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• Commented on Department of Defense orders 2,200 PS3s
  A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? (I'm sorry, I have to be pedantic about the quote, only because it is burned into my memory: "Shall we play a...
• Commented on The return of BBTV: Boing Boing's former video acronym taken over by bedbugs
  Does he mention diatomaceous earth?...
• Commented on MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
  There was a DVD that compiled two VHS tapes of content from Liquid Television called Wet Shorts. I should still have it on DVD... someplace....
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  In this case, Moore is less....
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  Somewhere between Sweeney Todd and Iguana Bob / Doc Morbid......
• Commented on Recent money-related posts at Credit.com
  Funny enough, I had just contacted (and later bought) a White's Electronics Quantum XT from someone when the story broke about the treasure cache. It seems that metal detecting in Europe ("where the history comes from") is much simpler because...
• Commented on Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan
  I didn't see it at first, but the top image doesn't have a teacher in it, only a picture (or display) of a teacher. Also, what is the purpose of the large red ball on a mast suspended above the...
• Favorited New journal about electronic dance culture on Boing Boing
• Favorited Esoteric classics: a list of books on Boing Boing
• Commented on Sorry if you got caught in the spam filter
  How do we report spammy comments or users? There seems to be no dedicated place or facility for it as there is on the mother-blog. For a start, there are at least 2 users in the comments who are very...
• Favorited The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet on Boing Boing
• Favorited Animated short about the plague of "smooth jazz" in offices: "Distraxion." on Boing Boing
• Favorited 1917 Beekman Street Subway collapse on Boing Boing
• Commented on When Guantánamo came to America: "Zeitoun."
  Just as a side note, but zeitoun ( زيتون ) means olive in Arabic. Zeit zeitoun is olive oil, where Spanish gets aceite, the word for oil. (On preview, I think I like the monospace Arabic font in my browser...
• Favorited The Planet of Storms - 1962 Russian science fiction movie on Boing Boing
• Favorited HOWTO avoid cognitive blind-spots, save money and be happy on Boing Boing
• Favorited Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading on Boing Boing
• Favorited Photos of NYC in the 1940s on Boing Boing
• Favorited New book about cult magazines does great job of recounting history of bOING bOING on Boing Boing
• Commented on Ryan Adams Reviews Gorf, Rides Tangents
  Complements to the people who did the audio engineering for this video. On more than one occasion, I was almost certain there was another source of sound behind and to my left. Also, *want* that house....
• Commented on PAX's Dark Carnival: screenshots of the latest <em>Left 4 Dead 2</em> campaign
  Zombie clowns... That's all I need....
• Commented on Random ham radio trollfight audio (explicit)
  Are there any more-talented ears that can translate the morse code that periodically pops up in the transmission? one around the 1:30, another around the 2:00, and sporadically as the recording progresses, with a big amount around 5:30. Are these...
• Favorited Kids' Doctor Who Torchwood video on Boing Boing
• Favorited Kids' Doctor Who fan video from 1983 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Ariel: post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery adventure that rocked my world on Boing Boing
• Favorited Media players, digital art galleries, and pirate TV on Boing Boing
• Favorited bOING bOING advertisement in Factsheet Five #33 (1989) on Boing Boing
• Favorited Things that have always been true for the class of 2013 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Computers' limitations, as seen in 1967 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Contrafactual history of Jimmy Carter's green space-race on Boing Boing