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• Commented on Dude lives in spaceship house
  Great images from Bing give a much better sense of the structure. http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qwc39v8y9twm&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=15330878&encType=1...
• Commented on We Make Stories: tool to let kids make physical books
  This site is built on Flash and completely closed off. Kids can only share their stories via email with other members. If this were an adult site, you'd excoriate them for being this cut off. But it's a kids site,...
• Commented on Group wants to own trademark on "awareness" of a rare disease
  I have a hard time believing that they'd get anywhere with that application: how is it anything but 100% descriptive (meaning you can't trademark it)? Seems more like their lawyers put one over on them, to bump up the billable...
• Commented on The Fly: The Opera
  i saw it sunday afternoon. paled in comparison to il trittico (woody allen directed the third part) on friday night, which was great. it was interesting as a modern opera, but basically kinda sucked....
• Commented on Art of Jeffrey T. Larson
  i love sargent, too! there is/was a Sargent painting of a little girl in the Dallas Museum of Art that I used to stare at a lot. His economy of brush stroke was amazing: up close a collection of measured...
• Commented on Neil Gaiman: giving away ebooks sold my print books
  From my admittedly brief reading of the results, they did not give away ebooks, but permitted people to read the book (at no cost) via a web-based reader (which most people surveyed did not like so much). The radical lesson...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  All in all, I'd have to say this is an entertaining thread and (good and bad) it points to the amazing community that has grown around BoingBoing. The Boingers have the right to run their site as they wish, but...