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• Favorited Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage on Boing Boing
• Commented on Proceedings of a 2003 seminar about Timeship, a visionary project designed by Stephen Valentine for storing the frozen remains of people awaiting reanimation
  Is it just me, or does anyone else see awesome zombie potential here? Huh, huh?...
• Favorited Chocolate steampunk music-hall in London, Oct 15-17 on Boing Boing
• Favorited The Lessons of Lindsay on Boing Boing
• Favorited Magical short story podcast about Google Book Search, data visualization and the Olde Curiousity Shoppe on Boing Boing
• Favorited The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics on Boing Boing
• Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
  Just today a local paper in a near by town of about 100,000 people ran a story about newly installed high res video cameras that are now monitoring folks on city buses. A camera in each bus has a view...
• Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
  Just today a local paper in a near by town of about 100,000 people ran a story about newly installed high res video cameras that are now monitoring folks on city buses. A camera in each bus has a view...
• Favorited Guide to N Dimensions on Boing Boing
• Favorited Preview audio from Scott Westerfeld's steampunk YA novel Leviathan on Boing Boing
• Favorited Ariel: post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery adventure that rocked my world on Boing Boing
• Favorited Visualizing up to ten dimensions on Boing Boing
• Favorited @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) on Boing Boing
• Favorited Hugo Award winners and statsporn! on Boing Boing
• Favorited Next-gen implanted hearing aids are also headphones on Boing Boing
• Favorited Midcentury Mexican sci-fi kitsch movies: an appreciation on Boing Boing
• Favorited Hedy Lamarr: '30s film diva, mobile phone tech pioneer, anti-Nazi gadget inventor. on Boing Boing
• Favorited In America, it is increasingly illegal to be poor. on Boing Boing
• Favorited Great Caesar's Ghost: Dery on Rome's Cemetery of the Capuchins on Boing Boing
• Favorited UK road map circa 1675 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Dery and Lecter do Italy on Boing Boing
• Favorited Today at <em>Boing Boing Gadgets</em> on Boing Boing
• Commented on Contemporary photographers of Detroit
  Despite the fact that some of these shots are not technically perfect photography (as noted above) I am still amazed by them. They are beautiful for their candor. They serve a valuable purpose to show us the way things are,...
• Favorited James D. Griffioen's photos of Detroit, "the disappearing city" on Boing Boing
• Favorited Six-potato gatling gun on Boing Boing
• Favorited Annie Lennox gives her masters to mashup artist DJ Earworm on Boing Boing
• Favorited Geektastic: anthology of nerdy fiction and comics on Boing Boing
• Favorited Steampunk monkey cigarette card set on Boing Boing
• Commented on Routines are easier to remember when combined with complex "silly" motor tasks
  This goes along with the old trick of tying a string around your finger as a memory aid. Sometimes when I'm already in bed and realize that I need to take something to work the next day (or whatever) I'll...
• Favorited Storyville, New Orleans, and the 1947 film with Armstrong/Holiday on Boing Boing