AlanJCastonguay

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• Commented on Rotating Kitchen art piece
  This kitchen is and/or has a very volatile frame of reference....
• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  Don't want to watch this video. Know that something similar had to happen. Eat meat, and like it. Prefer to think of cute chicks and grilled chicken as unrelated. Would be OK with genetic engineering to make all the animals...
• Commented on Meet the Hon. James David Manning, PhD.
  I thought that BoingBoing would be supportive of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism Be prepared for the zombie apocalypse, and all that jazz. I didn't think that self-sufficiency was associated with other assorted wingnuts....
• Commented on Father blames others for his own misinterpretation of candy wrappers as "pornographic"
  I would not want my minor-aged children to see it because they are not equipped to see the humor. It's hard enough to deal with their questions that come from so-called kids' television. Children have difficulty understanding humor because they...
• Commented on Father blames others for his own misinterpretation of candy wrappers as "pornographic"
  Last time I went to the florist I saw some flowers. There were no bees though, with or without lurid expressions. Thank goodness!...
• Commented on Les Paul wows Alistair Cooke with tape recorder
  Most striking was the lack of a clap-track 59 seconds in....
• Commented on Anatomical model exhibition at the Wellcome
  #10 Sure looks like him, but a but younger than we're used to....
• Commented on Visa claims teen spent $23,148,855,308,184,500.00 on prepaid credit card
  There's a pattern here, looks like corruption in the high bits. If you take the number in cents 2314885530818450000 and convert to hex; 0x2020202020201250 Or binary: 10000000100000001000000010000000100000001000000001001001010000 A pretty pattern, yes? Chop off the leading pattern and you're left with...
• Commented on Docs to WHO: publicly condemn homeopathy for dangerous diseases
  Doctor Who?...
• Favorited Man electrocutes pickle to demonstrate power of Christianity on Boing Boing
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  Usability Fail...
• Commented on Verizon doesn't understand simple math
  Old, good, and I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some further progress on the issue from Verizon's perspective. I'm glad that there have been updates on the linked blog in the last year, to...
• Commented on Sending your video camera around the sushi conveyor
  This is a private video?...
• Commented on David Gibbs against robot love
  Nuku Nuku, fulfilling all three of robots, pets, and conventional womens. Once technology becomes sufficiently advanced, we'll have cute girl-robot-kitty von-Neumann machines, and the folks who can't figure out how to separate love from reproduction will have less to complain...
• Commented on Interview with creator of $500 Half-Life movie
  I'd like to see “a lot of complicated tracking and rotoscoping” expanded into several pages of material....
• Commented on Car Decorations and Accesories in Japan
  "In Hell, Michigan, there is actually an annual "Underage Girls Show Your Panties" festival each summer, just after the Halloween season ends." This is crazy, and needs a citation....
• Commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  Canada, 6mbps down, 1mbps up DSL, $45 CAD. It would be nice if the CRTC would force lower tariffs, instead of waiting for "market forces" to workaround the last mile monopoly....
• Commented on Guest blogger: Danny Choo!
  The world is doomed. Welcome!...
• Commented on Canadian ISP that appears not to suck
  I'm a customer of MNSi, who operates in Ontario from Windsor to the GTA. They use their own DSLAMs where possible, which is not affected by Bell's desire to throttle traffic....
• Commented on Steampunk puzzle game preview
  With larger iconography and menu navigation, this would make an excellent Wii game....
• Commented on Two-headed calf (RIP)
  #1 speaks the truth....
• Commented on Sex doll bandit
  In other unrelated news, a serial Sex Bandit was euthanized late Thursday night. “These bandits seldom survive.”...
• Commented on Bre Pettis's rapid prototyping talk, a tour-de-force presentation from 25C3
  Also available via Prototype Your Life MP4, 437MB (Torrent)...
• Commented on Obama <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">might</span> ought to get rid of daylight saving time
  Yes! If I want to get an extra hour of "evening" in, I'll just go in and leave an hour early. There's absolutely no reason to tie the time on a wall clock to the position of the sun. Honestly,...
• Commented on Mac Minis to get GeForce motherboards?
  #3 VGA? Is that a PS/2 keyboard port?! New Mini's not so mini?...
• Commented on Sonicwall thinks XKCD is porn. Stick figure porn.
  Personally, I prefer webcomics with some semblance of maturity. There's a lot of immature crap on the internets, and I'm happy that XKCD and BoingBoing are not them. So, can we get Fox blocked as Immature, please?...
• Commented on Sonicwall thinks XKCD is porn. Stick figure porn.
  Do these blocking services just block everything that gets tagged? It is not blocked as "Adult/Mature Content" It's not?...
• Commented on EFF sues Cheney, Bush, and the NSA to stop illegal wiretapping
  Canadian, and I've only donated 50 bucks to the EFF this year, but damn, I'm happy about how my money is being spent....
• Commented on Truck as flower bed
  There's a similar flower bed parked on the street in Toronto's Kensington Market: http://flickr.com/photos/alanjcastonguay/sets/72157606794927729/...
• Commented on Rosalind Williams: Notes on the Underground
  #1 - Ok, nevermind, either I'm crazy, or the link was fixed....