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• Commented on Spectacular slow card-flourishes from Dimitri Arleri
  I'm not so sure about this. At 4:05 you can see him wearing Boots of Dexterity +5....
• Commented on Demi claims missing hipflesh is for real. But $5,000 says it's Moore photoshopping.
  That is a very safe gamble for Skutcher to make. Every magazine cover is photoshopped extensively. The only question is how much and how deceptive....
• Commented on Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are responsible," says Ralph Lauren)
  To answer your questions: 1) The funny thing about most issues in the world is that they have many facets. This is a bad photo-shop stemming from a particularly perverse motivation that has been ongoing for decades. This image is...
• Commented on Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are responsible," says Ralph Lauren)
  Thanks, Boing Boing, for your continuing coverage of this. It's important for several reasons, as many in the community appreciate. If you would like to politely let Ralph Lauren know what you think, you can contact them on this page:...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  He's an attorney, and Republican. And a real estate agent. Please let him be a dentist too!...
• Commented on Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers and other user-control technologies are legal
  Using adblock and flashblock is a necessary safety precaution. So many sites and ads are malicious (either to computers or aesthetics) that it is difficult to browse without filters. The ad makers have made it that way. However! Boing Boing...
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  I don't know, I remember the time my 4-year old lost his Spaghettios in the neighborhood pool, and it was hours before it was clean and pH-balanced again. I pity the mess that this self-indulgent video caused for the dolphin's...
• Commented on Woman gives birth in pool with dolphin, internet gives birth to meme.
  My guess as to why the dolphin is interested: dolphin and human pheromones are very similar. Menstruating women tend to be followed by dolphins for this very reason. In addition to normal dolphin curiousness, the dolphin probably smelled something reproductive...
• Commented on Botfly maggot removed from head -- the video
  I know I'm in the minority here, but I didn't find this to be revolting at all. I've seen a few botfly removal videos before, and the moment it plops out gives me a strange sense of vicarious satisfaction....
• Commented on Report: Mercury found in every single fish tested in study of US rivers, streams
  @anonymous When you drop one and it breaks in your home, you have a hazardous waste issue. Don't use your household vacuum cleaner to clean up the mess- you'll be dispersing the poison into the air. To Clean it safely...
• Commented on Brown fat makes you thin
  Was that spoonful of butter in the picture photographed on the holodeck of Enterprise-D? If you eat it, would it disappear from your stomach once you left the holodeck? If you stayed in the holodeck for months after eating it,...
• Commented on Robot negotiates with mentally ill man who threatened White House (UPDATED)
  The best way to negotiate with the mentally ill: with government robots controlled by law enforcement agents who want to arrest you. It is actually a good tactic for many reasons -- keeps the situation more calm, no risk to...
• Commented on Photos of science fiction writers' nests
  It looks like Samuel Delany does most of his writing in a zero-G environment. I wonder if that would be hard -- the tiny but constant tapping of typing always repelling you from the keyboard with equal but opposite force....
• Commented on Anatomical model exhibition at the Wellcome
  Is that John McCain's head in a jar?...
• Commented on Colorado passes law to allow rainwater harvesting
  #3, regarding mosquitoes, nearly all commerical rainwater barrels I have seen have lids to prevent mosquitoes from entering or breeding. A flexible pipe runs straight from the gutter to the sealed barrel. This also prevents wildlife and small children from...
• Commented on Man sentenced for vacuum sex
  So just to clarify, it was not having sex with a vacuum cleaner that got him in trouble, it was having sex (of any kind) in a public place. Now, ahem, if you'll excuse me, I have some cleaning to...
• Commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
  I really don't get bed-making as a moral issue. If you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to, don't. Your sheets are not cleaner either way. Whatever you choose, it does not make you a better...
• Commented on Britain ordered to destroy its database of innocents' DNA
  From TFA: The Home Office acknowledged yesterday that its plans to extend the retention of DNA to low level, so-called non-recordable offences, including littering and minor traffic offences were now dead in the water. Really? Really? The UK gov was...
• Commented on Daily Show on Republican hypocrisy
  Geolocking is pretty shitty. I love John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but I really wish they didn't work for Viacom....
• Commented on Time lapse video of slime mold and mushrooms
  I think I started tripping on mushrooms just by watching that......
• Commented on Crows recognize, and remember, human faces
  back seat astronaut: "Now let's have an experiment discovering that humans recognize each other too--it's something we all know from experience, but has it been proven by Science?!" In many cases humans have a great deal of difficulty recognizing each...
• Commented on Crows recognize, and remember, human faces
  This is valid and legitimate scientific research. Saying "it's common sense, studying it is pointless" is rather ignorant of how science works. Much of what is "common sense" is false. Furthermore, even if we are fairly sure something is true,...
• Commented on Kids can't "go out and play" anymore
  An interesting observation: in the history of the world, only recently have we had the phenomenon of adolescence -- everything we think of as "teenagerdom," particularly moodiness, rebellion, and impulsiveness. Some psychologists, albeit a minority, believe that adolescence is an...
• Commented on Road rage filmer writes about his media experience
  I've been interviewed by newspaper reporters about a dozen times or so since 2001. Every single time they have messed up the details in substantial ways. The botched details are so fundamental to the story, and always fudged in the...
• Commented on Kafka's porn stash goes public
  This story is more interesting because it is a "big deal" rather than because Kafka liked porn. Is their next big secret going to be that literary authors also pee and poop, in addition to having sex drives? Can we...
• Commented on World of Developmentcraft: academic paper on gold farming as a development activity in poor countries
  As someone who occasionally plays MMORPGs, I can definitely say gold sellers do not make the game more enjoyable. Many of them are scammers, and even if they are dealing in "honest" transactions, selling items for money is explicitly against...
• Commented on Laptop with data about 33,000 Clear card applicants lost at SFO
  If you read the article, the laptop was found shortly later in the same room it was "stolen" from. That's a pretty important detail. The numerous points about encryption and the silliness of this program are well founded and valid...
• Commented on Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary bust
  I don't get why everyone calls it "marijuana" when it should properly be referred to as cannabis. You wouldn't see a federal law referring to corn as "maize" or alcohol as "fire water". Marijuana refers to psychoactive cannabis, and elements...
• Commented on Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens
  @23 Takuan. Doing that would likely be better (in a variety of ways) than buying chicken meat from a supermarket, but I find it baffling that when people keep chickens the automatic assumption is that they must be for killing...
• Commented on Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens
  You can keep and enjoy chickens without killing them... you know how we don't kill our other animal companions? Yeah, you can not-kill chickens too. You can still get eggs, get the manure, and the pest control, and your chickens...