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• Commented on DRM-free, free-as-in-beer Dutch Little Brother ebook
  @Witteveen: you can try an ePub converter to convert to pdf, html, txt etc. perhaps?...
• Commented on Monticello's clever windvane
  Off-topic: Small correction, the Eise Eisinga Planetarium is not in "Holland"... it is to find in city of Franeker in the province Fryslân (Friesland) of The Netherlands, not in "Holland" (technically Holland consists of 2 provinces: North- and South-Holland). The...
• Commented on Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download
  @Zabar Yes the amazon deal is the same bookdeal incl. blank cd (and I guess with free poster as well), and you can always ask dnots to be sure (email provided at the dnots page where you can order the...
• Commented on Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download
  I wanted to pre-order the Dark Night Of The Soul book, but found the shipping costs outside US/Canada were expensive ($35), DNOTS kindly provided me the link at amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-David-Lynch-Sparklehorse-Danger/dp/1576875245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242675763&sr=8-1...
• Commented on Teaching journalism with virtual worlds
  At #1: did you see the video? Don't let SL scare you, it's just another environment, like a conference room in the "real world", except, now they didn't have to pay travel costs to get the people together for a...
• Commented on Dangerous Minds w/ Charles Hugh Smith
  Thank you Richard for the interview, it inspired me to not do the usual annual raise of 6% rent (it's something common at my country) to my renters of the house I own, and will let them and the city...
• Commented on Help save Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic from US immigration hell!
  I hope this will work on time, with the help of all the others who have met them and can attest. I think it's important to tell and wish them well, for I and you may be in a situation...
• Commented on Antony and the Johnsons: Epilepsy is Dancing
  Thank you Richard for posting this wonderful clip & music :D Love it! Ah, learned a new abbreviation, NSFW (not suitable for work), ty. -> well, other then it's just BS to request to mark this as nsfw: be happy...
• Commented on Resignation letter on cake
  Oh how inspirational! I love the cake resignation! I'm the gal who brings the cookies in at work, and I have some really sweet colleagues, so when it's my time to resign from this job, I will certainly think of...
• Commented on Bird dances to music
  oh yes! brings back childhood memories to the parrot Lorre my uncle had for many years who'd dance the same way when the musicians of uncle's funkband were rehearsing at his home :)...
• Commented on Wil Wheaton vs. Authors' Guild vs. Kindle
  The computer talking/reading is like you copy a book/text in the style of "threat letters" (cutting words from papers and paste it on a sheet of paper)....
• Commented on Disney's 1946 menstruation film
  I wish my mother had seen this, so she was reassured when she got to it, she never understood the process or why it happens (other than: it's messy, awkward, monthly and you can get pregnant and you don't get...
• Commented on How to watch videos while driving
  Driving has become too 'easy', I refuse to drive new cars, simply because it makes me feel uber; don't have any contact with the road, traffic, wheaterconditions etc. and I suddenly (driving in a new car) rely on ... (I...
• Commented on The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away -- story about geek monasteries for smart people who don't fit in
  Thank you mr. Doctorow, I've learned more and enjoyed it very much: I've read it along the audio version, for me a great option to comprehend (English). It was my first Doctorow read, and will now start with Little Brother...