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• Favorited Who is the real Joey Chaos? on Boing Boing
• Commented on Now we are nine: Boing Boing's birthday!
  Happy B-Day, Boingers! I remember when I turned nine, and, while I wasn't making quite as many blog posts, in all the good ways, you remind me of me at that age....
• Commented on Security guards beat man in soccer arena, then get beat up by players, fans
  I find it disturbing that so many people are disturbed by this comments thread. nd bg lffs t CPT. TM fr bng th n t brng p Ghnd....
• Commented on TELUS Canada royally hoses its wireless broadband subscribers
  These kinds of stories make be glad I live in Saskatchewan where SaskTel, the govt-operated telecom, provides great internet and digital cable services at very competitive prices. Not only is the service (generally) top notch, but it also means local...
• Commented on Canadian Parliament shoutfest over the Canadian DMCA
  The most disturbing thing about this exchange is how they both keep on referring to "Canadian consumers." What about the Canadian *citizen*? I'm not a cultural termite, gnawing away at the entertainment tree, I'm a goddamned citizen of my country...
• Commented on Ape Lad's sketchbook scanned to Flickr
  Nice! Ape Lad should see if he could become one of the rotating artists on the relaunched Amazing Spider-Man--his J. Jonah Jameson is perfect!...
• Commented on John Hodgman reviews Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus for NY Times
  Wow, I thought it would be funnier, but it's still a pretty good review. Nice to know that Hodgman is one of us comic nerds....
• Commented on Cocaine statue of Jesus
  Dang. Now I have to find a new theme for my Cocaine Jesus party this weekend. And new party favors too....
• Commented on Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada
  @SSWAAN 13 : www.faircopyrightforcanada.ca is a good place to start if you're looking to find out about the state of the Canadian copyfight. Their Links box a little ways down the page on the right is a good info resource,...
• Commented on LSD pamphlet made to look like Chick tract
  As for LSD being more or less dangerous than psilocibin mushrooms, it's important to be clear how you mean "dangerous." Both substances have very low effective doses and very high lethal doses, so it's unlikely a person could poison themselves...
• Commented on LSD pamphlet made to look like Chick tract
  Great stuff--there's even a cameo by Rick Doblin! (Yay, MAPS!) If there's one thing I don't like, though, it's the shoehorning in of the term "entheogen," which is a total PC cop-out replacement for the already appropriate "psychedelic." I'm an...
• Commented on Who is the real Joey Chaos?
  I found the first story of the podcast, on Internet addiction, to be interesting too. But I think Jesse (and his producer) mixed up two different meanings of "addiction": 1) the medical meaning, where the body has a physical dependancy...
• Commented on Groovy 1970 TV show about surfboard manufacture, with Woody Allen and Jonathan Winters
  If you enjoyed this, may I recommend you go check out this post from Mark Evanier's excellent blog, newsfromme.com, where he writes a little about the history of Hot Dog and shares another clip with Woody and Jon....
• Commented on 1968's predictions for 2008
  @ #4 - Actually dude, lower. The U.S. population is just peeking over 300 mil right now. If you think they were talking about *world* population, then they were off by about 1000 years....
• Commented on Creationist documentary premiere bars science blogger, accidentally lets in Richard Dawkins
  How is it that the organizers recognized Myers and not the far more prolific Dawkins? Wadda buncha maroons! This is why the religious right should never be put in charge of--let alone have influence over--anything important. "You say your name...
• Commented on Every issue of Elfquest free -- oldest independent comic goes online
  This is excellent news. When my allowance couldn't handle my comic collecting anymore, I got my sister to start buying ElfQuest for me so I wouldn't miss an issue (the Marvel Epic reprint run--the first of a few series that...
• Commented on House of bees
  So two decades sharing their house with bees and nobody there's an expert on the damn things?...
• Commented on Dave Stevens RIP 1955-2008
  @#10 : Teresa, let me see if I understand you right: because of the way Valkyrie was drawn, Dave Stevens was sexist? Or his art is? Or is it that sexism is in the eye of the beholder, regardless of...
• Commented on Jaime Hernandez interview
  Cool interview. I love Jaime's Rockets stuff, and know what he means about Frogmouth--she seems like a character that practically writes herself. Jaime is a lot less prolific than Beto these days (in producing comics anyways), even in Love &...
• Commented on Dave Stevens RIP 1955-2008
  @#2 - Grow up. Are you even making sense? Do you even know who Dave Stevens is, or who his artistic influences were? His role in the Bettie Page renaissance in the 1980s? The only blatantly sexist thing here is...
• Commented on Dave Stevens RIP 1955-2008
  That Airboy cover was my first introduction to Dave Stevens, which I saw in an mid-80s issue of Comics Scene magazine. As a young teenage boy I was, of course, immediately struck and wishing once again we had a comic...
• Commented on Lessig publicly humiliates Andrew Keen
  Wadda maroon....
• Commented on Heroic dolphin rescues stranded whales
  #5 - I know what you mean--I have that the exact same problem with cats. And yet my neighbors all seem to know which cat belongs to them (or so they claim). Weird, huh?...
• Commented on Arizona students stage hug-a-thon to protest 2-second hug rule detentions
  What an uptight school! My guess is that this rule was motivated by "inappropriate" (and possibly same-sex) romantic-like hugging but the school officials were reluctant to explicitly say that because they're a bunch of redneck prudes. So instead, to save...
• Commented on Crocodile jumps at annoying man trying to pose for photo
  @#2 "Like a deadly floating log of death." Heh. Seen a few of those "down under" in my days......
• Commented on RESIST remix of Balloon Tank
  Nice. Would it be in bad taste to request a Tiananmen Square remix?...
• Commented on Toxic waste gets birds laid
  I'm curious to know how successful the polluted birds are at actually impregnating the females, and how healthy their offspring are.......
• Commented on Giant comic collection donated to U of Minnesota
  I hear you, Arkizzle, but please note that it wasn't even Cory who I was talking about. If you read the post you'll see it was a guy named Phil. (I'm sure Cory knows enough about comics and collecting to...
• Commented on Giant comic collection donated to U of Minnesota
  Not to mention that both Watchmen and Sandman are available in collected form at pretty much every library that carries comics. But, just to be clear, I wasn't trying to "piss" on anyone Arkizzle, I was just joking around. (And...
• Commented on Giant comic collection donated to U of Minnesota
  Wow, entire runs of Watchmen and Sandman! Some of those came out almost 25 years ago! Gee, grandpa, did they really make comics back then? I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about try to sound...