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• Favorited Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake on Boing Boing
• Favorited Did Seiko Ever Make the Second, Much Cooler <i>Final Fantasy</i> Watch? on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on "What your global neighbors are buying" - Superb interactive graph at NY Times
  Maybe I'm not reading it right... It's pretty, but I think it would have been more relevant to use the per capita value to size the cubes, rather than the overall spending... I know this is shown with the color...
• Commented on Californian drivers, put your phones down
  Living in the UK, and having been to California several times so far this year, the amount of people on the phone while driving is quite unbelievable... I took a cab from SFO airport to Santa Clara and back and...
• Commented on Fear and self-loathing in stealing Wi-Fi
  I use fon as well... The box manages 2 wifi networks: one private with wpa and one public with the fon system which tunnel straight to the internet (can't access your local network)... I've been riding on people's wifi as...
• Commented on Plate offers millimeter-precise cake division
  He He... I'm one of five sibling... Diner time were a race to try to be first for seconds... with five kids, if you're any good, you can discretly get third while they're fiunishing dishing seconds (being first and last...
• Commented on Eglu Cube: Urban Chicken Coop
  My neighbor has one of these... Cool but way overpriced !! She lets the chickens out during the day and put them back in for the night to avoid foxes... She didn't mention the evil racoons......
• Commented on LEGO Indiana Jones Videogame Will Be Nazi-Free
  The second world war is still a very sensitive subject in Europe. Maybe because of a lasting guilt about what happened then. I think there is the widespread idea that these things are just too serious to be a game...
• Commented on Filial piety: letting your father-in-law nurse at your breast
  There is a similar episode described in The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck... During the big migration following the 1929 crisis, an old man is too weak to eat anything and get his life saved temporarlilly thanks to a nursing...
• Commented on Student Given Detention for Using Firefox; Update: Kid Not Exactly Blameless
  If the problem is an obedience issue, then the wording on the detention slip is really misleading... To me it looks like someone who's got an ego problem and lacks the technological background to teach the subject....
• Commented on Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake
  I use to go Christmas shopping to NYC every year for a long week end... I stopped about three years as I felt no longer confortable with hoops you have to go through to be admitted. There must be a...
• Commented on Wonder Sauna Hot Pants
  I'd like to have a look at his sperm count (not from too close though !)...
• Commented on Loss of tourism costs USA $100B, 200K jobs, $16B in tax revenue
  We used to travel to New York City every year for a long week end... We used to have a really good time there... We've given up for the time being, it's just way too much hassle... Last time we...
• Commented on Gmail Adds IMAP (For Everyone But Me)
  Same for me, how frustrating !!...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Yay indeed ! I believe in evolution, and evolving is surviving... This is great news for the many years ahead !...