't want some random guy spray painting stuff on my quaint little cottage....
• Commented on Skiing robot
  Awesome, when is somebody going to start up bot olympics?...
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  I noticed some of the models had that electro goo painted on their lips. What, no demonstration?...
• Commented on Adventures in ill-advised graphic design: Singapore anti- sex trafficking poster
  Looks like a god candidate for Fail Blog....
• Commented on Modular Snake Robot
  Cool!! Can they be trained to hunt rats and other vermin?...
• Commented on Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books
  My wife and I considered buying a kindle. Due to these cheesy antics we've decided against it. Does anyone at Amazon pay attention to this stuff?...
• Commented on Video: from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens in 5 minutes
  Very cool, though I had more fun grabbing the progress bar at the bottom and sliding it back and forth....
• Commented on How cats manipulate us
  I have a pug that makes snorting sounds like that. Pretty sure she is doing it for the same reasons....
• Commented on Rushkoff: "Google's War On The PC"
  Good luck to Google. They're going to need it to avoid the same fate as IBM's OS/2. What are they really bringing to the table? Sounds like it will be lighter and simpler, which will be nice, but if it...
• Commented on Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
  Anyone remix this with new music yet? I'd love to see it with a trippy ambient techno track....
• Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet
  For the first time ever I actually do agree with Palin. Alaska will be better off with her leaving office early....
• Commented on Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists
  My money's on the Buddhist monk....
• Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  I'm glad he lost. I attended BM several times from the late 90s to the early 2000s. For me it represented a real freedom. It was a place where anything goes. Part art expo, part rave, part festival, it was...
• Commented on Lenovo expanding Del and Esc keys, nuking Caps Lock
  DO NOT GET RID OF CAPS LOCK! I use it all the time. Sometimes when writing, sometimes for data entry into an antiquated system I'm forced to use. Make it smaller and/or move it away from the 'a' and 'shift'...
• Commented on Stoned wallabies make crop circles
  Best headline ever!...
• Commented on Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them
  Looks like I won't be buying a kindle. When will these guys get it through their heads? Unlike a hardcopy book that can be taken anywhere, an electronic copy is worthless without a device to display it on. And with...
• Commented on Harper's Weekly for May 19, 2009
  I guess antisemitism is one of those 'traditional values'....
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  Pretty tasteless. Someone's asking to get their car keyed....
• Commented on Cannonball floating in mercury
  Cool video, though I would've been a lot more careful dropping the ball. Mecury is nasty stuff to be splashing around....
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