MarkHB

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• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  A story of one artist and one jerk....
• Commented on Leather fetish pilot mask
  I shall never look up at your balloon the same way again, Cory....
• Commented on Anonymous declares war on copyright enforcers, demands more lawsuits against P2P services
  Am I the only one who finds it blisteringly ironic that the video's been pulled from YouTube? Ho hum....
• Commented on Enigma: Derren Brown's new live mentalism and magic show on UK tour
  I am disgusted with the new Battlestar Galactica. It turns out that the spaceships weren't real, they were actually some kind of computer-generated fakery. Even the characters in the show were apparently played by actors! They lied to us, people....
• Favorited Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of EULAs in order to watch BluRay Sleeping Beauty on Boing Boing
• Commented on Hugo ballot is up -- Little Brother up for best novel!
  I've got no idea how I'm gonna choose on this one. The line-up is just incredible this year, and they're all absolutely thumping good books in utterly different ways. Congratulations, Cory - well deserved and I wish you the best...
• Commented on fMRI humor ar ar ar
  Heh. My cohort Alex wrote a volume viewer a while back - I realised I'd gotten inured to looking at brains while noshing on a nice beef stew peering at someone's medulla oblongata....
• Commented on Ed Boyden, brain hacker
  You mean the things that make me weak and strange can be engineered away? (Couldn't resist the quote!)...
• Commented on Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking
  Aww. That cover just makes me want to give her a hug and tell her it'll be alright. Big softie I guess....
• Commented on Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned
  I've been saying for ages I'm gonna bin my iPhone when my contract lapses. If this goes through, I'm binning it that day and Apple can bite my arse. This really makes me furious....
• Commented on Robot model kit: Chubu 01
  Does the horn go "Wort wort wort!" 'Cause it really looks like a Covenant Elite to me....
• Commented on Little digital video camera
  Personally, I think it's not bad. The more little lights we can turn on in dark corners, the less governments and other organisations can get away with. Wherever cameras are banned, then sooner or later someone's going to be behaving...
• Commented on Mysterious "roar" from outer space
  Paging Dr. Arroway. Paging Dr. Arroway. Dr. Arroway to the Very Large Array, please.......
• Commented on Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash
  90% of me is recalling an old KGB joke: "Do you know how to prove that the CIA didn't kill Kennedy?" "Niet." "Well, he's dead, isn't he?" The other 10% if me is in OMFG They Wouldn't Be That Obvious...
• Commented on Apple gets into the book-banning business
  I failed my Saving Throw vs. Shiny with the iPhone, I confess. However, it's been a heartbreaking process, very similar to when I got a PSP: A running firefight with the people who built it to get it to do...
• Commented on Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so
  I've just hugged my Dell 30" and told it I love it very much. I have also petted all my PCs and told them they're good girls, and that despite the Amiga 4000 that sneers at them from the end...
• Commented on Spider Robinson's "Very Hard Choices" -- rigorous, science fictional look at telepathy's problems
  Oooh, thanks for the head's-up. I could do with something to cool down after Anathem....
• Commented on Bruce Schneier's election night analysis
  Congrats! And applause on a top-notch way to show the priorities in life....
• Commented on New Democrat New Danger
  Well, in fairness he did turn out to be a bit of a nipple. Blindly following Dubya into the Gulf, democratising education 'til it's little more than a check-box and generally turning the country into a nannystate cesspit. So despite...
• Commented on DHS perfects the abusive EULA
  Possibly the most ironic use of the word "Welcome" in a page header....
• Commented on Dream Captcha for spam-free sleep
  I just got beer up my nose because of this. That's mucking farvellous....
• Commented on <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> Blu-Ray requires viewers to agree to 57 page EULA
  You blew Imagineering out. If I had heroes, you'd be one of 'em Cory. Disney's badly broken, and still pretty powerful. It's a symptom rather than being the disease: the disease is creatives being in a cancerous brainspace where they're...
• Commented on Principles for sound Internet policy: Internet for Everyone
  Back in '93, I had a Moment of Awe. I realised there was a planet-spanning network, through which the subject was no longer the object. It hit me like a tonne of bricks, like reading Clarke's passage: 31st December, 2000....
• Commented on EFF sues Cheney, Bush, and the NSA to stop illegal wiretapping
  Oh man, that's made my heart swell right up. That's just beautiful. I don't rate their chances, and it's gonna be akin to Scientology's "Fair Game" rule from the Gubment.... but that's taking the fight to the enemy, make no...
• Commented on Britain spends more on cops and locks up more people than any other developed nation
  Hum. I found out quite a bit as a result of being rather nastily assaulted by a gang of kids a few weeks back. Reading has a population of about 200,000 on the books (so probably closer a quarter mil)....
• Commented on Alaska job fair uses Cory Doctorow/XKCD cosplayer for ads?
  That gave my gigglebox a good prod. And yes, GeekDadCanada, I would too. No offence, Cory....
• Commented on Welcome to the old school: Commodore to sell PDA
  *sighs* I started off on the VIC-20. I'd buy a Commodore PDA just to have it. The white-lidded netbook is also tempting....
• Commented on Mad Magazine's War on Bush collection
  Ooohh my gh0d the expression on the Cheney cover is just *priceless*. When I grow up, I wanna draw that good....
• Commented on Make-believe police in UK have power to issue on-the-spot fines
  Anything to not spend money on a real police-force, doing actual policey things. This is why I'm heading to the US to go jobhunting in a couple of weeks. Wish me luck, it's gone bloody mad here in the Uck....
• Commented on Crayola keyboard and mouse
  Cool, no Windows key! No more dumping to desktop whilst trying to crouch in an FPS. ;)...