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• Commented on Giant code wheel for sale, proceeds to EFF
  Nice of you to come....
• Commented on Half-man / half-Pooh Bear takes a break next to decapitated patriotic Mickey Mouse
  That googlebear needed a facelift anyway. Hey, googlebear lived, right? How about a million? Just between you, me, Fred Vogelstein, fred, Emma, U2, Vogue, and God the Damned....
• Commented on Boing Boing Video gets a website makeover, a guest tweet-blog, and a new url: boingboingvideo.com
  I wish you would have a special section about regulation of the Internet and broadband by the FCC which you posted about a couple of weeks ago. I have commented about this at length....
• Commented on Rushkoff on Apple fanboy rage at Steve Jobs for having the audacity to have had a liver transplant
  We are spirits in the material. There are spirits in the machine. Insert money into floppy disk slot....
• Commented on Weegee speaks on an old LP
  Somebody unplugged my computer. I'm scared!! I need cybercomfort....
• Commented on Mining email traffic for bad omens
  Meeting people on the Internet is like talking with Ouiji board spirits. How about a Ouiji board program? I don't want to use it or go, but......
• Commented on Do your own Ioning
  Hey I just cut a smash hit single. I can listen to it up to 4 times in a row without puking. I was inspired to do this project by Mark Frauenfelder's "Make" magazine in which many fun things to...
• Commented on Leather laptop bag folds 8 ways
  Does this bag come with backup Netbook?...
• Commented on The $1,500 netbook
  I would gladly pay an extra $25 for a designer handstrap that would keep this thing from flipping out of my palm when I cross the room. These Netbooks are NOT tower cases and they will crack when dropped....
• Commented on Excavator buries itself
  I have rarely seen a sand pile this deep before. I think the photographer could have at least directed the craft operator to exit the vehicle before commencing to do something inhuman. The driver is probably still in there waiting...
• Commented on City of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
  I think it's a pretty good job. The cut & paste artist was probably new....
• Commented on Air cannons to prevent hail storms
  So how does this work? You aim the cannon at a piece of hail and blow it apart. Then you aim at another piece and disintegrate it, too. Huh? Why not just light a fire?...
• Commented on One month to go until the next total solar eclipse
  Baby carriages ought to have electric blue and hot pink flashing lights on them so that they can be seen during Total Solar Eclipses. This feature might also allow for late evening walking, or running....
• Commented on Roger Cohen in Tehran: "I don't know where this uprising is leading."
  @Roger Cohen: You're not supposed to....
• Commented on The Whistling Island of La Gomera
  On the peninsula of Rhode Island they use cell phones to chat....
• Commented on Radio chip inspired by human ear
  OMG, you mean with one of these I could hear cellphone, tv, radio, modems, friends, coffee maker, alarm, monitor, headphone, gadgets, scanner, footsteps, beamers, snapshots, speakers, teachers, rivers, oceans, camels, digital divides, black, white, static, Bloomberg, Kindall, mariah, metro announcements,...
• Commented on Nicholas Galanin's book sculpture
  What's it say anyway?...
• Commented on Mind Over Ship: David Marusek's hyperfuturistic, hyperimaginative soap-opera
  I loved his book "Counting Heads." I found it in the MIT SF Society Library. The namey name namies were nerve-racking....
• Commented on Homeless Sims are surprisingly depressing
  Correction: It's a wonderful life if you're not glued to the broadband Internet....
• Commented on Homeless Sims are surprisingly depressing
  The trick to being homeless is that you have to have a daily routine. Mine goes like this: In the morning, I get up, stretch for about 15-20 minutes, then take a nice long walk, oh about 30min - 1...
• Commented on Shared Worlds summer sf camp asks writers for their favorite cities
  I've been the same 5'10" since 4th grade. Do you have to show ID to get into this workshop? And if not, what form is payment expected in? My father can write a personal check for me if needed. What...
• Commented on BB Video: This Week in Space And Aviation, with Miles O'Brien
  I just won $800.00 cash one dollar bills from a pen scratch off $5 lottery ticket!!$!$!!$!**@* Now I understand why NASA does not send up scratch off lottery tickets with the astronauts as entertainment. Gambling should not be allowed in...
• Commented on Iran: Tim Shey on Observing Social Unrest Online at 32,000 feet
  What a soundtrack. Wish I could have heard the whole thing but my connection was too slow & it was taking more time to load than to listen to. Too irritating a wait to maintain cohesiveness. Now I've forgotten what...
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  I'll leave a rusty cellphone on your cemetery plaque stone....
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  What about breeding dogs so that they can't run away?...
• Commented on Oklahoma Highway Patrol finally releases video of trooper attack on paramedic
  In Texas, we have so many INDEPENDENT AMBULANCE vans, trucks (companies), that it doesn't matter what's wrong with a citizen. They just get picked up for falling off the sidewalk. Think of all the bills that follow after that. Think...
• Commented on Hunch: Machine learning meets the Magic Eight-Ball
  Wow! It seems like endless medical sex with each other so you never lose touch! More, more, more...I want you....
• Commented on Digital TV's history in America: the DTV transition nearly cost the USA its technological freedom
  Pirates! I'm telling you. Hollywood pirates taking over your television & hard drives and cable connectors. It isn't legal!! Sure, they got sued. But that's the oldest trick in the book. Let the other side think they've won and then...
• Commented on Associated Press will syndicate non-profit investigative journalism
  What?!? A non-profit media outfit? Wait 'til Bloomberg hears about this. Revolutionary! Pirate tea, that's what I feel like now....
• Commented on $134.5 BILLION worth of US bonds seized from smugglers at Swiss border
  @#28: Gotta have a cellphone to travel....