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Commented on Just look at this awesome banana slicer.
This is easily my new favorite Boing Boing in-joke. I'm surprised how many people continue to take these posts at face value....
Commented on How to tell if you are being boring
1. A dreamHoly shit, QFT. This is an ongoing point of contention between me and my wife. I think the biggest problem with trying to tell people about dreams is that the dissonance between what you're experiencing in the dream...
Commented on Blackwater founder Erik Prince revealed as a CIA spy
Wow, can you say "conflict of interest?"...
Commented on Web design project from hell immortalized in cautionary webcomic
you in fact need to behave just like that panel towards the end, as the mouse in the graphical program that gets told what to do by the people who are paying you for your ability to use the tools.Totally....
Commented on Mechanical flapping steampunk leather zeppelin
I'm way, way, WAY over "steampunk," but this is so goddamned cool....
Commented on Dumpster, wrong color
Funny, now that I've read the comments. But I have to say you have a bad habit of posting things that require explanation with minimal commentary of your own (e.g., "Plaices of Death"). It would be nice if you wrote...
Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
I really don't want some hepatitis infected junkie bleeding on me.Then a) get a hepatitis vaccination and b) don't become a cop. It's part of the job, and tasers were supposedly introduced as an alternative to lethal force not as...
Commented on Steakhouse or Gay Bar?
Similarly funny and addictive is Cheese or Font?: http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/...
Commented on Brand New discusses our logo
Bring back Jackhammer Jill! Go back to the homepage and scroll down, geniuses. She's at the top of the masthead. She even bounces if you mouse over her....
Commented on Evolution of heavy metal design
Rapp makes it sound like all heavy metal bands are grasping the torch of artistic minimalism and Rothko-esque simplicity. This is not the case. Some metal bands still have quite strong ties to Satan and chicks.QFT. There are definitely a...
Commented on The jack-o-lanterns in Nebraska sure know how to get down
It's 10x better if you watch it with the sound off....
Commented on Makers launch in London next THU, OCT 29 (CORRECTED!) at Forbidden Planet
Super fantastic cover, Cory!...
Commented on Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past
I know the stories are likely available in other collections, but I'm particularly interested in "Clute's superb introduction to the collection" which isn't going to be found anywhere else. But shipping from Canada is definitely cheaper, so thanks for the...
Commented on Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past
It's a travesty that a collection of classic American pulp stories by a writer from Texas is only available via Amazon UK. I have no problem buying from another country, but the shipping is going to cost me as much...
Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
...scraping by on coins left in slot machines.Considering that most of the slots in Vegas ditched coins in favor of credit slips several years go, this is quite a feat....
Commented on An illustrated guide to making t-shirts with the Yudu machine
Also dose anybody know of a good halftone pattern maker program?In Photoshop: Image->Mode->Bitmap->Halftone Screen... (in the Method drop down)....
Commented on An illustrated guide to making t-shirts with the Yudu machine
I love that the Yudu is getting people excited about screen printing at home. It's such an easy, empowering process and people really shouldn't be scared of it.However, the machine itself ($300) and the accessories ($10 for a bottle of...
Commented on Teen cries true blood
Technically he doesn't "cry" blood, he leaks blood from his eye sockets. That's about 1,000% less "OMG Lestat is so romantic!" and 1,000,000% more "I think I'm gonna puke!"...
Commented on (BB Video) Mighty Boosh, pt 3: Slashfic, Boosh books, Eleanor's NORAD link
Here's a link to the Chelsea Lately interview that they reference in the end of the BBV clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbumseZRahc&feature=related Doesn't seem so bad to me. I thought the Boosh handled her with aplomb....
Commented on What real piracy looks like: biopirate loses patent over century-old latinamerican staple crop
Glad to hear there's some positive resolution to this story, but when did we start calling it "latinamerica?"...
Commented on ATM to guy depositing California state IOU: "Come back without a [registered] warrant."
Something just occurred to me- what would happen if you tried to pay your state taxes with those IOUs?As already alluded to by CHAOMANCER, the state has already announced that they'll accept their own warrants as payment for a variety...
Commented on Camel's milk chocolate coming to the west
It's probably not grammatically correct, but that headline would be way more readable with a properly placed hyphen: "Camel's-milk chocolate." On first read, I thought R.J. Reynolds was bringing their Far East milk chocolate brand to the west!...
Commented on Torchwood, reviewed (Metzger likes it)
Children of Earth is definitely a huge step forward for Torchwood, but calling it "one of the most intelligent and sophisticated long form scripts in the history of the genre" is a bit of a stretch if you ask me....
Commented on Amazon's Orwellian deletion of Kindle books
(Nor, for that matter, does Amazon reserve any "remote deletion" right the Kindle "terms of service".)If that's true, then didn't Amazon just open themselves up to some kind of huge class action lawsuit? Or are they absolved because they refunded...
Commented on Independent comic book artists draw Marvel's superheros
People who dig this may also appreciate illustrator Mark Todd's recent work: http://www.marktoddillustration.com/gallery%20html/art1.htm Much better appreciated in person as a lot of it is multi-layered and collage-like. Fun stuff....
Commented on Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer stompbox
I can't be the only one that's surprised that it's not _Thee_ Gristleizer?...
Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
1.) The "We Are the World" composer is, as of last week, now a decomposer. You may have seen a news item or two on it. But it was co-written by Lionel Richie who's obviously still alive, and I'm pretty...
Commented on 1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud?
D'oh! I stand corrected by WSST1000!...
Commented on 1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud?
Proper credit for discovering this goes to The Heads of State: https://www.theheadsofstate.com/ Who first brought it up in their Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/theheadsofstate/status/2108452842...
Commented on Amazon deletes reviews that expose other reviews as paid-for
It's true; if you review the _seller_ in a review of the _product_ then Amazon will likely delete your review. The comment thread for that Consumerist post is well worth a read because, as usual, the problem isn't nearly as...

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Xopher commented on How to tell if you are being boring
Well, 1, 2, 4 and 5 are pretty well-decayed corpses, so the party would only get dull AFTER your guests flee screaming. The last two would just have everyone mobbed around the famous guest talking to them about their work, which does sound dull if you're not at all interested in their work (I'd be fascinated to talk to Woody, but Tiger...eh, except that the best ever at ANYTHING is interesting). I never heard of Rick Steves before. Had to look him up. Sounds dull....
Itsumishi commented on Just look at this awesome banana slicer.
That's all fine and dandy. You obviously have your manners and I have mine. I was just curious. I'm not overly offended by smoking (although I do not smoke myself, and I do hate the smell of an ashtray that is never emptied). I regularly eat things like boxed noodles on trains and trams as that way I can eat on the run whilst trying to get places. I'm often quite busy though and eating on public transport is often the only chance I'll get to sit down and eat. Also being in Australia means there is a lot of...
peterbruells commented on Just look at this awesome banana slicer.
@itumishi It does? The way Chinese cuisine - of course heavily adapted to local tastes - is prepared over here I have no problem taking bite sized pieces with chop-sticks and eat them. Just the noodles are a bit problematic, as they have to get sucked it. I admit, me eating popcorn with chop-sticks ist something I do just for convenience, as I avoid getting fat or sugar (A German delightful perversion, I've been told) on my hands....
Itsumishi commented on Just look at this awesome banana slicer.
Ahh see I would never 'suck' the noodles in. I would pick the noodles up with the chopsticks, put them in my mouth, move the chopsticks down a little little bit gripping them a bit further down and bite through them. Also things like sushi which is not generally prepared in bite sized chunks at all will need to be bitten through at least once, unless you feel like stuffing the whole thing into your mouth in one go. There are also plenty of Chinese/Korean/Thai places that serve dishes with chunks too big for single bites....
Itsumishi commented on Just look at this awesome banana slicer.
One other question, do you like chocolate bars?...

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