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• Commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  I was in eighth grade. One of my teachers tried to get us to have a discussion instead of just watching news coverage, my two final teachers of the day made us continue with class. In all my other classes...
• Commented on Massachusetts wants to imprison people for 10 years if they take a nude photo of their over-60 spouse, even with spouse's consent
  How else are we going to combat the epidemic of sexting among the elderly>...
• Commented on Clockwork Bees
  @1 That's what I was thinking of too....
• Commented on Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube
  He finally figured out you could just peel the stickers off?...
• Commented on Skull Dog
  Psst: Take off your glasses and look at it...
• Commented on The breakup of the United States
  There's no way in hell most New Mexicans would join something called the "Texas Republic". We might join with Mexico but I don't think we'd want Texans for company....
• Commented on Military Contractor KBR Sued over Dogs With Human Arms in Their Mouths
  http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=362...
• Commented on Inflatable outdoor projection screen
  Man, I thought the point of having a projector was so you could show porn on public buildings. No screen required....
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  Generally "convenience store" here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We have a few specific ones that I like a lot-- there's a little place called Garfield Market in one of our neighborhoods that has some pretty excellent tamales and root beer....
• Commented on Wal-Mart Orders Internet Not To Tell People It Will Sell Wiis For $224 On Black Friday
  It's leaked. I can tell by some of the lawyers, and from seeing quite a few leaks in my time...
• Commented on Change.gov
  Clay: Back me up! You tell him too! :)...
• Commented on Change.gov
  I used one of his little forms to tell him to consider Lessig for the FCC and Shneier for Homeland Security, as discussed in the open election thread. Please you guys do so too!...
• Commented on The use of Electricity for lighting is in no way harmful to health
  #11 It's sort of amusing because they make a loud BUZZ when you press them. The only bad part is that my friends like to hit all of the buttons, which has led me to move my PS3 to a...
• Commented on The use of Electricity for lighting is in no way harmful to health
  I would love to get one of those to stick up on my wall. In case anyone was wondering. My apartment was built in an era when they thought buttons were superior to lightswitches so we have buttons everywhere, too,...
• Commented on Medic Aesthetic Alert
  As soon as I tried to walk in those heels, I'd fall over and break my legs. I guess this would ease the transition between regular shoes and the casts I would need nicely......
• Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
  I went downtown and joined in with dancing to an impromptu jam session where a couple of drummers played and we shouted "OBAMA" and "YEAH YEAH YEAH" and "SI SE PUEDE" and the like and it was awesome. I love...
• Commented on God Hates Signs protest waged against Westboro Baptist Church
  I was involved with a counter-demonstration against the Westboro "Baptist Church" in Albuquerque, NM a few years back: http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/archives/001708.html We were doing the same thing as Romaine Patterson, who made giant angel wings to block the view of the protesters...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a purse out of a stack of old books
  You pay for a book, you get to do whatever you want with it. Set it on fire, carve a purse out of it, cut it up for collages, feed it to your goat, whatever. This looks really pretty nifty,...
• Commented on How to avoid getting stuck in a ditch...
  Driving back into the ditch is cool if you wait a little while though....
• Commented on Cholla the horse painter
  But does he indeed paint gods like horses?...
• Commented on Energize your scalp with torturous-looking plastic nail board
  I have one of those copper octopus-looking head massagers and it's amazing. This seems to be a similar concept....
• Commented on A message to our readers about coverage of you-know-who
  The readers who write in to tell you to STFU about Apple are way overrepresented....
• Commented on MXP4: New music format changes to fit your mood, but why?
  I can see another way for something similar to work, where you get a music player that detects the songs you usually play when you're in a certain mood and is more likely to play them when you're shuffling. It...
• Commented on Principles for sound Internet policy: Internet for Everyone
  Oh noes! Cory! You broke the BoingBoing...
• Commented on Porky princess tiara HOWTO
  I am so glad I am not the only person sitting at home refreshing Twitter....
• Commented on Help design a cipher for my crypto wedding-rings!
  @KBlackwell: I'm certainly not....
• Commented on New Orleans mayor: "We really don't have the resources to rescue you after this."
  @Pope Bugg (16): Virtual hug from a stranger, man....
• Commented on Who scrubbed Wikipedia's entry for Sarah Palin just before nom announcement?
  Now that "nom" has become synonymous with "eat" in my mind (as in "om nom nom"), I got confused for a minute when I read that headline. Since when did Palin have to announce she was going to eat? :)...
• Commented on How the Daily Show's PVRs work
  @15 Personal Video Recorder. And yeah, I had to look it up too-- maybe in English next time, Cory? :)...
• Commented on NYT on trolls
  The article's dismissal of everything involving "the lulz", Encyclopedia Dramatica, /b/ and what is rapidly becoming a 4chan-generated "internet culture" as trolling really bothers me. If Encyclopedia Dramatica is just about trolling than lolcats becomes a method of trolling, etc....