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• Favorited Ancient Roman D20 for sale, $18,000 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Numbered drawers on Boing Boing
• Favorited Numbered drawers on Boing Boing
• Favorited 60% of world's paintings come from one village in China on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBtv: Compubeaver (It's a computer! And a beaver!) on Boing Boing
• Favorited Bologna bubble gum on Boing Boing
• Commented on The Great Schlep
  a pragmatic approach, i'm sure, but the campaign strains use of the word "progressive." JCER's talking points from the site on the issue of race amount basically to "don't worry, senator obama is a different kind of negro." given the...
• Commented on Errol Morris' film "Stand Up to Cancer"
  i'm sorry, but what exactly are we looking at, here? the link is just a donation page with no reference to any film, by errol morris or otherwise. because i found this clip deeply irritating, and if there's a whole...
• Commented on Chenman's Great Wall fashion photography
  the offhandedness of the "not quite as stunning" comment is troubling to me, but i'll not infer as to ms. katayama's motivation. suffice it to say i think that the other image is more compelling on a number of counts....
• Commented on Katrina, 3 years later: Banksy throughout New Orleans.
  I think New Orleans has been through entirely enough without some British vandal with serious entitlement issues and a massive savior complex swooping in and fouling up the landscape further for his own self-aggrandizement....
• Commented on Claymation zombie film
  > Housekeeper/Zombie Slayer/Adulteress I'd say the whole thing was deeply misogynistic....
• Commented on Zazzle.com now printing custom sneakers with your images
  @4: in theory, yes. but women's shoes tend to be quite narrow. i wear a US men's 10.5 most of the time, but i've never been able to cram my foot into anything smaller than a women's 14 (which zazzle...
• Commented on Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape
  for its intended purpose, the tack seems pretty absurd, but i'm kind of with #2. isn't this precisely the kind of thing those "adbusting" whippersnaps do to get their jollies?...
• Commented on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" graphic novel
  i'm just going to ignore the above. the criticisms i've seen launched at zinn (the reasonable ones, that is. contrast #8) have less to do with his research methodologies at such and more with a tendency towards cherry-picking and grandstanding:...
• Commented on UV branding iron for newborns
  when did "marker pens" become a thing? you have markers, and you have pens, and it is far too early for me to have to question my grip on conventional english....
• Commented on Jerry Beck finds the worst comic strip ever
  i thought the "loki, your fuzzy forest friend" with the ice skating bird was perfectly charming....
• Commented on Devendra Banhart: Carmensita (music video)
  i actually like the song a great deal. which is saying a lot, as the cultural expropriation thing is deeply irritating, and banhart's voice and delivery usually make me want to throw him down a well. i'll call it a...
• Commented on Shangri-las: "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" (1965)
  @#8 concurred! and i would add "long live our love," "the dum dum ditty," and, ehr, more or less everything else they ever recorded. mary weiss' unexpected solo album from last year was alright, too....
• Commented on Ancient Roman D20 for sale, $18,000
  for one, am i reading that listing wrong, because it would appear as though christie's actually sold the dies in 2003; that is, it's not exactly "currently up for sale." it's still a lovely thing; though my appreciation is more...
• Commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  and now i will shut up. promise....
• Commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  well, on the racism scale, it's got nothing on that thai toothpaste ad, but still. i would say that, in a situation where there can be said to exist a significant system of advantage or disadvantage based on race (as...
• Commented on Canadian spooks think punk band "Suicide Pilots" are terrorists
  ehr. is usage of the word "spook" to mean "agent" or similar actually more common than its use as a racial slur?...
• Commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  i'm sorry. i know it's a japanese video and context is everything. or something. but i'm just not down for blackface. like, ever....
• Commented on Did Gnarls Barkley's video producers "swipe" a photographer's style?
  clarification appreciated, but, uh, i'm still not buying any of this. we have, among other things, an eleven-year-old janet jackson video that demonstrates the aesthetic of both the "original" photo shoot and the subsequent video pretty completely. are she or...
• Commented on Numbered drawers
  when my mom was around, she used to set up an advent calendar for me and my brother made from a little hardware organizer done up with christmas fabric and punch labeler numbers on each drawer. whether or not it's...
• Commented on Funny backwards bus ad
  that's plenty funny in JPEG. kind or (horrifically) irresponsible in practice. at least, you know, if it proves effective....
• Commented on How Much is Inside? -- thread count
  now now. it only stand to reason that, in the pen', martha would have developed a healthy respect for the well-made bedsheet....
• Commented on Genetically distinct photoshop fetish discovered
  i'm torn between my knee-jerk, "hetero-goddamn-sexuals" response and some crack about a long tail. i think it's time to put the internet away, for the evening....
• Commented on Seeking marrow donor for animation writer/blogger Emru Townsend
  i would sign up for the registry, but i'm ineligible. someone might catch The Gay....
• Commented on Pictures of guys in clubs with spray tans
  heterosexuals are so weird....