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• Commented on Age of the Informavore
  Ooo! Yes! This is good, useful thought. See, it's the ones that learn how to sort the good food from the bad food that are going to "survive."...
• Favorited French government nukes crazy Internet law in open revolt against Sarkozy on Boing Boing
• Commented on Copper bandaid bracelet
  pretty patterns and are cute, but there's no way I'd see a band-aid without being told these are suppose to be bandaids....
• Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
  And the way the flag is moving makes no sense. . . wouldn't it burn up anyway. . . or float. . . I suppose this is why they paint them into metal these days. And now I'm remembering a...
• Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
  The "celestial invaders" have an American flag. . ....
• Favorited HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued on Boing Boing
• Favorited Penguin Great Ideas -- gorgeous editions of classic philosophy on Boing Boing
• Favorited Penguin Great Ideas -- gorgeous editions of classic philosophy on Boing Boing
• Favorited Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix on Boing Boing
• Favorited Plane crash video fetish on Boing Boing
• Favorited US-funded health search-engine censors all results for searches on "abortion" -- UPDATED on Boing Boing
• Favorited US-funded health search-engine censors all results for searches on "abortion" -- UPDATED on Boing Boing
• Favorited US-funded health search-engine censors all results for searches on "abortion" -- UPDATED on Boing Boing
• Commented on Slate's readers submit photos about the recession
  At the beginning of the year, I did a whole series of sale shop windows in Paris. I put a few of them into Slate's pool, but the entire set is here if anyone's interested:http://www.flickr.com/photos/reel_aesthete/sets/72157613014373810/...
• Commented on Mandelbrot the fractal teddy-bear
  love love love. want want want. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on Gaza Attacks: Two Related Reactions, in Second Life and Twitter
  Looking at images from the NYTimes, I was struck by the flag burning and the fact that it was not noted that the flags being burned were American and Israelie. Listening to the radio, I was surprised to hear the...
• Commented on Gaza Attacks: Two Related Reactions, in Second Life and Twitter
  Might makes right. That's why America is right, that's why Israel (with America) is right, and that's why Gitmo still exists. End of story....
• Commented on Got a Christmas tree in the house? Don't forget to water it.
  Three words: Housing crisis solution. Though having the kid watch it while saying: j'adore! (while dancing around to the music) was a nice touch. Plus now she knows why we don't have those trees around: it's clearly just because they're...
• Commented on Someone left a piano in the woods
  Wish they'd lit it on fire....
• Commented on Why can't America call its torture *torture*?
  Sex in prisons is a very complicated, social act, often tied to everyday survival in a different way than the way we think of rape (once, violent). People sometimes "consent" in prison to choices they normally wouldn't make because it's...
• Commented on Why can't America call its torture *torture*?
  the image has no exif data. where'd it come from? it looks similar to the (known) abu ghraib images (salon.com, hundreds here link: www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/)but that one isn't in those sets. it could also be from the abu ghraib images that...
• Commented on Forlorn bananas of London
  this is stupid. dead pigeons, on the other hand. . ....
• Commented on Satirical WWI maps
  War can be so cute!...
• Commented on We need alternative sources of bandwidth just like we need alternative sources of fuel
  Interesting post and conversation. Probably, also, the first time Amsterdam and Utah have ever been used as concurrent nouns....
• Commented on Memory Hole obtains over 400 forms used by the NSA
  If my brain had panties, they'd be wet. Exciting....
• Commented on Uni of Nottingham: Grad students researching terrorism aren't allowed to look at terrorist documents on US anti-terror gov't sites
  In Paracelsus’s time the energy of universities resided in the conflict between humanism and theology; the energy of the modern university lives in the love-affair between government and science, and sometimes the two are so close it makes you shudder....
• Commented on Beaming sounds into your head
  "The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio). . ." Medusa turning soldiers to stone, stopping a crowd; Medusa defeated by a mirror-shield: use a mirror, now. The acronym sends chills. And is telling, if you reflect....
• Commented on CCTV versus Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square
  #12 @ Nelson.C. The perspective is off and the image has no metadata. There are several reasons each of those things could happen; I just find it curious....
• Commented on CCTV versus Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square
  So, this is cute, but it looks like the camera on the pole was added to the image. Perhaps it should say "created" and not "shot"?...
• Commented on Beautiful photos of bankrupt offices
  Mmm. I wonder how many of these offices are tied to the popped housing bubble. And I want to see a series of the houses that were then disrupted/abandoned because of those offices, not just the offices. . ....