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• Commented on Woman accidentally buys wrapping paper covered with swastikas
  I'm kind of late to the party, but I don't think anyone mentioned the town of Swastika in Ontario. It's a nice little story about a town saying "Change our name? Screw you, we took it first." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario...
• Commented on Yellow Cake cartoon by animator Nick Cross
  Nice. Also noticed near the end, when the two were fleeing the village, depicting that famous picture of the napalm attack on Trang Bang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Th%E1%BB%8B_Kim_Ph%C3%BAc...
• Commented on The Endangered Japanese Giant Salamander: a Real-Life, Gentle "Monster."
  A character in Pani Poni Dash is an oosnshouo. He says things like "I'm a national treasure ~kero~". I also believe he was eaten at least once....
• Commented on I Love Charts
  Can't wait for the trance/techno remix to come out....
• Commented on Intimidatingly awesome science fair projects
  I'm really impressed at how smoothly she presented knot theory and how she had the motivation to really go above and beyond high school maths to things that interested her. It sort of makes me sad that my greatest accomplishment...
• Commented on Man playing a hand-made, electrified, one-stringed musical instrument in New York's Central Park
  Freebird! ... (...I'll get my coat.)...
• Commented on American Former Gay Pr0n Star Is Big In Japan
  I thought I'd be in for a treat when I saw Cirno (or anything else Touhou-related) on Boing Boing... but not this way. =\...
• Commented on Fish deboning gadget
  It's a perfect tie-in for their other product, the Master Baiter. . . . [rimshot]...
• Commented on PBS on science fiction pulps vs. the web
  With that dangling modifier "there are only three left", I thought it meant that there are only three readers who still exist. =/...
• Commented on Forlorn bananas of London
  It appears that everyone in London is peeling their bananas the conventional, wrong way: http://www.slate.com/id/2067407/...
• Commented on IRC Game "Rule 34 Challenge" Starts in 60 Minutes on FreeNode #boingboing
  I can imagine people who already have a vast collection of obscure and childhood-ruining pornography seeing this as their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shine. Their parents will be so proud =/...
• Commented on Anime characters based on Afghanistan and neighbors
  The "-tan" suffix is a degeneration of the "-chan" suffix. It's typically used by kids when they're just learning to speak, and so it's used for these kiddie anthropomorphizations to make the various countries 'cute'. It just so happens that...
• Commented on Rio Carnival float depicting Holocaust banned
  "$28,000 for each dancer dressed as Hitler" That's bizarre taken out of context....
• Commented on Full-back gamer tattoo
  The phrase "Leave Luck to Heaven" is a paraphrase of the meaning of the word Nintendo. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nintendo Don't know if you know this factoid already, but it's an interesting insight into the company....
• Commented on Mario level that plays itself
  It is awesomesauce. I want this ROM, only to load it up and see it for myself....