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• Commented on A Peek Inside a 17th-Century Guide to Magic Tricks
  I cannot be the only person to immediately picture Ricky Jay incorporating this book, and even the exact routines, into his act, explaining EXACTLY how he was doing them and still managing to leave the entire audience in abject wonder......
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  I must slumber, per se... http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/210821...
• Commented on Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter
  Notice that this is accomplished without the outright rudeness and open hostility that entires such as "No I Will Not Read Your Fucking Screenplay" seem to revel in. There's something to be said for a little bit of class....
• Commented on Boing Boing Moderation Policy
  Antinous- Please forgive the contact in this way, but the link to contact you personally isn't working. I need to revise my account details (specifically, it's linked to a no-longer working email address) and I wish to fix it. I'm...
• Commented on Vote for the best Sesame Street segments
  Any sesame st. 'best of' segment that doesn't include Stevie Wonder singing 'Superstition' is automatically not a best of segment....
• Commented on Celebrating obsolete library card-catalogs
  As wonderful as the old hand typed cards are, the real find from these would be the AMAZING card-catalog cabinets. All those wonderful little drawers, little label holders. Truly something for a maker's garage holding every imaginable nut, bolt, screw,...
• Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
  and also: http://www.archive.org/stream/whenyoumarry00duvarich#page/n1/mode/2up whole book, complete with hand-written dedication "To Mary, from Boo" Don't let Boo get away, Mary. He's a keeper!...
• Commented on Pop Quiz: True Love, or About To End in Tears (or Worse)?
  As the father of a 17 year old girl, I can say, absolutely and without question, that teenagers are, especially in the area of romantic entanglements, improbably dim, emotional nutcases. MOST of them get better over time. The rest of...
• Commented on Report: Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
  Meat is murder... ... and murder is delicious....
• Commented on 1882 deep-sea diving suit
  @Technogeek The 300 club is, indeed, real, and involves exactly what you said. Running naked from a 200+ (F) degree sauna to a pretermined spot and back (you are allowed shoes and a hat) when the ambient outdoor temperature is...
• Commented on Beware the Bearsharktopus
  Bearsharktopus vs Manbearpig! FIGHT!...
• Commented on We don't pay for "content," we pay for "form"
  @2 exactly my point. Buying any 'copy' of 4'33 is.. well.. silly. It's a piece of art where the content is intimately tied to the form. People wanting to experience it have to attend, and presumably pay for, a performance....
• Commented on We don't pay for "content," we pay for "form"
  Form = content only so long as content and form remain unified in the minds of the consumer. For a long time, books were expensive, precious objects, and owning one, regardless of what the book was, was a goal. You...
• Commented on JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America
  "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson) PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as...
• Commented on Zombie shooting-range targets
  Gehiiiiiirn......
• Commented on Mary Travers, RIP
  As a child, there were two songs I would listen to over and over and over. They were the reason my father showed me how to use his turntable and stereo. One was The Irish Rover's version of Shel Silverstein's...
• Commented on XKCD book is out
  Hat guy is gonna kick your collective asses....
• Commented on Rich Seattle suburbs install ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cops follow all "suspicious" vehicles
  @ANON 25 Living close to Tiburon, I can say with at least a bit of authority that there's very little reason to go to Tiburon unless you already live there or are considering living there, in which case you're already...
• Commented on HOWTO avoid cognitive blind-spots, save money and be happy
  As a totally tangential comment, the cover illustration for this book brings to mind a mindblowingly fantastic korean artist, Il Lee http://www.artprojects.com/index.php/work/tag/IL_Lee his major works are vast canvases covered in ballpoint scribbles. Amazing to study at a variety of levels....
• Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
  People get the government they deserve. Brinksmanship and ZOMGLIBRARIESTHINKOFTHECHILDREN is a perfectly legitimate political tactic when the opposition's argument is ZOMGCOMMIESTHINKOFTHECHILDREN!!1ELEVENTY The main problem, as I see it: There are enough people who DON'T care about libraries that this sort...
• Commented on Bach canon played as a moebius strip
  My sheer and utter coindidence, I JUST picked up 'Strange Loop' from the bookstore, and I'm about to start it. Perhaps, after reading it, and once my brain has reassembled itself back inside my skull, I'll go back and reread...
• Commented on Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  forgive me for restating the blindingly obvious but... THAT IS AWSOME Ginger, Maryanne, Mrs. Howell's creepy cousin. Whatever. I'm game....
• Commented on Haunted Mansion embroidery
  Is anyone else getting a "I hope Disney lawyers don't notice and gin up Ye Olde Cease and Desist Legal Notice Generator and Soul-Crushing Device" feel from these? They're awfully cute and clearly well done. i.e. Prime targets for the...
• Commented on Ashcroft may be held liable for those wrongfully detained after 9/11
  @11 Brainspore Indeed. I think it's far more telling that the rest of the previous administration is so incredibly corrupt and deplorable that Ashcroft, who by any reasonable standard is a religiously whacked-out nutjob, seems decent and reasonable in comparison....
• Commented on Urban Dictionary: Boing-Boinged!
  To me, getting boingboing'd was getting your link on the site. Having your site overwhelmed by getting linked on a popular site is either getting slashdotted or getting farked....
• Commented on Bookmark 2.0
  Silly? sure. Pointless? Absolutely. Then again, all 'purpose built' bookmarks are silly and pointless, considering that none of them do anything a scrap of paper couldn't do just as effectively. But I'll happily get behind anything that stops people from...
• Commented on Video: giant carnivorous plants
  I'm convinced that listening to Attenborough's voice for years upon years of exquisitely done nature films is why an entire generation of Americans think British people are smarter than us....
• Commented on BudgetTravel's "World's Weirdest Hotels"
  For the record, compared to some of these places, the Madonna Inn barely qualifies as 'weird'. Kitchy, yes. Tasteless in a pretty fabulous way, absolutely. And yes, you can take a shower in a waterfall, and, if you're male, pee...
• Commented on Tiburon, CA will photograph and record license plate of every visitor to town
  @19- I'm pretty sure that putting anything over your license plate, such as polarized screens or those sprays, is illegal, especially if done with the intent to obscure your plate from law enforcement, which includes traffic-cams of all types, but...
• Commented on Louis Vuitton's fancy Apollo-inspired trunk
  Brandon, that was my 2nd thought. My first, much to my shame was "It's Orkan...