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• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  Ah yes, but you neglected to mention that your daughter obviously had to sell $100,000 in wrapping paper to earn that toy!...
• Commented on Praying Mantis consumes grasshopper.
  Here's a photo of a praying mantis that stalked and captured a hummingbird to eat: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/09/praying-mantis-catches-a-hummingbird/...
• Commented on How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine
  That's a helpful perspective, Kerov: most people are basically good. It sure was unnerving as a pedestrian on the streets of DC during the weeks those guys were shooting people at random. I wouldn't want to go through that on...
• Commented on Do chimps grieve?
  The chimpanzee Dorothy spent 25 years in an amusement park in Cameroon where she was tethered to the ground by a chain around her neck, taunted, teased, and taught to drink beer and smoke cigarettes for sport. More backstory here,...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Well said, #24 @JTegnell: choice is good, coercion is not....
• Commented on Soda pop bottle caps
  Did anyone else play a sidewalk game called Scully using bottle caps like these? You melted crayons in them for weight and beauty, then flicked them with thumb and index finger into numbered boxes drawn on sidewalk. A NYC game....
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  Here's the NASA website on this space shuttle mission with bios, photos and descriptions of what they're doing up there: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts128/ You can follow the mission on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/STS128...
• Commented on Videos from an animal's perspective
  The scorpion one is cool but the pig one almost makes me not love bacon....
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  How is this different from Caroline Kennedy almost getting Hillary Clinton's seat in the Senate merely for having a famous last name?...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Classic Remi. I love this Rocky spoof he did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqOBR_Xbw2I...
• Commented on Paul Carter's "The Enormous Absurdity of Nature": superb essay on space, the moon, religion, myth and science
  Holy smokes! Jupiter to Toynbee, the scale of dino time, Tennyson vs Gaia, Navajoland and Hoboken, tender hearts and trilobites, preoccupation with linear time, and prayer without grumble. He pretty much covers it all, magnificently. Thanks....
• Favorited EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense International: 6 tips for protecting free speech on Boing Boing
• Commented on Tiburon, CA will photograph and record license plate of every visitor to town
  I still agree with #38: "Acquiescing to surveillance in no way protects your rights as a photographer."...
• Commented on Infographic: all US one-time expenditures vs the bailout
  This is the first useful infographic I've seen on the bailout. Thanks for posting....
• Commented on Five piece toolkit made by wild chimps
  It will also come with a genuine leather Home Depot tool belt....
• Favorited Action Figure museum gallery on Boing Boing
• Favorited Attack of the 50-Foot Baby blocks turn your toddler into a vengeful goddess on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed on Boing Boing
• Favorited China's labor unrest worse than suspected on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed on Boing Boing
• Favorited China's labor unrest worse than suspected on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job on Boing Boing
• Favorited Life at Wal-Mart on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job on Boing Boing