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• Commented on Excellent public speaking advice
  breathe - yes don't pace / stare off into space / drool- yes one more - if you have notes you must use (and sometimes you will), never, EVER, look down at them and read them aloud. look down at...
• Commented on David Gibbs against robot love
  we should be more concerned about robots loving US too much: http://www.itsecurity.com/blog/20090306/robots-programmed-to-love-just-turn-violent-and-creepy/...
• Commented on Why Darwin Would Have Loved Botox
  did anyone else out there read Uglies? cosmetic modification as a behavioral control method suddenly doesn't seem so sci-fi......
• Commented on Adding the Benny Hill Theme to Anything Makes it Funny
  LOVE IT! we had a pet crayfish - it kept me entertained with hours of pure entertainment. wish i'd thought to put it on a treadmill...or added a soundtrack, for that matter. NOTE: if you're considering getting a crayfish as...
• Commented on How Children Learn: classic of human, kid-centered learning
  I second John Taylor Gatto... and if you can get past the dogmatic writings, you may want to look at Waldorf education (in practice, that is). I suspect you'd find the "anthroposophical" readings as confusing as I did, but I...
• Commented on Wank your way to nasal clarity
  sexual arousal is - in part - a histamine reaction (the same chemical process that causes inflammation in allergic reactions). it makes sense to me that alleviating the swelling below (so to speak) would knock down the the histamines and...
• Commented on Whole Earth Catalog as early blog
  I grew up on Whole Earth - it informed the way I see the world. I now live minutes away from a major wind farm, something that I knew with certainty was coming in "the future" because of Whole Earth......
• Commented on Video footage of Sarah Palin's church
  I'm an athiest who has - on 3 occasions - experienced what the vast majority of people would call "religious ecstacy", the kind of experience that often precedes a religious conversion. however, I leave God out of my braingasm. I...
• Commented on Point/Counterpoint: the case for and against young adult science fiction
  oops - just clicked through to io9 and saw that Uglies is being credited as "saving" SF - see? it's what I've been saying all along!...
• Commented on Point/Counterpoint: the case for and against young adult science fiction
  I'm an adult who loves YA speculative fiction, my recent favourite read being Scott Westerfeldt's Uglies series. I heard a great review of the trilogy (now a quad) on a radio panel and thought it would be something that I...
• Commented on Hearing-motion synesthesia
  I "sense" numerical values for the colours I see, usually 1 ordinal number and 2 decimal places... for example, 2.45 is caramel colour. it might help if you imagine the numbers from The Matrix, except I experience them the way...
• Commented on Sasquatch sighting in Northern Ontario
  i think they be eatin' the fermented berries...
• Commented on Canadian Parliament shoutfest over the Canadian DMCA
  hey GNB - keep your hands off Charlie Angus, we need him! he's a rare voice of good sense in our parliament. in his earlier years he fronted a very good (politically progressive) alt-country band called the Grievous Angels. I...
• Commented on What did I plant in my vegetable garden?
  you know, I love all you Boing Boing readers, but 95% of you would die if left alone in the the bush for more than a week. if Mark actually ate this thinking it was chard, mint, borage (good guess)...
• Commented on What is on Keith's tongue?
  thanks, ZUZU! I have markers for Lupus (I'm asymptomatic right now, thankfully), so I always get a chuckle when Lupus get trotted out on House. it's a sneaky bastard of a disease but it doesn't cause EVERYTHING... plus, Lupus mouth...
• Commented on Mennonites in downtown LA
  there are lots of Amish folk out where I live - my favourite sight is the community phone booth that sits in the middle of a farm field....
• Commented on Mennonites in downtown LA
  you've got Amish folk, there - sometimes known as "old-order" Mennonites. most Mennonites are fully integrated and don't shun technology ... I've got a Mennonite pal who works for RIM!...
• Commented on What did I plant in my vegetable garden, part 2
  I'm surprised that Flip and Magdalane (obviously gardeners both) didn't mention this handy tip: if you "dead-head" the plants (that is to say, snip off the old flowers when they get wilted), the plant will continue to bloom all season....
• Commented on The making of Señor Coconut's Da Da Da video
  we know that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... but a banana? I'm surprised he didn't put in some good ol' fashioned bamboo......
• Commented on Cuttlefish embryos can spot prey
  almost every creature that is born - whether out of a pupa, an egg or a womb - has already done the vast majority of the development that's needed to survive independently in the outside world by the time it...
• Commented on New club drug: Preparation H?
  shark oil? there's no way I'll be using it on my boobs for sundress season. and antihistamines? given that they shrink and dry mucous membranes, and that sexual arousal is (in part) a histamine reaction, I won't be putting it...
• Commented on Restaurant lays off waitress who shaved head for cancer charity
  actually, I live near Owen Sound. it is not a "toothless, backwater hovel" as you suggest, Dead Robot. it has a startlingly high proportion of millionaires per capita because they like to retire to the stately Georgian brick homes on...
• Commented on Dinotopia artist sketches Jehovah's Witnesses who come to his door
  here's the original post: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/search/label/Rabbit%20Trails...
• Commented on Dinotopia artist sketches Jehovah's Witnesses who come to his door
  if you look at the photo on Gurney's blog, you'll notice they didn't actually make it into the house: they're sitting on the porch. and having a fine old time of it. my brother - a staunch and loud-mouthed atheist...
• Commented on US wastes "27% of food available for consumption"
  I recently read a stat that suggested "Americans consume 3770 calories per person per day, way more than the rest of the world". this from the people at VegSource.com (not sure where they got the info). I realized this consumption...
• Commented on Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
  I have been using the phrase "free range kids" for years to describe my parenting style (I have even committed it to print several times with full awareness that it is considered "odd"). FYI - at this moment, there are...
• Commented on Learning to talk changes how we perceive color
  this does not surprise me at all - it is thought that syneasthesia (the overlapping of the senses so that one "sees" music, "hears" colour or "tastes" words to name just a few sensory associations)is common in very young children....
• Commented on Gangsta rap video about airport security
  better skip the cheese, TSA Gs I was at the Montreal airport on Sunday and was forced to throw out the little tub of cream cheese I'd bought to go with my still-warm MTL bagels. the container was open (I'd...
• Commented on Nicaraguan town wealthy from cocaine bricks that wash ashore
  huh. there was nothing like this when I went to Nica in '88.... just the pre-Catholic Daniel Ortega in power, contras with guns on the hilltops, goats in the streets, and knock-off goods like "Best" toothpaste in the markets in...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a magic fireball (flaming oily rag) -- UPDATED
  my kids love to pass their fingers through flames...and that's a trick I'll let them do. that being said, I almost lost a house to fire caused by linseed oil on old rags, so I'm in no hurry to try...