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• Commented on Supermodels without makeup
  This reminds me a bit of a book of photographs from a while back called "Women Before 10 AM". Except that that book had Emma Thompson in it, and I lurves me some Emma Thompson....
• Commented on Great Caesar's Ghost: Dery on Rome's Cemetery of the Capuchins
  I just read, coincidentally enough, Jean-Paul Sartre's impressions of the same cemetery after a tour (in 1957, iirc) in the most recent Harper's Monthly. To quote the Boingo, dem bones, dem bones, if they could only talk......
• Commented on US Health Care debate: scary Republican infographic countered by dreamy sherbet-hued Democrat infographic
  @#4: If you can tell the difference between Fox News and the GOP you are a better man than I....
• Commented on Senator's campaign website suffers search-engine death penalty for embedding invisible homophobic slur against opponent
  Correct -- Rick Perry is the one running for re-election as governor; Hutchison is expected to be his main challenger for the Republican nomination....
• Commented on Blue Food Coloring Un-Paralyzes Rats
  This is, of course, why Smurf Village never had to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act....
• Commented on Bill Maher: Birthers must be stopped
  @7: First they came for the vowels, but I did nothing because I was a vowel. Then they came for the fricatives......
• Commented on Rich NY town tries to shut down children's library because poor kids might use it
  Letting poor children read would only give them a false belief that we live in an egalitarian society. Better the soft bigotry of low expectations than the hard bigotry of rent-a-cops shooting them before they enter the gated communities of...
• Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
  Since the bullet lodged itself in the helmet, can we assume that he was arrested for *attempted* first-degree murder?...
• Commented on Celestial soap bubble
  They are rare, but I don't know if I'd call spherical nebulae *freaky*. (The example better known before this one is the planetary nebula Abell 39: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050728.html ) The reason that they are rare is that. while the wind from...
• Commented on Land mine "donated" to Good Will
  Seems like a simple mistake -- maybe he meant to donate it to the Salvation Army....
• Commented on Last Galapagos Pinta turtle finally knocks up a mate's eggs
  Please tell me that that's his head in the photograph....
• Commented on Smell of fear
  Big duh -- It's called URINE. Look it up in your nerd tomes, super-scientists. Now get back to those flying cars you promised us....
• Commented on NYT and Jimmy Wales worked together to keep kidnapping news off Wikipedia
  @ShayGuy: Maybe nobody else's employer has asked until now? Sorry for whipping out Occam's aftershave and all....
• Commented on Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer
  Let's not jump to conclusion. Maybe they were just trying to help the suspects change out their bongwater....
• Commented on Hearses to be made from Priuses
  That seems an extravagant way to carry around dead batteries....
• Commented on John Hodgman quizzes Obama on his nerd cred
  How dare you criticize our President in this time of war. He is doing everything he can to protect this country from the threat of Cromofascists. They hate our freedoms, you know, and want to roll civilization back to the...
• Commented on Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop
  This is nothing new. Despots have been P'slopping crowds shots for years. For example, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/27/22442/878...
• Commented on Iranian media mistakes Kasper Hauser comedy group as a "virtual reality 'terrorist' group," of "cyber hackers"
  It's nice to know that, given all of the differences between the Muslim autocracy in Iran and the Christian autocracy that dominates the right wing in America, they still share a complete vacuum in their skulls where normal people house...
• Commented on Cuba Tiene Hambre: A Viral Video Makes the Rounds
  Since Venezuela and Cuba are such good friends, maybe Hugo Chavez can pull an Aerosmith and send his rich citizens to the island for snackage. They could call it Soylent Red....
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  @#85: "Are you really attacking conservatives because we don't have a Jon Stewart? Is he REALLY the last best hope of liberalism?" I think he is saying that the conservatives' problem isn't that they DON'T have a Jon Stewart; rather,...
• Commented on Shatnerquake: bizarro novel about every Shatner character sucked into reality to hunt down William Shatner
  This has got to be the stupidest goddam idea for a book that I have seen in a long time. It is, of course, now in my shopping cart. I will need GlaxoSmithKline to rush development of a memory-wiping drug...
• Commented on Florrie Fisher in "The Trip Back" (part 1)
  I think at least one of the SWC DVD sets has footage of Florrie Fisher on it, if not this particular clip....
• Commented on Lego waterboarding
  When the CIA came for the minifigs, I remained silent; I was not a minifig......
• Favorited Attenborough's response to creationists' hate mail on Boing Boing
• Commented on America's bankers are oligarchs
  A common-sense, logical approach to fixing the current quandary and significantly reduce the risk of a repeat performance in the future. Ergo, doesn't have a chance in hell of being done....
• Commented on Calling Tech Show Bloggers: Please Cover Al Gore's 'Off the Record' Keynote Speech
  @20: You reject arguments of AGW because of the intensity of those who argue that it's happening? What you express is not 'skepticism', it's 'cynicism'. Tell you what, you and the other deniers in here: give me a good scientific...
• Commented on DIY sex machine injury
  Must be Steely Dan fans....
• Commented on Journalism Advocacy Group to China: Release Two Recently-Jailed Tibetan Journalists
  Someone should stand up and shout this injustice from the rooftops. Pity that the United States ceded the moral high ground on unreasonable jailings and torture in the last decade. Are you busy, Luxembourg?...
• Commented on Nina Paley's Copyright Song
  @#107: I'll take on your scenario (and with some authority, having given many class assignments in my day.) Changing your final question slightly: as the professor, what *could* my response be? -- I could nullify the assignment entirely. -- I...
• Commented on Nina Paley's Copyright Song
  @#58: I don't think any but the most extreme elements are arguing for complete abolition of copyright, just one with a straightforward, *limited* term. As to your specific case, it sounds to me like you are doing it right....