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• Commented on Speaking at Waterloo's Quantum to Cosmos, Oct 22
  Sold out! :( Any unofficial side-events, receptions, or the like?...
• Commented on Deal: Apple 12" iBook G4 for $349
  I bought one of these. It's been the antithesis of "It just works." Permissions have been fucked from the very beginning. Itunes will not run. Neither will Safari. Software Update does not run. Any disk, even a genuine OSX Tiger...
• Commented on Julia Dales: beat boxing champion
  She's fantastic! The only way you could have a better beatboxer would be to hook her up with Beardyman and breed their offspring....
• Favorited Video uses boy band to sell lab equipment on Boing Boing
• Commented on "Photon gating" makes for interesting cameraphone pictures
  Older digital cameras have the same effects. There have been a few artists who've achieved these effects by moving pictures/objects around on a flatbed scanner. Example: http://hurraylien.com/images/jordscrew04.jpg...
• Commented on Free, legal downloads of every Beatles song
  @7 Beanolini: Allofmp3.com, to my memory, sold studio-produced music album tracks, in exchange for money. Conversely, here NRK is giving away radio broadcasts (which happen to contain 70% studio-produced Beatles tracks by volume), in exchange for nothing. The content of...
• Commented on Sundman's The Pains, a novel about decent people bearing up under unending misery
  I read it all the way through, and liked it very much. It seemed like the first three chapters were written at a different time than the rest. The pace accelerates after that-- Sundman could have Stephen-Kinged this into 900...
• Commented on Video uses boy band to sell lab equipment
  When they all pointed at the sky near the end, I LOL'd....
• Commented on Dave Fayram takes a tour of the OpenMoko FreeRunner phone's user interface
  @4: The thing is, all the software stuff can and will be improved. I'm sure we'll see an MP3 player....
• Commented on Dave Fayram takes a tour of the OpenMoko FreeRunner phone's user interface
  I'm extra disappointed, as I paid another CAD $110 for duty fees, and won't even have the unit in my hands until Monday. No electronic-based touchscreen? That sucks. It's my understanding that everything from the power management to the keyboard...
• Commented on Canonical: Game with <i>Boing Boing Gadgets</i>
  I'll play SC2 melee with you guys, or frungy!...
• Commented on LEGO iPhone-toting robot controlled via LCD display and light sensor
  OK, I'll bite and comment on the Wheeled Warriors reference. The evil wheeled plant with three big spinning leaf-morningstars was the coolest....
• Commented on Johnny Bunko -- optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form
  I just bought this book and will devour it the day it arrives. After four pretty good years as a day trader-- a microterm momentum scalper on the NYSE-- I had a bad year at a critical moment in my...
• Commented on Experiment: 96% of passers-by ignore famous artist's street painting
  To me this video shows just how subjective the value of art really is. I'm sure if there was a plaque beside the painting, proclaiming "This is the work of a world-famous painter whose similar paintings sell for $1M or...
• Commented on Selling wine in TetraPak containers
  I must make the distinction between cheap "wine" in a foil bag, in a box, and regular wine in a TetraPak. The former has been around since time immemorial. The latter has been around in Canada, or at least my...
• Commented on Elephant paints an elephant
  I think this video, while totally amazing, is more a case of an elephant being trained to reproduce the brushstrokes rather than express itself artistically. It's essentially the same as programming a robot to paint the picture in that respect....
• Commented on Gary Wolf profiles Ray Kurzweil in Wired
  Puts me in mind of an interesting idea for a sci-fi story about the first (and maybe oldest) human to achieve post-singularity immortality. A diaryesque thing about how weird it is to be the only one whose parents, friends, and...
• Commented on Paul Robertson's "Kings of Power 4 Billion %" Released to Unworthy Internet
  @5 (Cha0tic): But think of how much fun it would be to *try* and complete it!!!...
• Commented on Paul Robertson's "Kings of Power 4 Billion %" Released to Unworthy Internet
  I had tears in my eyes, it was so awesome. I don't think it's fair to call it unwatchable, though. It's art in the style of the most difficult parts of chaotic 2D beat-em-up games. You're not *supposed* to be...
• Commented on Separated at Birth: Sierra's "ImagiNation Network" and "Mytopia"
  I'm pretty certain that "first avatar creation engine" is still used today to create characters in The Realm Online, one of the earliest MMOs which is still active. (It's now run by Norseman Games, not Sierra.) The level of customizability...
• Commented on Wrestler with almost no arms or legs
  @ Christovir: That was my thought, too. I didn't think of his opponents' inexperience wrestling someone with no joints, but I also thought about the muscle mass/weight class advantage. And wouldn't he also have an advantage in that his outermost...
• Commented on Art film of zits being popped
  Jeez... I don't remember my zits ever being that... voluminous? Voluptuous? Forthgiving? Eruptive? What word am I looking for here? Definitely a class example of can't-look-away-ness....
• Commented on Discovery of the Mile High Comics collection
  Spellbinding....
• Commented on Great Moments in Gygax: Random Harlot Encounter Table
  Some fine, fine synonyms in that left-hand column there....
• Commented on Choplery: Chopsticks and Cutlery in One
  Aw, crud. This is from my sketchbook from a couple weeks ago... I snooze, I lose! http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8994/choplerysmgh7.jpg...
• Commented on Toronto's Queen St W burns
  Jeez, I was just down the street from there on Sunday. I hope everyone is okay. I'm glad we didn't lose Steve's Music or the Silver Snail....
• Commented on Pro-file-sharing video from European Green Party
  Great advert, and I especially like the blip track they used for the soundtrack. I'm gonna have to look up Casual Belly. Spankbot... if you're seeing icons of terror everywhere, you should really visit an optometrist. *AND* a psychiatrist....
• Commented on Video of man tasered to death
  I watched the video as I felt it's my duty as a citizen of the planet to understand why this happened so I can prevent it from happening again. Mercifully the video stopped running due to some server error right...