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• Commented on World's Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire
  Wow, I think I might have seen this island, but didn't know what it was at the time. About an hour or so into a Sydney -> LA flight I saw this huge spire of rock sticking out of the...
• Commented on Homeless Sims are surprisingly depressing
  This is a great story, but I can't help but wonder how much of the perceived complexity in the characters is added by the narration; I haven't played the latest one, but the thing that always disappointed me about the...
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  The problem with PETA is that they take a valid and important issue, animal welfare, and turn it into a freak show, thus marginalizing anyone who's actually serious about the issue. I suspect that they're secretly paid shills for the...
• Commented on Dress made from meat
  At least she didn't do anything really horrible, like painting on the sidewalk with a bucket of water and a brush....
• Commented on Dress made from meat
  @Greglondon: He justifies it because a person's sense of proportion and outrage is radically skewed by their attachment to the thing that they're evaluating. He doesn't enjoy making clothes out of meat, so that's outrageous and unacceptable. But he likes...
• Commented on Dress made from meat
  @13: I'd be a lot more impressed if you had spent the time and electricity that it took to make that post feeding hungry families instead. People starve on the streets of our own cities every day and this dizzy...
• Commented on Hundred-year mechanical clock
  If the cat has been in the box for a hundred years, it's probably dead....
• Commented on Rotting WWII junk in the jungles of Peleliu
  This article brought to mind an image I found on Google Earth a while back; an old WWII Japanese airstrip on the now-uninhabited island of Pagan, somewhere north of Saipan. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/15651700.jpg...
• Commented on Women Meat Pioneers, 1943
  #6: That and enter the workforce en masse for the first time and demonstrate that they can build bombers and stuff. But yeah, mostly the meat fashion thing....
• Favorited Zimbabwe currency on eBay on Boing Boing
• Commented on Ballmer: 'Tide has really turned' against Apple
  #24, people like to be part of a thing. What thing it is usually doesn't matter, whatever makes them feel good first. And once they're part of that thing, people who are part of another thing become the enemy. After...
• Commented on Obama's diplomatic gift to UK leader fubared by DRM
  Baldhead, region coding wasn't intended as an anti-piracy measure, it was intended to prevent, for instance, retailers selling lower-priced excess inventory from one region in another. It was about controlling the channel, not anti-piracy. Which is a whole lot slimier,...
• Commented on IT versus users: a war that everyone loses
  Zuzu @21: It's not arrogance, but it's probably wishful thinking. My experience is that everywhere I go, be it business, government, services, whatever, a majority of the people that I encounter are entirely unable to do the one thing that...
• Commented on AIG has insured $1.6 trillion in derivatives
  I saw the prime minister of Belgium buying yellow cake at the store the other day. Sounds like regime change time to me....
• Commented on Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed released, returned to UK.
  @14: The fact that someone is partially culpable for what happened to them doesn't necessarily decrease someone else's culpability for the same; if you wear your solid gold bowler hat and hang $100 bills out of your pockets and walk,...
• Commented on Office chair explodes, kills boy
  There's a very insightful comment on the (translated) source page that I think really sums up the whole problem: "If women 及BIMASEN thought in misery. In ancient times, NHK to the "bread Britney" It is said the woman was called....
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  Also, I recommend going up the California and Oregon coasts at least partway, but you don't really have to do it on this trip; you'll be at least in the region, at least. Driving places is fun. Sometimes the "in-between"...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  If you find yourself in Salina, UT (and you might, it's right off I-70), be sure to ignore the general rule about so-named places, and have lunch at Mom's Cafe. Mmm, fried stuff. Bonus: Our booth had a signed picture...
• Commented on Second-person in fiction compels you
  Cowicide: You totally blew my mind there....
• Commented on Pac-man ghost lamps
  I'm just waiting for the new Horta lamps from designer Anderson Pacman....
• Commented on Salmonella Peanut CEO won't eat his own peanuts, cites Fifth Amendment
  TheHoundofLove: Maybe it's the name of the company. You know, "Samonella Peanut Inc." Named after its founder, Sam Onella....
• Commented on Musician sells CD for $15.98, CD + live concert for $5000
  Bottlekid: I want to second the Francis Dunnery recommendation; I had the opportunity to see him in a friend's living room last year, and it was great....
• Commented on Signing off
  Toadthetoad: Based upon this no-doubt authoritative sample, it is clear that the readership of Boing Boing clamors for pie. The masses have spoken! Open the piegates that we may gorge ourselves, one and all!...
• Commented on Signing off
  Toadthetoad: Would you be less likely to question future visits if you knew that pie would be provided, at no charge to you?...
• Commented on Signing off
  It seemed pretty straightforward to me; Charles has a strong emotional attachment to some ideas not well supported by the available evidence, an attachment which causes him to internally de-emphasize information which tends to disagree with his position, and emphasize...
• Commented on Tazzari Zero electric city car
  Arkizzle: As I understand it, the nature of the batteries allows them to be charged rapidly part of the way, but then the charging has to slow down to prevent them from overheating and exploding. If it's hard to remember,...
• Commented on Airplane Graveyard
  I think a lot of those planes are actually in a state of preservation. In case some sort of non-nuclear third world war erupts or something and all of our new shiny planes get blown up. Interesting fact: the air...
• Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: You Are Your Data
  This seems like the opposite of a good idea to me. I already overthink everything as it is; this looks like just enough additional data to reduce me to absolute paralysis....
• Commented on TED2009: Bill Gates on eradicating malaria
  Ernunnos: Years of CRT radiation....
• Commented on TED2009: Bill Gates on eradicating malaria
  Victorvodka: No need to worry about the planet. If malaria is the only thing keeping the planet habitable for humans, then once we eradicate it we'll all die off and things will go back to the way they were. Or...