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• Commented on Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and mirrors?
  David, I'd go look at your blog, except for the fact that you constantly (and redundantly) post the URL in every one of your comments that I've seen. Blog-pimping is bad, m'kay?...
• Commented on Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas
  Let's see, twice the size of Texas would be 520,000 square miles. If it's been "growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s," then roughly: 2007 = 520,000 sq mi 1997 = 52,000 sq mi 1987 = 5,200 sq mi 1977...
• Commented on Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas
  I don't mean to trivialize it, but from skimming through that video, and doing a Google image search, so far my impression is that these folks are being rather hyperbolic using terms like "an island twice the size of Texas,"...
• Commented on Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas
  An area of polluted water with occasional pieces of floating garbage is not an "island continent."...
• Commented on Radiohead downloads were just a tactic to boost CD sales?
  Anyone who complains about this scheme is saying more about themselves and their expectations than about Radiohead. What a brilliant cross between a marketing plan and a psychology experiment....
• Commented on Impractical, skinny leaning bookcases
  Maximum materials usage for minimal storage capacity -- compelling!...
• Commented on What Is Your Formula? project
  comstock, yes, Edge stuff has some amount of "elite brainiac clique salon" smell to it, but there are always some interesting insights or angles in there. Although some of these (like the Rucker doodle above) do come across like Deep...
• Commented on What Is Your Formula? project
  Now how the hell am I supposed to get any work done for the rest of the afternoon?...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  Many Muslim conflicts involve one sect attacking another, usually for sectarian reasons Ooops!...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  Preaching end-times rapture theology may be weird and disturbing, but they're just making wacky predictions -- they're not inciting anyone to go out and start the apocalypse now. Pat Robertson may say some really strange stuff, and he's quite critical...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  jamesgyre, please give examples of Christian preachers who preach the equivalent of "kill all the Jews" or "if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, you will get 72 virgins in heaven." One major difference between Christians and Muslims is...
• Commented on Politico baby pants for endless Thatcher-face-turding fun
  Of course, actually using these would mean that some Thatcher-hating lefty is going to have to be subjected to her face each time they look at their child, and that the child will grow up with Thatcher's face imprinted into...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  There are definitely some Christians who are intolerant, e.g. homophobic, racist, etc. But (a) unlike their Muslim equivalents, violence and intimidation committed by groups like the KKK is totally condemned by all official Christian bodies and (b) the percentage of...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  muslims are hardly a homogeneous group. some are into peace and love, some are into violent coercion of others. True. kind of like christians. I guess I missed the reports of Christian priests giving sermons exhorting their flocks to "slay...
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  But everyone crowing about "clash of civilizations" will be happy Um, no....
• Commented on Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto's motorcade bombed
  The religion of peace, love, and fluffy bunnies strikes again!...
• Commented on New Jim Woodring painting
  I know I'm going to buy some of his stuff, I just can't make up my mind which one to start with......
• Commented on Solar powered immigrant shelter provides Internet access
  frow, so you're saying that because we took over from the Native Americans, we have no right to enforce our national borders? Basically anyone who wants to walk or fly in and declare themselves to be an American can do...
• Commented on Solar powered immigrant shelter provides Internet access
  It's an illegal immigrant shelter, right? Odd how that word always gets left out, and anyone who's against illegal immigrants is immediately painted as "anti-immigrant" and "racist." But hey, the concepts of obeying the law and national borders are soooo...
• Commented on Anti-DRM cards to stick in your Netflix envelopes from Defective By Design
  A great way to generate lots of dead-tree trash!...
• Commented on CC'ed collage of computer game sounds by Bob Ostertag
  So did he get permission to use the game music, or is it claimed that this is "fair use?" I don't always agree with Ostertag's politics, but I've always liked his music, especially the stuff with Fred Frith and John...
• Commented on Fun with Google's Image Labeler
  Then there are the other ones. The ones who don't/can't type. I have resorted to taunting them in my answers. I'm sure that there will be a name for this anonymous taunting soon Pathetic?...
• Commented on Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles Schulz bio
  stark and beautiful and horrible all at once Yeah, ol' Chuck had more angst and existential dread than a roomful of dressed up Goth kids....
• Commented on Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles Schulz bio
  I always find discussions to be tedious anyway. Case in point......
• Commented on Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles Schulz bio
  Skep, I remember that as a kid I didn't get some of the references and humor in Peanuts, stuff that I now understand as an adult. But even so, as a kid I loved Peanuts, so for me it works...
• Commented on Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles Schulz bio
  One of the things I never liked about Peanuts is that the characters never seemed to be very child-like. They always seemed like little adults in disfigured bodies Skep, do you think that Stewie Griffin needs to act more like...
• Commented on NYT on Free Culture
  Claudius, I would say that things like citizen reporting and watchdogging via the net would be far more powerful forces for changing and improving society than the ability to copy mp3s and movies. Let's face it, all this DRM stuff...
• Commented on Return of Diana camera after 35 years
  It's sort of cool in a cheesy retro-object-fetish way, but for actual photography, I'm not convinced that you couldn't get the same lo-fi results with a digital camera and Photoshop - let's face it, you're probably going to scan the...
• Commented on Gastrovac sucks your food -- Boing Boing Gadgets
  "The Smoking Gun" looks like half the components were sourced from the local head shop. "Smokehouse flavor," indeed......
• Commented on NYT on Free Culture
  The upshot is that a new economic order is being ushered in that will sweep away the verities of the old one. I hear vague hints of this in a lot of BB posts. Would someone please be more explicit...