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• Commented on Galileo's fingers found
  I dunno. There are worse things than having your fingers in a jar. Then again, dead is dead, innit....
• Commented on Advisor: What will happen if I clone my dog?
  It's so weird to read this right now--there's some maniac on a roof shouting about cloning two blocks over....
• Commented on Shackleton's Antarctic whisky found
  This made me think of William Sokolin's bottle of Chateau Margaux, allegedly from Thomas Jefferson's cellar.* He broke it while showing it off (Look at my Ridiculously Expensive Thing, you peons!), and, tasting a remnant of it, pronounced it "flinty...
• Commented on Brilliant meteor over Utah
  Ah, that's so cool. Corroborated astronomical events!...
• Commented on Witch bottle from the 18th century
  Well? Did it work?...
• Commented on Brilliant meteor over Utah
  There was a Leonid straggler over State Street here in Santa Barbara just after 6PM PST last night, low in the sky towards the west and bright enough to be seen through the light pollution of town. It was much...
• Commented on Opium dens of 1889 San Francisco in photos
  A proper gentleman nodder wouldn't be caught dead in such shabby surroundings....
• Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
  Don't you have to be Matt Damon before you can properly stab someone with a pen? Also, RevEng: imagine a big bin full of confiscated people at a security checkpoint. That'll never work......
• Commented on Maricopa deputy steals defender's paperwork during a court case
  Heh. Yeah, it's sort of encapsulated decline and fall, isn't it?...
• Commented on IBM computer brain simulation as complex as a cat's
  My supercomputer puked on my favorite sweater and shredded all the toilet paper in the house. SCIENCE!...
• Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
  This doesn't work for me at all. Should I shave my beard?...
• Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
  I hope to godlikething that you're not wearing a red shirt....
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  (hrrrm, I was being deliberately dim, but it didn't occur to me that someone might actually do that, so yeah...soldering AC wiring bad, don't do it)...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  "The camera's working?" Commander Davis scratched at his stubble and squinted at his screen. "Actually working? Not your usual 'hit it with my boot' kind of working?" "Yep," said Specialist Boehm, floating upside-down next to Davis and peering at the...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  Splice. Solder. Shrink tube. Ta-da! Longer wires on the new socket. See, it's not really bad design, it's just an encouragement to expand your skillset. And buy the stuff you need to use your new skills. And take more time...
• Commented on 117 SPM (Sneezes Per Minute)
  I want 0:32 sneaky panda FTW on a t-shirt....
• Commented on Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot
  I want to meld this concept with expanded polystyrene foam construction and build a house. Then I'll commission H.R. Giger to design furniture for the space. Then I'll sit inside my new home and go mad....
• Commented on Slo-mo demolition of iconic Philadelphia Drexel smokestack
  You spent your childhood denying that Buster knocked over your wooden block tower in kindergarten, didn't you? There are fanatics in this word who hate our...our successful tall things. Wake up!!!...
• Commented on UN goons destroy academic poster describing China's censorwall
  Remember, this is the same organization that put Sudan and a few other states with questionable human rights records on its Commission on Human Rights (contributing to that commission's eventual dissolution). It seems to me that in certain higher international...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  This was on an episode of Criminal Minds last week. Except it involved people eyeballs. And a lunatic taxidermist....
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  We have come so far since the days of Mattachine. This thread is proof of it. What I found most valuable in my own process was learning about movement history. Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  Me too--but I was in documentation. My contribution consisted of producing six linear feet of well-stuffed three-ring binders proving that we'd done our due diligence, which were then boxed up and sent to a warehouse somewhere. (As I understand it,...
• Commented on Mark Dery on 2012 bunkum
  I either have new issues or a sudden case of wonderful deviance: I immediately wondered what kind of shoes Xeni was wearing when she went off. And, having wondered, I wanted them to be patent leather stilettos with a substantial...
• Commented on Bioshock Hypo replicas
  Man, that's gonna hurt going in....
• Commented on Yves Béhar's seven-hour vibrator
  I know what phthalates are, you silly #5 person. Endocrine disruptors make me hot. I mean, look at C6H4(CO)2O+2 C8H17OH → C6H4(CO2C8H17)2+H2O and tell me you're not horny....
• Commented on MJ's funeral cost a mil
  (Hey Antinous--totally off topic, but where's Teresa these days? No comment on your mad mod skilz intended, just got curious when I realized I hadn't seen her in quite awhile and noticed she's not on the masthead.)...
• Commented on Lovecraft sculptures
  That is like middle-aged accountant Cthulhu. I am not driven mad so much as compelled to organize my receipts....
• Commented on MJ's funeral cost a mil
  I'm for any burial ritual that involves sledgehammers....
• Commented on Yves Béhar's seven-hour vibrator
  Oooo, pretty! But I simply cannot get off without phthalates, so no sale....
• Commented on Stealthy anti-whaling powerboat
  Where do they get those wonderful toys?...