Adam Rakunas

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• Favorited Novella about the future of the in-crowd: The Right People on Boing Boing
• Favorited Novella about the future of the in-crowd: The Right People on Boing Boing
• Favorited Alan Moore documentary on AlterTube on Boing Boing
• Favorited Funeral for a mainframe on Boing Boing
• Favorited Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia" on Boing Boing
• Favorited Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia" on Boing Boing
• Favorited Woolen cap gives wearer fake beard on Boing Boing
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Thank you. This is the kind of post from BB I'd hoped to see....
• Commented on Little Brother, New York Times and Booksense bestseller!
  @7 You know, I saw the first cover and thought "Frank Miller" because of the shadows and ink lines on the clothing. Yay for the new cover, yay for the bestsellingness, and yay for pixel-stained technopeasantry!...
• Commented on Is driving better than cycling?
  On the bike, I get at least 53 miles per burrito. Let's see Toyota top that!...
• Commented on Weekend Mayhem: Come Play <i>Team Fortress 2</i> With Boing Boing!
  I must be exceedingly lame, 'cause I can't find the server, either....
• Commented on GTA IV world record attempt tonight, next door to BBtv
  I hope his thumbs hold up. Twenty-five hours is a *lot* of button mashing....
• Commented on Get involved in production of community-made SF movie: Artemis Eternal
  You know, I'd love to donate, but I'd also like to know what the story is. Or might be. Or something. Could we get just a little more of a hint than that it's "about questioning what society expects of...
• Commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  I think we're all missing the most important point here: that Pinkberry is overpriced crap not worth getting worked up over in the first place....
• Commented on US Judiciary opts to spend millions on accessing its own records, which are now available on the Web for free
  I just like the title "Rogue Archivist." Do his business cards have some kind of skull-and-crossbones-Dewey-Decimal mashed up logo?...
• Commented on Vintage cocaine party photos
  And, just to get meta, a bunch of MeFi users recreated these shots in this Flickr pool, though without the Hires....
• Commented on Insider's story about Atari
  Mark, that link takes you to the About page. The Donkey Kong story lives here. Cool story, thanks!...
• Commented on TSA at LAX still requiring air travelers to remove all electronics?
  Hey, I got caged, too! Flying from JFK to LAX last December. The best part was seeing the elderly, wheelchair-bound man who was caged with me have to *get up* from his chair so he could be frisked. The TSA...
• Commented on Microsoyahoo? Buyout offer: stock and $44.6 billion...
  When does Merlin Mann get his MacArthur Genius Grant?...
• Commented on Mysterious, doughy, unknown blob clogs sewer
  Seriously, guys...Cloverfield's out, you can knock off the viral campaigning....
• Commented on J.J. Abrams TED talk: "Mystery in a Box" (video)
  No, JJ Abrams directed it. Here....
• Commented on Skidoo airing on Turner Classic Movies
  Wow. That was one of the weirdest things I've seen on screen. I now have Carol Channing singing the theme song stuck in my head....
• Commented on Skidoo airing on Turner Classic Movies
  I got my Tivo set for this. Can we have a follow-up thread for post-film discussion?...
• Commented on Mouth eye photoshop images
  I enjoyed these photos... Me, too. If by "enjoyed" you meant "was turned into a quivering, fetal mass in the corner." Eesh....
• Commented on Spider Jerusalem cosplayer
  "Read my scripture!" (Transmet fans will know what I mean.)...
• Commented on Story of quilts
  When my wife and I got engaged, her Great-Aunt Pinky (her real name was Juanita, but she had red hair and the nickname stuck) started making us a quilt. Pinky died about four months before we got married, so her...
• Commented on Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia"
  Better that than the Farked Noodles....
• Commented on Slovenia's mystic president
  Sounds like the ruler of the Universe at the end of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe."...
• Commented on TSA warns TSA to be on the lookout for anti-terror agents
  I agree, ringmod76. The TSA seems like half its staff are indifferent, and the other half are busy covering the agency's ass. Glad I only have two more flights to make this year, and then I'm done until January 2009....
• Commented on Brain-computer interface for Second Life
  This is very, very cool. As this controller becomes more refined and starts incorporating more SL commands (thought-controlled object construction? Sweet!), this is going to make virtual worlds that much more powerful as a storytelling/meeting/prototyping medium. And as virtual worlds...