Halloween Jack

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• Commented on Animated video for Flairs' "Trucker's Delight" (NSFW)
  The only real excuse that I can think of for anyone thinking that this was awesome is that they haven't seen Pirate Babys Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 and think that this sort of 8-bit game satire is at all...
• Commented on Trompe l'oeil back-garden sink-hole
  This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree and its green canopy overhead, while allowing for a maximum of usable surface area below free of other vegetation. Sometimes I can't help but be amused by the pompous language of...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  They patented it so that no one else could, to keep it out of the hands of evil people. Yeah, that's the ticket....
• Commented on Goldwag: The Sarah Palin Conspiracies
  These are great observations about conspiracy theories, both those about Palin and those that she's embraced. I'd take this one step further and make a point about how assiduously and cleverly she's used the conspiracy theory about her and her...
• Commented on Tales from a kangaroo shooter
  I listened to The Moth for the first time last week, and really enjoyed some of the stories on it. This, though, is a little weak--you get the impression that this guy would have lost about 2/3 of the story...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Never liked any coffee yogurt enough to have it more than once. Coffee really belongs in a cup by itself, anyway....
• Commented on Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live
  Ironically, it seems like block lists are propagated, and persist, not unlike spam lists....
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  Pretty much the same way I knew I was straight when I was 13--it was all I could think about....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Sales people would be far better at customer service if they weren't paid on commission at all. Commission is a corporate scam to avoid the perceived "cost" of giving their employees a secure income and corporations pay for this "saving"...
• Commented on MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
  To anyone from Coshocton who might be reading this: folks, you really do need to learn to be better netizens to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future! For example, look into the TOR Project. Thanks and...
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  Do you really think that this is acceptable customer service? I accidentally ordered the wrong thing from Amazon, and the same day that I realized my mistake, I sent it back and got my refund a few days later, minus...
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  In other news, cranky old man wants to charge phonebook for listing his business number, yells at kids to get off his virtual lawn. Hilarity ensues....
• Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
  Not sure why this is news or even remotely controversial. Any activity that can possibly give a person pleasure can be considered "addictive", including exercise and productive work....
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  I don't think that anyone's going to "flame you as a Nazi" for projecting your teen drinking experiences onto others. But that is what you're doing. Teens drink without getting drunk and even if they do get drunk, don't always...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating Heart
  If you can stand to watch this sort of thing, the excellent MedlinePlus site from the National Library of Medicine has dozens of surgery videos covering pretty much everything from stem to stern, so to speak....
• Commented on Face painting art
  That's great stuff. At first, I thought that they were masks, and then went "Oh, wait..."...
• Commented on Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter
  I'd swear that I've seen something similar to this, maybe on BB. Also, lectroid: despite the F-word, "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script" was, in fact, a very polite essay which cited a specific situation in which Josh Olsen...
• Commented on Will the Duggars Inherit the Earth?
  Nice try, no cigar. You seem to be oblivious to the fact that the difference between the Duggars and the other cases that you cite is that the Duggars are not just promoting their lifestyle, but selling it, and as...
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  With all due respect to SeattlePete--believe me, I loves me some smoked salmon--not everyone has the time or facilities to do real wood smoking. This is an adequate substitute for them what don't. Also, a good practical way of making...
• Commented on Will the Duggars Inherit the Earth?
  I've seen similar claims for the descendants of Charlemagne, something that you can bring up whenever some particularly insistent conspiracy theorist starts going on about how all the presidents are descended from some royal family, albeit distantly (presumably, that would...
• Commented on A bouncy, anti-gravity workout with the new AlterG treadmill
  Don't forget the swimming pool, which any decent gym has; cycling machines; and elliptical trainers, which reduce strain on the limbs--all excellent no-impact modes of exercise. This thing sounds like fun, but really impractical for just about any exerciser....
• Commented on GG Allin designer toy
  Needs more shit for that true touch of authenticity....
• Commented on Witches on drugs
  Not surprising that there are, in fact, several places where you can get a "Witches Gone Wild" T-shirt, hoodie, etc. Blessed be capitalism!...
• Commented on NASA to irradiate monkeys
  Is it too early to welcome our new mutant monkey overlords?...
• Commented on The Blue Flash: Nuclear Accidents and the Origins of Superhero Origins
  Here's David Hahn's mugshot. When I read the original "Radioactive Boy Scout" article, I thought he was really cool in a not-so-practical way; now he just seems crazy-obsessed....
• Commented on Guy in Egypt orders "artificial hymen kit" over the internet, blogs about it
  I think I'll get one of these for my Fleshlight. She says that she's never been with another man, but things went a little too easily the first time, if you catch my drift....
• Commented on Robbers wearing markered disguises
  The Wolf: You guys look like... What do they look like, Jimmie? Jimmie: Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks....
• Commented on Library 101: project on the future of libraries
  I want to be encouraging to these young fellows, I really do, but... every few years, someone comes along who thinks that everyone still thinks of librarians as these dusty old spinsters, and becomes convinced that they're the ones to...
• Commented on Life and Times of Martha Washington: the whole Frank Miller GIVE ME LIBERTY saga
  I agree that Dave Gibbons' art deserves more of the credit; he really took a quantum leap when he did Watchmen, and it shows, although this is very un-Watchmen-like. As for Miller... well. I think that you might be a...
• Commented on Trailer for Collapse, a documentary about coming global meltdown
  So this guy predicted that the real-estate bubble would burst? That's the source of his cred? Holy shit, stop the presses, it's Nostra-damn-damus for the twenty-first century, here to tell us when the shit's really going down. Paul Krugman would...