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• Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
  Twice I've had a restaurant try to add a mandatory tip to my bill. Both times, I would have tipped, and tipped more, if the bill had been presented normally (without tip added). Both times I raised a stink and...
• Commented on Homemade globe
  What beautiful work! The stand is very nice, too. The perfect compliment to one's study or den....
• Commented on I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
  Damn. I predicted this two weeks ago - Predatory Unicorns! Aaaaaaugh!...
• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  Yeah, I made a gadget like this once, but it was to help hitchhikers from other worlds to get here via Vogon construction vessels (with a little Dentrassi help). Don't underestimate the trouble the Minutemen can make for you -...
• Commented on DMCA takedown shirt
  This design taunts you to steal it....
• Commented on Zoomquilt II: Flash zoom-through painting
  I watched for several minutes, then when I returned to BoingBoing, all the text and images were slowly receding!...
• Commented on Wintertime on Mars: lonely Phoenix Lander, blanketed in carbon dioxide frost
  too appropriate to be a rickroll. poor little robot....
• Commented on Vader and Death Star pregnancy costume
  ...it's as if millions of unlucky sperm cried out, and were silenced......
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: B.F. Skinner Makes A Pigeon Do His Bidding
  You can argue that since the invention of the telephone, we've all been living in Skinner boxes, where strangers can condition our behaviors by ringing a bell in our home. And now that we have cell phones, even our cars...
• Commented on Bees That Drink Human Tears
  As I scanned the thread, the threat of a gender rant nearly scared me away. The poem is ample reward for reading on. "Into your dreams it falls, and falls for years..."...
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  I think it shameful that BoingBoing would stoop to this sort of pandering - think of the unrealistic body image issues that images like these inflict on men. Boo. (looks in disgust at own arm)...
• Commented on Another Hardcore Moment from Nature
  Oh, man, what next? Predatory unicorns?!?...
• Commented on "Chap-Hop History" by Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer, played on a banjolele
  He's just keepin' it surreal......
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Rock Band</em> iPhone, <em>Small Worlds, Eufloria, LostWinds, Space Invaders Extreme</em>
  Small Worlds was great, but I'm frustrated by this one little nook in one of the "portal" worlds - a little nook behind a vertical conveyor that I just cant seem to get to. Aaaaugh!...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  Wow! Watching that video raised my testosterone level!...
• Commented on The trucker pulp fiction of Germany
  The tiny flying dragon is a nice touch. And the kids all appear to be on the brink of falling down....
• Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
  I must apologize for that remark. But this is so, so wrong. Their ego's do not require this reinforcement. Please....
• Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
  Is there nothing teh Nipponese will not fetishize in print?!?...
• Commented on Joey Roth on design
  Concerning resonance - there is no such animal as a non-resonant material. But ceramic is so exceptionally rigid that it may well not resonate at audio frequencies; this would allow it to function as a waveguide. The size and shape...
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  Obviously not today; thanks, Antinous!...
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  I'm afraid part of my expression got left out, rather spoiling the joke. It should read While yourMommasWeight is less than weightOfUniverse, etc......
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  void howBigIsYourMomma() { while(yourMommasWeight < weightOfUniverse) { yourMommasWeight = yourMommasWeight + 1 } }...
• Commented on Digital Open Winner: teen creates a robot shop
  Total awesomeness! A fifty-dollar-retail robot is quite an achievement for anyone, big corps included. Now if it were only Arduino-based......
• Commented on Zombie Street Fashion
  Why are zonbies so pervasive in our culture right now? What do they represent to people - what is it they really fear, but can enjoy watching destroyed by the dozens in a movie? Do they represent all the worst...
• Commented on The Chipmunks: From Rags to Riches
  That's a great and inspiring story. Somehow, I always thought of Alvin and his gang as something cooked up while I was a kid; now I discover that they are three years older than I am! That's a relief, somehow....
• Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
  You gotta love Mojo Nixon. I saw him and Skid Roper decades ago at the SLO Brew in San Luis Obispo. After the show he was hawking soiled workshirts with Mojo badges sewed on, yelling "Pre-shrunk and pre-stunk! Help pay...
• Commented on Hand carved bicycle saddles
  Beautiful! Another entry in the I Wish I Had Thought Of It First file....
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Untitled 1?...
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  I know from experience that taking off in a small plane, even navigating one, is so easily learned that just talking you through it suffices for training. Landing a plane is different. Coordinating the rudder and other control surfaces is...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  a small life come bak tak...