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• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Way to miss the point, KMONSTER! We're not talking about "sexually gratifying yourself" here....
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Most large, active blogs take material down, for a variety of reasons. This is profoundly disingenuous. If you were clearing out old posts for reasons of space, sure. But clearing out specific posts to remove evidence that you and another...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Does anyone else think it's interesting that Boing Boing's "moderator" seems to operate as Boing Boing's Chief Inflamer whenever she appears?...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  This is disgusting. Yes, you have the right to put up whatever you want, and delete it later. But I'm really unhappy to see Boing Boing fall back on "it's ours, we can do whatever we want" excuse. It's an...
• Commented on Gorgeous recreation of sleek 1930s Pashley bicycle
  If they really wanted to pay tribute to their British engineering heritage, they'd resurrect the famous Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub -- the bit of mechanics so fiendishly complex that no mechanic would dare touch it. I saw an exploded schematic once...
• Commented on Con-artist convinces town he's a super Fed who doesn't need search warrants
  It's pretty hard to hold onto your Constitutional rights when you don't even want them....
• Commented on Fake speed bumps painted on roads
  The excellent thing about this is that they train drivers to think that speed bumps are fake, thus increasing the likelihood that someone will proceed to hit a real one at top speed. Hilarity will ensue, especially if it's your...
• Commented on AirPiano strikes an ethereal note
  Meatclef? Gold star for you....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  I wasn't referring to piousness, only your claim that there's no underclass in SA. The fact is that Saudi Arabia is one of the worst offenders in the world in the area of human trafficking; the US State Department says...
• Commented on Local councils in the UK use CCTVs to spy on dog owners, cute butts
  I think a more appropriate quote might be "the banality of evil". Of course people extended this sort of power are going to get bored and start peeping at tits and ass. Nothing could be more natural. It's the people...
• Commented on Harpo Marx on the origin of the "Gookie"
  Harpo became my #1 favorite Marx Brother when I discovered his lovely exotica harp'n'orchestra LPs....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  Saudi Arabia doesn't really have an underclass unless you include foreign workers And slavery wasn't so bad in the US, unless you include the slaves. Speaking of which, Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery in NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR, and it is still...
• Commented on Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins
  Ruckus @52, that's a great link, but it's US law. This happened in the UK. The UK version of The Photographer's Rights is here: http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php...
• Commented on (Apocryphal?) anecdote about Fahrenheit 451
  There's another reason an evil bastard might burn a book. I'm reminded of the story of the record collector who gained access to the Sun Records warehouse, and after loading all the copies of Elvis Presley's and Johnny Cash's first...
• Commented on Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins
  @43, the Department of Redundancy Department already has this area covered, so it's good to see other departments taking charge as well. There can never be too many cooks, or too many policemen....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  Wow, that site has some significant problems. His basic thesis seems to be that if any verse in the Quran can possibly be interpreted as scientifically true, then we must accept that the Quran is divinely inspired, since there's no...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  I have....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  Oh dear God Irshad Manji is a superhero. It's so easy to type stuff into popular Canadian blogsites; she's actually going face-to-face with the darkness and winning. She is brave and wonderful. THIS is the answer to the fear....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  @52, now I have given you the coveted snippy comment, which apparently is richly undeserved. I'm sorry. You're just waking up, while I am up well past my bedtime, and I have just been informed that if I type the...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  @50, yes, I heard you the first time. No, that was Noen. You're both wrong. In 1000 AD Islam was the most advanced civilization on earth. Europeans were living in mud huts if they were lucky. That was then, this...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  Takuan, Muslims are united in nothing, just like Christians, or dry cleaners, or electrical engineers. Arabs are a minority of Muslims; the most populous Muslim countries are Asian: India, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Probably the most important Muslim country culturally is...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  If you don't think jazz is culture, there's no hope for you. America has as much culture as anyplace on earth. Europe has lots of terrific cemeteries; there's graffiti inside the dome of St. Paul's in London that's older than...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  One of the interesting things about Islam is the apparent readiness of most of its most vocal adherents to dismiss all other flavors as "well, that's not really Islam at all". This is NOT a mainstream viewpoint; I've had many...
• Commented on Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins
  The real problem with your notion, Cubey, is that it's not actually up to either the guards OR the higher-ups what "suspicious activity" means. Britain doesn't quite have the same constitutional protections that Americans do, but even there, the law...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosovo market town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name of reconstruction assistance...
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  Antinous, The Saudis WERE in Bosnia after their war, and took over the "reconstruction", or more accurately the destruction, of some of the most beautiful mosques on earth, remaking them in the pure Saudi style, i.e., plain, white and undecorated....
• Commented on King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture
  What kind of books are going to be in the library? Saudi culture is immensely hostile to book-publishing. Their literary tradition ended some 1200 years ago. Interesting to see them paying so much money for fancy architecture when they have...
• Commented on Jack Black Beard Lube
  Wow, there's a whole new category of "useful knowledge I wish I could erase from my mind anyways". The oil thing works pretty well. King of Shaves sells a nice (and tiny) vial of oil that works great for traveling;...
• Commented on Happy 96th, Alan Turing!
  I've done a little asking around, and the name Tim Gill came up. He's a wealthy computer pioneer and gay activist who has a gay rights foundation. But I agree; THIS shouldn't come from gay rights, it should come from...
• Commented on Interview with editors of Architecture of Change
  "Hut" is an interesting word to describe a hotel and restaurant with a capacity of 125 people....