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• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  "You're looking at me like I'm crazy," I said as I loaded the sleeping bag into my truck. She turned slowly, her head hung, knowing there was nothing else to say right now. She looked glorious in her dusty bluejeans...
• Commented on TV archive with 3 days' worth of 6 networks' 9/11 coverage
  @ #1 You tell anyone who was in New York City that day that it was "self-inflicted trauma" that burns in their memory even to this day and you would be met with a punch to the face. We should...
• Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
  Then: The Old Man and the Sea Now: The Favour, The Watch, and the Very Big Fish...
• Commented on Spherical pocket watch
  Hmm, now I have to retrofit all of my clothes to have spherical pockets....
• Commented on Mexico's Isla De Las Muñecas
  I think the creepiest part is at 1:36 where the portrait on the post and the hostess look exactly alike....
• Commented on Back to the Future wedding cake
  Add a few zombie action figures and you have Lucy Knisley's poster in marvelous 3D cake form....
• Commented on Tweenbots: social robots that need New Yorkers' help to reach their destinations
  It certainly is adorable with it's nice smiley face and cheerful "Help Me!" on the flag. I wonder if the response would have been different if there were a surly expression on the bot and the flag said something more...
• Commented on German retro-futuristic group-dancing
  Half "funky chicken" and half ice-capades....
• Commented on Newspaper box graveyard and other images of the econopocalypse
  The newsbox photo screams to be tilt-shifted....
• Commented on Thank You From Danny Choo!
  Has it been two weeks already? Wow that went fast....
• Commented on Guest blogger: Danny Choo!
  It's about time the Dark Side is represented here at BB. It's been nothing but Ewok Dance Parties for years. Troopers Represent! Hazarding a guess at bag-shoe man, I would say judging by his gait he's wearing a walking cast...
• Commented on Kid on Drugs
  If this video follows this kid around his whole life it'll probably be because he is wearing it like a badge of honor. I smell Uncle Rico here. "Hey, you wanna see my video?"...
• Commented on Mike Vilensky of <em>New York Magazine's</em> Daily Un-Intel fact check fail about Boing Boing
  I think what's lost here is that it's New York Magazine. Please consider the source and recognize that its just a pompous opinion mag with no news cred anyway. Have they ever been recognized for their outstanding news gathering?...
• Commented on Zelda map in cross-stitch form
  This is great but it needs to be a cake....
• Commented on Lazy Susan table made from skateboard trucks
  You mean this isn't homebrew?...
• Commented on More games: Summarize the year
  From Variety dated December 31, 2008... As is wont in an epic film of this magnitude "2008: Fearings, Jeerings and Congressional Hearings," directed by Cthulhu, opened in unprecedented worldwide release to much fanfare and circumstance. The opening sequence alone was...
• Commented on I made this, you play this, we are enemies -- the weirdest goddamned game I've ever played
  I feel like I did right after I saw "Requiem for a Dream" the first time. I need to go for a walk outside....
• Commented on Poetry goes Boing!
  Thank you Teresa for this wonderful challenge. It is obvious that you spent a lot of time and energy on thoughtfully considering each and every entry, with spot-on results and rankings. Kudos! And let's do that again! ...my favorite? HKDailo@130....
• Commented on Old video of talking electric guitar
  Catullus @#31 Wow, you could be right. Add a lot of hair, a few years and 1 pipe and you could have 2/5s of Murph and the MagicTones. Seriously, the era and genre look right for them to be in...
• Commented on We can has games
  Xeni with her sex and nerd, Frauenfelder's art. Pesco comes with "have you heard?" Doctorow is smart. Every Boinger has his meme, Choosing with intoning, The worst obsession I find, then, Would have to be ear coning....
• Commented on HSBC's bizarre lumberjack ad
  Ad Team has grand idea. Ad Team tries to sell idea to anyone. HSBC is the first to bite....
• Commented on Yes We Can remix: Lee Dorsey's funk classic meets Obama speech
  Effing Win!...
• Commented on Freehands, gloves for cold weather gadget twiddling
  The hobos had it right!...
• Commented on US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass
  Step 10 in Naomi Wolfe's fascism. Here we go......
• Commented on New Yorker Film Festival: The 5 Scariest Movies Ever?
  "Trilogy of Terror" starring Karen Black gives me chills to this day. It may be because it was on "The Big Show" at 3 pm and I watched it alone in my house after school (6th grade or so...)...
• Commented on NYC tap water in bottles
  We used to call the cloudy tap water "Astoria Gray". We'd let it settle and then enjoy!...
• Commented on Daily Show on Republican hypocrisy
  @peterus Leaning left from polarizing Capitalism is not necessarily a bad thing......
• Commented on Daily Show on Republican hypocrisy
  The republican machine's wheels are falling off exposing the smoke and mirrors....
• Commented on Food that eats itself
  There are a couple episodes of TV Funhouse where the Anipals go into a restaurant called "Sames." Their tagline is "You Eat What You Are." http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=34128...
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  From Gregg J. Manning for City Council election website in 2000... "Top Priorities if Elected 1. Attract new business to the Clayton Downtown 2. Continue the responsible City growth which has made Clayton the City you want to live...