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• Commented on Video of Tiny Tim performance mentioned in Pynchon's Inherent Vice
  I remember seeing Tiny Tim, backed up by Brave Combo at Club Dada in Dallas back in 1988. He absolutely blew the front and back doors off the place. Unbelievable performance. The man was a performing encyclopedia of early 20th...
• Commented on First photo of baby coelacanth
  Fishstickin' it old school......
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  My grandpa bought goats to clear a big farm of small brush after purchasing the land in the 1940s. It's a long-known brush-clearing solution....
• Commented on Tasty meat hand
  Clearly the most appropriate background audio for eating this masterpiece would be Throbbing Gristle's "Hamburger Lady."...
• Commented on Grown-Ups are Dumb! (No Offense) -- fun book by a 12-year-old cartoonist
  How talented! Always makes you feel good to see this kind of thing!...
• Commented on Fireplace named world's most beautiful object
  I find it gorgeous and sleek. It's also designed in such a manner as to radiate heat very effectively. That company has a number of beautiful and unusual fireplaces at their site: http://www.focus-creation.com/UK/loader.html...
• Commented on Old bee-related illustrations
  Paging Zoltan Abbasid... White courtesy telephone please....
• Commented on Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?
  > #52 posted by Quothz, August 31, 2009 10:29 PM > ... > Metacommentary: Jimwich, this is one case where > I'd hesitate to call Xeni's obsession "delightful". > Understandable, yeah, delightful, not... not so much. Note that I remarked...
• Commented on Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?
  > #33 posted by Ian Holmes, August 31, 2009 4:57 PM > ...Jimwich and others, I take your point that many > readers may actually just enjoy the simple macabre > obsession for what it is, but (running with this...
• Commented on Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?
  This is both so utterly creepy and I'd be worried if Xeni didn't pull it out of the previous discussion thread and post it here separately. It's the first time I've ever seen a Google Street View sequence that's this...
• Commented on Dutch government tries to stop 13-year-old girl from sailing around world solo
  Solo sailing circumnavigation of the planet at age 13? Now that's a free-range kid!...
• Commented on Prank: humans "on display" at zoo
  That's a beautiful thing....
• Commented on Goatse hoodie
  One look at this and I'm thinking Sleestak....
• Commented on Drew Friedman print of Don Knotts as Barney Fife
  I remember being first introduced to Friedman's work back in 1981 through a very dark comic strip takeoff on Mayberry, R.F.D. that he and his brother Josh Alan did for the mazazine, RAW....
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Way to go, San Francisco! You've really managed to put the "Pro" in provincial. On the upside, maybe the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford can get the collection and expand. That would be great!...
• Commented on Last chance for Mark and Sarina's hamburger bunny T-shirt
  The description on the Woot site is wonderful! Reminiscent of the awesome subscription pleas in the bOING bOING 'zine!...
• Commented on Giant jellyfish invade Japan
  In my alternate, much more awesome universe these giant jellyfish aren't merely edible, they're delicious! And what's more, there are also peanutbutterfish....
• Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
  This is a bit reminiscent of a microfiction story I wrote back in 1997, "Grandma's Place." Http://www.well.com/user/jleft/wordz/grandma.html In this story, however, the ashes were combined with cement and molded into a scaled-down 3D scanned replica of the deceased, and dressed...
• Commented on Two-year-old has a pack a day habit
  Awww... That's abohorable....
• Commented on Shotgun expert shows his stuff
  I can't believe nobody else has noticed or acknowledged the most significant aspect of this short film - the birth of the world's most awesome leisure sport: Shotgun Golf! I'm guessing one would putt with a BB gun....
• Commented on Witch booted from farmers market
  When people get all defensive about their religions, it makes the baby Flying Spaghetti Monster cry....
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: an overview
  You can Uighurize your Twitter icon by tinting it light blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Eastern_Turkistan.svg...
• Commented on Woodsy themed laptop and iPhone cases
  Much smarter than your average woodgrain!...
• Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
  Reminds me of the fellow who fell down an ocean cliff in southern California and was stranded for over two weeks before being found. When boaters finally spotted him and alerted the authorities they caught him with a half-eaten condor....
• Commented on Ukelele with mustache diagrams
  My list of mustache types: 1. Wilford 2. Mushschtache 3. Snidely Whiplash 4. Mustache I'd Like to Feel 5. Philtrum T. Farnsworth 6. Hairlip 7. Teutul Chops 8. Mein Furry 9. Wal-Rus 10. Foo Man Chew 11. Phlegm Kadiddlehopper 12....
• Commented on Heartbroken cereal litigant loses suit over non-existence of "Crunchberries"
  Every time I see this unseaworthy imposter - this atrociously deranged new Cap'n Crunch - I have to point to the real and superior former Cap'n Crunch, with his heavy-lidded Ellen Feiss eyes, and more grateful, anticipatory expression....
• Commented on Gareth gets magical in London
  I'm going to start doing magikal rituals right now to insure that Gareth's new book cover is awesome. I know the book itself will be. ;^)...
• Commented on Boing Boing t-shirts, made by GAMA-GO!
  I still wear my old original Kata Sutra Tshirt from time to time! But there will likely never be a re-issue of the 2Fresh Tshirt from Beyond Cyberpunk!...
• Commented on Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek?
  Every year is probably a great year to be born a geek, but I can say that being born in 1961 allowed me some pretty astonishing geek moments. Such as getting to stay up late and watch the first men...
• Commented on Leonard Shlain, RIP
  His voice will be greatly missed. He was a truly brilliant man. I've always been in deep awe of his insights and books. My deepest condolences to the Shlain family....