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• Commented on London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity
  Yo, stop snitchin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeaZSxe5A4...
• Commented on The $4000 handmade rattle
  Is this the same act that made Amazon notify me that the CD's I sell there (my band) have to be certified as safe? I have not responded because I would have no idea how to do such a thing....
• Commented on House prices plummet in Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland
  How does one un-develop land? As these cities shrink, and the real value of certain properties approaches zero, at what point does it make sense to abandon neighborhoods to nature?...
• Commented on About the "Ukrainian Serial Killers" post
  A few of thoughts as to why this hasn't been a big story in the western press. US news organizations are reeling, failing, and downsizing. One of the big losses is a robust foreign desk. If you don't even have...
• Commented on When spellcheckers attack: The Cupertino Effect
  I remember a newspaper article that got though with some sort of style-bases auto-correct on, where somebody named Mr. Black was referred to as "Mr. African American" throughout the whole piece. -j...
• Commented on Leveraging and deleveraging explained
  I am not an economist. But #7: I would guess that it is the inflated value of things that disappears. There is no law of conservation of value. Economics is a confidence game. If we all believe, then things (stocks,...
• Commented on Barenaked Ladies free Xmas single -- and awesome kids' record!
  Thanks for the link. We need more bands to make more better Christmas tunes. If it weren't for the Kinks, Waitresses, and Pretenders, radio would be a dismal listen. Here's my band's humble offering to the genre: http://www.thejennifers.com/Christmas_In_Reverse.mp3 -John...
• Commented on In 2007, pundits scoffing accurate predictions about the economy
  One of the benefits of showing up on Fox news is that it's pretty easy to be the brightest person there. Big whoop - you're smarter than a third grader!...
• Commented on Alan's War: extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed
  I liked the way Pynchon described the occupied "zone" in Gravity's Rainbow. My great uncle was US Army and assigned as a mayor of a small German town in the US zone right after the war. His experience was nothing...
• Commented on Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
  Picture of the year....
• Commented on Was 2006 The Golden Age Of Viral Videos?
  Gosh, this takes me back. Such a simple time. Such fond, sepia toned memories of a bygone era. Today's generation just doesn't understand. Sniff.....
• Commented on Jill Greenberg's Photoshopped McCain out-takes
  OK that's it. Boing Boing comment threads used to be a delightfully broad mix of wide ranging opinions, rants, and intelligent discussion. They still are, but the rampant disemvowelling adds zero and subtracts quite a lot. It's your site, and...
• Commented on The Bush Years poster features a dapper Jack Abramoff
  I distinctly remember my feelings in January 2001 when they showed Clinton boarding a plane right after he handed the keys over. I thought, wow, the end of a great era, and I wonder what's coming next? Hoo boy......
• Commented on Road rage filmer writes about his media experience
  I will echo what others have said about having experience with reporters who have their their snazzy narrative all figured out before they even interview you. It really does make you wonder about the veracity of all news reports, let...
• Commented on Smith: "Baby It's You" (1969)
  Is that Ron Jeremy on keys?...
• Commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  Here are his questions for McCain: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381841,00.html They also show a very anti-public service libertarian slant. I so look forward to Fox and other journalists growing a spine and asking tough, probing questions of the executive branch the very second...
• Commented on Funny new Apelad shirt $10 including shipping
  Spot of rabbit bother?...
• Commented on Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky
  Not being a linguist, and not having a chimp in this fight, I'd guess that it is a matter of degree rather than a sharp difference in kind. Humans brains have evolved to develop the ability to speak to an...
• Commented on Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco immunity, throws out the Fourth Amendment
  #57: "The supreme court will never let this stand." The current court - maybe. A court with a McCain appointment or two - definitely. I will vote for and support Obama despite this FISA vote. No candidate is ever perfect,...
• Commented on Obama bumper stickers for every state
  "Obama is a new kind of candidate"? Well, he is black, which is the new, uh, black....
• Commented on Uncontacted tribe in Amazon
  The book "1491" argues that many remote Amazon tribes are the remnants of previously civilized peoples who fled death, disease and learning Spanish during the Conquistador era. Their "prior contact" may have been 25 generations ago....
• Commented on Why oil prices rose to more than $100/barrel
  All of these policies have succeeded - insanely high oil prices are the goal. Why would the oilogarchs running the government want to reduce oil prices? That would be opposite, Jerry. And Carter did implement some great alternative energy programs...
• Commented on Freeman Dyson on global warming
  Scary as the carbon rise is, I have an issue with graphs where the scale doesn't start at zero. The current presentation exaggerates the rise: |---------x |------x |----x |--x |x___________ If the ppmv scale began at zero it would look...
• Commented on We could have colonized Mars with the money we spent on the Iraq war -- what else could we do?
  Rebuild New Orleans levees out of pure gold. Heck the whole city....
• Commented on Own your own pulse jet-powered bicycle for just $650
  That's pretty fast lane. I prefer the slow lane bike bods: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffiB_uoVx1E -j...
• Commented on Gorgeous art deco fan is a missed branding opportunity
  Looks like an old school Vespa horn: http://www.scooterhelp.com/tips/parts/horns/gs.150.horn.small.jpg...
• Commented on Blackout caused by cat chasing mouse
  The article has the gall to include the quote "We took pictures because we've never had anything like this," and not include said pictures?...
• Commented on DIY tape delay machine is useful, has <i>the look</i>
  Yup - http://www.fulltone.com/tte.asp...
• Commented on CauseCaller -- one-click to create a virtual phone-bank
  As these things get more and more automated, the value of a call becomes less and less. Now if one could automate a handwritten letter. But nice work in any case. -j...
• Commented on Andy Warhol: "Either once only, or every day."
  Sounds like an "Oblique Strategies" reject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies...