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• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  Also... a more constructive comment: RE: brittle glass. Generally the 15ish oz "pint" glasses in US bars are so thick that I'm pretty sure if you smashed it in somebody's face you'd knock them clean out and the glass would...
• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  If some British Gov't official tries to take my glass pint away I will smash it in their face! oh wait...
• Commented on Chimp enjoys magic show
  It is probably pretty low to dress chimps up for our entertainment... At the same time, a video like this shows just how intelligent a chimp is and might make some people a little more compassionate towards chimps and other...
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  It warms my heart to see the Creepshow 2 video clip show up in this comment thread so quickly....
• Commented on ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash
  It's nice and all that we're just beginning to be able to rationally discuss things like the TSA. It wasn't that long ago that if you brought these issues up you would be met with a wall of "911" responses...
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  Anonymous, "Obama will handle the actual reaction, and I trust him to do it...that's what we elected him to do. If he needs to temporarily suspend some limited rights, that's fine with me. There are no rights for dead people."...
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  Schneier old buddy old pal... if you are reading this, I implore you to write an article about the fact that we are one little terror attack away from going bat shit crazy again in this country. Seriously, we aren't...
• Commented on Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)
  I wonder how many people being shot by basij I'd have to see before I started shooting back....
• Commented on Donald Rumsfeld's Strangeloveian Defense Briefing Art
  You can't hardly mention old Rumsfeld without linking to http://www.rummybear.com/...
• Commented on TV reporter forgets he is on live TV, says bad word, then blanches in horror
  @24 Tdawwg "and we'd all move onto more important things.... Like torture prosecutions!" ZING!...
• Commented on Sketchory: 250,000 CC-licensed sketches
  Wow, where do 250,000 drawings like this come from?!...
• Commented on MAKE/Obama t-shirt
  We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world...
• Commented on List of story items to cover this year
  JIMH, Mark, all other Boingers... Steampunk is *so* 2008. Cyberpunk is what is in for 2009....
• Commented on For once, news about why we're safer than we used to be
  Boing Boing CLEARLY forgot to knock on wood. Way to go guys....
• Commented on One look at the Jell-O clown and he will haunt your dreams forevermore
  @JMULLAN rimshot...
• Commented on What is this science fiction image?
  Are you sure you didn't draw this, Cory? heh Does remind me of a Sim City 2000 Arcology, too....
• Commented on Cookie Monster eats World Trade towers in 1976
  Come on, Cookie Monster! You know better... The World Trade Center is a "sometimes food."...
• Commented on Rumsfeld's decision a "direct cause" for POW abuse, says bipartisan Senate report
  Isn't he cute? http://www.rummybear.com/...
• Commented on Rumsfeld's decision a "direct cause" for POW abuse, says bipartisan Senate report
  We won't see any accountability under Nancy Pelosi's House or Harry Reid's Senate. There's plenty of evidence to support this from the last 4 years. You can call your Rep. and tell them you do not have confidence in the...
• Commented on Imprisoned former Daily Telegraph publisher says US justice and prison systems are flawed
  Funny how everything that gets privatized ends up screwing us. Come on token boingboing Republican: give me that counter example! I dare you!...
• Commented on EA reviving <em>Dungeon Keeper</em> as Asian MMO
  I was quite excited to see River City Ransom released to the Wii Virtual Console. One of my first thoughts upon playing it again was actually that it'd make for a very interesting persistent online universe....
• Commented on Motorola, could you please tell your viral marketer to get out of our comments?
  What is even happening in this thread?! WOW! Nothing beats the Trepanasaurus, though. I'm sad to discover it was purely the invention of boingboing user Secret_Life_of_Plants. I was hoping for some additional lulz via google. I thought it was a...
• Commented on Introversion playing with fire with unbeatable DEFCON AI
  The only way to win is not to play....
• Commented on Guy teaches his dog to say "Obama."
  HERPE! You know I don't speak Spanish! What's that? You ate an entire wheel of cheese? And you pooped in the refrigerator?! I'm not even mad. Frankly that's impressive....
• Commented on What the TSA's new body scanner images look like
  Breasts, penises, and scrotums with not bad resolution either. Comic-book style X-Ray Glasses have arrived, and Big Brother has them....
• Commented on Giant spider eats bird
  I wanted to say "medium sized spider eats tiny bird" ....... but I can't. And I don't like that. I don't like it at all....
• Commented on Teens convicted of virtual theft
  Perhaps the intimidation and coercion took place in meatspace... if they bullied him into handing his stuff over in the real world I can understand the judge's sentence....
• Commented on Teens convicted of virtual theft
  How can meatspace theft and harassment laws apply in an environment where there exists magic and homicide is within the game rules? Maybe there is no Player Vs Player in RuneScape? Does RuneScape have a thief/rogue player class? If the...
• Commented on Teens convicted of virtual theft
  So... then if I'm Dutch I can sue RuneScape and win if they ever accidentally delete my account and didn't have a backup? What if RuneScape goes out of business. They are depriving me of access to my goods....
• Commented on HOWTO read the secret forensic dots in your laser-printer output
  Just get a public official you don't like or their staff to print you something on a color laser jet. Simply copy their yellow dot pattern and replicate it on your own paper which says something like "Lets commit crime...