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• Commented on Japanese subway etiquette poster campaign
  I like how all the dead eyed and unapproving figures in the background look like Chris Ware characters. I like to imagine their general tut tutting is borne of a deep unspoken resentment and jealousy of their younger, fitter, more...
• Commented on Insure-and-Go: we're there for you until you need us
  Why take two bottles into the shower, when you can spend the holidays at Heathrow out of pocket while the shiftless BA workers stand around a burning oil drum?...
• Commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
  Make it stop, Cory, please. I get it, I really do, we've shown those creationist that man has shaped the banana to his very will. We've manipulated it, caged it, sliced it, diced it, and created a simulacra of it...
• Commented on Photographers win British war on photography?
  Well dice me gently with a chainsaw?!? I am totally printing off a copy of this statement to put in my camerabag....
• Commented on Just look at this awesome banana saver clip.
  I regard these things the same way I regard wine stoppers. Also, why is it that only bananas get all these crazy inventions? It's as thought someone out there is thinking, "Bananas, why are they so damn tricky? If only...
• Commented on Starfish Eating a Baby Seal
  Can I just say hurrah for youtube and 1080p? And also to the BBC for uploading that clip in full HD glory? Seriously, a lot of people rag on the BBC, but their approach to making their content available online...
• Commented on Vote early, vote often
  When I voted PH had 666 votes. Coincidence?...
• Commented on Hacklab.to's laser-cutter really *does* play the Mario Bros theme!
  I bet humble pie only tastes good when it's covered in awesome sauce....
• Commented on Hurting Google
  I don't generally use search engines to read news stories. If I read WSJ or NYT it's because they have been linked to on boingboing. I can't see how this could hurt google spectacularly, more than a percentage point or...
• Commented on 8-way video card
  While ATi and NVidia have been cranking out the pixel pipelines for the past decade, Matrox has been silently beavering away making very expensive video cards for well, video and nothing else. I remember looking at buying one of their...
• Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
  I reguarly get tanked whilst surfing for pr0n, but then spend hours reading wikipedia, filling out customer service questionnaires and playing online poker. Not addicted, just unemployed....
• Commented on Richard Metzger heads up LA Times' Brand X blog
  Is Richard Metzger the real life inspiration for Hank Moody?...
• Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
  At the weekend I was at a friend's house and they didn't have a corkscrew. So they went out and bought one. If only I'd have seen this beforehand, I could have looked like a drunk Frenchman!...
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  Nothing Westernises a man more than spending some quality time in a American prison....
• Commented on My Times editorial on British plan to cut relatives of accused infringers off from the net
  Cory, you're welcome for dinner at my house anytime....
• Commented on Council bans parents from play areas
  Growing up, I'd always heard of the Watford Gap, but little did I realise that it lay between people's ears....
• Commented on Spectator throws out public safety, embraces sensationalism and AIDS denialism
  The Spectator. I have never and will never buy that rag....
• Commented on A drink that sounds even more unappetizing than "Dairy Drink"
  "Dairlylea" is a typo. A stray, extra L. I can also vouch for Dairylea being used as a processed cheese brand name in the UK....
• Commented on Rare alternative version of Beatles track from White Album discovered
  "F'king Media Studies!!!"...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  In the UK there are 2 dudes waging war on the grey squirrel, and showing that eating grey squirrel is a valid way of conserving the red squirrel population. Fascinating article from the Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/19/red-squirrels-protection...
• Commented on Gag order blocks Guardian from reporting on Parliament
  WTF??? I would be so ready for a rumble over this if there weren't so much delicious food being prepared on TV....
• Commented on Phillip Roebuck: One Man Band Banjo Ninja
  This guy kind of reminds me of a skinny Henry Rollins....
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  Dagnammit I love BoingBoing. If Ralph Lauren don't have a sense of humour about this, then they are not a clothing brand I will ever buy again....
• Commented on BBC wants to encrypt "free" TV -- talking points debunked
  If it really does boil down to the BBC asking Ofcom if they could pretty please let the DTLA be the de facto broadcast regulator, expect Ofcom to swiftly present a large spike to the BBC and invite them to...
• Commented on G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
  I thought Philadelphia was the City of Brotherly Love? Oh wait, this is Pittsburgh, the City of Gross Constitutional and Human Rights Violations. I want to live THERE!!...
• Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
  The Daily Mail is not an 'awful sensationalist rag' as Cory describes it. It is a deeply unpleasant, racist, fear-mongering piece of hate-ridden propaganda that doesn't even possess the basic usefulness of a rag....
• Commented on Musician's open letter, sung to Lily Allen
  I get the impression that Lily Allen isn't exactly hurting for money, or for an expensive education... I haven't bought any of her albums, and I haven't downloaded any of them either. So does that equate to a lost sale?...
• Commented on London cops finally apologise for mugging geek -- four years later
  I hope they settled this with a big frecken cheque....
• Commented on 500 Pound Planet: Chapter Three
  I didn't like the intro. In fact, I flat out hated it, and wasn't gonna watch the rest of these, but after watching part one proper, I really dig the patter of the two characters. I like that they inhabit...
• Commented on How to Sample Wine Without Looking like a Clown
  Sure if you go to a restaurant and there's a Sommelier, then hey ho, they're gonna be pretty cool about you saying the wine is bad/corked. The correct and simple answer is "I'll be right back with another one." I'm...