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• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Hate it. Seems unfriendly and cluttered and confusing compared with the old. Can't you make it like the "new, improved" yahoo and let us keep the old one too?...
• Commented on Swedish children demand end to gender stereotypes in Toys R Us catalog
  The idea that boys and girls/men and women are exactly the same bar some gender stereotyping is *so* last century! Research shows that drugs have different effects on men and women, their brains grow differently, the way they relate to...
• Commented on Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing
  @20 In my part of London the water is very hard, and comes out of the tap smelling very strongly of chlorine. Bottled water is not only a great deal better in taste here, but also avoids the work of...
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  Whie 18th century England did have segregated bathing machines and head to ankle bathing suits, that wasn't the whole story. Anyone who has read Francis Kilvert's diary will remember that in the beginning of the book he bathed naked in...
• Commented on Daily photos of a healthy cervix for one month
  I moved through all reactions from "yuck! to "fascinating!" in the course of scrolling through the month on the linked website. The comments here had me in stitches. I think #29 may have solved the teenage pregnancy problem in the...
• Commented on Gallery of old timey seed catalogs
  It's *so* Christ-like it would be interesting to know what else the designers and printers were doing at the time. I have a suspicion that they already had an ilustration for Jesus and just added a fluffier moustache and a...
• Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
  This is probably a reassuring photograph if you're dining chez Mintz... but not sexy unless you share an OCD compulsion to clean and label stuff. If what he is looking for is to get laid, he's taking a risk when...
• Commented on Library in necklace form
  One tiny book would be cool... that heap of books looks uncomfortable and a bit obtrusive. I agree that it would be better to have content... the idea of a blank library might be the wrong sort of symbol to...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  I have always wanted to ask a real live Mason who wasn't afraid of all sorts of dark repercussions from talking, how on earth they could sign up to a secret society without any idea what they were signing up...
• Commented on Documentary series about prehistoric stone circles in Britain
  Much of what we know about the people who lived in these isles pre-Roman is conjecture and circumstantial. The little that is known from what the Romans wrote about the ancient britons is questioned (11 or 12 men to each...
• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  Agree with the comments re sense of humour. More than that, Damien should get a sense of self-preservation. What if he takes this to court, and the jury decide that the crayons are worth £2.50? Could buyers of Hirst's "art"...
• Commented on How the UK gov't spun 136 survey respondants into 7m infringers
  I'm not surprised at all. The home education community are fighting this sort of "research", included in the Badman report, which is being used to justify draconian new rules allow the authorities to enter homes without any reason, and to...
• Commented on Fresh Greens: A surprising twist for an ex-Enron-er, building houses for under $3k, presto-change-o chocolates, and goats
  @1 It also lacks the amenities that most people would presume are required for a mud hut to be called a house or a home... I see no evidence that the house has a bathroom of any sort, no loo,...
• Commented on Placebo effect is getting stronger
  When people criticise and ridicule others for believing that homeopathy and the placebo effect, as though those things are somehow unreal and unworthy of study, I think of the thousands of people made worse or killed by allopathic medicine. It's...
• Commented on Highlights of the Inspector General's torture report
  Tell me again... what are those American values which the CIA are protecting and the terrorists threaten? What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? (Matt.16:26) Seems to...
• Commented on Iraq: Honored female soldiers tell their own stories.
  I'm sorry - I've lost count of the number of times I have read the words of grieving parents in our papers saying that their sons joined the army to see the world/learn a trade/help people and bemoaning the fact...
• Commented on UK Pirate Party launches
  @13 This was my thought also when a friend pointed me to the party's page. Having a Pirate Party eems to make no more sense than having a Automobile Association Party or a Home Educator's Party or a Lazy Slob...
• Commented on Man brings gun into jail hidden in his body rolls
  Did he beat the metal detectors at the prison, or don't you bother with those? To get into Belmarsh prison in the UK nowadays you need a current passport, to put all your possessions in a locker, and submit to...
• Commented on Katamari Damacy wedding!
  @#7 Don't think I can - they didn't release in the UK. Looks like the next game will be released here, but only for playstation 3....
• Commented on Katamari Damacy wedding!
  I'd never heard of Katamari Damancy - or it had never impinged on my consciousness, as I can see BoingBoing has covered a number of themed related stories. It looks as though the game is only available in certain places....
• Commented on Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
  As it happens, I am staying at my mother's house at present. This is a place where I may stumble over the ashes of her dead dog (next to the fireplace in the living room), the ashes of my dead...
• Commented on Test compares the way humans and chimps learn
  I'd like to see this repeated with unschooled children/children not in awe of the researcher. The establishment spend a great deal of time in mainstream education teaching children to do what they are told and not to ask inconvenient questions....
• Commented on Abortion clinic escort's blog
  I think that abortion is one of those things it is only possible to decide about for yourself... no one can have the definitive answer about whether it is right/wrong moral/immoral. I support the right of other people to make...
• Commented on Homemade AT-AT loft bed
  It's Ok, Cory, don't despair. This is a great project, but as other posters have mentioned, providing something as detailed and as permanent as this could prove to be an eventual millstone. The greatest success I had with making stuff...
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  If you can get friends who don't dance, to dance down the aisle for your wedding, then you're a lucky and loved person. Watching people who aren't performing perfectly, or perfectly proportioned, working in harmony is a breath of fresh...
• Commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
  The reason I took notice of this story and suggested it was that last year I tried to get an image for an exhibition which my ocal Quaker meeting was holding to celebrate its 350th. The NPG has a copy...
• Commented on Britain will subject everyone who works with kids to multiple, repeated police-checks
  I have mixed feelings about this. I have five siblings, and in our family there were seven instances of abuse, one from a person working in a neighbouring property, (who kidnapped me at the age of three and asked me...
• Commented on USB-powered baked-bean microwave
  This is why we are going to hell in a handcart. People would rather burn the planet than a few calories cooking their food. Would rather fill up their tank of cheap petrol than walk. This is why we're fat...
• Commented on Awesome, infringing music video made from 80s brat pack flicks is band's "best video"
  Had a day where at the end of it I found I had spent six of the hours gathering footage of the spaces between takes instead of the takes... I wasn't feeling good. But I love, love, love this, and...
• Commented on Heartbroken cereal litigant loses suit over non-existence of "Crunchberries"
  @#57 snap! (crackle and pop, natch). The most amazing part of this report was the idea that common sense and personal responsibility have a place in the US legal system... often (cf the McDonalds hot coffee case) it has seemed...