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• Commented on How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
  Does this same technique work when trying to open up one's mind?...
• Commented on After the Game: What Happens to the Losing Team's Swag?
  My friend has a 2002 San Francisco Giants World Champions sweatshirt he bought for $2. That loss still hurts, but I'd take the sweatshirt....
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  I grew up in Silicon Valley and they used to bring in the goats to clear the brush on the hill by our high school. We often ate our lunches on that hill and at a certain point in the...
• Commented on Animating the XKCD "I Love the Internet" strip
  This actually increased my optimism regarding the future of mankind. But whether or not that increase was statistically significant, I'm not sure. I'm still bootstrapping the critical values....
• Commented on The surprising links between anger and time perception
  So because I think about an office-styled question using the common definitions of workplace words and phrases, I'm angry? Well, actually, my answer had to do with the fact that from my experience meetings only get rescheduled about 30 minutes...
• Commented on Michelangelo's The Torment of St. Anthony
  At 12 or 13 I was obsessed with the painting by Matthias Grunewald depicting the same event. http://betterlivingwithherbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/fire.jpg There was something very "Where the Wild Things Are" meets Labyrinth / Dark Crystal that I loved. I'm still amazed that it...
• Commented on Reptilian Alien Tearing Through Fake Human Face Thermos
  Although many children did this for other reasons, the whole reason I poured elmer's glue on my hand, waited for it dry, and peeled it off, was because I wanted to recreate my own personal bit of "V" every day...
• Commented on Devices for storing your baby
  Comment 11 already brought it up, but you see pretty much this same thing all the time in the Hasidic neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Its actually a bit weird. You're walking down the street and you look up and see...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  That Duck Tales video was incredibly disturbing. I feel a bit ill now....
• Commented on Cantina song from Star Wars on a Chapman Stick
  Is anyone else surprised by just how Nintendo that melody sounds when not played by the Cantina band? PS. Anyone have any clue who wrote that song?...
• Commented on Man arrested for defacing TV at Sears
  Nice links. Thought I'd add one of my own from Roman times: http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/7/7e/Pompeii_Priapus_2.jpg...
• Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
  I think Mr. Byrne did more exercising in those 5 minutes than I've done all month. And, I always smile whenever I see Jerry Harrison. Dude was in the Modern Lovers with Jonathon Richman and Talking Heads!...
• Commented on Thank you and farewell
  Dear BoingBoing powers that be, I found Mr. Foer to be one of the best, if not the best guestblogger. I believe I read every post in great detail and to much enjoyment. I am sad to see his tenure...
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  I've lived in both Canada and the US as well. I was just a poor student in Canada so my tax situation wasn't standard, but it was awesome. Tuition, school books, rent, subway fare, etc. all tax deductible. As a...
• Commented on Girl who claimed her face was tattooed while sleeping comes clean
  I swear that nothing can wake my girlfriend up from slumber (thank God cuz I'm a hell of a snorer), but something tells me 56 face tattoos might do the trick....
• Commented on Production stills from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  I think the stills looked great, but I can't say I've thought much of Tim Burton's last few films though, other than they've looked great. I'm a bit scared it'll end up being about the same quality of a film...
• Commented on Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker!
  Can you imagine if Xeni linked to a video on a Brazilian website and all the Americans complained about how evil the Brazilian company was for not letting the Americans watch for free and how BoingBoing should NEVER link to...
• Commented on Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker Twitter Tracker!
  A) #19's (jamesdigg) reaction leads me to believe he too had a tweet today about how long the line was to get his latte. B) HULU is pretty great. I like it. It sucks not being able to get it...
• Commented on Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek?
  My father was born in 1934. When he was in college, radios were still contraband so he and his friends built their own (and their own stations). Pretty geeky. He became a chemist back in the days when being a...
• Commented on Pirate Bay founder proposes to pay his fine with tiny, expensive-to-receive payments
  I don't know enough details, but I agree with the above. It seems like they are punishing the wrong group. I imagine it'd also come back to bite them in the ass....
• Commented on Selling fiber broadband by inviting users to dig their own trenches
  My parents have lived in Silicon Valley for about 40 years. You can practically see the headquarters for Google, Apple, etc. from their house. Yet, the entire neighborhood is without high-speed internet. Most of the neighbors use dial-up. Many neighbors...
• Commented on Joel Spolsky on the perfect electronics store
  I grew up in Silicon Valley and am about as big of a Fry's nerd as one can get, but B&H is AMAZING. When I lived in NYC, it was the first "tourist" stop for any out of friends visiting!...
• Commented on Rubber snake harvests wave energy
  2 and a half questions: 1. How does the electricity get from the anaconda's to someplace useful? Underwater cables? or does someone have to take boat out there to swap out the batteries? 2. will all these floating rubber things...
• Commented on Chief Army Chaplain in Afghanistan distributes local-language Bibles, orders congregation to convert locals
  Remember when Ann Coulter said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." I guess someone was listening. And that scares me....
• Commented on Some Practical Advice for Your Weekend
  When I was young (about 20 or so years ago) some of us neighborhood kids and our dads would go clamming out on the sand bars that were exposed during low tide. One of my friends got caught in quicksand....
• Commented on Tuxedomoon: No Tears for the Creatures of the Night
  One of the most astounding days of my life was when I found out that my college friend's mild-mannered dad was/(is?) a key member of the Residents....
• Commented on Trailer Park Boys: Big Plans, Little Brains
  I lived with my Canadian girlfriend who'd force me to watch TPB endlessly. I never could get into the show at all. I actually strongly dislike it (although I will admit to finding Bubbles amusing). After we broke up, I...
• Commented on Making the bed -- authority, parenting, play and work
  My new place has a pretty tiny bedroom. I have a small desk in it to work at (the girlfriend gets the living room for painting), but my work require numerous books, folders, and notes to be spread around, so...
• Commented on Reconstructing the genome of the earliest mammal
  I vote for bringing back the aurochs. The giant ancestor to the modern cow. It went extinct less than 400 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs 2nd choice is the giant sloth. No real reason for either. I just like them....
• Commented on Slumdog Millionaire Final Dance Scene "Corrected" at last to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
  Her yellow scarf does make it look like she is wearing a banana costume in the wide angle shots....