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• Commented on National Gaming Day at libraries a massive success
  The first time I played a computer game was at a library, so why not?...
• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  As long as it doesn't have a really screwed up moral like The Little Mermaid, it's fine with me....
• Commented on EFF sets sights on abusive EULAs
  When I installed Windows, the EULA had been altered to say that Microsoft owed me $1 billion. Okay Microsoft, where's my money?...
• Commented on Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
  How can a secret law be enforced? This isn't communist China....
• Commented on The return of BBTV: Boing Boing's former video acronym taken over by bedbugs
  *scratch* *scratch* *scratch* *scratch*...
• Commented on Maricopa deputy steals defender's paperwork during a court case
  Auto-starting video FAIL...
• Commented on <s>Live-action</s> CGI version of Smurfs in the works?
  What was wrong with hand-drawn animation? Could someone please tell me?...
• Commented on Hotel proudly proclaims Winston Churchill's displeasure with its service
  Winston Churchill had a laser printer? The guy was really ahead of his time, wasn't he?...
• Commented on Orgy: the game from 1967
  "Gaylord James" created this game? How appropriate!...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Usually the "coffee" flavoring in yogurt is just wheat. That's right: WHEAT! Not sure who decided wheat tasted like coffee, but I bet they're a chain smoker....
• Commented on Peter Tchaikovsky (and Friends) Messing Around With A Wax Cylinder Phonograph
  I'm sure many of us have heard the voice of the ghost of Tchaikovsky......
• Commented on Anatomical vegetarian ad
  You are what you eat?...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  A lot of gay kids end up running away from home -- I live near the Castro, and believe me, the area is full of gay homeless kids. I'm not saying that it's the best idea, but it's always an...
• Commented on Home made Russian water purifier
  In the US we have a much easier way of doing this. We drive our SUVs to the supermarket and fill a shopping cart with bottles of water. Then we put that water into our SUV and drive back home...
• Commented on Food Fight
  Maybe I just haven't been to the "right" places, but every Po'boy I've ever eating was extremely difficult to eat and big enough to feed two people. Good riddance....
• Commented on Progressive activists tussle over Islam and homophobia
  I read this post 3 times and still don't understand a word of it. Could someone translate this into English, please?...
• Commented on DMCA takedown shirt
  The logo on the back is ugly. Thankfully, you can make a shirt just like this without the logo using any color/typeface you want at one of many online t-shirt printing places....
• Commented on Leaked text of secret copyright treaty vs. bland bureaucratic press-release describing same
  So who's going to organize the protest in Mexico?...
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  Elon Musk didn't co-found PayPal -- he co-founded x.com, which merged with PayPal. And while he's in charge of Tesla Motors, he certainly wasn't a founder....
• Commented on iPhone game dev accused of stealing players' phone numbers (UPDATED)
  Apple doesn't look at the source code, they only have access to the binaries. It can be extremely tricky to guess what a program does based on the binaries....
• Commented on Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays
  Couldn't they have just caught rays from blasters?...
• Commented on Gopher protocol reborn
  Yeah right, Gopher is still alive. And your kids are going to love Atari 2600 games....
• Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
  Remember kids, never open a bottle of wine with a toilet: http://failblog.org/2009/07/06/bottle-opening-fail/...
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  How about making laptops upgradeable instead of "disposable"? I've replaced the motherboard, cpu, ram, graphics card, power supply, etc. in my desktop several times over the past 5 years. But in a laptop? Forget it! The parts aren't reusable and...
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  If running over your children with a truck is a "traditional value" in Iraq, we should have just nuked 'em....
• Commented on Feature documentary film about psychedelics
  The last comment stuck out for me: "All experience is a drug experience." There's a lot of truth to this......
• Commented on Newspaper circulation over last 20 years: the great swandive
  It's not "print," it's "aged news."...
• Commented on The White House switch to open source: Tim O'Reilly's thoughts
  Wordpress has a great end user experience, BUT the documentation is terrible compared to Drupal's. For a big project like this, documentation makes a huge difference....
• Commented on 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
  So you believe in equality for people who share your opinion only? We have a word for that: fascism. And no, I never said I disagreed with this guy. But if you place the opinions of soldiers above everyone else,...
• Commented on Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
  You can play any of the original Keen games -- 1-3, Dreams, 4-5, or 6 -- on DOSBox on any modern platform. You just need the original game and 10 minutes or so to tweak DOSBox settings. The GameBoy Color...