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• Commented on Burk Uzzle's photos of Woodstock
  @#1 I'll take hippie culture over the negativity I see in the (overall) culture of today. The youth culture of 40 years ago was not jaded, did not suffer from low attention spans of today, and had the courage to...
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  I have a feeling already that I am preaching to the choir...and wasting my words ,but this takes the cake (at least for the week) as being the dumbest thing I've heard. PETA has got to be the most self-UNaware...
• Commented on Tienanmen Square erased
  #8 @ Takuan In general, as a society, we do not value historical inquiry. More specifically, expecting the average teenager to know anything about Viet Nam is not indicative of censorship, it's indicative of an educational system that is less...
• Commented on Silicon Valley As I Found It
  Rudy, I just finished reading your chapter and I can hardly wait until your memoir is published. Thoroughly fascinating and readable! Thanks for sharing yourself with the BoingBoing community! long time reader, Russ "Cupcake Faerie" Van Rooy...
• Commented on Guide to some of the military's rock bands
  @ #5 posted by GRUBEN Not many bands/rockers come out of the Army but you left out one particularly crucial one: Pfc James M. Hendrix of the 101st Airborne Division, paratroopers....
• Commented on Flamed Cars
  Rudy, Back in the day (1973),having such a car (with hand-painted flames),did you get pulled over an inordinate amount of times by the local authorities?...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  I think we have a *media driven* witch hunt against sexual crimes. I in no way shape or form advocate in favor of child - adult sexual behavior ,but I do think our (societal) attitudes towards it - that it...
• Commented on Elephant Dung and More!
  I am amazed at the "snark-a-tude" Dr. Rucker's guest posts have evoked in many of the commenters here. People, when your snark is showing, that's a little like your brains dripping out your ears....
• Commented on Everything Is Alive
  Every paradigm shift will be met with vigorous opposition....
• Commented on Guest blogger: Rudy Rucker
  Enjoy your stay with the Happy Mutants, Rudy! Of course,me; I'm a big fan of "Infinity and the Mind","White Light" and "Mathematicians in Love". I read your blog regularly and look forward to equally gnarly discourse....
• Commented on Books about (or at least by) weird but interesting people
  I posted the Kirn article to my facebook account for all my friends to see. ;-) What an interesting and yes depressing article. Confirms for me, what many already know, that it's not the school you go to but the...
• Commented on Elsevier has <em>an entire division</em> dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals
  Glad you are talking about this. I sent you guys a link about this about five months ago - granted it was about a much more abstract subject area (mathematics), but Elsevier has no class (or production values) whatsoever. See...
• Commented on Bolivia is to Lithium as Saudi Arabia is to Oil.
  Hmmmm....now how did all that American Lithium end up under their mountains? Oh well no matter... Let's see....CIA Playbook.... play #223... it says here... plant some drugs on your opponent and then call for police action...hmmmm Bolivia...didn't they used to...
• Commented on Florrie Fisher in "The Trip Back" (part 1)
  My heart goes out to this woman. She's a character and possibly a stereotype, but she's also a human being and she obviously has gone through enormous shit storms. I don't agree with her at all that all drugs are...
• Commented on Ranting lemonade label from embittered screenwriter
  I think this fella's road to Oscar Night begins here. I hope, along the way, he does not become the corpulent bloodsucking undead that he rants about......
• Commented on Man bites off tip of own penis
  Maybe he was part of that family act, the Aristocrats......
• Commented on Neil Young's latest album is about his electric car
  I don't care what Neil drives , I care what Neil plays!...
• Commented on Neil Young's latest album is about his electric car
  Meh. Just listened to it. It's typical Neil - which is to say it's not typical - but why should I buy it? No melody.Sounded phoned in. It's no "Cortez the Killer" - now there's a song! It's no "Powder...
• Commented on Neil Young's latest album is about his electric car
  As a long time "super fan" of Neil's - I'm not looking forward to this album. How can the entire album be about his gee-whiz electric car. Neil is getting weirder and weirder and this time - not a good...
• Commented on Gentleman in New Orleans Loses Chunk of Arm in Possible Zombie Attack
  I'm going to New Orleans at the end of this month ( Jazz Festival, ya know). What special precautions should I take to avoid or fend off zombies, if I should see any? Will I know if I am being...
• Commented on U2's manager wants the power to cut off your Internet connection
  U2 has consistently produced dreck since after Joshua Tree. I would find it extremely easy to boycott them. Such overblown arrogance is criminal! Who do they think they are - oh yeah, Bono and Jesus are pretty tight....
• Commented on Long-secret Red Cross Report Says Medical Workers Helped US Torture Terror Suspects
  Takuan, Isn't it time to take America away from those who "own it"? After that, Indict and prosecute Cheney,Rumsfeld,Rice ( I think it would e difficult to indict/prosecute Bush but it would be great punishment for him to watch this...
• Commented on Robot gardeners
  Oh I loved "Silent Running" when I was a wee lad - my introduction to the melodious voice of Joan Baez. Really great special effects for the 1970s pre-Star Wars. Now I gotta rush and add 'Silent Running' to the...
• Commented on Anti-capitalists Attack Banker's Home and Mercedes: "This is Just the Beginning."
  If you don't want to see an increase in violence in the name o class warfare - then we are going to have to see some retribution paid to those who got us in this state in the first place...
• Commented on Lisa Randall on the origin of the universe -- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  Electricity by itself , e.g. lightning, does not travel at light speed (lightining can travel at good percentage of light, 60,000 miles/second (wikipedia)) ,but it is a form of matter that has mass (plasma) and thus cannot travel at light...
• Commented on Lisa Randall on the origin of the universe -- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  @ #5 That's still very good company - even if Smolin disagrees with Greene about string theory....
• Commented on Lissa Soep on Facebook, nostalgia, and intimacy
  I'm glad to see that facebook is finally getting recognition as something more than a passing fancy. I think people have barely begun to realize what a profound tool it is going to be. Also, maybe this is obvious, but...
• Commented on Theme song for 1962 World's Fair in Seattle
  Wow that song is awwwwwwful! I love Seattle by the way, it's my hometown and I was not even one year old when the fair opened. DO they even have Worlds Fairs anymore - how quaint....
• Commented on Fox's Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
  I think the country is headed for a comeuppance - not that it is deserved when compared to what will likely happen. The economic woes will become a depression of great proportions. This will lead to civil strife on both...
• Commented on World's longest sausage
  Talk about your bangers!...