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• Commented on Cancer drug may treat diabetes
  a) very exciting news! [even knowing the potential dangerous side effects of rituxan] b) i wish people would stop calling it juvenile onset diabetes. i developed it at age 31, my cousin at age 24. i've also met someone who...
• Commented on Muppets singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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• Commented on Muppets singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  this makes me so happy. one of the people who worked on this is someone i have known since we were 4 years old. if i had a time machine i'd totally go back and tell him that he got...
• Commented on Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's
  i speak to MS patients daily in my line of work. over 1/3 of my patients are women who got divorced within a few years of diagnosis. sometimes by their own choice but even then usually because of feeling neglected...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  thanks for the tips, i tried it tonight with mixing the last of the clove oil flavored tobacco i had ready to go with an equal amount of unflavored and more crushed cloves. i don't have a strainer i am...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  @#100 angurgapi - i'm confused. i used to smoke sampoerna extras. i was charged with misdemeanor possession of a pack of them in 1999 in florida [they've been illegal there since 1985, although still sold at many retailers for years]...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  @84 YRI - the clove cigars are slightly different, not as sweet smelling, less smooth to smoke and a larger diameter tube. but not awful. i just don't like them enough to smoke them unless i am desperate. @86 DECLINE...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  @ OPTUSER - never made heroin, but i have a blister on my index finger from that cigarette machine! @#85, thanks!...
• Commented on HOWTO flout the flavored tobacco ban and make DIY homemade clove cigarettes
  @#2 TOMBOING - i meant smoking them in public is flaunting my habit, but yes, i worded it poorly. had no idea anyone would even read that deep into the comments that late into the day until i got a...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  after reading the comments i don't think i could get through the dip chewer's video but i agree with at least part of his sentiment on the flavored tobacco ban i heard about it the day it was signed. and...
• Commented on Video of "upside-down" lightning
  seriously, only 6 times? i drove through salt lake city during a thunderstorm once and was stopped on the causeway by the lake due to lightning strikes in the road. i parked for about half an hour at an overlook...
• Commented on Electro-Mechanical Arcade Games
  huh, give them swords and it reminds me of the motorcycle battle from final fantasy vii...
• Commented on Flickr set for Stitch Wars, Star Wars-theme craft show
  if i brought home a plushie tauntaun like that my cat would try to use it as a bed [i don't see this as a bad thing unless it's a one of a kind art piece, which i think this...
• Commented on Insectoid centaur fighting Barbie robot
  $400? damn, i need to get back to work on my barbie mutilations. i could use an influx of cash. that's nice work though. i don't think i would have been able to resist making it light up though....
• Commented on World's largest collection of bottle ships
  i wish i'd seen that when i was there. the zuiderzee museum is there and it's pretty incredible actually. although seeing the 12 century fishing boats and being able to walk up and touch them wasn't as awesome as seeing...
• Commented on Half-man / half-Pooh Bear takes a break next to decapitated patriotic Mickey Mouse
  it looks like the comments on the photostream indicate this was taken in madrid, which makes it a special situation for the costumed performer in question : if he was visible it was due to the location not being secure...
• Commented on To do in LA: Police Academy's Michael Winslow, The Human Foley, "Scores" Silent Films, Live.
  @BBONYX i don't know how many kids he has total but i met him and two teenagers, and his wife about 8-9 yrs ago. they were living in orlando at the time, visiting disney and i worked there. can't recall...
• Commented on Socotra Island: the “Galápagos of the Indian Ocean.”
  the first time i saw the pics from darkroastedblend.com i thought to myself "oh, final fantasy vii!"...
• Commented on Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in <s>his</s> her locker
  the kissimmee [florida] public library main branch used to [don't live there anymore so i don't know the current practice] keep all the books banned from that county's public schools in a glass case in the lobby with a sign...
• Commented on A Nigerian Dictator Bought My Sofa
  @andrew666 .... that's just beautiful, thanks for sharing. i tried to sell a glass topped console table on craigslist last year and someone wanted to have the movers come get it, send me a money order, etc. i just said...
• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  eventually all the good little boys and girls will join [gordon] brown's youth and turn their parents in for talking to foreigners and keeping cleaning supplies in the house....
• Commented on Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters
  @#4 CHOLTEN99 - moo.com makes some great sticker packs for a reasonable price if you just upload your own images. i'd do it if i lived on that side of the pond. but maybe i can make something appropriate to...
• Commented on Chili pepper science
  now i am wondering if capsaicin acts the same way on birds' digestion as in humans: specifically to speed digestion. it could be nature's way of getting the seeds out the other end much faster....
• Commented on Perfectly Good Names The SciFi Channel Could Have Chosen Instead of The Utterly Stupid "SyFy"
  please, may we just have an all joss whedon all the time channel? with behind the scenes footage, interviews and director's commentary. the sci fi channel still exists?...
• Commented on Cool robots, androids, and cyborgs of Pre-Golden-Age SF
  anyone ever read tik-tok of oz? i always found it funny that L Frank Baum invented tik-tok with a wireless telephone. visionary, that man... the book version containing that tidbit was published in 1914...
• Commented on Top 10 Cryptozoology Stories of 2008
  also, if you like the cryptids, please look at loren coleman's page for info on how to help him save his life's work, the cryptozoology museum. there's a nice link right up there on this page too....
• Commented on Downwind faster than the wind - Part 4
  hrm, i am wondering if the fact that his orangutan toy is named terry is an homage.... could terry possibly be a librarian?...
• Commented on Nintendo garters for gamer girls
  nintendo controller - rectagular. nipples - definitely not rectangular [i'm female, i've seen them in real life] perhaps we should skip the entire controller pasties concept and go right to D-pad pasties. i know, they aren't x shaped either, but...
• Commented on Petition to save Disney World's Adventurer's Club
  it seems to relate to this article about a new adult only [but not like THAT] theme park, "Disney's Night Kingdom": http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/02/15/night-kingdom-to-reimagine-the-disney-theme-park-going-experience.aspx "Speaking of arriving ... Guests will enter DNK through a new, super-sized version of the Adventurers Club at...
• Commented on Pretend cops bully videographer, videographer wins
  @#38 Spoon http://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/assault_battery.html#2 assault doesn't even have to involve touching, just causing fear of imminent peril is enough and battery includes touching someone without their permission whether you harm or even intend to harm them or not and "A police...