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• Commented on Video of Marilyn Monroe smoking a joint, or a hand-rolled cigarette?
  Whatever it was, she clearly didn't inhale it: when you don't inhale smoke before exhausting it from your mouth, it comes out in a blast of smoke followed immediately by no smoke at all, as in the video. (When you...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  "It was dirty so I bought a new one." tsk, tsk....
• Commented on EFF lawyers grin like holy fools, surrounded by a fan of formerly secret government documents
  the illegal mass wiretapping that the phone companies and Uncle Sam engaged in Am i missing something or should this verb not be in the past tense?...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?" ---> "TSUTTSUSHIRORUPOPPUSU opportunities."...
• Commented on What Worked Then
  Fisty has a chair! It blends in because of the everything-is-yellow/orange/brown phenomenon....
• Commented on Iranians say "no" to Nokia over reports of surveillance collaboration
  When I lived in Finland, Nokia did still make rubber boots and lunchboxes and every other thing you could think of. When did they quit?...
• Commented on Guess which one is the robot?
  If it's not the one on the left then I'm a monkey's uncle....
• Commented on Japanese battle underwear
  WoW. These are epic....
• Commented on Obama Supports New Law to Suppress Detainee Torture Photos
  What kind of a country passes a law that has no purpose other than to empower its leader A F_ _ _ one, stupid! ...get doublethinking!...
• Commented on Live fire in the coming Palm Pre flamewar
  It doesn't crack the [ current ] DRM. P.S. I'm 49% sure my tags will turn out wrong. Can we have a Preview button next to the Submit one?...
• Commented on Review: A day with Seagate's Replica
  And as for release date, this from the press release: "Seagate Replica Backup System will be available in May. Please check Seagate.com/replica for more details." (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=null&vgnextoid=686d45e7cf9d0210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD)...
• Commented on Review: A day with Seagate's Replica
  Wait (d'oh) I found it on the seagate site. 250 gigs in the single PC one and 500 gigs in the other one....
• Commented on Review: A day with Seagate's Replica
  Any word on a release date? My boss wants one right away, but a search for "replica" on seagate.com turned up no good results....
• Favorited BBtv Vlog (Mark) - Socialbomb, a real-world reputation game. on Boing Boing
• Commented on Silicon brain
  When will our Turing-wannabes meet some Fraa Orolo reallybes? 4649 wishes to hear about scientific investigation of consciousness done by researchers who appreciate the Chinese Room arguments as Searle presents them. (He's got an awesome lecture series on some teaching...
• Commented on The Big Takeover: A Must-Read from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
  A question: Is is more correct to say that ...the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That's $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second... --or is it...
• Commented on Anti-terror laws are creating "police-state" -- former head of MI5
  Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government... Is it only because I am young that I find this dynamic despicable, and its practitioners unworthy of my ear? "FFS," says...
• Commented on A Hypothetical Question to the Boing Boing Community: the Filmmaker and the Bittorrented Screener
  ummm, maybe they would have served that purpose to the best feasible extent simply by putting in that notice (the one that was impressed on every frame) "You're watching an inferior and poorly edited version. Please support the final version...
• Commented on Name this Insect
  --I meant, as far as its looks. Idk whether or not it actually eats dragonflies, but it has the same sort of resemblance, at least to my mind's eye....
• Commented on Name this Insect
  That thing : Dragonfly :: Mosquito-eater : Mosquito...
• Commented on Wristwatch with built in cigarette lighter
  If you can't get your hands on one of these, just stick a lighter in your pants pocket and make sure you don't set off the metal detector. Regardless of whether or not lighters're on the no-fly list, TSA never...
• Commented on Review: A day with Griffin's TuneBuds Mobile
  They work only with the iPhone, iPod classic, second-generation iPod Touch, and 4th-gen iPod Nano, but... I read that in post above and asked my laptop, "WTF? How can a set of earphones work only with particular devices? Why...
• Commented on Behold Sony's not-a-netbook
  yipes, Xmas spirit full breach in T +10 seconds....
• Commented on Behold Sony's not-a-netbook
  Suppose (as I do) that it is a netbook with all the familiar specs: its size alone would warrant a new name like an UN-UMPC or, for those that actually like to pronounce things, an UMnetbook. Totally revolutionary product. (Don't...
• Commented on Holiday / Christmas Music: An Open Thread.
  @15, & @32, thanks very much!...
• Commented on Holiday / Christmas Music: An Open Thread.
  It's not Christmas music per se, but some may enjoy selected works of the 'antichrist' http://nietzschemusicproject.org/listenpg.html P.S. off topic sorta but I'd be much obliged if someone would link to a list of html tags that work here in the...
• Commented on Clara Belle performs "Summer Face" on Ukulele
  Has Ms. Clara done an advert for Target (or similar dept. store)? I've been watching a lot of hulu.com things lately and there's an ad with a lovely voice like hers. ("my heart in in the moment, the some thing...
• Commented on What fun life was: the 1983 Sears Wishbook's game wares
  So, like, if copyright were sane then I could get a far-cheaper-yet-identical replacement for my long-loved yet long-lost miniature-arcade pac-man game and give it to my nephew? (an example of the game I mean is what brought me here from...
• Commented on Video: teenagers tear up some bluegrass
  #11 meant "...mandolins and ukuleles..." (c) [Hawaiian 'ukulele : 'uku, flea + lele, jumping.] /me wishes for a edit-post ability...
• Commented on Video: teenagers tear up some bluegrass
  Etymology (like this video and all(?) the other music videos to grace boingboing in recent memory) proves that Mandolins are far cooler than guitars: (a) Mandolin: [French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, lute, from French mandore, from Late...