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• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  As I hail from Vigo County, allow me to shed some light on the situation. The fact that these fine public servants are Democrats should not really have any bearing on the case. Vigo County, throughout most of its history,...
• Commented on Retro Effect: a day in the studio with the makers of <em>Metroid</em>
  I would be most interested in hearing their design decisions behind tightening the narrative control and sequence rails of the games. The first Prime was similar to Super Metroid; there were enough small bugs or Samus was too versatile to...
• Commented on Steampunk butterfly
  it is really nice, but the first thing I thought of when I saw it was some sort of Magic card. Steampunk Butterfly. Artifact (RARE!!) Cost: Three generic, two white, one blue mana. Steampunk Butterfly may not be untapped. Tap:...
• Commented on Competition: Write gadget fiction, win swag
  did the winners ever get chosen for this? I'm not really expecting to win, but I wanted to see what was going to happen....
• Commented on Advisor: Why my GPS is bad for my brain
  I can understand this. The way I tend to deal with GPS is to use it a few times to get to a place and then I'll know the way. Of course, it is terribly tempting to just give yourself...
• Commented on Richard Metzger's Tell It Like It Is Review of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
  #61: From what I remember from the third movie, Harry stumbled into the faculty plus Minister Fudge at the Three Broomsticks, where he overheard a conversation about Sirius' misdeeds. Shortened scene. What they forgot to mention in that film was...
• Commented on Competition: Write gadget fiction, win swag
  Love is best expressed in analogue by D. W. Funk After they shed their slickers and umbrellas, Gus wandered over to the stereo, looking for the correct cable, a playlist brewing. "I want to put my iPod on. You need...
• Commented on 8 iPhone Apps For Camping
  That picture is enough to make me cringe just seeing it. I went rock climbing a few months ago, and completely forgot my iPhone was in my pocket until I was halfway up the wall. It escaped unscathed. Sorry to...
• Commented on Newspaper asks poets and novelists to cover the news for the day
  The best news writing I read tends to do this already, especially for magazine-style profiles, long narrative stories, or occasionally a good old-fashioned article. I don't think it's a silly experiment at all. But it's funny; it's a subjective style...
• Commented on Artists sell paintings of items to buy items the paintings depict
  do you mean freshly canned poop, or poop that comes from that Cloaca machine? It's not art anymore to just shit in a can, but if you manufacture it, I think that's pretty cool. Why is it that most Boing...
• Commented on Carb overload: Bread Bowl Pasta
  I don't know why I wanted one so much. But I love pasta, and I love bread. I think I was imagining the bread bowls at Panara or whatever; the ones with soup, they're delicious. But this was an abomination....
• Commented on Fake DHS "photography license" for fake no-photos laws
  That ID seems like it's coming a little close to impersonating a federal officer, which I'm fairly sure is illegal. I'm sure that in some cases, it would work perfectly, but whether this would actually constitute breaking the law or...
• Commented on Tom Chiarella has seen <em>The Road</em>
  I love it when I'm trying, very hard, to procrastinate on work for my professor (short story rewrite, etc.) and then his name shows up on Boing Boing like he's reaching through the computer to tell me, "Do your damn...
• Commented on Travis Barker vs. teen band geek
  my favorite part of the internet is when we get together and judge some random and properly disaffected teenager who was only a judger himself. all we had was livejournal and while excellent for angst, it was deficient for showing...
• Commented on Best Buy allegedly sells brick in a box ... <em>again</em>
  I remember buying some Nintendo game many years ago; I can't remember if it was SNES or N64, but it was a cart. Or, rather, it would've been a cart if it hadn't been a box of Jell-O. As I...
• Commented on Music Video: Oiled up bikini girls using power tools
  When I first heard this song, I imagined something much more like the Bjork "All is full of love" video, except with PC robots instead of Chris Cunningham's Macs. Plus lots of rave lights, and a choreographed dance number. I...
• Commented on Trailer expands into five-room mobile apartment
  I think there are a few designs for the floor that might work. Hinged panels supported by those poles on the bottom, some sort of telescoping design, or they might fold up whole between the segments. I don't think it...
• Commented on Review: Monster Turbine "In-Ear Speakers" (You may know them as "earbuds")
  You must've really meant that post; it's made the entirety of your site more bold....
• Commented on Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
  In order to include the squid, you have to allow Ozzy to explain it in the end, and add any number of foreshadowing elements or visual clues which take up screen time. And you have to allow the aftermath shots,...
• Commented on The Pen Which Shall Never Be Lost
  In my friends' room, they've done the same thing with a lighter a few times. Even doing that, lighters inevitably disappear eventually. I've found that if I get myself something sufficiently nice (an excellent pen, a zippo), I'll manage to...
• Commented on Don't Drive Angry
  Best romantic comedy ever....
• Commented on Penny Arcade flames the MacBook Pro
  Were the MacBook Pros hotter than the Powerbook? My G4 lasted almost all the way through college until it started to shit out when all of my theses were very much in progress on the hard drive. I gingerly put...
• Commented on Kopbusters -- reality show that busts cops for conducting illegal drug raids
  I don't really care about Barry Cooper. I'm not sure where the idea comes from that he ratted himself out. He's not afraid to build his own soapbox, certainly, but when he gets on it I don't know why he'd...
• Commented on <em>Mother 3</em> English Patch Released!
  I've been following this for a long time now. Tomato and Jeffman have done some incredible work in hacking this game, and the blog archives are a great read for anyone interested in how romhacking is done. I have a...
• Commented on <em>Boing Boing Gadgets</em> explains: "Just How The Hell Did I End Up In Infomercia?"
  A gadgets blog is a pretty cool medium for fiction; I wonder if it would've been more interesting to give the information above in the context of the fictive world. Regardless, this is the most creative thing I've seen so...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: God is in the details
  It seems like a lot of audio equipment for two turntables and a microphone. On the other hand, Daft Punk can only perform from their massive, pyramid-shaped mothership while dressed up as robots. Crazy French DJs. Is this from the...
• Commented on Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children
  It's just incredible that someone, at some point, witnessed Ng's ordeal and thought, "this is the right thing to do." Was it neglect? Was it due to poor training and a culture of fear, or sadism in uniform? How could...
• Commented on Design fantasy: If Sony Ericsson made an ultra-mobile PC...
  Isn't battery life the real enemy here? I always get the sense that we have the computing power and tech to do all the cool future things we want to do (portable video chat, always on wireless internet, etc.) but...
• Commented on Lotus working on making Hybrids noisier. It's a joke, right?
  As soon as I saw this, I imagined myself having something useful to say! I heard that NPR program when it was broadcast! But then it was already posted. Drats. One thing I remember from that program, however, was that...
• Commented on Who buys gadgets from vending machines?
  I thought the primary customers were frequent flyer types who need to make up for their awful parenting by providing electronic goods. Sorry that daddy's been in Hong Kong for a month; here's an iPod! Really, quick entertainment like that...