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• Commented on Obey CDC, or Thomas R. Frieden Has a Posse
  Possible alternate caption: SOAP...
• Commented on Audio history of the psycograph, automated phrenology machine
  I'm going to READ YOUR THOUGHTS!...
• Commented on Meet the Hon. James David Manning, PhD.
  The Honorable James David Manning on Bristol Palin, the media, and Obama's Mama....
• Commented on Dutch government tries to stop 13-year-old girl from sailing around world solo
  #26 posted by Anonymous Anyone remember the dead little girl who was going to fly across the USA? Reports indicated she was alive at the time of her death....
• Commented on REAL ID reincarnated with a new name: "PASS ID"
  We already have a National ID Card. It's called a "Passport."...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  POSTED BY RINDAN [Burning Man] is a private event on private property. Private event, yes. Private property, not so much. P.S. Hi Doublejack!...
• Commented on I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist campaign for photographers' rights
  Looks like we need a UK version of the Photography License....
• Commented on Report: Deet, popular and potent insect repellent, is neurotoxic
  From a marketing perspective, DEET sounds just like DDT. So it all works out....
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  In addition to running an underground library, Kat Atreides is taking riflery at his/her Catholic school....
• Commented on Obama Shoes
  YES WE RAN...
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  If the SF Muni police are going to be enforcing ficticious laws and policies, perhaps what we need are some ficticious permits and licenses, so I designed a couple of official-looking MUNI and DHS Photography Licenses....
• Commented on Druid named "King Arthur" to be arrested over Stonehenge protest
  He's part of a strange race of people who lived hundreds of years before the dawn of history, but no one knows what he was doing there. But his legacy remains, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge....
• Commented on Vote For BB Video TODAY In The Webby "People's Voice" Awards or the Cat Gets It
  If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog....
• Commented on Untitled 2
  posted by ink Where did Untitled 1 go? I must have missed that story... It was unpublished. Untitled 2 is a pre-unpublished post....
• Commented on Cactus Dome looks like the top part of the USS Enterprise, but the true purpose is a bummer
  posted by JudgeDredd Do you have a study to show the effects of this? My thinking is that it would be fairly well diffused by the time it gets airborne and then mixed into the ocean. Of course I don't...
• Commented on Cactus Dome looks like the top part of the USS Enterprise, but the true purpose is a bummer
  posted by syncrotic Was it really necessary to spend $239M on a giant concrete dome to cover some dirt on what was then an uninhabited island? Really? What would the harm have been in leaving it there? You don't want...
• Commented on Cactus Dome looks like the top part of the USS Enterprise, but the true purpose is a bummer
  The circular shape of the dome is uncannily reflected by what appears to be a hole or depression of some kind in the waters just off shore. That's the crater from another blast....
• Commented on Cactus Dome looks like the top part of the USS Enterprise, but the true purpose is a bummer
  Here it is on Google Maps....
• Commented on Design the Hugo Award logo, win $500 and a ticket to WorldCon
  http://theclutch.com/hugo_award.gif Excellent. Possible title: The "Hugo Fuck Yourself" Award....
• Commented on Design the Hugo Award logo, win $500 and a ticket to WorldCon
  posted by bardfinn The ability of amateurs to compete against the well-connected, entrenched professionals is social justice. Demanding that only the elite be allowed to submit is entitlement. No one is demanding that only the elite be allowed to submit....
• Commented on Design the Hugo Award logo, win $500 and a ticket to WorldCon
  #23 posted by bardfinn the winning submission is gonna be a silhouette, of a fat little rocket (with nosecone antenna), with two lines of exhaust, pulling an arc from the lower left hand corner of the (square) field towards the...
• Commented on Design the Hugo Award logo, win $500 and a ticket to WorldCon
  @#15 It's even more tedious when people automatically assume Chip Kidd, Geri Sullivan and Irene Gallo are familiar with the "no-spec" movement and wouldn't be involved in something hinky or disingenuous just because they make their livelihood as professional artists....
• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  Clearly, the British ripped off the idea of rummaging through your neighbor's trash from S.N.I.T.C.H....
• Commented on GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on" alternative for the econopocalypse
  I couldn't resist making one of my own....