Philipp Lenssen

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• Commented on Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters
  HUMOR IS CRIMETHINK...
• Commented on Crumb, Clowes, Ware, and Tomine together in France.
  "All rights reserved" and no large photo version, not the coolest way to store this on Flickr. Anyway, sad to realize I missed Daniel Clowes at Angoulemene. Or are there other signings of his in Europe/ is he still there?...
• Commented on Sketchory: 250,000 CC-licensed sketches
  Xopl, you can check the site's About page for the answer: http://sketchory.com/about...
• Commented on Browse iTunes for music, then buy from Amazon
  ... except that Amazon MP3, as opposed to the iTunes Store, only works in the US (last time I checked)... which makes this solution worse for most parts of the world....
• Commented on FutureFeedForward: Google's upcoming body search
  The concept of a "Google Body" program in terms of a variant of 3D-mapper Google Earth may not be that far off -- for instance, NBC11 once reported that eHumans.com (which tries to map the human body in accessible 3D)...
• Commented on Micky Mouse vs Mickey Mouse
  "Mickey Mouse" is "Micky Maus" (or "Mickymaus") in Germany, by the way. I guess the Diysney character was a product of its time. Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse movie, itself copied some aspects of Buster Keaton, I heard, and...
• Commented on Mind gyms for cognitive fitness
  Link to SharpBrains blog is broken at this time, leads to "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/15/tracks%20scientific%20advances%20related%20to%20cognitive%20fitness%20and"...
• Commented on German edition of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is also CC licensed!
  I'm late to the party, but also wanted to comment how I think it's funny & slightly silly that one English title is "translated" into another English title. "Miss Congeniality" was transformed into the apparently-dumbed-down English "Miss Undercover" here :)...
• Commented on Visions of the Future/Listography
  Agree with previous commenters, my first thought too was it looks to fancy; the intro, the backgrounds, the player, even the way Xeni speaks. I'd prefer something more casual, natural, raw, authentic. Also, I thought some of the bits were...
• Commented on Mutating Pictures: using artificial selection to create faces
  Lots of Samurais can be seen today: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/110036.html#id110160...
• Commented on Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal
  Good points you're making. It's not really a government on its own, or a tech company on its own, that can cause dangerous situations. It's when the two get together; the amoral technological genius on the one side and the...
• Commented on Teacher resigns after giving 13-yr-old student copy of Eightball
  This is the wrong comic to give to a teen. The teacher should've handed out one of the earlier Eightball issues, like 1-15, the short stories following the "like a velvet glove" ongoing series were the best IMO. :)...
• Commented on Gallery: scan your face and contents of pockets
  I only get a "suspended" message on that link. But I once bought a coffee table book as gift which had exactly this idea. People were photographed, had to fill out a form with their info & hobbies and stuff,...
• Commented on Tiny girl's website
  "Service Temporarily Unavailable"...
• Commented on Scroogled: CC-licensed story about the day Google turned evil
  > Despite the dialog being totally > unrealistic, it was still a decent read. The license allows you to change all dialog :)...
• Commented on Scroogled: CC-licensed story about the day Google turned evil
  Cool. I reposted this at Google Blogoscoped....
• Commented on MC Hammer school of English (video)
  Hilarious stuff....
• Commented on Cory speaking in Beijing next week
  Why not check out an internet cafe there and browse around a bit to bring home some eye-witness censorship scope reports... At least you don't risk being beaten up or jailed for reporting on it back home....
• Commented on Tube Map for Miss SC: The Iraqs and Everywhere, Like, Such As.
  This the new star wars kid, such as?...
• Commented on Psychology of risk-taking
  > Can you please do something about the size > of the fonts? > > Site redesigns are inevitable, but not > being able to adjust the size of a main > font in any web site is inexcuseable. Though...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Excellent redesign. Love it....