Merlin Silk

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• Commented on Musician's open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain's Pirate-Finder General
  Since reading Larken Rose's book "How to be a successful tyrant" I see all these stories of stupid politicians/tyrants very different. They should have read Larken's book to avoid these silly and counter productive mistakes in allowing their subjects to...
• Commented on Petition to Obama government to disclose secret copyright treaty
  It is so totally troublesome that we - the masters - are petitioning our servants - politicians, for anything at all. Or have we been fooled in believing that we are the masters served by our public servants who in...
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  Again, one of the things that I love, where the tyrants shoot themselves in the foot and eventually get themselves out of the business of raping people. As the pendulum swings to one side, when it comes back the opposite...
• Commented on JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America
  A truly free man (or woman) would not ask his master not to tighten the shackles too tight! What are we doing here, what is going on? They are so few, we are so many!...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  If this state attorney really considers filing charges I think he should have an encounter with that sword as well....
• Commented on Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax
  Wow, hats off to Ikea, they are really doing something for freedom - all our freedom. I mean who is the one with monopoly in violence - government obviously. So, anything and anybody who is able to take away some...
• Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy from Derren Brown Blog
  Always a good idea to ridicule what you don't understand, right? What an idiot, this Galileo, to think whatever he thought - everybody knows that the earth is flat and that you fall off the edge when you go too...
• Commented on Compuserve shuts down
  but, but, but.... if I go to compuserve.com they still want me to sign up! What, the funeral?...
• Commented on Kneeling Bench to Prevent Splashing While Peeing
  I think there is time now for some advanced education. There has been a thorough evaluation of the subject here... (including illustrations)...
• Commented on Raymond Scott's Powerhouse performed by harmonica <span style="font-size: 9px; font-family: monospace;">quintet</span> sextet
  The sixth man in the quintet reminded me of the forth book in Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Trilogy ;-)...
• Commented on A Week in Tokyo
  A few years back I talked to a friend - Japanese living in the US now - regarding a Japanese music video that just made me crack up. Wanted to know if he as an educated Japanese found the music...
• Commented on Caucasian stars singing Thai pop music (video)
  Culture mixture shock galore - me, as a German, being married to a Thai, living in California, I had to forward this to my wife as a teaser because I thought it might be embarrassing to her as 40 year...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  Hi Charles, excellent article - and I think, after reading through some of the comments - I see your point of your decision not to write a book. There are just too many complainers around that hope somebody will handle...
• Commented on Buddha Machine 2: revenge of the ambient music transistor radio gizmo
  Cool - Buddha 2.0! I picked some of the first generation Buddha Boxes up on my visit to the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights. They really tried to get rid of them, give them away for free - not...
• Commented on The New President's Plans for Food Policy?
  So, now that we will have a new president he will solve all our problems, yes?? The problem started with the feds getting their fingers into everything where they should not have them if they would honor their oath to...
• Commented on Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace.
  For all of you who have to complain about some actions that John and Ono once did or might be still doing that opposes your point of view: It does not matter - what matters is what you get out...
• Commented on False Memories of tragic and happy events
  With the significance of today's date we naturally also have to address the area where false memories are used extensively and intentionally. To how many people the government's story of September 11, 2001 is like a real memory and 'celebrating'...
• Commented on Space Is The Place t-shirt
  And the other way around would be a t-shirt in space, right? Huh, there is this cute photo shopped picture where the company in promoting their wares put our astronaut Suni Williams into one of their t-shirts. I think, space...
• Commented on Earth from Mars -- photo
  Very nice - but utterly misleading. This image conveys somehow that this system of earth and moon is this cozy doublet, but in reality the distance between is way bigger. You may look at http://www.merlinsilk.com/2008/06/09/how-the-martians-see-us/ for a 'scientific' explanation ;-)...
• Commented on Little Brother downloads are live!
  I opted to buy the physical book a week or so ago and just got my copy on Friday. I had the idea that this was a book that I could read with my little son as soon as he...
• Commented on Sequoia Voting Systems scares NJ county off of auditing its machines -- so much for fair elections in Union County
  I wonder what they will say when this news story about the leaked election result will become common knowledge... http://www.merlinsilk.com/2008/03/12/embarrassing-election-spoiler-from-diebold/ But then again, there will be plenty of people who don't really care and just go on with the daily...
• Commented on L Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology?
  This is so funny, there Mr. Hubbard plagiarizes Mr. Nordenholze's ideas and now Mr. Miscarriage (uhh, Miscavige, I keep making this mistake!) is rewriting his works to his own interpretation. Currently he still says that is all done in Hubbard's...
• Commented on Anonymous vs. Scientology protest in LA today
  This is soo cool, that there is concerted action against these guys. They are so arrogant - I know because I once was one of them ;-) One good story about their actions I read recently, I found at www.DelphiParents.com...
• Commented on Grandmother arrested at McDonald's drive-thru for not pulling car forward
  I have to admit that I like these kind of incidents. They are probably very bad for the person effected by them, but they certainly help - as they are getting more and more frequent - to raise the awareness...
• Commented on Russian fighter jet can stop in mid-flight
  Watching one of the video - the one really selling that machine - made me feel very unreal and I wondered who these people are that - one, sell these thing, and - two, buy these things. Here is what...
• Commented on Flaming Tuba with David Silverman / Tapir Massage
  Quite some time I have seen somebody playing "Oops I did it again" on a flaming tuba - OK sousaphone - at burning man. Help me clear my question at http://www.merlinsilk.com/2007/10/26/one-or-two-tubatrons-flaming-tubas/ Merlin...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Very nice and clean design. The only thing I would prefer is a bit bigger font. In Firefox at 1920x1200 it's a bit small. I know I can increase the font size easily but then other sites will be too...