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• Commented on Why we walk in circles without directional cues
  "Is there a pre-disposition to walking clockwise or counter-clockwise?" I always turn clockwise while pacing while on the phone. I know this to be true because I have a non-wireless land line and the long cord twists over time into...
• Commented on Sichuan peppercorns: "There's a war in my mouth."
  A friend of mine brought some back freshly dried from Sichuan province and let me tell you they're a near-death experience when they're fresh... one peppercorn numbs most of the mouth, leaving a pained metallic vaguely black pepper trail in...
• Commented on Vancouver cops affirm your right to take pictures
  VPD confiscated a camera from a newspaper reporter last April, without consent, warrant, or even spurious arrest: http://www.theprovince.com/News/Seizure+camera+sets+alarm+bells/1471719/story.html...
• Commented on Uglified theft-resistant camera
  I did this with my latest bicycle, living in Vancouver BC which seems to be bike theft capital of the universe (almost everyone I know has had a new bike stolen by u-lock shattering professionals). I bought a several-year-old stainless...
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Commented on Trailer Park Boys: Big Plans, Little Brains
  "Some may recognize 'J-Roc' as being the former host of the teen CBC show 'Jonovision' (which actually wasn't bad)." yes it was TPB, however, warms my heart, and makes me so proud to be Canadian that I want to cry....
• Commented on Ukrainian Teen Serial Killer Gang Document Their Crimes on Cellphone Video
  @Teresa(#238): How is it not a snuff video?...
• Commented on Ukrainian Teen Serial Killer Gang Document Their Crimes on Cellphone Video
  For the first time in my life, I am not going to push the shiny red button. I've been convinced by the warnings, I don't need to know, and I'm moving on. Also, I wish this wasn't on BoingBoing. There...
• Commented on TNH FTW! A final post and a question for you.
  "This has all happened before, and it will all happen again."...
• Commented on S&P Returns and the Remarkable Case of 2008
  Ya #7, I'm looking at 1933 too, a mere 2 years after the 1931 parallel to 2008. I was imagining a much longer lag before a rebound......
• Commented on Unusual house addition in Boulder, Colorado
  anyone else want to repeat this idea?...
• Commented on Unusual house addition in Boulder, Colorado
  maybe it's one of those building permit loopholes where you're not allowed to build a new house but you can "add on" to an existing one... or maybe it's a protected heritage building that they weren't allowed to tear down...
• Commented on Freakin' Friday's Silver Lining
  Agreed, with everything above. Minor issue with Dale's analysis: The change from 145 million to 135 million was actually described as 145 million who supposedly actually went shopping, where 135 million who supposedly "said they would or may shop", so...
• Commented on New Report: CIA lied about missionary plane shot down over Peru
  Hate the religion, not the religious....
• Commented on How SEC rule-exemptions led to the Wall St collapse
  @17, to clarify, what I meant to point out was that the reserve requirements have changed in Canada, dramatically, over the past several years, ending at a zero reserve requirement. And there have been correlative changes in the banking industry...
• Commented on How SEC rule-exemptions led to the Wall St collapse
  bad news: debt-to-capital ratios (aka "reserve requirements") have been eroded to ZERO (yes, ZERO) in Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, and Sweden... source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_ratio This happened in a drawn out process in Canada, over the past decade or longer......
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  I remember when the comment function was reinstated a while ago that there was reference to what happened "last time" there had been a comment function on boingboing, leading to hesitancy on the part of bb editors to have such...
• Commented on Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
  I think I saw footage of this during the opening sequence of Werner Herzog's Nosferatu... scared the crap out of me more than anything else in the film....
• Commented on 6th severed foot found in B.C.?
  Someone commenting at CBC brought up a disturbing question: given the length of the BC coastline, and the relatively sparse population, and 6 have been stumbled upon, how many feet are washing up unnoticed? Yikes....
• Commented on Karl Schroeder: Climate change will outrun the Singularity
  "The singularity will neither save nor destroy us any more than the internet will either save or destroy us; it's down to what's done with it, the benevolence or malevolence of the priorities to which it is most forcefully applied."...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  I think 160 and 163 are on to something... the post has some essence that evades attention, I keep refreshing it, trying to catch it unawares, trying to trick it into revealing its true, hidden content... help......
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Content is overrated....
• Commented on Gogol Bordello's punk gypsy
  Yeah you all are like 6 months behind on this music thing. I totally got into music like 6 months ago. I'm bored of it now, music sucks. You all are soooo 6 months ago, listening to music....
• Commented on Vatican comes up with a new list of Seven Sins
  So... any takers on a single act that will either simultaneously commit or directly lead to the commission of all new 7 deadly sins? Seems to me that not using birth control can result in most of them......