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• Commented on Doug Rushkoff on The Colbert Report tonight Wednesday, July 15
  Looking forward to reading this; Rushkoff is kind of a 90s guru to me....
• Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
  The most surprising thing is that this is from '60s Australia, and not present day....
• Commented on If woowoos ran the emergency room
  Watching that sketch wouldn't be completely satisfying without reading the predictable Homeopathy defender comments here (all Anonymous so far, for some reason). Now I'm waiting for the invitations to read lengthy articles on Homeopathy websites which 'prove' its efficacy, and...
• Commented on Anti-paparazzi handbag
  if I were famous, photogenic, and didn't want my photo taken (and that's a big if) I'd just wear reflector stripes and patches on all my clothes. Like police and paramedics....
• Commented on Japanese cops hassling foreigners on the street for urine drug tests
  Yet another reason to stay the heck out of Shibuya & Roppongi....
• Commented on Pigeons trained to recognize bad art
  I think I prefer the pigeon missile-pilot idea. I wonder how many of the little bastards we could fit into a single rocket......
• Commented on The Chappe Optical Telegraph
  Poor old AtlasObscura... every time Boing Boing finds something interesting there, the whole site goes down. I'm going to wait till all you guys have gone to sleep, and check it out....
• Commented on Fees waived for US marrow donation signups
  Count me as another who's stunned that you have to pay to join the donor registry. Not everyone is as altruistic as Brad S (#11); in fact I'd say very few are. If you're trying to build a database of...
• Commented on Bad Science versus the piracy scare story
  Ben Goldacre is fast becoming one of my favorite online reads. His battles against the forces of medical woowoo are great too....
• Commented on Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR drilling
  it's the chronic -- wat? -- cles of narniaaa...
• Commented on My Martha Stewart appearance is online
  Did she try to take your wallet?...
• Commented on Offices with suspended skateboard bowl inside
  and the last office I worked in was one of those places where personal items were banned from cubicles... *sigh*...
• Commented on Automated egg printer
  if it printed the whole egg and design, color/print me impressed....
• Commented on Your ashes on the Moon
  The cynic in me wonders if the ashes really go to the Moon, or if they just blast the rocket into space. Because that's probably what I'd do if I was running the scheme....
• Commented on Rushkoff is Back
  Douglas, I've been a fan of yours since the mid-90s and I'm overjoyed to see you back on BoingBoing. Just keep those posts down to a digestable length this time please :)...
• Commented on Julie Wolfson in Japan
  @JTEGNELL: It's ridiculous. And even more ridiculous is that every Japanese needs some cute little pure-bred dog, not more than a handful, while tons of wonderful but unrecognizable breeds are killed every day at the pound. This phenomenon is definitely...
• Commented on Ward off pig-death with soaps shaped like baby-hands
  because nothing says 'trustworthy' to your new date like a dish full of doll hands in your bathroom. of course, you can always say 'baby, it's just novelty soap' while he/she is running screaming down your street....
• Commented on Chunky crapgadget used to conduct the US census (kind of)
  @2: Guess who won the war? I'm not sure who won in your story, but in a real life battle I'd put my money on the side with the better tech....
• Commented on Vote For BB Video TODAY In The Webby "People's Voice" Awards or the Cat Gets It
  oh no, I voted for the other guys in that category and thought i'd get a chance to vote for BB later on... and i was mistaken. Is there an off-Broadway webbies for people who like sites other than Nike.com,...
• Commented on Quick Vacation Planning Guide
  Now there's an ironic trip: getting away from all the stupid people in Antarctica, and then visiting the Korean DMZ to see humanity at its most ridiculous. I'd recommend doing those two in reverse order....
• Commented on Julie Wolfson in Japan
  As with all posts/comments about Japan, remember that some are real, some are subject to the author's interpretation and some are urban legends. I can vouch for the cat 'live museums' though; I've been to one. It was much more...
• Commented on The Strange World of your Dreams, 1950s comic book by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
  Why do you hate it when people tell you their dreams? It's where I get most of my best ideas....
• Commented on MBAs: Most Bloody Awful, Aussie radio documentary on the problem with biz-school
  @#3 Cicada, you hit the nail on the head there....
• Commented on Funny flame war video
  it's all well and good to laugh at this but that's what they did back at Nuremberg in the '30s, and we all know how well that ended....
• Commented on RIP, JG Ballard
  I'm quite astounded by the number of people who say they haven't heard of Ballard. I consider myself pretty clueless but his name has popped up so many times throughout my reading life that I couldn't have avoided him if...
• Commented on Notes From the Underground
  I'm a subway dork too, and I confess to staying on the 6 train to see City Hall station when I was in NYC. I just ducked down below the window so the guard couldn't see. That was in 2000,...
• Commented on VIable Paradise: week-long intensive science fiction writing workshop on Martha's Vineyard
  aspiring SF writers scrounging the cash to spend a week on Martha's Vineyard? That's almost a plot in itself....
• Commented on Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction
  I'm with Olaf9000 and I certainly understand the 'hatred' motive, when it comes to pigeons. If we did such a great job of wiping passenger pigeons from the surface of the Earth, can we continue the job with other types...
• Commented on Zimbabwean billboards from trillion dollar notes
  to the two posters above: there is a pretty healthy trade in $Z on eBay -- I have a Z$100 Billion bill from back in the days when that seemed like a lot. unfortunately the only value they'll ever have...
• Commented on Texas lawmaker: Chinese Americans should change names so "Americans" can handle them
  it's not as stupid as it sounds on the surface. I live in Japan and my English surname is virtually unpronounceable by the locals. I also prefer to use a shortened version of my first name. Add middle names into...