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• Commented on Cuba Tiene Hambre: A Viral Video Makes the Rounds
  This may sound like a crazy theory, but I believe there's a small chance that Cuba can use the same soil fertile enough to grow potent weed to also create vegetable gardens....
• Commented on Jared Diamond lecture on the evolution of religion
  I love the big balls creation myth he leads with. Today, I take my first steps on a promising spiritual journey toward enlightenment and friendship!...
• Commented on Jared Diamond lecture on the evolution of religion
  I love the big balls creation myth he leads with. Today, I take my first steps on a spiritual journey toward enlightenment....
• Commented on Jared Diamond lecture on the evolution of religion
  I love the big balls creation myth he leads with. Today, I take my first steps on a spiritual journey toward enlightenment....
• Favorited Sean Williams's Darwinian religion novel CROOKED LETTER now free download on Boing Boing
• Favorited "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" 1975 Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams on Boing Boing
• Favorited "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" 1975 Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams on Boing Boing
• Favorited "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" 1975 Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams on Boing Boing
• Commented on Scavenger's Manifesto: HOWTO be an urban scavenger
  I love the book cover's claim that dumpster diving can save not only the entire earth, but my immortal soul. Really? /silly hippies....
• Commented on Welcome to LEGO. These are your business cards.
  Why do they employ so many asians?...
• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
  We brought much of this on ourselves. The sad fact is that most of these asshats are suspected of criminal wrongdoing but our government is reticent, perhaps down-right powerless to investigate since our government is now their largest shareholder....
• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
  A token civil measure where extraordinary punitive recourse is required. People like these execs will only continue to drive america on a course toward economic extinction unless their livelihoods, not just their bonuses, are put on the line....
• Commented on AIG Ripoff Gets More Maddening
  Time to load my shotgun....
• Commented on Soviet Unterzoegersdorf part 2: Monochrom's retro-sov-kitsch game!
  I grow weary of your Bre Pettis nerd-crush. Sincerely, Dr. Horrible...
• Commented on FCC raids gang-sponsored pirate radio station in Florida
  Damn liberal drive-by media! Now where do I turn for the lastest info on smack and bitches?...
• Commented on Anatomical model arm and bird sculpture
  So the premonition is that birds will be immune to the impending flesh-eating zombie virus?...
• Commented on Stabbing pen
  No death ray attachment?...
• Commented on Mystery sonic boom in California
  SHAZAM!!...
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  I hate big signs....
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  Your example of atheists praying hits close to home for me, as I spent much of the morning with the family of a little girl who was having heart surgery. We laughed, cried, and spent time praying. I bowed my...
• Commented on Octopus removes valve, floods floor of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
  Maybe it fell in love with the majesty of colors? http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/the-majesty-of-colors...
• Commented on Sean Williams's Darwinian religion novel CROOKED LETTER now free download
  Major kudos to Mr. Williams for doing this. I will give his book a read....
• Commented on Re-Engineering Fundamentalism
  The first paragraphs embody the core beliefs of structuralism (I heartily recommend Culler's The Pursuit of Signs if anyone is interested in boning up on the topic) but I was lost when the op-ed diverged into cheerleading ideological luddites, an...
• Commented on Ian McDonald's "Cyberabad Days" -- short stories in 2047 India that blend technology with spirituality, love, sex, war and humanity
  @FLYING MONKEY: I'll just have to blind nil bet that you're right on Murakami Haruki, having only attempted one of his books in my reading, and failing at that because of my aversion to the stilted prose lost/found in translation....
• Commented on I think it's time for another baby/synthesizer video.
  "You know mother, as first lady of the American stage Helen Hayes once said: I'm going to kill you!" -Stewie...
• Commented on Only on Offworld: Write a legend for EA's card-game RTS <em>BattleForge</em>
  "We rejoiced when the demons began to fight each other each carved a wound in the body of his brother but from the pain they drew strength and then came at our flank Sending us running for cover." From "The...
• Commented on PinballHD: the 1080p digital pinball cab
  I'm still saving for an UltraPin machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraPin...
• Commented on Ian McDonald's "Cyberabad Days" -- short stories in 2047 India that blend technology with spirituality, love, sex, war and humanity
  @Flying Monkey: It's hard to neatly cram Mitchell into the hardcore British SF box, but you could say the same of Jim Crace (another limey) or Margaret Atwood (a Canuck, so British by proxy, much like Cory). And I thought...
• Commented on Ian McDonald's "Cyberabad Days" -- short stories in 2047 India that blend technology with spirituality, love, sex, war and humanity
  @flyingmonkey: *cough* *cough* *david mitchell* *cough* But yes. McDonald is a rare talent....
• Commented on Tomorrow is Britain's nationwide "Convention on Modern Liberty"
  oppression costs money That's a rather odd picture in the article you linked. Man dressed in blue smurf suit and surgical mask holds camera while giving the thumbs up to a couple of policemen. Sweet!...