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• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  I would imagine this could literally be a life saver for those with cystic fibrosis...
• Commented on Animal with the longest penis (relative to its size!)
  All of a sudden the old song Barnacle Bill the Sailor takes on a whole new meaning ;)...
• Commented on Digging in to the donor details at Kiva.org
  It's a shame that boingboing is only highlighting the negative aspect to this story instead of the responsiveness of Kiva to concerns or the general benefits of microlending....
• Commented on AT&T Wireless data congestion problems: are they in part self-inflicted?
  It's not just the wifi end of AT&T that's messed up. I don't have them but a friend does and I've witnessed him getting text messages weeks late, the phone not even ringing with plenty of signal and voicemail getting...
• Commented on Crop Art Is For Everyone!
  fascinating. Reminds me of the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. Every year the entire building is redecorated with corn. Certainly qualifies as see art on a grand scale....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I'm leaving a comment in this thread because I'm unable to on another article "great things you may have missed". For some reason there is no "leave a comment" option on that article. And why might we have missed these...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Yesterday when I was first startled by the redesign took the time to read through the comments filled with complaints. I've been around enough websites and their redesigns to expect that. Change, especially massive redesign with no waring, is never...
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  quickly, my comment was based on watching the actual ad on youtube, not the clip posted here. And apparently I'm the only one concerned with a "news anchor" being featured in a political ad....
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the central piece of this ad is a news anchor? We all know neither MSNBC or Fox are objective and unbiased anymore - but now the newstainment is part of political ads...
• Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
  it's fascinating that so many find it hard to believe that an adult could be so innocent as to not be a pedophile when they choose to share a bed with a child. Says more about how jaded the rest...
• Commented on Compuserve shuts down
  ahhh the days of chatting and playing word games on "CB". Strange wonderful days of yor. Oh, and laughing at AOL when it first came out. ooops. ^^angel^^...
• Commented on Digital TV's history in America: the DTV transition nearly cost the USA its technological freedom
  what this DTTV transition has given many is lack of access to local television (even with converter boxes and antennas) and replaced them with religious broadcasts. I know of several who've lost all local channels but now have half a...
• Commented on Abbey Ryan's painting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  bidding is now up to 330 @ 4:30PM PDT...
• Commented on The End of Personal Finance
  the sky is falling the sky is falling!!! as I read this I was listening to the current DJIA which is above where it was on Jan 20, 2009 and not far from where it was on Jan 1, 2009....
• Commented on Give yourself horse legs
  these would be sooo awesome for a production of Equus!...
• Favorited Dating service for terminally ill people on Boing Boing
• Favorited Sam Spiteri can keep his therapy pony on Boing Boing
• Favorited Teen discovers bat hiding in her bra on Boing Boing
• Favorited Photo-bans at pop art shows -- irony impairment, or Dadaism? on Boing Boing
• Favorited Mindwebs: Free old science fiction radio plays on Boing Boing
• Commented on Fantastic fan-site for Disney World's Polynesian Resort needs hosting
  sigh, already gone :( wishing the cry for help had come sooner....
• Commented on Scavenger's Manifesto: HOWTO be an urban scavenger
  does this book cover the opposite end of the spectrum? How to effectively rid yourself of stuff and pass it on? I hate throwing still usefull stuff out and yet don't always know how/where to pass it on. Putting it...
• Commented on Partial list of corporate lickspittles who are allowed to know what's in the secret copyright treaty the Obama administration claims is a matter of "national security"
  JERE7MY - thank you for a reasoned response to the issue. I'm getting sick and tired of hearing on one side about how Obama is taking us to hell because he's a communist and from the other that he's pulling...
• Commented on Obama administration: releasing details of secret copyright treaty endangers "national security"
  ok could someone please clarify something here. When I think "counterfeiting" I think about currency/money. In my mind it is not interchangeable with copyright. But this article assumes that they're synonymous. The security of any country's currency certainly is a...
• Commented on DIY Saturday Evening Post covers
  Correction - it's the Detroit Institute of ARTS (not the artist)....
• Commented on Think fast and be happy
  It seems to me that fast thinking could just as easily spiral into depression quite quickly. Could these results stem from the kind of activities rather than the speed? How hard is it to feel good watching I Love Lucy?...
• Commented on UAE plans ban on negative economic reporting
  on a purely personal level I know that I for one would benefit emotionally from less negative reporting of the economic situation. I don't want to put my head in the sand or pretend that it's just gone away (well...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  get off the interstate in Nebraska and check out Carhenge in Alliance. http://www.carhenge.com/...
• Commented on Kansas Representative introduces anti-netroots campaign finance reform bill
  hmmm last year when I "donated" a few bucks for an Obama yard sign they collected this very same data. And I was told they were required to. How is this any different?...
• Commented on RIAA takes Over the DoJ under Obama: Bad News for Copyfighters
  excellent point Valdis, thank you...