Tony Indindoli

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• Favorited Circuit City's suicide: firing the people who know stuff on Boing Boing
• Favorited How to Spot a Cylon on Boing Boing
• Favorited How to Spot a Cylon on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBtv: Gabe and Max answer Bing Boing readers. on Boing Boing
• Commented on Radio documentary on RAND Corporation
  as a kid I always associated Rand with cold war bomb shelters, love of everything nuclear, and Dr. Strangelove scenarios. "we must not allow a big thinkers gap!"...
• Commented on Higgs Boson plush toy
  its filled with gravel? the gravel gives it mass...so...the source of mass in the universe is gravel? Hawkings bet $100 they never find the Higgs. So stock up, put them on ebay in 20 years, along with the jars of...
• Commented on Sarah Palin: spammer and digital secrecy scofflaw.
  "The recent increase in trolls on this site is phenomenal. " the trolls even come to my home sometimes, these elections years are just crazy...
• Commented on Songs making fun of land grab case in Boulder, Colorado
  Satirical songs don't bother lawyers hardly at all. What ya need is some good old tar and feathers....
• Commented on Skyscraper airport of tomorrow, 1939
  And who was going to live and work inside the vast windowless interior of that monolith?...
• Commented on Girl gets revolutionary note in package instead of iPod
  Wow. Not only is the iPod labeled "disruptive technology" it also has become the prime symbol of the "American Consumption-ist Society" It has become what the Twinky was in the 70s....
• Commented on RIP: Netscape Navigator (1994-2008)
  This brings back memories of my first time on a high speed connection, and the whole dot-bomb era. Killed by The Clueless Masses firing up IE, never knowing they weren't getting the "real" web experience. Feels like remembering an old...
• Commented on Benazir Bhutto assassinated
  "This just goes to show the kind of barbarianism we are dealing with over there." So, when Americans were assassinating progressive political leaders here in the 60s, we had a 'barbaric' society?...
• Commented on Unusual old Japanese model kits
  "Leave our forest Monkey. The next time I see you bowling on our sacred grounds, I will eat you."...
• Commented on US official threatens employees with magic
  Isn't it wonderful how the Iraq spending windfall has attracted such a diverse and talented group of Americans. Colorful characters and scandals, sort of like one of the Gold Rush cities....
• Commented on Organization for Transformative Works: defend fandom!
  "Boo, we have lawyers and don't approve of your fan project anymore. Make it go away or we will continue to threaten you with slow torture by the legal system" That summarizes the letter that ended a 3 year not-for-profit...
• Commented on Taxpayers pay for gold mining cleanup
  I'm wondering these mining companies are deliberately organized under foreign ownership, just to make it easier to duck and cover with the profits when the Superfund cleanup lawsuit comes around. How about a federal cleanup tax on everything sold with...
• Commented on Boing Boing t-shirts by COOP!
  Jackhammer Jill, now with more fan service...
• Commented on Steve Jobs (and not Woz) to come to Epcot's Spaceship Earth
  This is really an example of "History is written by the victor"...
• Commented on Two Girls 1 Cup: a grandmother reacts.
  I just about vomited reading the text description. Disclaimer: In the past I was shown another unspeakable video from Germany, so it may be a psychosomatic revulsion reaction....
• Commented on Old racist cap gun on eBay
  Based on the current climate for immigrants, I expect the surface gold is running low again. If the restrictions on Asian immigration had never been put in place, the West coast would really be a different place, more like the...
• Commented on Haunted Mansion/Bela Lugosi's Dead mashup: Haunted Bela
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• Commented on Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and mirrors?
  It just a shame anybody desires these Euro-trash luxury items from a rotting culture. China, of all places, with thousands of years of their own innovations in art and design, would benefit greatly by dumping the West and looking to...
• Commented on Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and mirrors?
  The people of China could grow a counterculture that rejects class and materialism, and all these seedy Western luxury goods. But that might get them thrown in prison camps as subversives, besides being so yesterday/communist....
• Commented on Shipping containers as housing
  The image reminds me of the place they house thousands of exiled robots in the I,Robot movie. Would FEMA be interested in converting containers to emergency shelter for people displaced by disaters?...
• Commented on Crashed drug plane owned by US Government?
  So could this could be? A: Charter plane which usually runs drugs got some legitimate charter business flying folks to Guantanamo. B: Somebody in Washington needed more of-budget funds to sell aircraft parts to Iran. (something like that.)...
• Commented on Lowrider Magazine #1 from 1977 -- complete scan
  Wow it's amazing how so little has changed. The girls all wearing those trench coats, I never understood....
• Commented on Tonka-esque truck-cutlery
  My son was suspicious of the Bulldozer too, and asked me what that was for. He wasn't ready to imagine playing with his food. Funny, that never bothered him before....
• Commented on Orangutan aroused by blonde and tattooed women
  like males everywhere, he likes the ones who look like Mom....
• Commented on Nail assist: concept gadget to keep you from hammering your fingers
  Using this would be tediously slow for a pro, but that's not who this is aimed at anyway. This is more like the OXO good grip for hammer and nails. Tools like the nail set, which help avoid hitting the...
• Commented on Nike's American Indian sneaker
  Sounds like my feet would be comfy in those. I've been wearing nothing but sandals for a year now, and whenever I put on closed shoes my feet start to go numb and cramp up....