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• Commented on Man to marry his video game girlfriend this Sunday
  anyone remember interwebs the virginity auction? Konami obviously does. Who did the translation from Japanese BTW?...
• Commented on David Byrne: Kindle DRM means "you are f*cked"
  @ Arkizzle & Gilgongo ..... Restricted acts It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the owner: Copy the work. Rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public. Perform, broadcast...
• Commented on David Byrne: Kindle DRM means "you are f*cked"
  You buy the book not its ideas, in other words you pay for the container not the contents. Ever looked at the legal spiel printed inside a book? It forbids you from reselling, sharing or copying without the copyright owner's...
• Commented on "Iraq Campaign 1991" by Phil Patiris is now online
  there was a time when this would have been wild satire - but I think anyone can create this now - grad a dvd or two and off you go. Mashups I believe the term is....
• Commented on Torchwood, reviewed (Metzger likes it)
  I watched the first series of Torchwood, it wasn't too bad, but I really didn't like the "Owen" guy. (that whole 'cockney's are savvy thing' is so over used). Though it was pretty ersatz, trying to hang onto it's origins...
• Commented on Brit photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism
  @#2 I think you send too much time watching Chuck Norris films mate....
• Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
  @ Jerril "Where's you sense of humour. Can't you take a joke?" - come across this as a justification for offensive behaviour before? I find a delicious irony in this, due to the fact the person who posted it is...
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  The yakuza, like the mafia in Sicily, survive on a kind of Robin-Hood legend that they never bother 'normal' people. In fact they do nothing but prey on 'citizens'. My first encounter with a one came sitting in a bar...
• Commented on Dozens of US Military personnel spotted on Nazi networking site
  Not news. Timothy McVey....
• Commented on Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become "spinster battle axes;" "men usually mellow"
  Every time a thread like this comes to Boingboing, I find the irony of using misogyny to justify misandry a little too rich....
• Commented on RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp
  "Tall Rawte...Bruebelly scone!" the Japanese never seem to tire of Japanese comedians pretending to be gaijin speaking Japanese either.... http://www.youtube.com/v/ulHWeJaJArQ...
• Commented on RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp
  Got bored after three seconds. I hope Tarentino doesn't see this. Could the world survive a Kill Bill/Grind house/Ostentatious mouthed references to samurai damashii effort?...
• Commented on Japanese cops hassling foreigners on the street for urine drug tests
  man what a load of 'Thar be dragons' in this thread. Cannabis hemp was grown extensively in the past in Japan, and is still considered sacred by the Shinto religion - the large twists of rope adorning the front of...
• Commented on CIA's former bin Laden expert: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
  It`s not that surprising people coming out of government apparently think this way it`s the basis of the neo-con creed, that an outside threat creates internal unity. Secondly, the facts say incompitent rather than evil master minds. Three days before...
• Commented on Michael Jackson by Drew Friedman
  o ffs - the beauty of a child molester charge is that it doesn't matter if the accusation is proven true or not. Hence why it's the charge of choice of any dictatorship looking to officially ruin its rivals, instead...
• Commented on Fake receipt printing service
  didn't work for Bernie Madhoff...
• Commented on Amid censorship outrage, China's state-run TV reports that "Google Porn" causes memory loss.
  ...... and we found those WMD didn't we. ..... and those soldiers were just rogues under a weak commander, weren't they....
• Commented on Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets
  Wiping the disk doesn't remove the data. It just makes it harder (read more expensive) to retrieve. The 'standard' for wiping data is to over write the disk multiple times using alternating data patterns. Until not so long ago, seven...
• Commented on (BB Video) Mile-High Gaming with Virgin America + Google
  Two planes full of gamers doing what they could do on the ground. Increased air traffic speeds up climate damage. Don't encourage....
• Commented on Woodsy themed laptop and iPhone cases
  it has the same effect on me that web buttons made out of photoshop gradients do, slightly queezy....
• Commented on Wacky gilded pyramid house in Illinois
  from the picture it looks like it's situated in an open cast quarry...
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  to all those that mentioned Fuji, you know that the founders of Fujifilm felt that kodak colour complemented caucasian skin tones, but not asian?...
• Commented on US Army raises world's largest herd of white deer
  non profit organisation please, unless you enjoy sounding like a pre schooler....
• Commented on Astronaut tubes for beer
  I've been over their website and it's a classic example of filling copy with BS. "Lifestyle pouch" ffs....
• Commented on Hundreds of top British cops defrauded the taxpayer for millions in phony expense racket
  Talking of cash for honours I wonder when they'll start back tracking and get to Thatcher. She aint no lady even if she calls herself one....
• Commented on The Top 10 most absurd Time covers of the past 40 years
  @Buddy66 ahh the American fighting man edition no less....
• Commented on The Top 10 most absurd Time covers of the past 40 years
  @Adonai I understand the criteria for selection, my point being the celebrated Hilter and Bush's militarism as a measure of power. Bernard Madoff who has had a deeper impact globally than Neo Con's fear mongering management, despite the contrived controversy...
• Commented on The Top 10 most absurd Time covers of the past 40 years
  This is the same rag that voted Hitler as its person of the year in 1938, the year before he invaded Poland, and Bush in 2004, the year that the first Abu Ghraib pictures of prisoner abuse came to light....
• Commented on Living Lounge Chair
  I'm more struck by the paradox of someone who wants to be at home with nature on something so obviously made from sheer force of will and artifice. Granted it's kinder to the environment, the tree is still doing it's...
• Commented on Japan's "Herbivore Men"
  @ simonbarsinister you're citing heresay put about by interested parties in the 90s, worried that soya was being touted as an alterative to certain kinds of food....