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• Favorited Pirate Party leader talks strategy and tactics on Boing Boing
• Favorited Chandler: free, open calendar with awesome sharing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Chandler: free, open calendar with awesome sharing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Chandler: free, open calendar with awesome sharing on Boing Boing
• Favorited Rewired: Post-Cyberpunk Anthology shows how sf has changed since the Mirroshades era on Boing Boing
• Commented on Greasemonkey script to mute specific users in Boing Boing comment threads
  Teresa, my problem wasn't that it takes too long to scroll down comments. It's that "antisocial actors, 'drive-by trolls,' people for whom dialogue isn't the point" are all too successful in stealing my attention. As much as I wish I...
• Commented on Greasemonkey script to mute specific users in Boing Boing comment threads
  Oh, I forgot my individual responses! First, thank you to everyone who likes this little tool, or felt strongly enough about it to talk about it. Whiterwitch (#63), I'm not that vindictive. #31 was closer to the truth of it....
• Commented on Greasemonkey script to mute specific users in Boing Boing comment threads
  Teresa, if my comments so irritate you that you wish I would never come here and post them again, please, please tell me so directly and of course I will respect your wishes. I like you. I respect you. My...
• Commented on Exoskeleton for farmers
  Teresa, you've made me realize something. I had always assumed that what people would want, as they grew older and less mobile, is robots to do things for them -- tend the garden, clean the house, haul in the groceries....
• Commented on My OpenCongress: track every bill and lawmaker in Congress
  Takuan: http://www.politicalbase.com/ has a fairly extensive database of who has contributed to whose political campaign. I was slightly amused to learn that my favorite television actor and I both supported the same lost cause....
• Commented on Quest for synthetic life
  For me the most interesting thing about this is totally tangential to the evolutionary question: the Venter team is essentially trying to build the "Hello World" of microbial life, determining the very simplest possible group of chemical mechanisms that can...
• Commented on Pirate Party leader talks strategy and tactics
  Cory, thank you for your reply. If you're under the impression that I'm talking about a new start-up business, I'm afraid I've misled you; we've been around for quite a few years and the revenue model I mentioned has paid...
• Commented on Pirate Party leader talks strategy and tactics
  Cory, I have followed your arguments regarding individual artists such as musicians and graphic novelists, and I can see where you come from regarding the consolation of at least having art read, even if one isn't paid to make it....
• Commented on Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind: book explains magic, hypnosis and the rationale for rationalism
  There are surprisingly many magicians who, off the stage, are strong advocates for rational, empirical thinking -- Harry Houdini, James Randi, Penn Jillette all come to mind. I find that to be an interesting correlation. What is it about the...
• Commented on Podcast of Bruce Sterling's HACKER CRACKDOWN has concluded
  Sensoz: so download them all and post a multi-file torrent to a public tracker. Nothing's stopping you!...
• Commented on My desk. Let me show u it. (Kotaku)
  It's too bad they didn't get a shot of the Naughty Dog creative director's office -- gigantic, teetering stacks of pulp adventure novels and Indiana Jones movies and Far East travelogues, really almost a fortress of research material built like...
• Commented on Radio troll "Filipino Monkey" may have transmitted in Strait of Hormuz
  Cowicide, I can't seem to find a publication of the changed rules of approach but I'm willing to take your word for it as what you're describing does make sense. Thank you for correcting me. Well, okay, I'll rephrase my...
• Commented on Kenya in crisis: analysis around the web
  Xeni, what should we do about Kenya?...
• Commented on Radio troll "Filipino Monkey" may have transmitted in Strait of Hormuz
  On the contrary, Cowicide, current Navy rules of engagement explicitly prohibit them from shooting at such boats, unless they shoot first. That is how a small dinghy managed to bomb the USS Cole. MK Ultra, obviously I agree with you...
• Commented on Radio troll "Filipino Monkey" may have transmitted in Strait of Hormuz
  I wonder how I would handle it if I were on the deck of a US cruiser in hostile water, and suddenly a small watercraft came out of nowhere, beelining for the side of my ship, a saying "you will...
• Commented on SimCity goes free software
  Theophrastus, I've lived in Los Angeles, and I've lived in Seattle, and I have to say that I found getting around LA every day much more painful than commuting across the floating bridges. The 520 clears up pretty well by...
• Commented on Sony BMG Selling DRM-Free MP3s on Amazon
  They must have had to drag Andy Lack out of the boardroom kicking and screaming for that one....
• Commented on Unknowing twins married
  It seems like the only source for this story is Lord Alton mentioning it as part of a speech to the House of Peers. Has anyone corroborated it?...
• Commented on TV-Be-Gone mischief at CES
  #26 (Adam Backstrom): The most common case is if there is a key episode of some major sporting event to be broadcast, and you wish to enjoy it in the company of other afficionadoes of the same sport....
• Commented on Shadow Unit: award-winning sf writers create "fan site for a show that never existed"
  #12: The problem is coming up with a pitch persuasive enough to get a roomful of executives to risk ten million dollars of their money. In order to do that you need to demonstrate why the show will bring in...
• Commented on TSA's no-bid, data-leaking website was a complete screw-up: House Oversight Committee
  As the article says, this news was raised by the House Oversight Committee. The TSA more generally falls under the purview of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Aviation....
• Commented on Science of coffee podcast
  To learn more about the addictive properties of caffeine, see "Caffeine Withdrawal: A Parametric Analysis of Caffeine Dosing Conditions" by Suzette M. Evans and Roland R. Griffiths. There's other research too....
• Commented on Sarkozy to abolish GDP, defend against sovereign funds and other predators
  Buried in the hysteria is this interesting tidbit about how France means to deal with the problem of compensating artists in a filesharing economy: France, like other countries around the world, is struggling to find ways to keep cultural industries,...
• Commented on Fun chemical reaction video
  You can learn a lot more about the Briggs-Rauscher reaction at Wikipedia and elsewhere. It doesn't run endlessly nor pick up energy from the mixer, but slowly peters out after about a dozen oscillations as its reagents are consumed. You...
• Commented on Sky belt-trains of tomorrow, 1932
  Given the general Art Deco style of Rapture, It's quite likely that Bioshock art director Scott Sinclair spent a lot of time researching 30's architecture and visions of the future....