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• Favorited Know nothing analyst proclaims death of the mouse within 5 years, cites <i>Guitar Hero</i> as death certificate on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on MGMT tune played by iPhone orchestra
  Hmm. First, this functions with some effectiveness as an ad for the apps used. I've been paying some attention to music creation apps and I don't remember having heard of one or two of them before. Second, the boring, almost...
• Commented on Heavy metal monk
  Plenty of Biblical stories (mostly Old Testament, though someone rising from the dead is pretty damn metal) would make fantastic metal songs. I'm thinking especially of Elisha and the bears (2 Kings 2:23-25), but there are plenty others....
• Commented on Perfectly Good Names The SciFi Channel Could Have Chosen Instead of The Utterly Stupid "SyFy"
  Why not just the Mansquito Channel? It is inarguably their finest achievement, a raw chunk of pure cinematic excellence. I'm waiting for the Criterion Collection DVD (but not holding my breath)....
• Commented on Generic vaporizers offer Volcano-class features for half the price
  Ah, but at what cost efficiency? The preparatory ritual, the bitter milky smoke in your throat, the primal satisfaction of burning something. I suggest to you that the self-righteous are also susceptible to cancer. And when my day comes, I...
• Commented on Listen: The Ocarina of Rhyme mashes Zelda with Aesop Rock, Dre, Jay-Z
  Wonderful!...
• Commented on Basket Case Insurer Gets $170 Billion from Taxpayers, Still Pays Huge Bonuses
  I was going to say more or less what BrownHB already did. There are plenty of great, bright folks looking for jobs right now, some of whom would certainly be eager to take work helping to fix this big ol'...
• Commented on Stanford's Sapolsky on primate sexuality: funny, fascinating, educational
  Sounds interesting but I'm pretty satisfied with my relationship with my naughty parts, pretty sure none of that needs to be rethought....
• Commented on Slate: How to Annoy Your Audience
  I'd like to add another particularly terrible rollover type deal (is there a better technical term for this kind of thing?), which has been bedeviling my recent visits to the New Yorker's website: the "Mercedes Live Well Dashboard." It is...
• Commented on Unborn chicken (and dog and cat) voices: Radiohead's Paranoid Android in <em>Mario Paint</em>
  I was merely impressed and entertained until the dogs entered and woofed me into bliss. Thanks for that....
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  @ M. Whittier I heard just yesterday that eco-terrorists in certain parts of Europe have been setting fire to hardcover books. Sleep in the library with one eye open....
• Commented on Super Weird Ad for MAC Hello Kitty cosmetics
  i wanted to like it. the chairs were cool, and the music in that part was ok too. but once she climbed into the S&M uterus or whatever, i could swear i heard the director begging me to see how...
• Commented on Guest Blogger: Paul Spinrad!
  @7 basically it means he likes saints, unprotected sex, & funny hats. (try looking up small-c catholic in a dictionary, google isn't the best place to ask about this i'd wager)...
• Commented on Emailing while asleep
  Just wanted to throw in some more Ambien-makes-you-crazy stories. One year in college both my roommate and a buddy down the hall were on Ambien. I was kind of a night owl anyway, so I got all kinds of enjoyment...
• Commented on European Commission demands a single, standard phone charger
  ahh, the winds of change. it's like God is sighing in boredom....
• Commented on EFF asks the FTC to protect the public from Digital Rights Management
  EFF PDF to FTC wrt DRM... madness. (any suggestions for a TLA to replace "to" ??)...
• Commented on Liam Casey, "Mr. China," and electronics manufacturing
  "And he doesn't speak Chinese." is this supposed to be impressive or something? seems rude to me....
• Commented on High school teacher recounts being dosed
  @noen what you seem to be missing is that for every example you can cite in which drugs have destroyed a life, someone else almost certainly has a counterexample. i happen to know some pretty serious burnouts, but most of...
• Commented on Record London snowstorm defeats the surveillance state
  @ Whatevah Have no fear. The database is your friend. The database wants to protect you. The database loves you. Love the database....
• Commented on <em>Ico</em> creator looks back at <em>Colossus</em> development
  how kind of him to indulge our stark inability to emotionally identify with a female... and what's this about a female lead being "cinematically interesting?" is that his polite way of saying "ohh BOOBS!!" ? nice-looking games, anyway, though i...
• Commented on Cryonics: 2
  "Welcome to the wooorld of tomorrooowwww!!!"...
• Commented on Riveting narrated slideshow of the world's slums: The Places We Live
  ahhh (the pleased sigh, not the alarmed scream), more kottke-cest from boingboing. honestly he should just join the team, you're all completely wonderful. anyway regarding the actual link -- only truly eye-opening if you know very little about life in...
• Commented on Plush anatomical model of a foot
  ... found washed up on the coast of british columbia?...
• Commented on The delightful Mardi Gras King Cake
  ahh the good old king cake. in college i used to order one of these every mardi gras season to share with my housemates. they were so entertained by the plastic jesus that one year we decided we needed an...
• Commented on Photo: 4Chan's finest invention (SFW!)
  @8, the movies certainly can't match the concise comic punch of the original episodes but they're great for those of us who just can't get enough. they're peppered with plenty of the same kinds of moments that make the originals...
• Commented on The crystalline keen of a siren's urogential diaphragm
  looks wondrous, sounds like a browser slamming straight into a cinder-block bandwidth limit at high speed - disappointingly silent....
• Commented on Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee
  are you sure the goombas don't look like... *mushroom* visions of mushrooms?...
• Commented on One man choral group performs the Legend of Zelda theme
  one man's nitpick is another's love for accuracy - his intonation on the violin is not that great, that doesn't mean he's worthless or the video sucks. in fact i think it's pretty cool. certainly not as good as the...
• Commented on Teddycam catches thief
  just a few days ago, i rewatched the episode of Weeds featuring a teddy bear that looks a lot like the one pictured here. funny, i didn't realize people did this in the real world. at least the purpose here...
• Commented on Pro-Obama D&D tee
  who is this guy to charge $24 for this? if there were something more besides poorly-designed colored text, maybe it would be legitimate. or maybe if all proceeds go to the obama campaign. otherwise, please don't reward this guy for...