Maggie Leber

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• Commented on Chess pieces made from nuts and bolts
  And for the radio-frequency crowd: http://leapsecond.com/pages/chess/...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  Tired of being held down and disemvoweled (at the paragraph level, no less) by immoderators with their own viewpoint to push, while others whose views they *like* are left free to patronize me with vowels intact. Echo chamber indeed. Sorry...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  NTSB != FAA...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
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• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
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• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  "If I told you a UAV killed a 'bad guy' by shooting down a plane in Afghanistan, you'd nod your head sagely and say "yes, of course." That's rational." Um...no. Do you know any UAV with an air-to-air capability? A...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  So what did John-John know, and who offed *him*?...
• Commented on Photo: Santa says no guns in store!
  "Japan's gun control does play an important role in the low Japanese crime rate, but not because of some simple relation between gun density and crime. Japan's gun control is one inseparable part of a vast mosaic of social control....
• Commented on Photo: Santa says no guns in store!
  At least in Pennsylvania, the courthouse is required by law to to provide secure storage for your weapon while you are inside. After all, that's where you go to get the license. :-) See 18 Pa.C.S.§913(e) And I'm sure both...
• Commented on Nuclear slide-rules from a time after nukes and before pocket-calculators
  #17 Ooooh. Knowing what you're doing when doing math? Scary. (still have my Pickett 10"...and my A.S.A aluminum E6-B, too...) http://www.sliderule.ca/pin4vf.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B...
• Commented on Photo: Santa says no guns in store!
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• Commented on Photo: Santa says no guns in store!
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• Commented on Photo: Santa says no guns in store!
  Ths sgns wld b bttr cptnd: "Vctm Dsrmmnt Zn". The Gander Mountain distinction is because guns for repair or sale are likely to be handled, whereas concealed weapons tend to stay in their holsters. Most gun shops have similar rules...even...
• Commented on McCain-Palin campaign dumps Blackberries loaded with personal numbers, internal email
  Yeah, normally Democrats are very hip people who understand tech. See? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081214-rod-blagojevich-champion-of-cell-phone-security.html...
• Commented on McCain-Palin campaign dumps Blackberries loaded with personal numbers, internal email
  "We traced the Blackberry back to a staffer who worked for 'Citizens for McCain,' a group of Democrats..." Ipse dixit....
• Commented on Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
  "Evan this is just more security theater. It will be incredibly easy to circunvent by the traffickers and just a hassle for everybody else." Sounds like gun control. Except substitute "dangerous" for "a hassle'....
• Commented on Pop-up mini-shelter for homeless people
  "The cost of building or refurbishing a traditional shelter is approximately $100,000 per bed created." --from edar.org So my four bedroom Cape Cod should be worth somewhere between half a million and a million dollars... I agree with #10 that...
• Commented on Resource.org's suggestions for Change.gov
  Before you nationalize ARRL and confiscate...oh, I'm sorry--"repurpose" our bandwidth, it'd be nice if y'all learned the actual name of the organization. So wonderful to see that the same super-networked post-apocalyptic Peace Corps "Outquisition" loons who were going to come...
• Commented on "With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee.”
  I recall having a Chemex in the 1970's. They make decent brew, but are the very devil to clean properly....
• Commented on Canned Libraries: the 1936 version of "universal access to all human knowledge"
  Pretty thinly veiled ripoff of Vannevar Bush's Memex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush#The_Memex http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush...
• Commented on Imprisoned former Daily Telegraph publisher says US justice and prison systems are flawed
  @1: That's funny, because the best way to turn a liberal into a conservative is to wait for him to get mugged. (But sometimes it takes several iterations.) "I'm in jail and it sucks" is an inherently liberal sentiment?...
• Commented on Disabled boy to lose his tiny pony because the neighbours don't like the smell
  A visit to Caledon via Google Earth gives a little clearer picture of what's going on here....
• Commented on NYT on Guantánamo "Nothing has been more damaging to the United States than the violation of the legal principles at the heart of the American idea."
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• Commented on Why CNN Struggles to Cover The Economic Panic
  "The war on terrorism featured a real enemy." --filing under "sentences I never thought I'd see on Boing Boing"....
• Commented on Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart make mashed potatoes
  I flashed immediately on "Cooking with Bigfoot". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlWpKlK_8E ...for example...
• Commented on Zillionaire.com infomercial
  "If George Bush would have ran an Internet business in the late 1990s, he would have had the same spiel and delivery style of Zillionaire.com CEO Hubert Humphrey..." And if Barak Obama had run a internet presidential campaign in the...
• Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
  "I hope you can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can!" --Ignignokt...
• Commented on Flaming Lips: Christmas on Mars
  Sounds a lot like "Dark Star". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/...
• Commented on Change.gov is going through some changes
  The anti-gun "agenda" pages have disappeared too, of course. The tense of the prose on that page made it pretty clear that most of the "impressive" site was hastily repurposed campaign material...some of which obviously not vetted by the message-control...
• Commented on John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV: V1V4 M3X1CO.
  Um...that's not an Uzi, it's an AK....