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• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  I have this problem with my big green parrot (yellow naped amazon). Eyeball-shaped objects and corn on the cob-shaped objects terrify him. Some kinda avian hardwiring....
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  He's been doing this trick for years. I saw him do it in the early 90s and i *think* i may have seen him do it on SNL looong ago, but i'm not sure. It's not _that_ hard, it just...
• Commented on Holiday Inn signs - now and then
  fading icons weep slow corporate suicide retro remuddle...
• Commented on Maybe These Massive Wheel Spikes Shouldn't be Legal
  I dunno... to me they look more like cooling fins. Maybe this truck is pulling loads over a mountain?...
• Commented on US border station scraps sign that says "United States" because terrorists might attack it
  They floated this idea at work several years ago, suggesting we go from a .gov to a .org. "we're too attractive to hackers with a .gov extension" They folded pretty quickly after universal ridicule and a steaming heap of oh-no-you-didn't...
• Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  Isn't this the sort of case where the plaintiff could get a Rule 11 sanction?...
• Commented on City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks
  #25 just nailed it: this is a violation of virtually every ToS anywhere. IN FACT... should "The City of Bozeman" use that information to acutually log in to the net, "The City of Bozeman" is engaging in felonious computer access,...
• Commented on School newspaper archives go online, embarrassing student writing and shenanigans become permanent record
  Ya? i used to organize a rilly big pot rally in a major american city. Of course, my usenet drivel drowns out the pot signal in search results...so people googling me think i'm not just an ex pothead but a...
• Commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  If you want to learn how to cook at home, you need know only two people: Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. They won't teach you every little thing, but they'll take you a very long way. You can score Julia...
• Favorited Sugary cereal light-fixture on Boing Boing
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  JB: how in the world am i going to use an encrypted connection to hide my content from the googlegroups indexbot? What are you talking about?? I said usenet. I don't care for x-noarchive... Your second para drips with elitism....
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  I often use tinyURL on usenet when referencing things at work . There is, in fact, something to be said for hiding links from googie. just sayin. The pious curatorial neepery about LINK ROT for utilitarian timewasting bullshit like usenet,...
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  ya ya evil. whatever. its utility outweighs its drawbacks. There's always giantURL if you really hate tinyURL. Besdes, TinyURL was written by a unicyclist. I unicycle Ergo so there. you can have a lot of fun plugging into tinyurl's address...
• Commented on Heinlein's house for sale
  1. oh boy... 2. would be nice to have a million dollars to buy it and turn it into some kind of skiffy writer institute or the like. Maybe Bill Higgins could curate it. 3. I really like the upper...
• Commented on Business Card Etiquette In Japan
  OK, so when I'm at Mitsuwa (Japanese grocery store chain) in the US), how am i supposed to hand the cashier my debit card? yoroshikuo negai...
• Commented on Inside a Cuddle Party (video)
  Where is unicow?...
• Commented on U.S. Army releases doctored photographs
  Great. Now we're never going to get donnie hoyle out of the red roof inn!...
• Commented on Profile of an NRA spy who infiltrated gun-control groups
  "penetrated at the highest levels" MG. Hw hstrnc. I would expect -- insist -- that any decent issue advocacy .org would be all over the oppo. It's their *job*. I guarentee Handgun Control Inc knows when Wayn LaPierre ties his...
• Commented on Clown from Barnum & Bailey circus reclining on Eames lounge chair
  gorgeous... this makes me sad. My neice *wrecked* my eames recliner using it as a rockING chair....
• Commented on T-shirt with picture of armed robot endangers British aviation system
  Wait until they start taking away your Gnu tshirts. Y'know, because it's code for something......
• Commented on Bioscientists photoshop their cultures to fake results
  Bugs wrote:A career in research science is very much "publish or perish" - one must churn out interesting new data for publication and persuade a journal to pick it up, otherwise you'll struggle to apply for research funding and struggle...
• Commented on Refined sugar cereal lighting system is delicious
  Hah! I have two Quisp boxes i've been tryiing to decide what to do with -- this is brilliant! next project: my mustard squeeze bottle bug lights....
• Commented on RFID tags in your luggage
  If you want to kill the chip without removing the tag, i believe you can just make a partial tear through the loops pictured. (These are the faint grey lines on the unprinted part of the tag). I'd tear across...
• Commented on NYPD cops videoed illegally warring on photographers
  Dig that monster unicycle in the crosswalk. It's a coker. Unicycles rule. i wonder if he got arrested......
• Commented on Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism
  If we're all destined to be served up on he cannibal's table, i offer myself as dessert. You may drizzle me with chocolate (the real stuff please) and whipped cream. Don't lick it all off, save some for the next...
• Commented on Lawsuit about risk of CERN and parallel universe
  @ Micheal DeanI" love how the non-physicists on this thread all say the plaintiff is a crackpot, but the only two guys with actual training in physics won't say a catastrophic event is impossible." I am a real-life Tevatron operator....
• Commented on Cosmetic surgeon will point your ears?
  I have seen a person with this mod, in the early-mid 90s in SF. (She said she was a radio host in LA (?) and her nome de émission was "The Wood Nymph". 100% true. The effect distracting and ......
• Commented on Richard "Ultima" Garriott owns a Sputnik
  I make...Mr. Garriott has--I make antiprotons and flash cook them into top quarks (and mebbe higgsen). but no where have i seen a reliquary of such important human-sanctified, objects. A sincere wish of good to Mr Garriott, may he keep...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  clean reading sweetness = ponies Comments = *Glitter* ponies!...