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Commented on EFF launches international copyright news site

tangent: my wife has a professor that is not a fan of the the EFF, and he complains about them in class frequently. So she had a flowery key-chain made for him as a gift -- it says "EFF is...

Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video

I drove a forklift in Shenmue a few years ago. It didn't seem that hard....

Commented on CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media

Re: seceding.... crap. I knew that....

Commented on CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media

Also, there was a scary paragraph in there about how these services analyze a post's sentiment (pos, neg, neut). It's as accurate as a coinflip -- no tool can understand sarcasm, quotes, offtopic, etc. You'd have to individually read every...

Commented on CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media

I don't see why this is overly scary. These tools are fancy versions of Technorati. Radian6 and Nielsen's Buzzmetrics are two of the oldest, but there's also SM2, Scoutlabs, Trackur and dozens of others. Seems like an intelligence agency should...

Commented on Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?

I love Donald Judd as an artist. I also think this concept is hilarious....

Commented on Huge fanged mouth hoodies

Anyone else think these look like straight jackets? I still bought one from my nephew, but still......

Commented on 2010 Moleskine desk calendar for $3.74

Sheesh. All the moleskin hate. It's a cute/clever product that costs about as much as a cup of premium coffee!...

Commented on Table and chair set spells out TABLE

"It's time to build a word. Let's build it! Let's build it now!"...

Commented on disapprovingrabbits.com

I have rabbits. They can be pretty expressive (especially with their ears), but I think you have to own rabbits to pick up on it. I remember watching some pet show, and they showed a cute clip of some rabbits...

Commented on Visionaire magazine: paper-engineered issue

These look excellent. One image is NSFW, btw....

Commented on Years-old fast-food cutlery chunk removed from man's lung

My infant son ate some paper scraps, and then was making weird whistling noises when he was breathing... I took him to the doctor, and they treated me like I was over-reacting. I probably was a litle, but all I...

Commented on List of books read by backpackers

I'm shocked A Walk in the Woods isn't on this list. Whenever I go camping, at least one person asks me if I've read it. (I have. I loved it.)...

Commented on Cartoon review of documentary about show posters, "Died Young, Stayed Pretty"

I saw the movie at SXSW. It's about 50% quirky characters and 50% art philosophy, which makes for a very interesting film....

Commented on Bike seat sports a beard of bees

Bees swarming are -- if you leave them alone -- docile. When you see a guy with a bee-beard, it's because they're swarming. I held a swarm in my hand during an entomology class in college....

Commented on 2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial

This is a world I don't understand...but it does sound like an impressive event. I'd love some multi-day event that catered to my niche interests. I do wonder when Ice Cube sees a bunch of kids in clown makeup, if...

Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card

Is the number her Visa card number, or does it contain part of it? Maybe the teller entered the numbers twice by mistake. And if my guess is correct... you should see about getting a new card....

Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet

Wish we had a digg/reddit-like system for rating comments. I'd digg every KeithIrwin post in this thread....

Commented on Mathematically modelling phantom traffic jams

"Thanks, Jammitin!"...

Commented on Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video)

I didn't read the comments in this thread, so this might have been said -- can I respectfully request a filter for Boingboing that excludes stories like this. Like ?happyonly I was emotionally scarred after reading the Russian serial killers...

Commented on Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased copyright "research" is junk

Music Has the Right To Children was still a really great album....

Commented on Tiny Art Director: a 4-year-old critiques her father's art

I've been doing this my two year old son (although I'm no artist). One recent creation was a baby with caterpillars and worms on him, with a vacuum, under a trampoline, in the moonlight. The key difference, however, is if...

Commented on 911 police officer refuses to help girl who calls about her dying father because she said the F word before the call was answered

@TJ. There's a Venn diagram in there somewhere....

Commented on Art student creates invisible car with cool paint-job

In high school, we read 'Invisible Man' and had to write a paper on it. I made a joke to the girl next to me that I should write an invisible paper... 10 blank pages with the last page that...

Commented on Art student creates invisible car with cool paint-job

Reminds me of http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/14/the-wireframe-car/...

Commented on Auto-Tune the news - everything sounds better

I am so happy by these. So brilliant....

Commented on Michael Jackson face appears in Muhammed Ali video: hoax or pareidolia?

A guess from the blog's comments is that it's a tshirt... but it would have to be a time traveler's shirt, since this video is from 1974....

Commented on Comic book of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

I've never bought comic books. How does one get all these? Do you have to show up at a comic store on the first of the month? Do I subscribe and they're mailed to me?...

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