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• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  As an experiment, I just took 10 short, sharp breaths while buzzing my tongue against the roof of my mouth. By the 9th I felt phlegm and coughed some up. Is the flute actually necessary?...
• Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  When I was a solitary-feeling queer teen, I tried to kill myself. It was an accident that I was found in time to be saved. A small, small thing might have made the difference for me then. Knowing there were...
• Commented on The EXAMINE'd Life: Keeping Interactive Fiction Alive
  IF is alive and well....notably Blue Lacuna: http://lacunastory.com/ An amazing and ambitious IF "game," which I think does an amazing job of natural language and intuitive direction. google it for some reviews. Great stuff. Full disclosure, writer/programmer Aaron Reed is...
• Commented on Chamber of Commerces tries to Ralph Lauren the Yes Men
  Well, "hoax" presupposes they intend to fool anyone for longer than the duration of the stunt. And based on their history, I'd say they planned to come clean all along. Which pretty much clears them of fraud, and, I believe,...
• Commented on Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
  @24: sure was! and the whole cast. Not sure why, but there you are....
• Commented on 500 Pound Planet: Chapter One
  Ha ha, Mcguffin ritual Re: "cartoon" -- it's animation, dude. Stop motion is just the KIND of animation. "Cartoon" has never been a precise word....
• Commented on EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
  @11: "...any more than they really expect people to pick up after themselves. " We pick up after ourselves....
• Commented on Botched building demolition creates real-world Katamari Damacy horror
  Of course it wouldn't be safe, but I would dearly love to explore the wreckage, walk around inside the upside-down building. Be a great setting for a horror flick....
• Commented on Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit
  I'm inclined to suspect his insurance carrier forced the issue. I had a friend who saved a boy's life. My friend and some others were in a motorboat, and somehow managed to "run him over". My friend dove out, rescued...
• Commented on Green-glowing marmosets
  It's not easy to be a marmoset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61R2KkatubY...
• Commented on Unicorn Chaser
  Life gives us horror. Shall we pretend it doesn't? Or can we, perhaps, look it in the face, shake our heads, and say, "that's fucked up"? I really, really, seriously think that it's healthy to tell horror stories. This includes...
• Commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  Shouldn't someone have challenged whether A.G. has the right to act for that "class"? Can someone challenge it now? I mean, could I bring a class action suit on behalf of U.S. Presidents and make it stick?...
• Commented on Jokes from the Cultural Revolution
  Make a pile of salt on the table. Prop the egg upright in the salt. Very, very gently blow away the pile of the salt. Only the salt that is supporting the egg will remain. It will look as if...
• Commented on Amazon explains cataloging error that banished queer books to "adult" purgatory
  Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by simple incompetence. Be mad if you want, but I find this explanation quite plausible. (Also, I know someone who works for Amazon and he explained this before Amazon announced it, and...
• Commented on Mythbusters accidentally shatter windows in small town
  I also respect them for revisiting previous myths based on critiques from viewers....
• Commented on Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA
  She just did the whole series so she could do Obama and not feel like a pervy stalker....
• Commented on Artistic and scientific anatomical models from Anatomy Tools
  Dr. Manhattan!...
• Commented on Weird-looking dust storm in Australia
  The car coming OUT of the cloud looked okay to me. I would definitely have gone into it. I go to Burning Man. I'm not afraid of dust. Besides, didn't it look like there was a gap between the cloud...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  Bravo! The thing some respondents seem to be missing is clearly stated int he last paragraph: "We'll see how it goes." I think this is clearly an experiment. And I think a fine one. Encouraging the lad to do the...
• Commented on Whistlecars and Robocars: Brad Templeton on <em>really</em> automatic transmissions
  Planes mostly are robot-driven these days, right?...
• Commented on AP tries to shake down Shepard Fairey over Obama poster he didn't profit from (updated)
  This irritates me. In my (not legally-binding opinion) this is fair use. Period. Ap can say, "oh, hay this is based on ours," but to sue? C'mon. This is substantially different. No one is going to look at that and...
• Commented on The case against Candy Land
  Excellent words. I, for a while, have been under the impression that the "message" of most video games is a powerful and necessary one: keep trying. A locked door is not a stopper: look for a key. Or an axe....
• Commented on Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
  @9: also see "Language Discussion...
• Commented on Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
  @68: That is the core of the "descriptive vs prescriptive" debate, and I come down squarely with you on "descriptive". Dictionaries DESCRIBE how language is used. Dictionary writers observe language use and report it, including neologisms and words and phrases...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins and Derren Brown talk about "psychics"
  This, Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, and Mythbusters. Proof that skepticism can still be fun. (I've always wanted to learn mentalism)...
• Commented on Band Aid for the banking industry: "Bleed the World"
  Wow. Some of them haven't been on video in over 20 years. I wonder how many look more freakish now than they did then? I'm looking at YOU Boy George!...
• Commented on Arab shoe-tossing isn't a gesture of friendly affection
  When I was in the Middle East, they made damned sure we knew to NEVER show the soles of our feet or aim our feet at anyone. EVER. (as I recall, the "okay" gesture was also forbidden, but that may...
• Commented on TNH FTW! A final post and a question for you.
  Male and female clothing will continue to overlap and even swap. Skirts and heels for men will become trendy. Driver's licenses will cease to exist....
• Commented on Ugly sweaters for sale
  I like to recycle ugly sweaters and make them into braided rugs (cf http://scixual.deviantart.com/ ) -- I am long overdue making a HOWTO video on these. They're fun!...
• Commented on Gentleman insists he's not a "douchebag," sues book publisher
  @21: Absolutely. "douchebag" is exactly like "asshole" in that while denigrating it doesn't have a specific enough definition to warrant a libel claim. The db's lawyer should have told him that, unless there is also some color commentary that actually...