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• Commented on Wallet made from Atari cartridge
  five years in the making?! oh wait, he must mean five PAC-MAN years! which, if we use the 12-second "falling in love" sequence from ms. pac-man (and then wildly assume that it takes the average human couple a mean of...
• Commented on Soviet-era punks
  @#8, that totally just dislodged some small memory stalactite in my brain, which came crashing down and pierced a thick membrane of my experience of living in east germany shortly after the wall came down. besides watching the entire decade...
• Commented on DIY breast lump examination gadget
  proof once again that x-ray glasses would be grosser than one might suspect...
• Commented on GM bailout will never pay off
  shucks, i was counting on that for beer money in ten years. (groan) back to the streetcorner......
• Commented on Slate on favorite orphaned tweets -- "picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"
  @anothertucker: "one day, someone will figure out a real cool use for twitter and it will feel less like jerking off into a sock" i love twitter, but i honestly can give no good reason why. it seems unfathomable and...
• Commented on Swamp Kirin coming to Maker Faire
  see that search bar up there on the upper right of this very page? no, not the browser bar... yeah, that one. that one right there. type "dark crystal". now copy the resulting url, and shorten it. AMAZING DARK MAGIC!!!...
• Commented on Swamp Kirin coming to Maker Faire
  au contraire, mon frere! boingboing has a history of skeksi/gelfling infestations: http://bit.ly/Jsz2K...
• Commented on Swamp Kirin coming to Maker Faire
  ok. dude in a stilt outfit. cool-lookin, but i still say that the landstriders from dark crystal were a better version of the same idea...
• Commented on Guatemala: Entrevista Con El Tuitero @jeanfer
  i remember the first time we published a story in spanish in the alternative weekly in san antonio, where fully 65-70% of the populace had some sort of latino heritage. only the ojos de culo complained. bien hecho, xeni! wish...
• Commented on Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets
  thank yallz for doing this! i live in one of the best places in the world for my bridge-loving ilk: a loft overlooking the willamette river bridges in portland. the coolest thing about our bridges is that almost all of...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  "give this kid a medal!" are you kidding me? there is nothing more useless to a smart young person with a well-developed sense of subversion than a fucking medal, given by a group of patronizing, douchebag adults. i have a...
• Commented on Hospital Food Photo Blog
  i have eaten fried grasshoppers in five countries, drank wine made from rice and the bile of a snake, and even choked down a (fresh, raw and still beating) cobra heart in vietnam... but this? even i would send back....
• Commented on San Francisco mint painted with 7 HD projectors
  first i thought it was cool. then i saw the logo. then i realized my friends did this. fuk yeah! go obscura!...
• Commented on Business cards made from meat
  oh adonai, you poor, poor soul. bacon is no more "just a food" than the sun is "merely a light"....
• Commented on Smoking Smarties candy
  as a punk skater kid who did rails of pixy stix while learning to curb grind, i am fascinated by this new trend. that kid smokes with more style than i do! also: any family that keeps a dictionary on...
• Favorited Photo of pro-Tibet protest on Golden Gate Bridge on Boing Boing
• Commented on Miraculous portable computers, ca 1982
  @#3: actually, my mom did this exact thing. i remember the period when she painstakingly transcribed all her recipes from index cards to the home computer. she printed it all out and proudly presented each of us a copy of...
• Commented on Ways To Be Cool
  @#21 actually, no. one of the hottest nights i ever had was with a girl whose boyfriend had wrecked his motorcycle and was on crutches and had messed some other things up and couldn't screw. in williamsburg! (bonus) the kid...
• Commented on Sending your video camera around the sushi conveyor
  @siempre la luna #15 that "video" was shot at sushi ichiban (nee takahashi) in portland. the sushi train there is famous for weird things finding their way onto it. i've been flirted with (through notes written on chopstick sleeves) and...
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  yep, glad we have ground kontrol still in effect here in portland. sometimes i'll step inside while passing, find a corner, and just close my eyes and listen, conjuring up the halcyon days of custom blisters and early onset tendonitis....
• Commented on Russian Eco-Cult Community in California
  oh, and paul: GREAT POST...
• Commented on Russian Eco-Cult Community in California
  this is so sweet. i probably went to high school with these people. (wait:nope) as a native of ashland, oregon, please allow me to translate the following description of the Shambhala Nature Preserve and Eco-Village Research and Educational Project: "It...
• Commented on Did dental examiner create the bite marks that put a man on death row?
  a week in general population with some of the guys these two people help put away with their lies would, in essence, be the same as a life sentence....
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  your route indicates that salt lake city will be the highlight of an extremely short pass through a narrow tip of utah. if this is indeed the case, you should be tried for criminal negligence. without conjuring a fierce amount...
• Commented on Concert for deaf people in Toronto
  Yay for you dylan! and yay for this concert. i'm sure you're gonna drop some sonic bombs on 'em that night. they couldn't have picked a better headliner to drive home the miracle of low-end frequencies. on another note, this...
• Commented on Kidney removed through vagina
  mmmmmmm... kidneys...
• Commented on Caucasian stars singing Thai pop music (video)
  the first time i went to an isan show in bangkok i thought i had entered the daydreaming mind of some asian drag queen who had been doing speedballs for two weeks, nonstop. the garish costumes, eye-straining colors, genderf*ck, price...
• Commented on The Motorola Museum: 4
  inevitably, the beach scene from "wall street" comes to mind. even though it was released in '87, cell phones were still such a gimmick then that i don't believe they'd ever done this exact on-screen sequence before....
• Commented on BB Video: Micachu and "maker" music, the Russell Porter interview
  this is like that moment when i walk into an institution of modern art and look at a piece in puzzlement thinking, "a child could do this!" — except in this case a child ACTUALLY did it. sort of like...
• Commented on Cephalerotica
  @14 ROACH ack! i've stayed in some of those same rooms at the carlton!...