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• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  Fascinating. Last night I posted a comment that was pointedly critical (but not at all offensive) of Cory's breathless sensationalism, and now it's gone. That's incredibly lame, and speaks volumes about BoingBoing....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  Xeni - The video shows the operation at a hatchery. Where they hatch chickens. I want to make that clear, because that's where "happy chickens" that lay "happy eggs" come from. How many hens does Mark have? An approximately equal...
• Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
  I choose to look at the bright side of this ugly piece of humanity. Pronouncing that god hates the entire world just makes it even easier to write these asshats off as complete nutjobs. As if it wasn't already so...
• Commented on Escher lizard paving-stones
  I have four of these molds. They're nice, but it's hard to get good-quality pavers without some decent concrete skills. Once interlocked (with sand swept into the cracks) they're fairly sturdy. On their own, though, they are prone to breakage....
• Commented on Dirty ISPs can sabotage the nation's digital future
  Here's the thing, though: metered usage will never be the norm. Not for very long, anyway. The moment that a market moves to metered usage across the board is the moment an upstart -- an underdog, a new provider, a...
• Commented on Noodling: catching a catfish by letting it bite your arm
  Oh dear god....
• Commented on "This Is Why You're Fat" photoblog
  Yes, those things will make you fat. No, not for the reasons that everyone thinks. Meat is not bad for you. Neither is fat, for that matter. I am hopeful that someday Americans will have a better understanding of nutrition,...
• Commented on John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh"
  Proof that Hodgman doesn't actually get it. As if we needed more proof....
• Commented on Tablecloth sans table as table
  Another vote for epoxy. The trick will be to find one that is fairly close to clear, as some epoxies will cure with a yellowish tint. General purpose epoxy is not especially stinky, and can easily be done indoors with...
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  This is stupid. The popularity of conspiracy theories is the calling card of a decayed and stultified culture. Paranoid gnosticism is an insult to intelligent discourse. A statement heavily saturated with overly fancy words is the calling card of someone...
• Commented on True Blood Featurette (video)
  TFCON: Thank you!...
• Commented on True Blood Featurette (video)
  Must. Find. Music. As #5 said, the song for the actual title sequence and the song for the featurette are totally different. Kinda sounds like Perry Farrell?...
• Commented on How Apple wins the smartphone game: By ignoring the marginal customer
  @16 How does this stuff never come up with an iphone?? Partially by not requiring it in the first place. Parsing an URL or an email address is fairly well understood. Why isn't your Treo parsing it correctly? The iPhone...
• Commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
  As an amateur student of accents, this performance completely blew me away. I don't ever recall applauding something I saw on the internet before, but found myself uncontrollably clapping at the end of this clip. Bravo....
• Commented on Complaining about companies is part of the market
  @Nelson.C, I think it's probably important to differentiate what kind of defects we're talking about, and what kinds of things you get accused of whining about. Are you pointing out defects in something you actually have experience with (i.e. have...
• Commented on Complaining about companies is part of the market
  Complaining about a product you've had direct experience with is appropriate, informative, and helpful. Complaining about a product that you have no direct experience with on the grounds that it doesn't meet your needs in some way is stupid and...
• Commented on JaseZone's social networking chain-letter
  Sounds like a pretty good reason not to reveal your personal information (including friendships) by participating in stupid social networking sites to begin with. I mean really, what's the point? What possible purpose does it serve, except to show off...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a magic fireball (flaming oily rag) -- UPDATED
  Not a hoax. Absolutely not. From a technical standpoint, simulating the constantly-changing lighting conditions on the subject holding the fireballs would be an incredible nightmare. If someone had those kinds of chops and wanted to perpetrate a hoax, I can...
• Commented on Western Digital network drives crippled -- no serving any multimedia files
  Ted - Your question is simple misdirection, and ignores the point that I made: In any situation, if one wants to criticize the opposition, doing so by what amounts to lying is sure to set back one's cause. DRM is...
• Commented on Western Digital network drives crippled -- no serving any multimedia files
  I'm certainly no DRM apologist (quite the opposite, actually) but headlines & summaries like this do the anti-DRM cause a gross disservice. Cory consistently comes off as a raving nutjob whenever DRM is mentioned, and writes grossly misleading headlines &...
• Commented on State dept. won't say why UK music scholar is barred from US
  Rarely have I been so ashamed to be an American as right now....