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• Commented on Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying
  Ask the residents of Kingston, Ontario. Wolfe Island looks beautiful with its windmills: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe_Island_Wind_Project...
• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  How are there so many redheads on boingboing? And why haven't we overthrown the oppressors yet?...
• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  I would be negligent NOT to comment on this post, because I'm a redhead and the ginger episode was what caused me to swear off South Park. Not that it was they only reason. For years, despite my love of...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  Is it possible to make every video game accessible to a blind person? Or a deaf person? I don't believe that it is. There was talk a while back about forcing all websites to have some sort of code enhancement...
• Commented on China: real-life fashion police crack down on public pajama-wearers
  "An article in the Chengdu Business Daily expresses outrage over the campaign as a civil rights abuse." You... you do realize you're in China... right?...
• Commented on iPhone-operated car
  Dr. Horrible did it first!...
• Commented on Star Wars Yoga
  Yoda yoga. Someone had to say it....
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  Also interesting: the plutonium sphere that was involved in Louis Slotin's criticality accident had previously been involved in another laboratory criticality accident, which killed physicist Harry Daghlian. It was subsequently nicknamed the Demon core, and became part of the ABLE...
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  You can see the pause as the driver goes through the motions: "Oh shit! Oh shit! What do I do? ... Okay, just drive away, no one will ever know it was you. Yeah..." I certainly hope they get caught....
• Commented on 10 Million Bats, and David Attenborough
  "Nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-eight bats... Nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine bats... 10 million! 10 million bats! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"...
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  In Soviet Russia, horse eat you!...
• Commented on How To Eat a Horse
  See, for me, this is about common courtesy. Dogs and horses are animals that have helped us transport and defend ourselves since the very dawn of mankind. They've been constant companions and trusted friends. It seems like the least we...
• Commented on Hitler Finds Out Balloon Boy Was A Hoax
  Oh Xeni. Someone needs to make you a little plush Hitler doll with a pull string that makes him scream random strings of punctuated German. *whirr* "ICH BENÖTIGE LEBENSRAUM!" *whirr* "ICH LIEBE REGENBOGEN!"...
• Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
  See, and here I've been thinking that mooks were mafia-esque thugs this whole time......
• Commented on Murakami's short film, "Akihabara Majokko Princess" with Kirsten Dunst
  *wistful sigh*...
• Commented on Props of Mad Men
  Awesome. I love Mad Men. And it's the kind of show prop masters must dream about....
• Commented on Laura Levine photography at Brooklyn Museum exhibition of Rock & Roll photography 1955-present
  What a tremendously sexy photo. And yet the gardener in me can't help wondering if those are hosta leaves up top....
• Commented on HOWTO Make a mummified fairy
  I'd like to put one in a jar, a-la Shrek. Maybe someone caught a fairy and forgot to feed it. Monstrous....
• Commented on Yellow Cake cartoon by animator Nick Cross
  I can't help wondering about the fact that "Yellowcake" is a kind of material produced during the enrichment of uranium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake...
• Commented on Access Copyright tells Canadian gov't: no home TV recording, no ripping music, no moving old ebooks to new readers
  Indeed. But they always manage to find some misguided artists to be their mouthpieces. As a former music composer I can't tell you how frustrating it is to argue with those types of people....
• Commented on Zero gravity spice rack for crowded kitchens
  Take it from me: Magnets + Spices = Good...
• Commented on Access Copyright tells Canadian gov't: no home TV recording, no ripping music, no moving old ebooks to new readers
  These people are idiots. Let's just assume, for a moment, that all the draconian laws that people like this could be passed. We'd be nickel-and-dimed every time we time-shift a TV show, or use an interlibrary loan, or need to...
• Commented on "Happy Splasher" could face charges for driving through puddle to drench kids
  Only in Britain. Come on guys, lighten up. Love, Canada....
• Commented on Evolution of the International Space Station
  I think you've missed the half the point of space exploration, which would be scientific research. Space is more than a vacuum: something we could easily recreate on Earth. Space is an environment of microgravity, cosmic rays, and near absolute-zero...
• Commented on Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers and other user-control technologies are legal
  Surprise surprise. Just as I'm trying to read boingboing now, the "shine a light" top banner ad causes the content of the entire page to move up ad down in annoying fashion, every time I load a boingboing page that...
• Commented on Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers and other user-control technologies are legal
  Since installing Snow Leopard I've been without my trusty AdBlock (no, I don't want to run Safari in 32-bit mode). And I remembered why I got it in the first place. Ads I don't have any problems with. What I...
• Commented on Swedish children demand end to gender stereotypes in Toys R Us catalog
  I'm so pleased by the tone of comments here. Yes, males and females are different: that's not a value judgement nor is it a firm restriction to say that males can't do things commonly done by females or vice-versa. A...
• Commented on KONG vs. New York reincarnated in flash
  God, I had a couple of these when I was a kid. They were so awful. The worst thing perhaps was the lag between the display (slow to refresh) and the controls (unresponsive), so when you got into the really...
• Favorited Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb on Boing Boing
• Favorited Animated short about the plague of "smooth jazz" in offices: "Distraxion." on Boing Boing