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• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  This is complete and total nonsense and not worth being repeated in the NYT, BB.net or anywhere! In short, the Higgs boson (force carrying particle) is a scalar (as opposed to a vector) that provides mass to all particles (if...
• Commented on Canadian national reading summit, Toronto, Nov 12-13
  Please keep us updated as the approaches. thx....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Phew, as long as no one tried to sneak a snuke in their snizz on then we're all safe. [noscript/adblock recommended to follow link]...
• Commented on Al Franken reads the Fourth Amendment to DoJ official at PATRIOT Act hearings
  Here be video....
• Commented on Dramatic Tweets
  All excellent reasons for continuing to ignore twitter's and those 'celebrety's' very existence. Thank you for reminding me to stay the course of blissful ignorance of all things twitter and cult-of-celebrity....
• Commented on The Boing Boing / Insane Clown Posse / Juggalo Singularity
  Antinuous: wow, clever, sardonic, useless(i.e. par for the course). I am quite fine with scrolling past all the useless, boring, uninteresting or otherwise posts - shit happens - but when such invidious content is put forth as worthwhile or interesting,...
• Commented on The Boing Boing / Insane Clown Posse / Juggalo Singularity
  I am just going to quote myself from the last time this came up, because nothing has changed: "I see no redeeming qualities in ICP or any of their filthy brood. The sooner they are left alone to rot the...
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  Umm, who the hell is Mike Ross? Why is this ad not targeted at the vastly more important Max Baucus (D-MT)? I do hope there's another in the pipe for that particular shill. Snip from the recent must read by...
• Commented on Possibly the best one-note internet joke to emerge from the Kanye VMA incident.
  Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic: "It's virtually impossible to be a black person and believe that Americans were somehow more humble in the past. Our very existence springs from an act of immodesty." This is shameful and ignorant. Anyone who...
• Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
  A wonderful paean Cory; a sublime lament. It's extraordinarily disheartening news. The only hope remains that word of such a tragedy will invite the intercession of some higher power to intercede and save the day. The notion that such a...
• Commented on Space Shuttle scheduled to land near LA this evening, big sonic boom expected
  Correction: "Home! After 58 days in space... Welcome home Discovery Just FYI the mission duration was actually 13 days, 20 hours, 53 minutes, 45 seconds. The '58 days' things refers to the following: "Friday was the 58th day in space...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  I don't have much to say, but I'd recommend the following sources: 1) The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman Finkelstein 2) Holocaust: The Ignored Reality by Timothy Snyder Highly recommended, snip from the intro:...
• Commented on Google goes Fortean
  A Google Secret project? An imminent announcement of a SETI contact? Please do tell, the suspense is killing us!...
• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  I see no redeeming qualities in ICP or any of their filthy brood. The sooner they are left alone to rot the better. I would have expected BB - even Xeni - to have had better taste than to tout...
• Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy from Derren Brown Blog
  To Anonymous: If you don't believe aligning your spine will make you feel better, there's not much I can say to that. Please, believe whatever you want! It's called yoga. There are many more beneficial ways to adjust your spinal...
• Commented on Advisor: Don't let social networking ruin your social skills
  Twitter is also where most intelligent daytime discussions take place... A more contradictory sentence I have not read in a very long time. Twitter is a shallow pool of vanity, 'intelligence' cannot possibly be conveyed 140 characters at a time....
• Commented on Tweet (#2830275680)
  human race = doping on feet ......
• Commented on 2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
  "14 minutes of the world's worst fonts." Then why the hell post it? I can't imagine this catastrophe has any possible redeeming qualities that need to be propagated to your audience ... next time anything ICP-related comes up, I'd be...
• Commented on Abortion clinic escort's blog
  Yet another instance were I am so pleased to live in Canada and be far, far away from ingrate Americans. One of my proudest moments in the Canadian healthcare system was the speed, humanity, convenience, compassion, care, civility, and reasonableness...
• Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
  Takuan, in response to your lovely naked links: The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News initiated an extended series of articles linking the CIA's "contra" army to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los...
• Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
  The dope trade exists because they WANT it to. Takuan: demonstrating how to go from quality comments to batshit insanity in under 50 comments. Well done, sir. (this is not to say that the government doesn't have a hand in...
• Commented on Live feed of images being posted to Twitpic
  Finally a substitute for my addiction to the random LJ-image generator web pages!...
• Commented on Afghanistan: US discouraged inquiry into mass killing of Taliban prisoners
  See also: Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death A 2002 documentary by Irish documentary filmmaker Jamie Doran about alleged war crimes committed on Taliban fighters in November, 2001, after they had surrendered to Northern Alliance fighters after the siege of Kunduz....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  imho, the signal to noise ratio on these tweetbox things is very low. This 'feature' tends to just clutter the home page with little added value - much like the 'recently on offworld' which is just a dense bunch of...
• Commented on Farewell, Joel Johnson
  So sorry to hear that! Joel was probably my favorite part of BB over the last months! Well done doing irreverent gadgets coverage that was fun to read even if you didn't care about the particular product, you will be...
• Commented on Michael Jackson to be plastinated?
  Will the insanity never die?!?! Someone please put it to rest already....
• Commented on Sir Richard Francis Burton, Cardinal Mezzofanti, and other eminent polyglots
  Two notable academic polyglots were: Leo Strauss who was fluent in at least English, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and possibly classical Italian among others - all in the service of producing exceptional philosophy and scholarship. Also, J Robert Oppenheimer...
• Commented on Make your own tofu
  I had been conditioned for years and years to the standard, store-bought tofu and thought all were more or less alike. However, I recently discovered Sol Cuisine Certified Organic Firm tofu which is produced in Mississauga, so it's practically local...
• Favorited Wonderful summer events at Toronto's Merril Collection, a science fiction reference library on Boing Boing
• Commented on Ghosts reacting violently to holy water
  I watched very little of the video because both the concept and execution seem ridiculous from top to bottom and not really worthy of the BB-bump, BUT... Given the context, I don't think these are ghosts in the traditional north...