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• Commented on HOW TO Make Some Truly Wonderful Sweet Potatoes
  @ Janissa11: That sounds amazing! I think flambee with whisky or brandy is woefully underused in cuisine today :D I also think Maggie's posted recipe sounds pretty good. Maybe it would help to think of it more as a dessert...
• Commented on Beard worn as cage around head
  Ooh everyone is so clever calling out a fake. very impressivez! It's still a hilarious video, especially the guy's pantomimed drinking that led to demonstrating the working door :D...
• Commented on People speak out on library censorship incident: “It’s dangerous to democracy when an interest group imposes its views on another.”
  200 kids signed a petition IN FAVOUR of censorship? Wowzers. Those little tykes have a bright future of being huge losers ahead of them....
• Commented on Thieves who stole from child get a public shaming
  I'm not a big fan of this. Community service has its problems but seems to me to be a little more productive than simply shaming the perps. There is a fairly large difference between the lady in the chair with...
• Commented on Wee English church rebuilt on 22nd floor of Osaka tower
  There's the 19th century Rideau Chapel rebuilt inside the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. http://www.gallery.ca/images/mediacenter/chapel_hires.jpg A very interesting place to stumble into if you didn't know it was there....
• Commented on Canadian folk singer dies after coyote attack
  Sad news about a young talent. The attack happened in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Cape Breton, quite far from Toronto. #2, I've read the coyotes might have been rabid. She may just have come across them in...
• Commented on Improvising a car fuse
  This is why you should pull out and inspect the fuses on any second hand guitar amps you're considering....
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  Can't say I've ever had the urge to eat a horse. However, if someone put the pictured sammich in front of me at lunchtime I'd certainly give it the ol' college try....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: The Gummi Bear Gets It
  They hibernate in your colon!...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  Sounds like it's time for a little street justice. I mean seriously, if this guy was living in the neighbourhood I grew up in, it'd be him in tears and losing sleep in the end. A "KEEP OFF THE LAWN!"...
• Commented on Working cigarette lighter cufflinks
  Hey! An open flame right next to my cotton shirt! And I've been drinking scotch all night! Great idea! :D They do look kind of cool though, interesting conversation piece....
• Commented on 3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood
  3D movies ARE doomed ... to entertain the pants off me! I've only seen Up and Coraline in 3D and thought both of those were excellent movies and enjoyed the extra dimension 3D added to them. I thought Up was...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  The art theatre 'round the corner from my place used to be a masonic lodge. I don't know why it isn't any more. After that it was an adult movie theatre. Why do I mention this? Some TRUTHS need to...
• Commented on Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video
  @ 32: that story was badass :D loved 'The Host' nickname bit. I also enjoyed the video boingboing, it was gross and interesting and surprisingly informative. To all those requesting unicorn chasers: get a grip....
• Commented on Dramatic reading of a break-up letter
  @ JMOID: I think the nitpicking of grammar gets out of hand on the internetz. It's becoming an easy way to put down someone's opinion without actually addressing the content of what they said. The author of that letter, however,...
• Commented on Chemex coffee brewing guide
  Forget this paper filter razz-mattazz, french press is the way to go! I've never seen the technique of priming the grounds first though. Might try that tomorrow morning to see if it makes any difference with a press pot....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  That alternate Ducktales intro is a classic. Yes, it is disturbing to an extent, but that's partly what lends it its sick humour. To the complainers above, if you go around the internet just clicking and watching whatever video you...
• Commented on HOWTO ask good skeptical questions
  @ 5, M: I think that any scientist that claims they know everything or that anything they don't know doesn't exist knows nothing of science....
• Commented on TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real
  "well that was the greatest thing that could ever happen to that guy!" ohhhh sally....
• Commented on Gareth Branwyn: "I wander thro' each charter'd street... in William Gibson sneakers!"
  Those are some sweet-looking shoes. "How long they'll last"? If they're anything like regular Chucks, I'd give 'em 6-8 weeks before the rubber sidewalls start cracking in the bendy places. Anyone know how to stop it from happening?...
• Commented on Daily Routines: a blog about the habits of interesting people
  MRJM @15: I'd like to think I'm a well-adjusted, busy and (sometimes) productive person. I'd say +1 to Ashtanga being a good one. I find Iyengar and Hatha a bit too slow and not as physical as I like....
• Commented on Growing the Poison Pepper
  OHHHSNAP (Foolish? I know you are but what am I?) & HOTPEPPERMAN handling chiles - even the jolokias - does not cause any kind of discomfort to my hands. So, wearing gloves is unnecessary and wasteful. I'm just trying to...
• Commented on Growing the Poison Pepper
  I'm a huge spicy food fan and bought a bag of dried Bhut Jolokias awhile ago. Good luck with your plants! I really love them. Very, very spicy and they have a nice flavour too. Be careful handling and preparing...
• Commented on Back to the Future wedding cake
  note to self: don't invite Pipenta out to see a movie....
• Commented on Everything Is Alive
  As a geologist I'd have to say, "Guh? ... Fuh?" @#3 Stefan: lolz^2...
• Commented on Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek?
  No way man, 1871 was THE year to be born. Walking sticks, top hats, ridiculous walrus moustache-sideburns combo! You youngsters don't know what you missed! It was SO much better to be a kid then than t'was in the show-offy...
• Commented on Avoid toxic people
  I would agree that this advice needs to be taken with a laaaarge grain of salt. @#12: I'm an introvert as well. I love to be with my friends and I love to be social in general. But, these things...
• Commented on Diff'rent Strokes opening sequence, reconsidered
  @#7: whoever smell'd it dealt it. i.e. does the internet really do that? First I've heard of it....
• Commented on Contraband vault packed with guns, money, dope
  ooh, they only record the mass in Kg to one decimal place! It'd be super fun and easy to skim off a few grams for the weekend....
• Commented on Resignation letter on cake
  I was sitting eating lunch outdoors with a friend once. We saw a guy walk by wearing a top hat. "Pff, attention seeker" she sneered. So I pointed out that a good chunk of what you choose to wear is...