Glenn Fleishman

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• Commented on How to tell if you are being boring
  There's the obvious missing one: "The other person hasn't said anything but 'hmm' or nodded his or her head for more than two minutes."...
• Commented on Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude
  Park Slope was first trendy decades ago, so I can't imagine it still is. Charming, yes!...
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  @1: "Actually, the lending period is one (1) 14 day period. That's it. Not per anything. You can lend a book once." As another commenter noted, that's for the Nook. Originally, I thought that this was misstated, that the Nook...
• Commented on MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
  The article does NOT say the MPAA shut the network down. It says that the city made the decision, after being notified about the alleged activity (which could be a civil copyright violation, not a crime), to shut the network...
• Commented on Americans watch about 5 hours of TV every day.
  @4: "meaning that half the country watches MORE than 5 hours/day!" Nielsen's only providing the average, not the median, and I don't mean to be nit-picky, but it has some bearing. There's no age breakout, either, so if a parent...
• Commented on Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays
  I would totally put a poster of that on my wall today. My children might wonder, but I'd say, dudes, it's awesome. One day, you, too, will know the power of the Force. The Force of bikini Leia....
• Commented on Iggy Pop on the Dinah Shore show, 1977
  Hey, @gpeare, don't forget Iggy's appearance as a suburban dad (and recurring character) in The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the mid-1990s. That show also featured Syd Straw and some other fabulous weird actors and musicians. And a freaking...
• Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
  That is the most awful and wonderful thing I have seen this year. Thank/screw you....
• Commented on xkcd: volume 0
  "Actually the numbering is not quite trinary; it's something a little more complicated than that, but I won't spoil the joy of figuring it out." Yeah, I've read the book a couple of times, and have been starting to untangle...
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  When having a natural childbirth underwater with dolphins is outlawed, only outlaws will...okay, never mind....
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  I saw a video of him doing this from a few years ago (when he said it was the last time he'd do it!), and it looked impossibly good. But when you look quite closely you can see how imperfect...
• Commented on Craigslist is great the way it is
  Craig and Jim are inspirational for their complete lack of interest in pursuing money (which may be easy if your site incidentally grosses $100 million a year). I like their incidental rejection of additional monetization....
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  Can we put Barney Frank, Rahm Emanuel, and one good cop (Howard Dean?) in a room full of all the deathers, birthers, and beyonders, and come back when the three of them have made them all cry? Barney Frank for...
• Commented on Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor.
  There's also a book on this topic, that appears to be freely readable at Google Books: Spread Spectrum: Hedy Lamarr and the Mobile Phone....
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  Somehow this is far more disturbing to me than your "what is this strange infected hole in my leg" photo from your time on a South Pacific island, Mark....
• Commented on Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
  A little confusing, but it may be that the "publisher" (which is actually a kind of distributor) lacked the rights to distribute these books. In which case, Amazon would be obliged to do this, or be sued and be forced...
• Commented on Compuserve shuts down
  I wish I could remember my CompuServe ID. I was 11, a geek, had a 110-baud acoustically coupled modem for my OSI C1P -- and ran up a huge phone + data bill. My folks were furious, but coped. Eventually,...
• Commented on An hour with Virgin's in-flight WiFi
  "you have to get pass a third-party authentication proxy thing" Sorta first-party, actually, innit? Aircell runs the Gogo service, and the authentication stuff is on their server--or so I am led to believe. I'm looking forward to when they have...
• Commented on Duchamp's bicycle wheel back on the street
  David, I think you may miss some of Duchamp's double irony -- there's some now widespread analysis that his readymades were actually custom created works of art that he said were mass-produced, and left the discovery to the viewer. I...
• Commented on How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt
  @14: "I can't name one newspaper I read even periodically that hasn't stooped to bottom feeding" You are totally correct there, of course. But it's often management (publishers/owners), editors, and reporters in some kind of synergy that allow great investigative...
• Commented on How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt
  @10: I would argue that you're confusing big media with old media. Not all dead-tree publications lie or lied to their readers. There are a million examples of great public-oriented investigative work done by papers of all sizes, and often...
• Commented on Congress proposes anti-DRM law for cars
  What's funny is that Bob Barr was a pretty terrible congressman (in terms of what I think government should do and particularly not do), but he's been a great independent voice for increasing personal liberty as constrained by unnecessary regulation....
• Commented on Carb overload: Bread Bowl Pasta
  I am so glad you called this out. This was in our Sunday paper, and my mouth dropped, and I handed it wordlessly to my wife, who goggled, too. "Fat? Get fatter! Now! Now! Now! Cheaply! Now!"...
• Commented on Death Star annihilates the Enterprise
  #27: "You build the Enterprise on Earth the same reason you build iPods in China even though most of them are not staying there - cheaper access to labor and materials" Hey, you're forgetting transporter technology. It costs the equivalent...
• Commented on Joel Spolsky on the perfect electronics store
  I'm not sure that anyone who has ever purchased (or attempted to purchase) something from B&H either in person, by phone, or via the Internet could possibly make the statements attributed to Joel. Pro photographers obviously haven't commented on this...
• Favorited TED talk: Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system on Boing Boing
• Favorited Artist/prankster Tom Kennedy (RIP) on Boing Boing
• Commented on Amazon goes crazy, banishes books with queer content to "adult" purgatory -- UPDATED
  I worked at Amazon many moons ago as the head of the catalog department (an odd position), and had a lot of intimate dealings with the search engine that found stuff on the site. Now, I'm sure the architecture of...
• Favorited Weird blank wallet ID card on Boing Boing
• Favorited Lessons Learned. on Boing Boing