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• Commented on Giant code wheel for sale, proceeds to EFF
  Anonymous #8: I'll make sure to point Zombie Feynman in your direction, then....
• Commented on Newspaper asks poets and novelists to cover the news for the day
  Wow, a post tangentially mentioning Israel which doesn't devolve into a 100-comment thread about how evil Israel is? Is this a BoingBoing first? (Not that I'm making any particular value judgments about how evil Israel is, because doing so would...
• Commented on Docs to WHO: publicly condemn homeopathy for dangerous diseases
  @64: You do realize that for homeopathy to be true, everything we know about biology, chemistry, even physics would need to be false? This isn't like naturopathy or even acupuncture which hypothetically could be exploiting previously-unknown properties of human physiology;...
• Commented on Is Crohn's disease on the rise because we've eliminated hookworm infections?
  Is there a good animal model of Chrohn's disease? That is, can we give it to mice at will? This seems like a plausible treatment modality and deserves research....
• Commented on Under My Thumb given the "legion of rock stars" treatment
  Wow, the quality of their singing is making me nostalgic for cute girls with ukes. I didn't think that was possible....
• Commented on Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture
  This isn't not a Beholder because it has the wrong number of eye-stalks. It's not a Beholder because the eye-stalks are coming from all around the main central eye, rather than just from the top of the head. I mean,...
• Commented on NYPD directive on the legality of public photography to print and carry
  And unlike that fictitious photography license, you won't go to jail for carrying it!...
• Commented on A history of the Klingon Language
  A few years back, a friend of mine asked for my help dubbing a movie he'd made into Klingon. My God it's a wretched language. I mean, all I did was read the phonetically-transcribed phrases he'd already translated, but doing...
• Commented on Microwaving a cellphone is surprisingly cool
  I was hoping for a real video, but I guess the flashes of light before the phone did anything should have been a clue. On a more serious note, if you've got a microwave you don't want anyway, you really...
• Commented on ArtWerk's map of his "beloved Europe"
  Why is Andorra differently-colored but not labeled?...
• Commented on Kids' Diplomacy board made out of a pizza box
  Leadership and negotiation my ass! That game teaches nothing but lying and backstabbing! *waits for the inevitable "But you repeat yourself"*...
• Commented on doihavepigflu.com
  And don't forget your LHC-monitoring resources: http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/...
• Commented on Barnaby Ward uses Twitter to show his sketching process
  The fisherman's wife, I take it?...
• Commented on Your Morning Dose of Cuteness/Technophobia
  I wonder if anyone's tried using luciferace for these gene splicing experiments rather than ?FP. IIRC, luciferace (derived from fireflies) doesn't require UV light to fluoresce, instead relying on a chemical reaction to produce its own light. It'd be far...
• Commented on The Frank Lloyd Wright Ax Murders
  Maggie should be made a full-time BoingBoing contributor (if she so chooses). That is all....
• Commented on Secretive US prisons hold "terrorists" including animal rights activists and people who gave to the wrong charity
  I'm going to see if I can untangle the divide that AB5TRACT and Ceronomus have on terrorism. AB5TRACT believes that terrorism is by our culture defined the worst possible crime, and that by labeling destruction of property as terrorism minimizes...
• Commented on Printing a ukelele on a laser-cutter
  An article about ukuleles that doesn't consist entirely of a cute girl in a YouTube video? Awesome! This is the sort of creative direction Mark should branch out into....
• Commented on Diane Rubio plays "Lulu's Back in Town" on ukulele
  @Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Let me get this straight: only old and/or ugly females are allowed to play the ukulele on YouTube, under threat of being labeled a gimmick? How do you justify that? What about cute guys? And how come...
• Commented on Fox's Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
  The hilarious bit is that even his fellow Fox News commentators think he's crazy; I think Bill O'Reilly might be genuinely scared that Glenn Beck represents the future of the Republican party....
• Commented on When Do We Start Calling Years 'Twenty-Somethings'?
  @MDH: You're saying the epic failure won't continue into the twenty-tens? That's rather optimistic....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Somehow, the mere fact that this is a link to an album rather than a YouTube video makes me immensely happier about it....
• Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
  #3: No, what you do is see if a Blendtec blender will first shred and then flush....
• Commented on Megan plays "You and I" on ukulele
  Another vote for BBcutegirlswithukeleles.com, or Fabio's "cute girls without ukuleles" suggestion. Actually, an interesting alternative would be "cute girls with instruments we haven't previously seen cute girls play on BoingBoing." A new instrument each time would provide the variation necessary...
• Commented on Charley sings a song and plays her ukulele.
  Is it just me, or does the recent wave of ukulele videos on BoingBoing resemble the South Park episode where everyone starts playing Peruvian pan flutes? I guess if they hold off the guinea pig rampage, it's worth it....
• Commented on History Chess set -- 32 sculptures of iconic twencen moments
  We're calling it "twencen" now? Really?...
• Commented on Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git
  To quote Terry Pratchett: I save about twenty drafts -- that's ten meg of disc space -- and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry...
• Commented on Steampunk sculpture
  Imagine if the artist made a steampunk ukulele...and sold it to raise money for net neutrality! BoingBoing might implode....
• Commented on Lottery to benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards
  At summer camp when I was 12, they read us The Lottery as a bedtime story. To this day, I have no idea why they did that....
• Commented on Hollywood film about amnesiac H.M. may happen
  @Neurolux: The problem with a Phineas Gage movie is there's no dramatic arc. I mean, you've got a guy, he's a good upstanding man, then he gets hit through the head by a railroad spike and the part of his...
• Commented on Clock for geeks
  @Anonymous#45: Though it is true that hE > d9, what you're neglecting is that while h0.FFF... starts out closer to 1 than d0.9... does, it approaches it more slowly. For example, h0.F > d0.9, but h0.0F First step: expansion of...