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• Commented on New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven
  @IronEdithKidd, it's not presented as an Orthodox 'game.' Although, now I wonder if the Eastern Rite Catholics cross themselves Orthodox style....
• Commented on New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven
  This is a joke, and a poor one at that. (The rosary is a giveaway.) I look forward to the Islamic version. ("Shawiira!")...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  There's a couple problems here. The first is that this is horribly laid out, and not at all explained. It really does read like an intelligence test (I assume the kids got instruction in school, but it doesn't help the...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I had to read Vorn's explanation (twice) to make sense of it. KWillets seems to decipher the intent, but it's not really a situation where that is useful. So I have to wonder if this is helping anything....
• Commented on MADD honoree trooper busted for DWI
  Wait, a cop got busted for DWI? Must be some bad blood between the Lima and Waynesfield PDs....
• Commented on DC sniper to die today
  Yeah, I'm against the death penalty on general principle, but I'm not going to be lighting any candles over this....
• Commented on Brits: send a message to Mandelson and fight "three strikes"
  Hrm. The third panel has "these proposals will work against the aim of copyright - which is to help creatives earn a living from their work" No, the purpose is to create an incentive for the creation of new works....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Be comforted in the knowledge, TP, that you made someone look foolish....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Teapot, the difficulty of accounting for these 'fluctuations' is what raises serious concerns about climate model's ability to predict the future. Can you understand that? Also, calling someone an 'a-hole' right off the bat tends to undermine one's creditability. And...
• Commented on Bad Science Begets Ridiculous Results
  Yeah, this seems to be a redundant thing to ask of MBA students... Also, by offering such a contract, isn't the professor claiming he's the devil?...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "A creative way of admitting you were incorrect without at all addressing the topic." I asked a question, and Summer answered it (or, more exactly, gave the most plausible answer I've yet seen.) You just went on a rant. Guess...
• Commented on UCLA: livers for sale!
  @4 Anonymous, That's what I was remembering! Thanks....
• Commented on UCLA: livers for sale!
  Didn't this happen years ago? Or was that a different Japanese mobster? (I seem to remember the US Govt being involved for some reason.)...
• Commented on Brand New discusses our logo
  Make the logo bigger!...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Teapot, you could learn a thing from Summer....
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  I know next to nothing about Liquid Smoke, but Splendid Table is one of those NPR shows that sounds like the worst idea in the world, but turns out to be a 'driveway moment'....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Hrm. Interesting. Thanks, Summer....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "Sorry naysayers... you are wrong. We are responsible for some global warming, no matter what your misguided opinion is." OK. So how were we responsible for the Little Ice Age?...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Hopefully, we'll get the climate righted to the point where Greenland can support vineyards again....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "You don't seriously subscribe to the "once wrong, always wrong" theory, do you?" Fool me once, shame on you......
• Commented on ICANN haz cheezburger (Update to "Xeni on Maddow")
  That is how it happened, pretty much. Look at the development of the alphabet....
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "Beach houses are one thing, but when places like New York City or the outskirts of Philadelphia are underwater" Yeah, let us know when that happens. Seriously, I'm guessing not many of you are old enough to remember the "COMING...
• Commented on ICANN haz cheezburger (Update to "Xeni on Maddow")
  "That's easy to say when it's your language that's the "default"." It's the default because it's the language of the people who actually invented the thing. Encouraging a standard language (or at least letters) is not a horrible thing....
• Commented on ICANN haz cheezburger (Update to "Xeni on Maddow")
  I'm sure this will be a help for many, and a hazard for a few. Whether the needs of the many etc. etc......
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Where I live the average temperature has dropped by over ten degrees in a month! At this rate the heat death of the universe is a few years away!...
• Commented on Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe
  Wasn't this method used in one of Saberhagen's Berserker stories? IIRC, it was used to teach a sort of alien monkey the rules of a game so that it could defeat a Berserker (the plot points that made this a...
• Commented on Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads
  Amateurs. In Baltimore they steal the frakin' street lights....
• Commented on D&D on multi-touch table
  C.f. the Tabletop Projection Table...
• Commented on Canadian folk singer dies after coyote attack
  Yeah, this just seems off. I'm wondering if she decided to take a nap, or something....
• Commented on Chris Ware animation of This American Life story
  Weird. We had almost the exact same thing happen in my school, only they were fake still cameras instead of videos. And minus the beat-down....