Brett Burton

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• Commented on HOWTO make scary guts out of expanding foam insulation
  DO NOT get this stuff on your hands. I got spray foam insulation on my hands once and it was hell getting it off. It's the only time I've ever seriously considered cutting off my own hands....
• Commented on London cops finally apologise for mugging geek -- four years later
  @#8 Danlalan It only takes one example to prove a generalization wrong. That said, In the US, I've never seen the type of police that write apology letters. Most of my interactions have left me with the impression that they...
• Commented on London cops finally apologise for mugging geek -- four years later
  This is what I love about the UK. American cops would never ever apologize and wouldn't even be able to write anything with that many sentences in it....
• Commented on BBC exposes three psychic mediums
  @1 "I'm reminded of when Penn & Teller did this on there show: Bullshit." I believe you mean THEIR show. sorry. the their, there, they're thing drives me nuts....
• Commented on MyDishBiz runs photo and false testimonial of murdered newlyweds
  I like how the article stresses that it was an AMERICAN company that did this. Obviously this could NEVER happen anywhere else....
• Commented on Independent comic book artists draw Marvel's superheros
  @11 I'm not sure when DC did the Bizarro stuff, but this isn't exactly Marvel's first forray into "treating it's heroes with such irreverence". They had the long running Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider Ham parody comic, Obnoxio the Clown...
• Commented on Photos of parkour
  Once again the word Parkour is used for stuff that would be more appropriately titled "Free Running". As a general rule of thumb, the flips and more showy stuff (while admittedly very cool), is usually free running. Parkour is concerned...
• Commented on Listen: Animal Collective's My Girls, in 8-bits
  would it be a terrible idea to put vocoded vocals over these? it might not be 100% authentic, but it would still be pretty rad....
• Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card
  That'll teach her to laugh at that computer geek from school when he asked her to the dance....
• Commented on Phones confiscated at preview screenings: whose hypothetical risk is more important?
  Maybe they're taking phones because people can't be trusted to turn off their ringers? I'm not sure if I'd mind if they did this at all movie theaters actually....
• Commented on Storefronts of a fading New York
  @7 Don't be skeptical. This is a pretty real phenomenon. I see it all the time in Brooklyn. The worst is when some old timey family run spot gets taken over by the next generation. They inevitably take an incredible...
• Commented on How cats manipulate us
  My cat knows not to meow until I'm already out of bed. He gets fed two times a day and the rest of the time he keeps his mouth shut. Maybe it's breed specific, but i've never had the problems...
• Commented on Hot off the haute couture runway
  Didn't this chick fight Buck Rodgers with help from Tigerman? Lemme ask Dr. Theopolis, he would know....
• Commented on First music video shot on iPhone 3GS? Reyna Perez, "Love Love Love."
  Now if they could just add the ability to make phone calls without dropping them, the iphone would really be something....
• Commented on Reverse-engineering SSNs from publicly available data
  and if we just add captcha to those online credit application services? won't that stop the bots?...
• Commented on Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
  How long until Tim Burton remakes this with evil munchkins?...
• Commented on Smell of fear
  Empathize? Really? Is there another fear chemical that makes humans who smell it gang up on you? I'm pretty sure that's the one I have. At least when I was in highschool....
• Commented on Sony patent for any object as vidgame controller
  Um... Nintendo Uforce? anyone? anyone?...
• Commented on Japanese cops hassling foreigners on the street for urine drug tests
  A friend of mine spent a year working in Japan. She told me that just before the Olympic torch came through town, Japanese cops came to her apt. to make sure she wasn't a terrorist. They basically visited and interrogated...
• Commented on Video games good for the brain?
  Personally, I find I'm way better at blowing red lights and running down pedestrians after hours of playing GTA, so I'd have to agree with their findings....
• Commented on HOWTO drive a Model T
  I already know how to do this. Learned it when I was 5-years-old. It's soooo easy to do. Flying a jet with your feet is way harder, I can do that also. I am awesome. Thanks for wasting my time...
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  The amount of close-minded people flinging generalizations around on boing boing these days is astounding. I feel like I'm on the O'Reilly Factor message boards or something....
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  @all the posters who think eating mock meat is hypocritical. There are only so many textures that food can come in. And most vegetarians/vegans started out life eating meat and then made a choice to stop. It's natural (and instinctual)...
• Commented on Rubber Room: documentary about New York teacher purgatory
  @Dequeued Amen brother. There are undoubtedly some great, truly inspiring, straight-outta-the-movies teachers out there. I had one that I can think of. Unfortunately I can make a long, long list of teachers and administrators who didn't care, blatantly lied, were...
• Commented on Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco
  Wow. Apple keeps scoring points. I think they left out a few lines of code when they programmed the robot simulacrum that replaced Jobbs....
• Commented on Lovecraft meets Atlas Obscura
  @#15 I think Alan Moore may have been drawing on the Quabbin Reservoir as inspiration for his Swamp Thing story about a flooded town full of underwater vampires. Just speculation on my part, but he has used Atlas Obscura type...
• Commented on Terrific review of the execrable Transformers movie
  This review of TRANSFORMERS: ROTF is TRANSFORMERS: ROTFL...
• Commented on X-Men Universe Relationship Map
  @22, I think Jubilee was palling around with Wolverine during the time when the Xmen were exhiled in Australia and first encountered the island of Genosha. This would have been in the early 90s, after Mark Silvestri stopped doing pencils,...
• Commented on Waterboarding used on pot suspects, says London police officer
  Once again England takes something from America and makes it more awesome. This is just like what they did with Rock and Roll!...
• Commented on Wacky gilded pyramid house in Illinois
  I wonder if they understand the irony of their surname, being perpetrators of architectural onanism....