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Commented on Father blames others for his own misinterpretation of candy wrappers as "pornographic"
From the "debunked as a hoax" link — how does this qualify as being debunked?Haribo has confirmed that a Yorkshire man's complaint about Maoam's "carnal" sweet wrappers is genuine. Simon Simpkins, a man from Pontefract in West Yorkshire, wrote...
Commented on Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems
Having struggled with major unipolar depression for more than 25 years now, I disagree with their contention based on personal experience. When deeply depressed, you're not able to engage in "uninterrupted thought" — your thoughts are uninterrupted, but they're uninterrupted...
Commented on 1930s Kotex brochure
From the brochure: "you will find coming from you a slightly blood-stained fluid… the first indication that the new purification has started." ...okay, creeped out now. (And "slightly blood-stained"? That does not jibe with my experience.)...
Commented on Pool rules at Florida condo complex
yri @ #69: Proper usage of "y'all" varies by region. In Central Florida where I grew up, "y'all" was properly plural, not singular. But "all y'all" was not improper; it was an intensive phrase (as in, "each and every one...
Commented on Face Transplant Recipient Speaks Out
Gaudeamus @46: To quote Anne Lamott, "Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."...
Commented on Hobby robot actuator can destroy your finger in an instant
Advice from master goldsmith and metalworking safety expert Charles Lewton-Brain:Never ask someone who has just had a drastic accident "How did you do that?" Quite often they will be in shock and literally show you just how they did it...
Commented on HOWTO Make a business-card catapault
TheMadLibrarian @ #9 - You only have to register if you want to see all the steps on one page or download the PDF version. You can view each step individually without registering or logging in — just click on...
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Favorited Little Brother art: UK cover, limited edition poster -- UPDATED on Boing Boing
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Favorited Little Brother art: UK cover, limited edition poster -- UPDATED on Boing Boing
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Favorited BBtv - Cory Doctorow: a reading from "Little Brother" book tour on Boing Boing
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Favorited Little Brother in NYC: today at Books of Wonder, 5-7PM on Boing Boing
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Commented on Birthday surprise: office filled with balloons dangling personal testimonials
How sweet! Many very happy returns of the day (to you both)....
Commented on Mister Rogers -- Podcast appreciation
The book I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers, by Tim Madigan, is well worth reading. Have a box of tissues handy. Dagnabbit, just thinking about the man gets me sniffly....
Commented on Bruce Sterling on our global psychosis, ca. 2009
I think Noen was using "learning experience" in much the same way that Zen Buddhists might call something a "practice opportunity", or the way my mother used to remark, "Oh, great, AFGE — another fricking growth experience!" In other words,...
Commented on Knitting for Wii-mote
Or you could, I don't know, actually KNIT something with needles and yarn so you'd have something when you were done, instead of just tired wrists. *sigh* I don't really see this going anywhere. People who knit are unlikely to...

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SamSam commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
Not sure if this is the place to put it, but there is a piece of spam in the Nabokov post that seems to expose a very bad bug in the html rendering of the comment system. There is a link to the spammy website, but the guy internally closed the a href tag. In html, his comment looks like this: `p' `a href="spammywebsite" /' Proenrichment `/p' (angled brackets replaced by single quotes) This had the effect, at least on FF 3.5.3 on OSX 10.5, of making the whole comment submission box a link that brought you to his spammy...
Antinous / Moderator commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
I got rid of the spam and notified our tech crew....
Secret_Life_of_Plants commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
The comment box on the Hijab post disappeared. Or maybe it just disappeared for me. When I clicked on submit it logged me out and now there is no comment box there, although I could presumably still comment other places, like here....
nosehat commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
If you are experimenting with a new design format, it's not going well. When I click on any "permalink" or on a post's title in the comments, I get a screen that looks like this: http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l367/nosehat/bbscreencap1.jpg FYI...
thedrymock commented on Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems
@sworm: Yeeeah, what with all the extra energy it gives you, depression is clearly an adaptation designed to make people gravitate toward giving birth to and then taking care of children for eighteen years. Or, huh, I wonder, could you just mean that you like to take advantage of women whose defenses against douches are low? If that's what you mean, I wish you'd just say so. To our faces. So we can walk away and hide in our houses contemplating the disgustingness of human nature some more, which frankly sounds like a lot more fun than talking to you...

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