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• Commented on Eigenharp, crazy sci-fi instrument
  Who knew Boing Boing was home to so many luddites? The cool musicians already have Macs anyway. Maybe now you PC dorks know how it feels when someone doesn't make something for your platform....
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @41: Also, I can tell you from personal experience that building sites with CSS is *far faster* than with tables. You have it precisely backwards - tables increase billable hours, significantly. And, tabular data is not spacer gifs and layout....
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @41: "If they produce more consistent results with less code and in less time (which they still do), I'm going to keep using them." They don't, they don't, and they don't. Enjoy your horse-drawn buggy....
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @31: If by "better" you mean they produce bloated code, are inefficient to program, are hard to modify, and are terrible for search-engine optimization, then yes, they are certainly better! I love it when people who know nothing about this...
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @28 CSS isn't that hard, really. What sucked about HTML was mixing in a bunch of unnecessary tags that make it hard to work with, and pages bloated with unnecessary code. CSS fixes this by moving the styling to an...
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @26: Coop, I live in the real world, and have been building websites professionally for 12 years now. I remember table-based layout very well, and used it for a long time when that was the only game in town. I...
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  The only problem with CSS lies with people who can't be bothered to learn how to use it (read: dinosaurs)....
• Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
  @#4 Tables for layout as a rebellious stance makes even less sense than a PBR-drinking hipster....
• Commented on TSA officer caught stealing laptops at JFK
  #30 wins. Putting anything like a laptop in checked baggage is just plain stupid....
• Commented on Woman kills elephant with bow & arrow
  @213: You're not sensing hypocrisy, not in the least. You're actually being an apologist for this stupid woman and her incredibly callous act. It doesn't matter that the meat allegedly fed a village. As others have pointed out, the money...
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  Yeah, this is a maddening problem. The blame rests squarely with clueless "web designers" who've sold restaurants on these goofy, pointless, piece-of-crap websites....
• Commented on Trader Joe's fan commercial not to be missed
  Lest anyone be confused about the creativity of the creator, this is a Jobim song, "Aguas de Março". Kinda funny. I'm sure Tom would approve....
• Commented on Global Voices' coverage of Gaza Strip Bombings (and how to keep the coverage alive)
  If Mexico was firing rockets into California, would anybody be defending them?...
• Commented on Font Haiku
  Hrm, no edit? That last one should be: We made a new site We wanted it 2.0 So we used Georgia The syllable count is important!...
• Commented on Font Haiku
  We have a new site We made it 2.0 By using Georgia...
• Commented on Font Haiku
  The bane of the web As bad as a spinning skull Just say no to Times...
• Commented on Font Haiku
  Money and finance Or conveying importance Time to use Trajan...
• Commented on Gogol Bordello's punk gypsy
  Also, second those who prefer Balkan Beat Box. For more stuff in that sonic vein, check out rai music, which is always played before Gogol Bordello shows. The GB frontman, Eugene Hutz, is well-known in NYC for his DJ activities...
• Commented on Gogol Bordello's punk gypsy
  @BALDHEAD "Hm. you're only about six or seven months behind everyone else on this one." 6 or 7 months? Try 6 years....
• Commented on Science fiction authors offer unusual Homeland Security Advice
  Niven is an obvious racist. Witness the horrible caricatures of black people in Lucifer's Hammer....
• Commented on Physics report-card for science fiction movies
  Kubrick was a pimp who researched his nuts off for every movie he made. They totally blew it on 2001....
• Commented on Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds
  @16 Pointing out his immunity to recoil is perfectly valid....
• Commented on Video of man tasered to death
  "Police who use Tasers as a go-to method for calming people down need to be fired. Period." I agree 100%. Every RCMP officer on the scene in this incident should be fired....
• Commented on Video of man tasered to death
  Interesting discussion. I think Garrett makes some good points about what watching this video is going to inspire people to do, if anything. I clicked on the link and watched a few seconds of the clip, and then decided that...
• Commented on Taser death at Vancouver Airport
  I find it more than a little depressing that anyone is defending the police. This story made me feel physically ill. If only ONE of the worthless automatons had listened to the mother this horrible tragedy might have been averted....
• Commented on Coffee Hacks With Mark/Foxie Moxie
  I use one of these daily. You can't beat the coffee this thing makes, and it's kind of amazing it takes less than 2 minutes, start to finish....