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• Commented on Mouse plays Quake II, everyone wins
  In the future, instead of trackball mice, we will have live mice on trackballs, at which point a whole ecosystem of puns will flourish anew....
• Commented on Windows 7 party time!
  Last year, the Microsoft Songsmith commercial, with its poorly-disguised MacBook, and the classic line, "Microsoft, huh? So it's pretty easy to use?", had me thinking that maybe, despite the connotations of their brand, Microsoft had some extremely clever, self-deprecating humourists...
• Commented on Tim and Eric Fans, behold: Awesomecon in San Diego, July 25
  I was just telling someone about those hilarious Shrek bits the other day! Too bad they were scrubbed from the intertubes... I was suprised and pleased to see that a few had been reposted to MySpace somewhere, but does anyone...
• Commented on Microsoft wants to rename netbooks with absurd five-word phrase
  Cory Doctorow wrote: "Deluded Microsoft marketing guy has a new name for netbooks -- Boing Boing Gadgets." I think "Boing Boing Gadgets" is a great name for netbooks!...
• Commented on Mechaphilia: Whatever revs your engine
  This requires an important follow-up by Kids in the Hall: link....
• Commented on A New Kind of Search
  @15. Take that back... oops, in contains both... dunce cap for me... wish there was a way to edit-own-comments......
• Commented on A New Kind of Search
  @12 Google knows the answer to that question too. While trying to figure out how it works, I discovered an amusing pair of searches. Try the following queries: "Who is the king of pop?" vs. "Who is the king of...
• Commented on Quarter of all British govt databases are illegal
  Come on, what's so wrong with setting up a database to support and protect those children who are failing to achieve their aims? They need the most support of all! Thanks for the post, Cory. I have to say, although...
• Commented on Black Swan author's rules for living
  Has it occured to anyone that this list could have been written by Aleksei Vayner himself? Especially #7: "When someone tells you you can never achieve something, cross them out of your life, because they are directly interfering with your...
• Commented on Tonya Harding shot JFK?
  I am sick and tired of Tanya Harding! I don't want to hear it! I mean, let her fry!...
• Commented on John McCain is a Cylon, and Palin is Roslin (WARNING: BSG + ELECTION SPOILERS!)
  It's worth repeating: there *really* ought to have been a spoiler alert here. Not too late to fix, I don't suppose?...
• Commented on Nipple-less pro wrestlers of Florida
  Please don't take offense at the hardcore sociology jargon! I think people have simply missed the deliberate oxymoronic pun on "heterosexual male gays."...
• Commented on TSA: laptops will stop making planes explode if you just build a bag like this one
  But what about the problem pointed out by #11 and #14? I'm curious to know where the story broke, because it wasn't at tsa.dhs.gov. Which, by the way, has a ridiculous feature called "TSA Week at a Glance." Last week:...
• Commented on TED 2008: Todd Machover
  I think that's Tod Machover. You could fix it, but I think it'd be hilarious to see the second 'd' crossed out and in red everywhere....
• Commented on Top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia and Conservapedia
  Bots, pranks, whatever. None of it explains the extent to which this article has been lovingly authored and edited. It contains 287 carefully compiled footnotes, is roughly 60 pages long, and stretches to about 18,000 words -- the string "Larry...
• Commented on Indie film producer thanks pirates for downloading his movie
  It's definitely awesome. But it's important to note that the producer wasn't just checking in to say "Thanks for sharing my movie" -- the post, as I understand it, is also centered around an appeal for donations. The film's homepage...
• Commented on RFID Guardian, open hardware/software to firewall your RFID tags
  Fine idea for toll cards and car keys, but I think it's probably illegal to alter passports in this way. It'd be like crossing out your name and age, but writing it down on a piece of paper....