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• Commented on Presto, alakazam! "Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" magically re-appears
  If this is a government document, shouldn't it be available free from the gummint?...
• Commented on Chip Sounds
  @Bloo, check out http://making-music.blogspot.com/ - search for Moog or ARP and see what you find. I find these things really intriguing but so far haven't figured out if there's a free desktop tool that will run these things....
• Commented on Book: Rules for my Unborn Son
  "Remember the girl you're with is somebody's sister and he's perfectly capable of kicking your ass." Right. Because (a) you're going to WANT to mistreat her, and the only reason not to is fear. and (b) she wouldn't possibly be...
• Commented on Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg
  Oh those would be cool in a library and over time you'd get lots of extra sound insulation from all the wads of gum that would inevitable accrete all over the inside. Why oh why must you torment us with...
• Commented on Taste Test: red kuri squash
  I'm going to have to try the flinging method of squash opening. I have a balcony on the 2nd floor directly above my very own parking space. Hm. Tempted to run out and get a squash right now....
• Commented on Breast implant serial numbers used to identify murder victim
  U-Canuck: all too common yes, but this case was special because she was a *model*! And he was a *millionaire*! On *TV*! Ooh!...
• Commented on Philadelphia needs an Eraserhead statue
  Why does Eraserhead get a statue? The honor clearly belongs to the belle of that film, the lady in the radiator. "In heaven, everything is fine!"...
• Commented on Dan Osman's famous speed solo video
  I knew someone who dreamed of being a ranger at Yosemite. He worked hard and got there, only to discover that part of "other duties as assigned" was cleaning people-bits off the rocks. Left-behind garbage and gear, and sometimes literally,...
• Commented on Slate reports on animal onanism
  Oh great now every time I hear that cute little song "All God's creatures got a place in the choir" I'm going to think about what they're doing with their dirty little hands or paws or anything they got now....
• Commented on Running fiber through a city sewers with a model sub
  Wow, the internets run through actual human waste? That explains a lot....
• Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
  I saw this film with a date who HATED it and insisted on leaving. I could tell right then it wasn't going to work out....
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  I eat meat, but I feel bad about it. I eat it a lot less than I used to, but sometimes damn, I just want some bacon, you know? Which is why I personally CAN NOT WAIT for cultured meat...
• Commented on Michael Jackson -- unrecognizable motivations and constant ruination
  My personal non-expert opinion about what ruined MJ (don't we all have one) is that he never had anyone in his life he could really trust. Or at least, he didn't think he did. Everyone wanted something, a piece of...
• Commented on Volcanic eruption seen from space
  What an amazing image! I love being alive in the age of space stations and deep-sea submarines....
• Commented on Online Personal Narratives from Patients of Murdered Late-Term Abortion Provider
  Benenglish: I echo other folks' thanks for a thoughtful and compassionate response from your perspective. However, I would have to disagree with you on the very young rape victims' right to an abortion. The trauma that childbirth would inflict on...
• Commented on The Art of Living Dangerously
  What's the basis for the claim that people who are more risk averse are depressed or that risk takers are happier? I'm guessing the author simply likes risk-takers more and is attributing happiness to them. I also think risk is...
• Commented on US Trade Rep lies about Canadian piracy
  Hey, our own head of homeland security, someone who is actually supposed to know about this stuff, went around repeating the long-debunked myth that Canada let the 9/11 terrorists into the US (never mind that it's clear the terrorists came...
• Commented on Greenwald: "Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist"
  She's about as Democrat as Joe Lieberman, so I hope this makes her re-evaluate her position on the security stand she's espoused. But slap to the Salon guy for going for "shrill." When they start using that word for annoying...
• Commented on Crazed Costume Shop Owner Pwns Local News Guy Investigating Cyberstalking Charges
  I hate those segments where reporters barge in on someone's office and try to trap them into looking like idiots. However she does seem quite nuts. I gotta feel for Ms Sission though. My office phone number was the "fake"...
• Commented on You can still buy new dot matrix printers. Why?
  Another liberrian here. We use em in labelling as others have said but also at the desk for receipts and transit slips because you can just print the amount you need and tear it off. Why waste an entire sheet...
• Favorited Books as home decor items on Boing Boing
• Commented on GreenWheel: Swap the rear to make any bike electric
  I like that this looks like it wouldn't be obviously an electric bike if you're pedaling. I'd be interested in something that could give me a little help up a lonnnnnnng hill (lazy? guilty.) but not have cops stopping me...
• Commented on Two angry camels in a car
  Yay, BoingBoing wins the internet with this. My day is complete and it's not even 11 am yet....
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  I read this story too early on a Sunday morning and in my head confused the Geneva convention with the Berne convention. That at least would make sense in the context of online teen behavior. Seriously, I am inclined to...
• Commented on Garbage table made from baby-carriage, glass and suction cups
  The baby carriage wheels are awesome! I've seen coffee tables with the big industrial swiveling wheels but this is cuter and it takes you a moment to figure out where you've seen those wheels before. If it's using regular glass...
• Commented on Logitech announces new lapdesk, attractive wards genital scalding
  Attractive wards genital scalding? Exposided genitalia? John, perhaps putting on some PANTS would help you pay more attention to what you are typing. Dude!...
• Commented on Kopbusters -- reality show that busts cops for conducting illegal drug raids
  Police definitely need to be held accountable - if there's a tool or technology they feel is useful there will be huge pressure to use it. I think this is a pretty dangerous road to travel and you know they're...
• Commented on Water Vitalizer Plus makes water drinkable
  O thank heaven. I was wasting my hard-earned money on bottled Penta water which as you know only means FIVE. If I can get SIX doofribbyjimjags in my water, that sounds better. If only I had some ice-nine to put...
• Commented on Clarion science fiction/fantasy workshop instructors announced
  Please note, this workshop is NOT at the University of San Diego. It is at the University of California, San Diego. Toooootally different institutions albeit with similar names....
• Commented on Viridianism's last note: surround yourself with beautiful, excellent things and get rid of all else
  I want to thank you for this posting. I struggle with the gadgets/simplify dilemma. I am trying hard to learn to admire rather than acquire. On a couple recent vacations, I visited some fabulous places and, as often happens, ended...