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• Commented on Grown-Ups are Dumb! (No Offense) -- fun book by a 12-year-old cartoonist
  Actually... I know who she is, and the work is all hers. However, her father is Denis Kitchen, of Kitchen Sink Press fame....
• Commented on Portable office built into a steamer trunk
  May you live to be a thousand years old! Nice, but like everything at Restoration Hardware, overpriced and largely unneeded....
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  Yes eeyorex.. I'm aware. I was explaining the story to him, not necessarily perpetuating it. Thanks for the early morning pedantics, though. It's so much better than downward facing dog to get all limbered up....
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  That reminds me of the time I was explaining to my son about Van Gogh cutting his ear off and sending it to his "girlfriend". He said, "I would have just sent her a letter." Perhaps just a really, really...
• Commented on Sixteenth-century watercolor reportage from the New World
  John White was Jacques Le Moyne's bitch....
• Commented on Phone call: Can I keep chickens in Chicago
  It's kind of ridiculous to expect city employees to know whether or not it's legal off the top of their heads. The municipal code is online, search it and you have your answer... But then what does that say about...
• Commented on Librivox free audiobook library now has 365 days' worth of continuous listening material
  Librivox is great... as long as you get a decent person reading. I remember one that was read by a guy with a heavy Asian accent and a lisp....
• Commented on Beatbox Rave Oonsk-Oonsking with a Jaw Harp
  Gentile, please... that's a Jew's harp....
• Commented on World's smallest snake?
  Wouldn't it be easier to just say 10 cm? And frankly, while small, that doesn't seem inordinately small....
• Commented on Rat-owning animal-hoarding rapture-obsessed twin elderly ladies versus the family next door
  This will end in an inferno and two charred old lady corpses. Mark my words....
• Commented on Glenn Greenwald on U.S. Govt anthrax scientist's suicide
  What are you jackasses talking about? No members of Congress were killed. Targeted, but not killed. Like usual, it was random folks who got in the way that got killed....
• Commented on Woman who couldn't stop itching
  Hey Dirk... I did read the article. Nowhere does it say that she scratched a bloody hole in her head over a period of years. It says that the internist noted her propensity for scratching a particular area. Over some...
• Commented on Woman who couldn't stop itching
  I call shenanigans. I have a hard time believing she scratched through her skull which is generally about a half a centimeter thick....
• Commented on The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
  It's like web 2.0 version of the old BBC show The Good Life....
• Commented on Man robs store with plant as weapon
  Ah... never mind. I just caught the video. I'd heard of the story over the weekend from one of the rags which reported it as a spanish bayonet. Still, he had sharpened the stem end of the palm frond which...
• Commented on Man robs store with plant as weapon
  To be fair, it wasn't exactly a "palm frond". It was a Spanish Bayonet in the yucca family. For anyone who has grown up around them like I did, you'd consider it a weapon....
• Commented on Creepy looking bug from Brazilian Boing Boing reader
  It looks to me like a species of longhorn beetle. I'm a contributor to an online bug guide, Bugguide.net. If you post it there, I'm sure someone will be able to give a definite ID. Here are a couple photos...
• Commented on Spoon management system at a hipster cafe
  I'd prefer my clean spoons a little farther away from the dirty ones....