Another Jake, freedom of religion doesn't trump freedom of speech, and just because someone has the right to believe in nonsense doesn't mean they have immunity from criticism.

Slappy, please find your way back to Fark. All the other sophomoric morons miss you.

It's actually beautiful, in an odd way.

The ripples you see in old glass are due to the manufacturing process: they've been there since the beginning. Glass sheets were (and are) formed using a number of different methods, but all of the early technologies resulted in glass with varying thicknesses and other obvious imperfections.

"His as well as mind." Jimbo's not just a ray of sunshine, he's also our intellectual superior.

Nora, that's such a naive statement. It's akin to looking at a nice sketch and saying, "I think what the artist did is take the sharp end of a pencil, the end that makes a line, and rubbed it against a piece of paper. It's a nice sketch, but not so hard once you know how it's done." Software is just a tool, like any other, and knowing how a tool works doesn't make you an talented artist -- or, apparently, a talented critic.

He's a "fake"? As opposed to people who perform actual magic? I don't understand the distinction.

Z, in many non-English-speaking countries, a period is used as the "thousand separator," with a comma where we would use a decimal point.

Paul, the employees ARE McDonald's. If they practiced discrimination while performing their job, then McDonald's can (and should) be held responsible -- whether it's the result of a policy or not.

They didn't push this idea far enough. It would be a lot more compelling if the dishes were irregularly shaped, like topography, so the lines actually meant something; true topo lines on a circular dish like this would just be horizontal circles.

Alex, cow is by definition the adult female of cattle -- so a bull is no more a a "male cow" than a man is a "male woman." Technically, that's the case, anyway, but in common usage the word cow is often used for either sex. A bull, on the other hand, is an uncastrated male, and a steer is a castrated male (if it's castrated before reaching sexual maturity, that is -- if it's castrated after, it's a technically a stag, although that's not a commonly used term).

Ham is pig.

Mossel isn't just smugly superior, he's also ill-informed. I've lived for several years in a handful of different European countries (and traveled extensively in many more) and I can say that blatant nationalism exists everywhere -- except, perhaps, in Germany, where they seem to be a bit more sensitive to the dangers of excessive flag-waving.

And as a point of disclosure, I am an American, and displays of nationalism always leave a bad taste in my mouth.

It's not legal to discharge CO2 from a building at street level.

There's something about the design of this that irks me: it's really inefficient, because the thing is essentially a 50 kg. wheel. The rolling inertia is much higher than that of, say, a small wagon, so the person pulling it is working much harder: they aren't just moving the water horizontally across the ground, they're also spinning it around and around, to no benefit.

Otherwise, it's a very elegant idea. It's cheap to manufacture, low-tech, apparently durable, and doesn't have any fussy little parts to break off. Quite brilliant.