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• Commented on Court orders Google to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit
  Reading about this whole case, I don't think anyone has paid enough attention to how the face-slashing incident may have played into her decision to have the blogger forcibly unmasked. It wouldn't be unreasonable for her to fear that the...
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  anyhow: it's all about to become a moot point because fare-inspecting turned out to be an expensive boondoggle and they are firing all of these guys. And perhaps some clarity for non-SF people: despite the uniforms, those people in the...
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  Good news: these fake-cop fucks are about to disappear soon. Turns out the "fare inspector" program costs the city way, WAY more than it generates by way of fare enforcement/revenues from tickets they write. So the fare inspectors are on...
• Commented on Ranting lemonade label from embittered screenwriter
  When I worked in publishing, I did time reading the slush pile. Half of the unsolicited novel manuscripts had cover letters exactly like this.I always wondered why they wanted to join a club whose members they despised. "dear publisher: all...
• Commented on Psychology of nerding and the joy of reckless tech
  FYI, if you'd like to return a little more of your consumer dollars to an indie publisher so they will remain able to take chances on unusual books like this, rather than Amazon, you can also buy the book directly...
• Commented on Meaning of radio station call letters
  ha, what a fun post. Don't forget KOME, whose slogan in the 80's was "The wet spot on your dial". One of their station IDs said: "Don't touch that dial, it's got KOME on it." real klassy!! There's also a...
• Commented on Tonga Room, San Francisco's magnificent tiki bar: doomed?
  This is a blood sport in SF: ruining classic bars for no good reason. The Clift Hotel, a few blocks away, sold four Gustav Klimt prints from the Redwood Room bar and replaced them with plasma screen TVs. And don't...
• Commented on Tales of cranky book sellers
  chum of chance: "bathrobe philosopher chess prodigy?" I bet I know which store that is. ha ha ha. I'm a bookseller too. Giving a discount is not like negotiating with terrorists. Sometimes it's like unloading dead stock at a smaller...
• Commented on Snake-proof baby crib from early 1900s
  The Butterbaby crib, on the other hand, was much less successful at preventing Dingo attacks....
• Commented on Many Wonder Womans to benefit women's shelter
  Too bad there's no piece by Emy Calucin! She is a developmentally disabled artist who paints superheroes and movie stars: for six months, she painted nothing but different versions of Wonder Woman. I have a postcard of one of her...
• Commented on High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
  oh man, I wanted to be the first one to mention Walter Mercado, of "Walter, las Estrellas, Y Usted", which I have only watched by accident when changing channels. It's too bad his wikipedia entry doesn't have a photo, because...
• Commented on Photos from the Scopes "Monkey" trial -- public domain images from the Smithsonian
  ah yes. Present-day Tennesseeans. I work in a bookstore. One of the bigger book distribution houses in the US is based in TN. One of the books they distribute is H.L. Mencken's account of the Scopes trial, "A Religious Orgy...
• Commented on Debate Uncut: McCain audio reveals profanity, insults hurled at Obama
  You guys thought boingboing would have more "class" (or, "clss")? Did you miss the Farting Preacher video? I for one have no clss and hope I never get ny....
• Commented on James Howard Kunstler's "Eyesore of the Month"
  if you can, rent the movie "radiant city", which features Kunstler riding around some horrible suburbs in a city bus, explaining in over-the-top apocalyptic terms why it's all so horrible: the big box stores, the tract houses, the chain-link-covered bike...
• Commented on Heaven is Her/e: Genesis Goes Further Still
  @JDJ: If you have to ask.......
• Commented on Great Books By Women
  Dubravka Ugresic is terrific. I also second that recommendation of "look at me" by jennifer Egan. Another great book by a woman that this crowd would appreciate: Eat The Document by Dana Spiotta. In it, a woman who participated in...
• Commented on Photos of a very messy house
  Compulsive hoarding aside, another issue hasn't really been addressed yet here. It's possible that she had either dementia or a physical disability that prevented her from being able to cook, clean, or (god help us) toilet herself. I had...
• Commented on Is All Known Metal Bands a work of plagiarism?
  oh and: this argument is why the authors of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" lost their case against Dan Brown. Their book contained (allegedly) factual information, and as such they couldn't claim copyright when another author used the same historical facts...
• Commented on Is All Known Metal Bands a work of plagiarism?
  @SNEJ: In this case the book is not explicitly a derivative of someone else's creative work. It's a list of names of bands. Someone else can say they compiled the list first, but they can't say they created those names,...
• Commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
  pablo_marx said: "I came here to say this thread is useless without The Shane Company..." I truly don't mean to be a turd in the punchbowl of Denver-specific nostalgia but only today, after reading this thread, have I discovered that...
• Commented on Furniture made out of used books
  If you;ve got 75 falling-apart copies of "hunt for red october" or "valley of the dolls"--have at it! make a lamp out of 'em. (although with the acidic old paper, it'll shed every time you move it). I'd just say:...
• Commented on Dan Clowes' cover for Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories
  I got to fondle a copy of the proofs at BEA a few months ago...bwa ha ha. The Yale booth at the show also displayed a copy of the cover blown up to poster size. It's a thing of beauty....
• Commented on Burning Man Department of Public Works "mugshots"
  @freefall127: "Why are we all white?" That reminds me of the one time I ever went to Burning Man. We happened to camp in a spot where, coincidentally, a black woman was set up on one side of us and...
• Commented on Stanford Prison Experiment researcher's new study about everyday heroism
  Who else filled out the survey? I tended to rate war heroism lower than, say, the couple who saved another couple from being beaten with a pipe. Why is that? pretty interesting thing to study. Two of the most famous...
• Commented on Dog cloner Joyce McKinney sought over burglary to fund horse's wooden leg
  The common denominator in much of her antics is a complete, terrifying inability to let go. Love a guy to the point of nude Everest nasal carnation slalom but he doesn't love you back? Why, kidnapping and sexual assault will...
• Commented on Farting preacher back on YouTube
  Oh man. Brother Bob! I used to watch him all the time when I was a teenager. Even at 13 and 14, I could NOT BELIEVE that anyone would ever fall for this shit. I still remember one story they...
• Commented on Kafka's porn stash goes public
  Nate freewheel: James Joyce's jerky and highly litigious grandson has apparently done his job and I had a heck of a time finding any links to full texts of the erotic letters (they were published, though, in 1975). But yeah,...
• Commented on Kafka's porn stash goes public
  Hang on a sec! I wasn't paying close attention when this story first appeared but I thought these were about porn stories that Kafka had WRITTEN. But no? it's just excerpts from his stroke mag collection? Bo-ring. What's next, Norman...
• Commented on Lotus working on making Hybrids noisier. It's a joke, right?
  Harper's magazine recently reprinted some parody song lyrics from a magazine for the blind: a song about having to dive out of the way of a hybrid car because you didn't hear it coming (to be sung to the tune...
• Commented on SFMOMA's Director of Visitor Relations forcibly removes photographer, even though photography is allowed in SFMOMA
  @17: I don't know anything about cameras. But I guess his was fancier than the many other people who were taking photos in the atrium with no problem. It still undermines his whole "omfg they are stifling photography!" stance when...