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• Commented on Celebrating obsolete library card-catalogs
  When I did a Library Science course at UC Berkeley in the late 80's (I wanted a stack pass, and it was neat anyway), the professor mentioned that there were still handwritten cards in the card catalog. Of course, I...
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  Hmph...I'm too busy to read BB for a few days, and of course something like this comes up. I'm a bookbinder (amateur; there's not a lot of money in it), so I know a bit about the structures of books....
• Commented on John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh"
  Pshaw. You young folks with your innernet ways and your websights don't know how good you have it. When I were knee high to a grasshopper we had only one expression of contempt among the sixteen of us, and if...
• Commented on Something For Those Who Hate Mondays
  Barring science fictional scenarios like Uplift, amen, Taku-sama. (We'd have to raise those theoretically re-introduced chimps in some very clever social simulation, too, or all we'd get is a slightly hairier version of Lord of the Flies. Chimp society is...
• Commented on Something For Those Who Hate Mondays
  Me, I'm an ex-pat. Which is why I had to Google "Travis monkey" to figure out wtf you guys were talking about....
• Commented on Something For Those Who Hate Mondays
  Cicada: Yes, sometimes we try things and fail. Sometimes we lose more than we can afford to lose. Sometimes we have commitments that mean that we cannot do the crazy challenging stuff. You have to take these things into account...
• Commented on Something For Those Who Hate Mondays
  I'm certainly familiar with Sally's situation. My better half and I talked about it as being at a local maximum, where you've optimized your life within its current constraints. The problem with a local maximum, of course, is that any...
• Commented on On Darwin's birthday, 4 in 10 believe in evolution
  Gadgets123: I have never heard anyone who understands and is convinced by the science behind evolution and natural selection call themselves "a student of Darwin". That's a fundamental misunderstanding Darwin's place in evolutionary theory; it would be like an atheist...
• Commented on Ghastly working conditions in a Chinese keyboard factory
  "I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?" - Donald Rumsfeld, on the idea that prisoners should not be placed in stress positions for more than four hours. What you can tolerate when you...
• Commented on Ukrainian Teen Serial Killer Gang Document Their Crimes on Cellphone Video
  Patrick Bateman: 1. I find it staggeringly unlikely that BoingBoing has a duty of care to the people who read it. On what grounds would there be a relationship that would lead to such a duty? There is certainly no...
• Commented on Ukrainian Teen Serial Killer Gang Document Their Crimes on Cellphone Video
  Patrick Bateman @193: I would be very interested to see a line of legal reasoning that could lead to prosecution in a court system with jurisdiction. The original post doesn't have a copy of the video (so they didn't "post...
• Commented on India: 80+ Reported Dead, 200+ injured in Bombay Terror Attacks
  Pranesh, Can you recommend a good English-language local news source on the Web? My first port of call was the Times of India, but I don't know if that's a good choice....
• Commented on Motorola, could you please tell your viral marketer to get out of our comments?
  This is just to post I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which I hope will soon be on the Krave (motorola.com/krave) Definitely worth checking out so loaded with features and so awesome. (Look, somebody was...
• Commented on Near The Burgess Shale
  In the spirit of this: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2004/01/12/the-law-of-internet-invocation/ Allow me to humbly submit for your esteemed consideration: http://evilrooster.livejournal.com/519.html...
• Commented on Contractors paint sock tied to railing instead of removing it
  A few years ago, I discovered that someone had methodically stuck a piece of chewing gum on each one of a row of wrought iron fenceposts next to my office in Edinburgh. There were over 300 dabs of gum there....
• Commented on Hand-bound one-of-a-kind Little Brother edition
  veffekt @25: The egotistical idea that it is 'his site' is wrong. That is craphound.com. There are others in the sandbox besides him. I imagine that if the other Boingers told Cory to stop blogging about Little Brother, he would....
• Commented on Hand-bound one-of-a-kind Little Brother edition
  I've oversewn a formerly perfect bound book before. It didn't give me the desire to ever do it again, to be honest. And since I'm a hobbyist rather than a professional, I don't do things that make me lose the...
• Commented on Hand-bound one-of-a-kind Little Brother edition
  The sun's not yet over the yardarm, Atomin. Have mercy on all our livers....
• Commented on Hand-bound one-of-a-kind Little Brother edition
  Slight corrections: it's a blank book rather than a copy of Little Brother, mostly due to printer constraints. Printing out a whole book double-sided on my printer would be soul-destroying, and I don't have signature-sewn editions to tear down. The...
• Commented on Placebo pills made for kids
  Geektronica @52: Give it up. There's no hope. The armchair theorists and the mommy drivebys (the sort who also give parents unsolicited advice/criticism in the street) have the thread. Look, people. What works varies enormously from child to child and...
• Commented on Little Brother at NYC's Books of Wonder, May 26, 5-7PM -- CORRECTED!
  Takuan, You are by way of being my half-brother, in an odd and entirely modern way. A younger half-brother, for which, neener, but a half-brother. This means that in addition to noogies, I get to give you some advice, which...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Modusoperandi @258 Doesn't everything involving groups of people involve, in some way, ethics, morals, and the like? MO FTW. That was indeed my point, and it goes doubly so for the Internet and trebly for BoingBoing. Now try reading Deuteronomy...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Sister Y @249: EvilRooster, it is heartening to hear you say that, 'cause I always worry that I'm hijacking threads into ethics discussions. Well, I think it's very right of you to pursue these matters. But it seems wrong that...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Evidence @239: I think I get the heart of the matter. You all want tolerance, pliability, mushy gushy, maybes. I think you don't get the heart of the matter. I can't speak for others, but for my part I know...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Antinuous @235: Was that rhetoric?...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Evidence @225: You managed to entirely miss the point of both halves of my comment. Your answer contained neither any grasp of how you come off to your fellow commenters nor any notion that you might be wrong in your...
• Commented on Einstein: Religion is "childish," "primitive"
  Evidence @203: As Teresa said, for someone who supposedly came here out of curiosity, you sure did a lot of talking and not a hell of a lot of listening. Either you're interested in what people here believe, in which...
• Commented on US wastes "27% of food available for consumption"
  The (German-owned, fairly downmarket) supermarket I used to shop at when I lived in a poor district of Edinburgh had a shelf along the wall, between the cash registers and the exit. Food that was a day or two short...
• Commented on Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to island
  Nelson C, Commenter ov Teh Beast: Can we ask Teresa to lock this thread? I don't want to hang around any more waiting for Evidence to post another non-sequiter, and I don't really want to let him sneak in the...
• Commented on Science fiction stuff in vintage ads photoshopping contest
  I'm getting two different results: either a WordPress "Error establishing a database connection" message, or a slow to no load. I think the server's been overloaded....