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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  I would have already done something like this already, but it turns out that I'm not my computer's type. And all the jealousy around when I got that laptop was just too much....
• Commented on Good News from the Large Hadron Collider
  My theory is that anonymous was sent back in time from March 3, 2505, to persuade us not to continue the experiment....
• Commented on Man to marry his video game girlfriend this Sunday
  Just remember all the headaches that come with upgrading Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-132...
• Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
  The make-up might work, but for me, step 1 would be: lose 60 pounds. There are some costumes some people just aren't meant to wear....
• Commented on Infographic: Projected pot tax revenues
  re: the broke the law, they deserve to be in jail argument, I believe that it should be against the law to be a callous, unempathetic sshl. The prisons would be full!...
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  This thread makes me realize how many BoingBoing commenters are sense-of-humour impaired. Or have never ridden a bike. Or both....
• Commented on Instructions for building an autonomous sentry gun
  "Reason reboots with no problems. That's to be expected. It's also to be expected that later, probably when he most needs Reason to work, it will crash again, the way it did for Fisheye."...
• Commented on Building a brain inside a supercomputer
  A virtual lab-rat could be quite useful, especially if you could restore the state, or rewind the simulation and try something different, with a perfect control that had the exact state and previous learning at the beginning of every experiment....
• Commented on Hello Kitty "Anatomy" series
  When you said anatomically correct, I thought you meant she finally had a mouth....
• Commented on Illustration of Makezine Man
  They're the same person. engadget man = at day job makezine man = after work...
• Commented on Hit-and-run driver who hit cyclist
  It seems like a lot of drivers just don't care. I don't ride a bike very often, but I do try to be aware of bikes and pedestrians when I drive, which often seems to frustrate other drivers since they...
• Commented on De-touching the lollipop-headed Ralph Lauren image that prompted a legal threat
  I didn't realize at first that the image accompanying this article is the detouched version. It still looks like an unrealistic body shape, unless it's an example of the effects of extreme corsetry....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  After giving it a change for a while, I also notice I miss recent comments, numbered comments (I can understand that there were some problems with numbers, but the quote feature doesn't make it as easy to find the original...
• Commented on Royal Mail uses legal threats to shut down service that provided postcode lookups to charities and nonprofits
  Isn't there a project to develop a user-submitted postal code database that is not controlled by Royal Mail or its' privately-owned partner organizations....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I preferred the old logo, don't mind the display case at the top, though the one at the side looks both useful and annoying depending on the browser I use, find navigation a bit harder, don't like the smaller link...
• Commented on Pocket-sized gadget for detecting autism in children
  I don't think it's much use for detecting autism, but it looks like a great idea for helicopter parents who want to eavesdrop on every conversation their child has....
• Commented on List of books read by backpackers
  @vagueware #15. I believe the proper term for leaving behind a copy of the Da Vinci Code is littering. The most recent books at the bottom of my backpack were War for the Oaks, On the Road, and Hitchhiker's Guide...
• Commented on Author John Scalzi "On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers"
  @Antinous #20. cn dsmvwll myslf. @johnphantom #36. I even had a sign on my desk that said "No, I will not fix your home computer." Didn't help much. Though if you mention that you work in IT to someone who...
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  If the price at Wal Mart seems low, you get what you pay for. Boots bought from Wal Mart were 30% cheaper than the "identical" boots from another local store, but wore out within a month. They leaned on the...
• Commented on Atheists who'll take in your pets after the Rapture
  The rapture has already happened (July 5, 1998) and all the worthy were saved. There weren't all that many of them, and no one else noticed. Still, it sounds like a great business plan....
• Commented on Lamp hacked out of Ikea fiber-optics and watering can
  It's more art than reading light, but it has quite a cool effect, since it really does look like the light is pouring out of the can. I expect the fibres would move if there was a breeze, which would...
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  My parents always used legos, most people in my generation called it lego, unless they couldn't afford to spend so much on interlocking pieces of plastic and called it mega blocks. It doesn't matter whether it's lego or legos. I...
• Commented on What's wrong with Jamba Juice's Get Your War On plagiarism
  This is like taking a mashup or remix, going back to the original sources of the samples, and putting them together in the same sequence with the same cuts and fades as the mashup, and then calling it your own...
• Commented on Video about wannabee amputee
  Reading this thread, I keep getting flashbacks to Dr. Adder. http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Adder-Signet-K-Jeter/dp/0451151976...
• Commented on Pea shooter traditionalists decry use of laser sights at annual competition
  It looks like that techno-peashooter needs to be steampunked. A pressure gauge and a copper housing for the laser would make it look much better. At my high school, they used to use the tubes from Bic pens, and make...
• Commented on Woman takes revenge on tow truck driver
  My AWD car can be towed with the rear wheels on the ground and the towing switch enabled (to disconnect the transfer case). For some reason, tow truck operators seem to think it's the other way around, which once resulted...
• Commented on Awesome, infringing music video made from 80s brat pack flicks is band's "best video"
  It sounds like YouTube has already removed the audio....
• Commented on Goths in Hot Weather
  I still wear a leather jacket in the summer. When people started freaking out around Columbine, I traded the black trench coat for a brown A-1, but I've gone back to a well-worn Perfecto clone. With black jeans, a black...
• Commented on Japan's "Herbivore Men"
  @16, But do you pocket-compost?...
• Commented on What plagiarism looks like
  Plagarism it is not, unless do it poor people do. - Yoda...