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• Commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
  Are you seriously suggesting that you could make a passable chair out of wood slats and a handful of nails, using only a saw and a hammer, for LESS than $400? Naïve. So naïve....
• Commented on Perfect origami mushroom
  There needs to be another word for this, not origami. I think of origami as a specific, enumerated series of folds... this guy is just sculpting soggy paper. Granted, he doesn't tear or cut... but it still seems closer to...
• Commented on Advisor: What will happen if I clone my dog?
  This may be the most pertinent comment I've ever made: Check out the poignant and semi-tragic story on This American Life, where somebody did exactly this; clone their favorite pet, and face disastrous consequences as a result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_This_American_Life_%28TV_series%29_episodes#Season_one_-_2007...
• Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
  We could have an interesting conversation about Vibram FiveFingers and stride patterns and arches and blah blah blah, but it has nothing to do with this article. This guy did NOT say we should go shoeless to improve our gait;...
• Commented on McDonald's Gitmo is hiring!
  It's just the cognitive dissonance of something as routine and normal as McDonalds, in a place as infamous and secretive as Guantanamo. Do you really not get that?...
• Commented on T-Mobile aggressively rolling out 21Mbps wireless broadband
  When I'm skimming boingboing, I make it a habit to only read the first line of a story. BOOOOO on TMobile for throttling connections! Greedy incompetent bastards. Throttling = bad!...
• Commented on TSA doesn't understand what "random" means
  Are you trolling? You quoted his second sentence, but did you actually read it? He's not saying that "we only search women" is unexploitable. He's saying that a spontaneous decision to only search women, for a couple of hours, and...
• Commented on Zoomable cell size application helps you understand size of tiny things
  It doesn't help me understand the size of tiny things at all! It messes with my intuition, because I want to say "I can see a grain of salt with my naked eye, so I could definitely see something half...
• Commented on An Insider's View of the Fort Hood Tragedy
  Plus most Christians don't revere the vatican. It's a tortured analogy; Islam really is unique in a lot of ways. And while the Old Testament is pretty bloody, let's not forget that Jesus was more of a philosopher, whereas Muhammed...
• Commented on Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck.
  Here, does this help? http://i33.tinypic.com/2akiwch.jpg...
• Commented on Crucixion and beheading for child rapist in Saudi Arabia
  First they came for the murdering child rapists, and I did not speak out......
• Commented on Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up
  Not to defend this mistake, but I have a Q about the flip-side of this : Why does a mere SSN give you such great power to steal someone's identity? With "heightened awareness" of the sensitivity of the #, why...
• Commented on Documentary about crazy cat ladies
  To hell with coyotes. Let the bastards starve. :-) It's the circle of life, and while I do like the idea of applying evolutionary pressure towards cuteness, it's supposed to be "survival of the fittest". How do you sleep at...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  I said property tax, not mortgage payment. Read more carefully. ;-) Besides, if at the end of a series of mortgage payments I OWN a $200,000 house, then I guarantee I paid more than $200,000 in mortgage payments over the...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  Homeowning is bizarre anyway. If somebody GAVE me a house FREE AND CLEAR on the same block as my apartment, then I'd be paying $550/month in property taxes instead of $675/month in rent (I actually did the math). I could...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  Ernunnos @9 - What?!? Did you seriously suggest that investors' fault is in "not bothering to ask whether or not the people who managed it are conscientious and trustworthy"?? Good thing I asked my banker that question (luckily he said...
• Commented on Jack of Fables versus Sun Tzu
  Kif: Sir, they're headed straight for us. Zapp Brannigan: A well calculated move... straight out of Sun Tzu's ancient text, 'The Art of War.' Or my own master work, 'Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War.' But the one thing their...
• Commented on Giant crocheted Raccoon Mario rug
  In case you were wondering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_square...
• Commented on Safety Song: musical number about lab safety
  First link to nano song is bad....
• Commented on Cardboard: animation by Sjors Vervoort
  It's cheating if the artist called it Stop Motion, because these are clearly not all cardboard cutouts. I suspect the majority were done in CGI, if not all. Stop motion implies a lot of painstaking manual work which was not...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Meat Stick Blowtorch
  What? Oxygen doesn't burn? Then why is liquid oxygen labeled "Danger, highly flammable"?...
• Commented on Bounty offered to anyone who can prove homeopathy outperforms placebos
  Damn boingboing won't let me log in! page doesn't exist or something. Anyway, I was going to warn- Beware bashing all homeopathic remedies as "absolute 100% hogwash". Almost by nature, homeopathic customers don't carefully read labels, and there are a...
• Commented on Sympathy for the Lamprey
  PETA started a campaign to rename them "Sea Ticks". Because.... nevermind. That was funnier in my head. Oh well, too late, already typed it *SUBMIT*...
• Commented on Counterfeit drugs
  Ugh. Knowingly manufacturing and distributing a placebo that can actually CAUSE THE REAL DRUGS TO STOP WORKING? Endangering tens of thousands of lives? There are very few crimes I think are deserving of crucifixion, but these people need to asphyxiate...
• Commented on XKCD on Linux users' faith
  @2 Also install prerequisite package "breath_of_god"? (Y/n)...
• Commented on Magic dots
  This game sucks, I can figure out how to reach the end boss (level 1 was the trickiest!) But I think the last boss is impossible. I'm going back to counterstrike. Thanks for wasting 2 hours of my life, boingboing!...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  I was curious to see the "28 days later reenacted in one minute" video, but you botched the link- it's just another reference to the skoal rebel. (which was way too hard for me to watch- I know so many...
• Commented on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind -- fantastic new book about a how a Malawian teenager harnessed the power of the wind
  I always get jealous of these poor people living in a part of the world where ingenuity can make a big reverberating difference in the lives of a large group of people. Living in the fully-developed world, there's nothing really...
• Commented on Make your own $1 million vomit-inducing flashlight for $250
  Reveng @5 - it's cute how you wax legal on the difference between patent and copyright law, but completely miss the point- You can't violate a patent unless you're selling something. All Lady Ada is doing is giving you instructions...
• Commented on HOWTO reproduce a key from a distant, angled photo
  On a semi-related note, I once accidentally stole a bike (that looked a lot like mine (I gave it right back)). The guy had the same brand lock as me (kryptonite u-bolt)... Anyway, I just shoved my cylindrical, internally-toothed key...