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• Commented on Online matchmaking site analyzes attractiveness vs. message traffic
  My first reaction, upon seeing the Male -> Female message distribution was: "reverse uncanny valley!" It's not quite right here, but if the ratings were of a more continuous nature, instead of being discrete, we might be able to analyze...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  Title: Found in Space: Love? When the mission started, she hated me. To be fair, I didn't like her either. But we kept our mouths shut, because this was the Adventure of a Lifetime. We'd be the first humans to...
• Commented on Brit copyright group says, "No laptops allowed in cinemas"
  Back in the Summer of 2005, I attended a special preview viewing of the Direct-To-DVD Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, as part of the Just For Laughs festival, in Montréal, Canada. Our camera-phones were taken away at...
• Commented on The Aliens: "Sunlamp Show" music video
  It's definitely Beatles-esque. Musically, it also reminds me of Of Montreal (even the visuals kind of remind me of the artwork on some of Of Montreal's album covers...) But the artwork itself, to me, feels like a cross between the...
• Commented on Offworld's Retro Remakes week: what needs to be remade?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Orbit_Stations It's an obscure game I only had a few chances of playing, mostly because I didn't own any of the home computers it was released on, and partly because the loading times on the C64 I did try it...
• Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
  Then: À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust Now: In Search of Lost Time, the novelization of the first installment in the major motion picture series....
• Commented on Ragdoll Metaphysics: Concept Recognition, Or When Artists Fight Back
  The situation is actually similar to the problems Hollywood has been faced with in the past 10 years or so: how many great premises or original scripts have been ruined by studio meddling? AAA video games, these days, have budgets...
• Commented on Neil Gaiman's library
  Drool... And people think I own too many books already... my own library is puny compared to this......
• Commented on SciFi became SyFy, may soon become SyFry
  How about a scripted SF series that includes cooking segments? About rival GM food producers altering their produce so that it attacks their rival's product in the supermarket? Call it "Food Fight". Or, a cooking show where they find the...
• Commented on What would you do with a Class C IP block?
  The best I can think of would be to donate it to a charity organization that has need of it, or else, sell it to the highest bidder (if you need to be creative, be creative in the way you...
• Commented on More Colossus
  My first impression when seeing this picture was, "Man, that looks like a well-furnished wine cellar full of old bottles!"...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  I read HHGTTG when I was in high school. The only thing it turned me into was a geek. I picked and read Animal Farm for a school assignment, with my teachers' blessing. That was after I'd read 1984, which...
• Favorited Radiohead to webcast show live from Santa Barbara tonight (updated) on Boing Boing
• Commented on Quadrophenia: "New" 4-channel versions of classic rock albums
  You're missing probably THE most important quad mix ever: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. It was never officially released (unlike the recent 30th anniversary SACD) but it was created in '75 by Alan Parsons, and it really...
• Commented on Galactica
  I really love the fact that there's so much wild disinformation in this thread that any real spoilers end up being completely negated. Welcome to the internet. Signal to noise ratio: below 50% and dropping rapidly....
• Commented on Dell Adamo
  Call me back when they release the Dell Adama....
• Commented on Fight Club uncovered at home for mentally disabled
  "Hypnotoad: The Motion Picture" would be better than Epic Movie. But the question is, who broke the first rule of Mentally-Disabled Fight Club?...
• Commented on Twitter's Silent Star
  What are they waiting for? The Second Coming of Marcel Marceau! (This is even funnier if you've ever seen Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie".) Methinks that soon, we shall hear the silent scream of a thousand mimes, as they mime their...
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  Hardcovers serve more functions than just as advertisement for paperbacks. I think most of the main functions have already been mentioned in previous comments, so I'll just agree with most of them and move on. Books that are meant to...
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine plays "The Beard Song" on ukulele
  Even though I love all those ukelele posts, I'm starting to feel like maybe it's time for a new Boing Boing spinoff site: bbu: Boing Boing Ukelele! Now, someone design the pixel art for this new sub-site's mascot!...
• Commented on Bruce Sterling: Funeral for Analog TV (video)
  For the next generations, the opening to William Gibson's Neuromancer is going to seem meaningless. That alone is a just cause for nostalgia....
• Commented on Final arguments in trial against 12-year-old girl mistaken for hooker
  I bet that she probably resisted arrest (as would many of us, if we knew we were innocent...) which is what the police officers are going to claim to justify their use of force. What does the law say, over...
• Commented on Final arguments in trial against 12-year-old girl mistaken for hooker
  TJ S (#7): interesting links, but there was nothing about race there, that I could find. (And I'm at home, so I was able to check both links.) So my "challenge" remains: someone please find some real stats. I'm Canadian,...
• Commented on Final arguments in trial against 12-year-old girl mistaken for hooker
  It's because mainstream media are still very much living in a past where they think the public doesn't want to know about such incidents unless they involve a cute, white girl. Take a look at all the news about women...
• Commented on A Hypothetical Question to the Boing Boing Community: the Filmmaker and the Bittorrented Screener
  I like what #5 says: offer some way for people who actually view this rough cut to comment on it, and especially encourage constructive criticism. Maybe try and release a slightly better-quality version of this rough cut (but the same...
• Commented on Spot the difference: NZXT Avatar gaming mouse redesigned
  While I've never used that particular mouse before, I've used that mouse shape, and I never got to a point where it felt comfortable. The best mouse I've ever used (I'm not saying it's the best out there, just the...
• Commented on Kidney removed through vagina
  This reminds me of the old joke about the surgeon who switched careers and became a car mechanic. (Don't bother reading further if you already know that one.) The ex-surgeon in question had just completed his car mechanic course, and...
• Commented on SNL: Laser Cats #4 with Steve Martin (KING LEAR)
  If I hadn't watched the whole episode on digital satellite TV (I'm in Canada) and still wanted to watch the show, I would have just downloaded the torrent. Ads, when abused, are like DRM. If it becomes too much of...
• Commented on A comment from Modusoperandi
  As the man walked with the Lord along the beach, they came upon another set of prints. "Follow these prints," said the Lord. The man, not one to question his Lord, followed the prints without hesitation, with his faith sustaining...
• Commented on What path did sci-fi writers in the 50s think technology would take?
  Which of these do you think will come first: 1- Space flights as common as airplane flights are right now, along with the establishment of permanent settlements outside of Earth's atmosphere. 2- The development of teleportation and matter-replication technology, bringing...