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Commented on Galileo's fingers found
Collect all five and then we'll know where the 70 billion people of earth are hiding....
Commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
But...but...somewhere in those hacked emails or in some bit of obscure data is the magic thread that will unravel the whole global warming hoax! Because that's exactly how science works. If I'm ever sued and the weight of the evidence...
Commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
Anybody have a list of Mandelson's questions, proposals, etc. before the Corfu trip versus afterwards? Are Labour *trying* to set themselves up for a beating next May? Why not go all the way and have Mandy head the party going...
Commented on Cats for Gold: turn your glitter to litter!
They'll melt down your gold chandelier for a ceiling cat!...
Commented on BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
Torrentsmeller Pursuivant....
Commented on Howard Kurtz and conflicts of interest
When the likes of Howard Kurtz set themselves as "impartial" observers or lazily passing off false equivalency as "balance," is it any wonder that people have turned to blogs. Blogs can't compete with journalism, but they sure as hell are...
Commented on Hurting Google
And the wingnuts seal themselves into their own sphere. My rightwing friends send me emails with some outrageous crap in the subject title, and they ususally link to Pox or the Wall Street Urinal (editorial section). If the linked articles...
Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
@Clay: or the permanence that non-DRM'ed paper books have....
Commented on Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand
Um, no the complaint about Ayn Rand is that her writing has a tendency to catch people who are just learning to handle big ideas into smug sociopaths. And this was exactly her intent. She organized her school of thought...
Commented on Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand
@zikzak/32: For the same reason that nobody in their former life was one of the guys who spent his life humping blocks up a pyramid, little realizing its divine occupant would be reborn in 3000 years as a bored housewife...
Commented on Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
The sharecroppers are leaving the farm and the miners are leaving the company towns! Send men to watch the train stations! Don't let them get away!...
Commented on Willie Nelson beats Snoop Dogg at smoking pot
I saw Willie at the Melkweg in Amsterdam last year, and Snoop was a surprise guest!. It turned out Snoop was playing the Melkweg the following night, and his people and Willie 's people introduced them at a coffeeshop!...
Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
Ms. Clay is answering charges that weren't really leveled at her father and isn't answering the one that was. No, the Professor didn't head a cabal. He only promulgated ideas that attract the sort of people who would like to...
Commented on Sean Hannity plans to blame liberals for his mis-use of video
@Andyhavens 23: Well, Hannity did apologize. I'll give him that. It might mean more if mistakes like this didn't tend to favor the Fox line (cf. the scandal over *Democratic* Rep. Mark Foley). Stewart and Colbert have careers because Fox...
Commented on Apocalyptic art-photography from Stefano Bonazzi
Steampunk Residents! FTW!...
Commented on Goldwag: I Was A Teenaged Straussian
Or was there a secret *fifth* reading of the important texts, deeper even than the fourth, which was really a ruse to flush out and discredit the types who envy the powers and intrigues of tyrants? Well, played, Leo. A...
Commented on Buzz Aldrin: Honorary Consul General to the Moon
The Mooninites have notified him they are desperately in need of quarters....
Commented on The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short
@Brainspore: FTW! 'Twas a thing of beauty! By the way, watch Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924). Science! Constructivist fashion! Revolution on the Red Planet!...
Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
On the other hand, I'm having fun imagining Murdoch spinning out his last days shup in a room, long-haired, long-fingernailed and draped in Kleenex, while Wendy's family stage endless puppetshows of content within the walled garden of NewsCorp. Carve it...
Commented on Color film of 1927 London
It would be even better if it were narrated in that (to modern ears) goofy official accent, by David Mitchell, Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield....
Commented on Toilet-as-computer comic
A lot of stuff like that made the jump from the office Xerox to the internet....
Commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
Great essay. What I've always liked about The Difference Engine is that the way the Engine warped 19th century political and social history describes pretty well the present after personal computers and the internet. Futurists and sicence fiction writers up...
Commented on Iraqi forces love this "magic wand" bomb detector; US thinks it's junk.
We've been down this road before. Being from Houston, I laughed myself silly at the TV news reports of those guys being busted and about the sheriffs and school superintendents being suckered by the Quadro-Tracker. Ade651.com is owned and administered...
Commented on Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads
Our company lost service because some people dug up a few hundred feet of cable that was buried along a rail line, pulled the cable onto the track and waited for a passing train to snip the ends. Then they...
Commented on EFF launches Hall of Shame for copyright abusers
That's a great site. I nominated an ongoing case of an artist (allegedly) being ripped off by an imitator and sued by the imitator, apparently with the aim of bankrupting him (Scientology-style). Full story here: http://www.johntunger.com/legal-defense-fund.html (via http://www.warrrenellis.com)...
Commented on Newspaper circulation over last 20 years: the great swandive
Yet they still have the money to pay gold-plated stiffs like Thomas Friedman, George Will, Bill Kristol and David Brooks....
Commented on Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism
I think The Spectator is unhappy that we've finally gotten somewhere in treating HIV/AIDS. Convening a debate to give airtime to useful idiots would also provide cover to some African leaders who want "more time to study the issue," as...
Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
We need an iWatch video against robots infiltrating humanity. SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE! Seriously, I could get behind an iWatch targetting bent cops, embezzling executives, politicians hiking the Appalachians when they should be at work, etc....
Commented on Rare alternative version of Beatles track from White Album discovered
A beautiful start to a too-early morning. By the way, check out Serafinowicz's brilliant "Look Around You," the bright future as seen from 1980....
Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
Bad kids beware! Santa is dropping powder-enriched anvils down your chimneys this year....

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Laurel L. Russwurm commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
Anonymous posed the question: "If YOU were a FILM producer, a WRITER, a MUSICIAN or a PROGRAMMER ..." The argument that "artists" are currently suffering is specious. The cultural climate has not been this exciting, dynamic & just generally good for artists since the 1930's. I AM a WRITER married to a PROGRAMMER. My family is literally riddled with ARTISTs, WRITERs, SONGWRITERs, PRODUCERs and MUSICIANs. These ridiculous laws don't help creators, they help corporations at the expense of citizens. The changes wrought by the internet is essentially freeing artists from big media slavery. But the corporations want to legislate the...
ReeseHersh commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
Tania- Just created a new account to salute the observation you made about the perspective/spin (context) Cory is taking on this. Is this a BoingBoing article? If Cory was able to objectively step back and take an agnostic view on AGW, wouldn't we want to focus on the fact that scientific data and analysis should be an open source process? The CRU should not be able to basically take the position "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" Also - a few more points from other commenters: With concern for skeptical research funded by the private sector (oil,...
AdeleWard commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
It's interesting to see a view of our own country from another. There's a UK view of this quoting your article on http://www.geid.co.uk Apart from your questioning of the actual regulations I'm curious to know why you think steps are needed to help the poorer members of the community get internet access, when I would think most people in the UK do have that access. Is internet access limited only to wealthier members of society in other countries? The main television channels are also freely available here and I think internet access in schools is excellent. What do you think...
4 Borders Pundit commented on Hacked climate scientists' emails in context
I find this writing to be the the most disappointing in this post or the followup by Maggie Koerth-Baker (at which the ability to post comments seems to be unavailable): "The East Anglia Climate Research Unit's scientists disagreed in some particulars, and used peer-review to resolve them (and continue to do so). No one is paying them to cover up evidence that climate change isn't real or isn't caused by humans -- but they are conducting science the way that scientists do." One can certainly sympathize with the frustration of "Harry," the affable and honest computer guy (I imagine he...
TheKLF99 commented on Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
Sounds like the government yet again is going at it like a bull in a china shop. They have done the same thing in the past by attempting to ban "pop radio" because some boring person in government didn't like it (just need to watch the ship that rocked to see how much of a boring old person he was). Mandelson is now joining him by killing off the internet, and how will Mandelson prove that people using P2P are using it legally or not? I use P2P when playing WoW and Guild Wars to download updates, or when getting...

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