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Commented on Celebrate Sysadmin's Day on Wednesday at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
I feel it must be said, SysAdmin Day is Formally Observed on Friday (the last Friday in July). Don't forget your goodies. http://www.sysadminday.com/...
Commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
This video is not available in my country due to copyright restrictions. (US)...
Commented on USB-powered baked-bean microwave
Forget all that. Even if I can't get the Beanzawave in the U.S. (which, I'll admit, from a practical physics standpoint sounds like something the scientific advisers from The Core came up with) I would love love LOVE to get...
Commented on Visualizing how a dirty Congresscritter turned campaign contributions into earmarks
#5 is right. There's no context here, and someone has found some numbers that, admittedly, look bad, but this graphic was clearly made by someone who has no real working idea of the appropriations process. Remember: you can choose numbers...
Commented on BB Video: "Olé Cordobes," a 1966 Scopitone (via Oddball Film + Video)
On Demand for the analog age!...
Commented on Search algorithms are editorial decisions
Thank goodness we've finally got Bing!...
Commented on Debt is not a good product
Lots of chatter, but not a lot of it helpful. Getting back to the task at hand, I'll paraphrase something my mum always told me: "Never get anything on credit that you won't have when the bill comes."...
Commented on Democracy Trying to Work
#38: please see "The Big Lebowski" for further reference on that particular topic....
Commented on Democracy Trying to Work
#7, #15 and #19 have it right. Yes, we should be debating all aspects of health care reform, but what's going on in this video is not helpful. This is not Viet Nam, dude. There are rules. In all seriousness,...
Commented on Lawrence Lessig: the mistake in bailouts
@18 But that doesn't mean that either one should get any of my tax dollars. See, that's the issue right there. They're not *your* tax dollars, they're the American Government's. People assert this ownership over tax dollars, when in fact...
Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
@ MINDPOWERED we just want to stop throwing good money after bad. Again, this represents a total lack of understanding of not only these issues in particular, but the American economy as a whole. And as for the purely economic...
Commented on A Message To Boing Boing Readers From the Auto Industry
I can see where someone would take a cheap shot like the graphic above, and it is technically fairly well done (as far as the 'shopping skillz). But the text included betrays a real small-mindedness and a lack of understanding...
Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
Back in Michigan we called them "Party Stores", though Convenience Store was used in a more formal setting....
Commented on Playing the Presidential Election Dozens (aka yo mama political fights on Twitter)
There needs to be some sort of compilation here. I keep having to leave my desk because I'm cracking up, but the Twitter interface (for those Luddites among us) is annoying and convoluted. =P Indiebass demands a list!...
Commented on Large Hadron Collider hasn't sucked us into a black hole (yet)
Stay current on the issue: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/...
Commented on All Your Base rubber-stamp
Sheesh! Sold out! I still want one. And anyone who can find one for me gets a guarantee: I promise to bring it into a government office. For reals....
Commented on Soviet phone handset with Bluetooth
I do want one of these *A Lot*! Although I will thank you for pointing me to the ThinkGeek bluetooth retro handset which may fit the bill in the meantime....
Commented on Handsome leather solar bags
I am really surprised at the turn this discussion took immediately. Personally I have nothing against using leather goods, and for what it's worth these folks seem to have made some effort to minimise their impact. But I was more...

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skullivan commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
Is this really N. Korea's first TV commercial ever? The BBC article says it was the first beer commercial but nothing about it being the first time an ad has ever aired on North Korean television....
Blue commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
Antinous: "Fascinating, because as I pointed out before, the link in the post is to a BBC article with the video." Yeah - it's just the massive, most prominently placed giant embedded video feature that everyone is enticed into clicking on is ... pointless. Where does it work, incidentally?...
zuzu commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can you see I am serious! Get out of my way, all of you! This is no place for loafers. Join me or die. Can you do any less?...
benher commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
Perfect to wash down your weaponized bio-cabbage! To those drawing the Japan parallels, grouping together anything from the DPRK with Japan, South Korea, China, or anywhere else in Asia for that matter is insulting....
zuzu commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
To those drawing the Japan parallels, grouping together anything from the DPRK with Japan, South Korea, China, or anywhere else in Asia for that matter is insulting. Because the DPRK is inhabited by vicious animal things that have no historic or cultural ties to the ROK, PRC, or Japan? You're only "insulted" due to your desire to demonize the DPRK as "the Other". (Not that the DPRK isn't a terrible government, but terrible governance is a very common in human history.)...

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