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• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
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• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
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• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
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• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
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• Commented on What would you do with a Class C IP block?
  I agree with Anonymous above...set the block free for the TOR network. In fact, TOR node operators who show high capacity should be able to move in for "free" (or as near to free as possible). Hum. It's worth talking...
• Commented on BudgetTravel's "World's Weirdest Hotels"
  Sleep in a pod from an oil rig, eh? That's almost as interesting as my hotel, which I will give Boingboing readers a special rate for. My Hotel is called "Bench", and you and a guest will be able to...
• Commented on Wikileaks publishes large cache of US neo-Nazi group's emails
  I support freedom of speech, including hate. But I also support anyone who wants to turn a flameflower on these stupid white trash punks....
• Commented on Food and wine as collateral for bank loans
  That doesn't surprise me at all about the Italians. They clearly prize choice food more highly than money itself, and fistfights can break out over low-quality eats....
• Commented on Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe
  JIMH: I actually always assumed (yes, as a kid) that Oscar had all sorts of catacombs down there into which he was squirrelling away all that garbage. Kind of a hyper mutated talking penis packrat....
• Commented on Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe
  Oh, and since we're on the subject of poor design choices, how come they never had seat belts in Star Trek? The Enterprise was constantly getting assaulted and everyone goes flying....
• Commented on Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe
  I'm deeply offended. C3PO is NOT a "mincing gay man". He's British, OK? There's a difference....
• Commented on Snuff Box: "demented genius" Brit-com
  Eh. The humor to sucky music ration wasn't high enough for me to deem this worth the effort. In fact, the humor is so "subtle" (ie, unhumorous), they should have stamped "THIS IS FUNNY" on it....
• Commented on Gizmo with a weight added for extra heft
  You're all wrong. It's obviously asbestos. In whatever country they're making these things they're probably trying to get rid of their asbestos cheaply by smuggling it out via cheap electronics. In fact, I'd bet that the price to dispose of...
• Commented on Japanese pig rodeo
  I'm not so sure that pig isn't pretty damned jazzed to be able to slam a human into a wall or something for a change....
• Commented on Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk
  The crasher squirrel photoshoppers have failed to notice one tiny thing: Crasher Squirrel caused the autofocus to focus on him, with the original focus-ees now slightly out of focus....
• Commented on Somali Pirates vs. Egyptian Fisherman: guess who wins?
  Where's the crasher squirrel?...
• Commented on Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme released from prison today
  Xopher... Good point. I forgot about Dubya's "bullet-proof shield"......
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  #2: It wouldn't be the first time. A guy who worked for me told me about when he was in college (here in London), some "tramp" knocked on his door and asked if he could stay in there with them...
• Commented on R. Crumb unsuccessfully attempts to flatten a 78 record in the oven
  As for vinyl (33rpm), the sales have been increasing since around 2000. People started recognizing how crappy CDs sound in comparison and now there are new vinyl plants opening left and right. The only slightly sad thing is that, CDs...
• Commented on Paul Krassner remembers Woodstock
  Well, it's actually this kind of thing that for me give the Who some street cred. They came up in a very rough-and-tumble working class world so they were used to handling things. As for doing it for the money,...
• Commented on Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme released from prison today
  Squeaky Fromme and the Mansons are mentioned numerous times in the new Pynchon book, Inherent Vice, which is hilarious by the way (kind of a combination of the Big Lebowski, Phillip K Dick and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)....
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  Buy American-made stereo equipment, like Krell or Wilson or the hundreds of others! It's more expensive but it IS much better than Chinese or Japanese-made stuff....
• Commented on Photos of science fiction writers' nests
  How 'bout an interview with Samuel R Delaney about when his next book (Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders) is coming out? Back in NYC I found globs of Delaney books at the B&N's on Union Square...there's apparently...
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  Too bad the Kylie Minogue-esque song sucks ASS!...
• Commented on Dan Clowes interviewed by Mike Sacks: "Sylvester P. Smythe is the most unappealing character of all time"
  Hilarious answer. BUT, I do remember a Chris Rush flexidisc in an issue of Cracked that, years later, I mentioned to him when I discovered he lived in my building (he's still active and hilarious)....
• Commented on Punk-era dance genius Michael Clark, "Nijinsky with a mohawk," returns.
  Waitaminute...that's not Klaus Nomi, dammit...it's some kind of dancing imposter.......
• Commented on Fanciful trompe l'oeil garage-door murals
  Actually, I'm a little dissappointed. I thought these were those odd paintings on the floor and back wall of the actual garage that are made to look real (and of proper proportion) to someone looking in from outside. THAT'S what...
• Commented on Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor.
  Hey... Spread spectrum ain't no mere "gadget"...it's the basis for modern cellphone communications. CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is simply a digital variant of Spread Spectrum....
• Commented on "Results from Slate's "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" poll
  Me, I'm starting to get worried about -complexity-. Although the current financial meltdown might be attributable to pure greed, I think an underlying motif was that there was not a general understanding of what all these complex securities would do...
• Commented on Exhaustive index of fearmongering Daily Mail stories about cancer and its causes
  My own theory is that uttering the word "cancer" is itself the source of all cancer. In other words, "cancer" causes cancer,...