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• Commented on Baby pictures in lost wallets increase the chance they will be returned
  Years ago my friend found a wallet on the bus, and was planning on returning it, along with the $150 or so in cash. It actually did have a bunch of pictures of young kids in it. And then his...
• Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
  This is like some crazy round of religious-extremist one-upmanship: "God hates Americans" But seriously, does anyone else suspect that maybe their church is funded by anonymous atheist donations?...
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  Obligatory XKCD reference....
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  Um, okay, anyone else think that maybe the teen sex metaphor just adds a misleading (albeit more intriguing) layer of racy controversy? A more boring and less controversial way of putting the main point: If you design something with the...
• Commented on Jammie Thomas fined $1,920,000 for sharing 24 songs
  What's interesting is that, obviously, Jammie Thomas is not going to be ponying up the $2mil anytime soon, if ever. (I know I wouldn't) So it's more likely the RIAA end up with a $2mil tax write-off. So basically the...
• Commented on HOWTO Make entrails
  Actually I believe Wes Craven used a similar technique for the entrails in Last House on the Left. (great horror/suspense movie, although I probably wouldn't want to see it more than once) I believe they went with condoms filled with...
• Commented on Harper's Weekly on Swine Flu
  When it comes to swine flu, sometimes its best to turn to the bible. The Perry Bible Fellowship, that is: http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF010-Instant_Bacon.gif...
• Favorited BBtv Vlog (Mark) - Socialbomb, a real-world reputation game. on Boing Boing
• Favorited Vlog (Mark) - Socialbomb, a real-world reputation game. on Boing Boing TV
• Commented on Speed Bong Bottle Opener
  @5: Real men don't need tools to shotgun a beer, they use their bare hands....
• Commented on Local Hero: Cranky man on mobility scooter vs. snow, good sense
  We had snow in Seattle around _April_ this year. It snowing now is less of a surprise, but this kind of volume is pretty special. There's like 8" or more in many places. @TJ S, traditionally, yes, we don't get...
• Commented on Paid placement for brands in pop lyrics
  Is it just the present incarnation of patronage? Circumvent labels and any sort of charge-per-copy/play/use, and go with an ad-supported "free" option?...
• Commented on Comcast tech calls grandpa a crook and disconnects him
  Well, if Comcast thinks your grandpa isn't paying for cable tv, you could just bitTorrent all the cable tv shows your grandpa wants to see, and actually stop paying for cable tv. Sling it to a softmodded xbox across the...
• Commented on Deadmalls as new urbanist playgrounds
  Well, I didn't know till now, but I'm not really surprised it's dying. I've visited Factoria frequently when I was in highschool; even then it was a paltry shadow of Bellevue Square 5-10 minutes north. I don't know how well...
• Commented on 3 new paintings by Amy Crehore
  Why so much bitterness over one mention of an artist? Jeez. If there's something better to blog, suggest it, but where's the sense in bitching about what's already up? I read boingboing semi-religiously, and I certainly don't feel inundated by...
• Commented on Rumor: Microsoft to allow third-party 360s
  I think the blu-ray integration is where it's at. If people want a blu-ray player and integrated xbox, some manufacturer can / will step up and do it. Maybe they'll even go one step further and make a full-fledged media...
• Commented on Survey: 14-24 year olds want to pay for their music but await the perfect service
  Certainty of value / quality is more vital when the cost increases. The inverse is also true. I think some percentage of "hoarders" are actually treasure hunters, sifting through huge piles of, well, crap, to find a few solid gems....
• Commented on Acer Aspire Predator gaming PC has a nifty front panel
  At the top of the brochure: "Faster. Deeper. Harder. Further." Ok. Faster, yeah, further, maybe, harder... probably not. But deeper? What?...
• Commented on 186,000 British drivers fined in 2006 for driving while yapping
  Aaggh!!! Seriously. Why do we have all these retarded laws about driving while on the phone / drunk / texting / old / young / applying makeup / asian / eating / fapping and who knows what else? We've already...
• Commented on Student arrested for shock prank camera
  I did that once in high school... I think I actually made it AT school, for that matter. Although I would usually just seed mayhem by giving the camera/tazer away, since McGuyver'd camera/tazers are difficult to retrieve from pockets without...
• Commented on Vlog (Mark) - Socialbomb, a real-world reputation game.
  I'd be interested to see this proliferate through an existing social forum by initially reinforcing the group norms, and then see how quickly you could subvert them by tweaking the reputation algorithm....
• Commented on Gundam statue at Tokyo train station
  If they keep this up, just imagine what the resulting post-apocalyptic future's archaeologists will think... Centuries of research later, finding out that they weren't THAT advanced, they just had a thing for mecha. Seriously embarrassing....