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• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  What's "wrong" with education? The conceit of Disneyfication is academically sound and well-studied; see, for example, the concept of neoteny as illustrated through the continued de-evolution of both princess characters and , and compare it to the way in which...
• Commented on Search engines are teachers
  Having been both teacher and library media specialist - and been trained as both - I think you meant "search engines are librarians." I'm a teacher now, and as far as I can tell, my job is teaching critical thinking...
• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  um, that parenthetical should read "...is right on."...
• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  You make it sound so meaningless [and your note about the light-skinned male is right not]. But I think you're too-easily dismissing the effect of criticism. I'd note that Disney changed the lyrics to the opening song in Aladdin based...
• Commented on New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good
  While I agree that this film continues Disney's reactive move away from the terrible stereotypes and problematic gender roleplay which typified its work for much of the last century, I cannot agree that they're likely to end up "there" yet...
• Commented on Sean Hannity plans to blame liberals for his mis-use of video
  Note, for the pedantic: Yes, my above proposed text for Hannity ignores the basic premise - that the VIDEO was wrong. But this is my actual response, to the actual question posed herein, nonetheless. For isn't the use of such...
• Commented on Sean Hannity plans to blame liberals for his mis-use of video
  My best guess, and lord, I hope I'm wrong... "Yes, it's true that - upon further study - our numbers were a little bit bigger than they should have been. But our staff counted the people in those videos as...
• Commented on Folk covers of punk classics
  Thanks for all comments and suggestions, folks! Glad to see there's plenty more acoustic/folk covers out there for a Vol. 2 sometime in the future...keep those suggestions coming! As for complaints about songs being "overlooked" or "easy to find" -...
• Commented on Lighting up wood fires, stoves: not so green.
  Unsurprising, but there are much better ways to use wood for heat. Pellet stoves are more efficient, though I daresay the process of making pellets from sawdust would be worth exploring to see its environmental effect. We have one that's...
• Commented on 2010 Moleskine desk calendar for $3.74
  Amazon -- the same company that puts small businesses and small-scale maker-suppliers out of business? Why does boingboing support this again?...
• Commented on Reading Radar API mashup
  Maybe it's just me, but I'd LOVE to see people start using alternatives to Amazon. What happened to the famous Boing Boing love of small bookstores -- the kind that Amazon puts out of business through its very existence? What...
• Commented on Robin Cooper (aka Robert Popper) vs. Telemarketers
  My favorite telemarketer "strategy": we don't "do" television, and we don't want television. For a while, this led to hilarious exchanges with script-reading zombies who live in other countries, and clearly have an image of Americans as obese TV boobs,...
• Commented on Music downloading penalties are harsher than arson, theft, or starting a dogfighting ring
  It's an interesting concept, but surely the "cost" of prison time to the individual is far more stringent than merely lost wages? Even if we stick to purely economic issues, the stigma of having been in prison -- which affect...
• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  Count me in as one more tech-savvy reader disappointed in the misinformation that selective quoting causes (and the biased, pooh-poohing conspiracy theorists that it brings out of the woodwork). Cory, there's a case to be made here that the security...
• Favorited <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away; Interview on <i>Gadgets</i> on Boing Boing
• Commented on Google: the majority of takedown notices are bogus
  #6 @ Iason and #7 Tynam raise real questions about Google's incentive, and I'd add to the fray by pointing out that Google doesn't just take ON the burden of these take-down requests, but has done so in remarkably stupid...
• Commented on New iPod Shuffle moves controls to headphone cord
  I'm partially deaf, and have tinnitus; I use audio bone conduction headphones -- very pricey. No dice on this object, then. Anyone want to help me sue apple? Bet we can afford plenty of iPods then......
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  Your premise is interesting, but the geographical issues seem problematic. Video billboards, as you rightfully note, would better work in hotspots in concentrated urban areas. But then the dominance of those concentrated urban areas in intellectual culture at large would...
• Commented on I Survived the Bush Administration (t-shirt)
  I'm with noen, etc., I think. It takes chutzpah AND balls to wear that shirt right now. After all, there's little argument that the current debt and crisis are part of that administration's effects. Like so many of the readers...
• Commented on Mister Rogers -- Podcast appreciation
  I'm stealing someone else's story, but I have a friend who belonged to the same UU church as Rogers for a while, and she says she was witness to the only time Rogers EVER got mad. In short: The congregation...
• Commented on Rice-filled felt creatures
  I know it's a typo, but I think the neologism* "itme" is perfect for this use. And "whittled wood itmes" is some of the best, most vivid poetics I've heard in a while; it made me smile. *Is there such...
• Commented on Warner Music Group artist has her own videos taken off YouTube by WMG
  Every time this happens, I smile. Because every time this happens, we gain another ally under the "Big Music" umbrella. Go, Warner Brothers. Go, BMG. Go, EMI. Go, IFPI, and RIAA. Eat your young. Soon, all the artists will be...
• Commented on RIAA ditches MediaSentry, will now stop suing dead people and children in favor of asking ISPs to censor Internet and spy on the public
  Tactics may be changing, but I think it's premature to assume that the dropping of Media Sentry is necessarily a trade for the better. Media Sentry was awful, to be sure, but this isn't a coin toss. Is the unknown...
• Commented on Holiday / Christmas Music: An Open Thread.
  Of all the blogs posting Christmas/Holiday music out there, I think I like the Womenfolk mix the most. Tough choice, though. Also good: this Have Yourself a Depressing Little Christmas mix. And I can't help but tout my own two...
• Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
  @ fogez: sorry, but any presidential candidate who gushes thanks for a call from the president of France not once, but twice? Hard to picture her seeing herself as an equal if they ever need to sit down and negotiate....
• Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
  Man, I hope this is real. Somewhere, some minor female republican functionary/intern is getting reamed right now. "You'll never work in this party again!"...
• Commented on Boomerang store in Vermont has a new website
  Man, I love this store. Bought a wonderful shirt or three there once upon a time. Glad to see something familiar on BB!...
• Commented on Copenhagen Suborbitals shooting for human in space
  I'm with Markheck @12. The comedic implications of a little man standing up in a microcraft phallus called HEAT are potentially endless. 100% peaceful purpose, indeed....
• Commented on Facebook hires key defender of Bush's attack on American civil liberties
  Gee, there's an auspicious bio. Bummer...and I was really enjoying Scramble, too....
• Commented on Cover versions of the Clash's "Straight to Hell"
  @ #8 OM: Send 'em along via the blog if you got 'em (and if they're even slightly "folk") -- at Cover Lay Down we do a (Re)Covered post every few months which picks up where previous posts left off....