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• Commented on Ze Frank's free iPhone app "iFingerU"
  Oh, how odd. I was just thinking of ze Frank the other day....
• Commented on Review: Shoes for running off the beaten path
  Yeah, second on the "try on the running shoes at the store with a professional (preferably a runner themselves) in attendance" viewpoint. It helps. You can start running right now in whatever you've got on your feet -- I don't...
• Commented on Coming up: how tech boosted Lisa's marathon dreams
  @ gogsy1999 No, you're boned. Best tech for you: A calendar, to start your training 10 weeks out. And I say this with love, as someone who was under the (mistaken) impression that this Sunday's half marathon was actually two...
• Commented on Coming up: how tech boosted Lisa's marathon dreams
  I third the Body Glide love. It's annoyingly expensive for the small stick, but it works and you can't really argue with that. Or rather, the first time you get chafed . . . areas . . . because you...
• Commented on Photo: Pimobile
  So, that's 314,159 kilometers in eight years, which in 'merikan is 195,209 miles; or, a little over 24,401 per year. Thinking of the work week as 5 days in 51 weeks or 255 days, that's just under 100 miles of...
• Commented on Boing Boing Nerd Merit Badge!
  @ ErikO23 I think that you have just invented the "meta" merit badge. And you are the only one ever to earn it....
• Commented on New ACTA copyright treaty dodges the UN, poor countries and activists
  Anyone care to explain the difference between multilateral and plurilateral? multilateral = Persian Gulf War international coalition plurilateral = Iraq War "coalition of the willing"...
• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
  #41 says: Reagan wasn't perfect...but he did more in his 8 years at the helm than any president in the last 50. That's virtually undebatable. Yes, the virtually undebatable line is pretty obnoxious, but it's another turn of phrase in...
• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
  Wow. There is a whole lot of crazy in this thread all of a sudden. Where did it come from? Just off the top of my head, 38, 41 and 48 are complete lies. 38 is "saving U.S. Hostages in...
• Commented on Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch
  Speaking as a (insert professional qualification here, obfuscated to preserve anonymity, just trust me), I will way that this is completely old news for the academic historical profession. Major chroniclers of McCarthyism and of Reagan have known this for a...
• Commented on SplitFish FragFX V2 is the controller bundled with a PlayStation 3 if it were 1988
  It is eighty of your puny human dollars, earthling. I will never get used to your insistence on these concepts of "value" and "price". Now, tell me, what is this "wuv"?...
• Commented on Basket Case Insurer Gets $170 Billion from Taxpayers, Still Pays Huge Bonuses
  Okay, here's what I'm not getting: How, exactly, does a bonus become contractually obligated? If a bonus is contractually obligated, then isn't it simply payment for service, i.e., salary? Furthermore, AIG seems to be making the claim that they are...
• Commented on A paean to the Windows CE ultraportables of yore
  Primanti's? Primanti's? That's your reference? Just thinking about their cheesesteak makes me a little queasy. Unh, I think I can smell the grease on the french fries on the sandwich from here. Uncle Sam's Subs>Primanti's>The O. What were we talking...
• Commented on Microsoft imposes online "don't tell" policy on homosexuals
  "Hello, we're here to share with you the good news about the Book of SYSTEM ERROR."...
• Commented on Anti-terror laws are creating "police-state" -- former head of MI5
  Ah, don't forget: It's "Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5" AND "author of passably acceptable thrillers which realistically portray espio-crats as plagued by internal politics and less than entirely infallible." So, she's a rare public servant who has already...
• Commented on Dyson Airblade nuclear blasts your hands dry
  Yup, Minneapolis Airport, near the Chili's Too. Sometimes I think I spend half my life in that airport....
• Commented on Icefields Mystery Trails
  "they were in a remote area where it would not be safe to ski. " Bwa-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! See, for some people, your description of that area is *exactly* what they're looking for. In fact, "remote area where it would not be...
• Commented on Review: McDonald's Angus third-pounder sandwich
  Having lived in Pittsburgh and visited Philly repeatedly, I can only assume that the phrase "Pittsburgh, Philly and a few other big cities" is a double entendre. There are some . . . big . . . people there. Those...
• Commented on EFF sues to overturn telcom immunity
  I just joined EFF because of this story. I've been meaning to do it for a while, but this served as a timely reminder. @1. I agree, that quote isn't quite as instructive as the author might have hoped, since...
• Commented on Gadgets: Ten things that changed if you spent the last five years in hypersleep
  You forgot "Facehuggers broke into Hicks' cryo-tube and killed him, making any interesting follow-up story unlikely at best."...
• Commented on Oral history of the Whole Earth Catalog
  If you'd like to dig in a bit more to the connection between the WEC, the WELL, open source, Bucky Fuller, Patagonia, Apple, the sagebrush revolution, and who knows how much other stuff, there's a new academic history out about...
• Commented on Virgin Mobile: the cheapest phone on the cheapest network turns out to be a pain the ass (updated)
  Just be glad you don't have the Kyocera Marbl phone from Virgin in light blue. I'd say it's Hasbrorific, but really it's Fisher Priceless. I'm still trying to puzzle out the Virgin Mobile plans. I bought my ridiculously cheap Virgin...