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• Commented on Lasik: is it worth $6000?
  I got my eyes done at LaserVue in San Francisco a little over 9 years ago. After that I hade about 8 years of great vision. Now I still have great vision in one eye (my left) the cornea of...
• Commented on Video: man in Japan weds anime game character
  I think that you are thinking of Glenn Reynolds, a totally different crazy person......
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  If I can't sell it, or give it away then it's nothing like ownership. Why don't people get this? Being able to move something to X machines is not the same as "being able to transfer it however I like,...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Antonious - I just noticed the reply feature in comments. Might this lead to threaded replys in the future? Much easier to follow the flamewars that way....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I am glad to see the end of Boing-Boing balkanization. It never made sense to seperate the gadget and gaming content from the main page, which frequently featured gadgets and gaming as well. Not going to comment on design issues,...
• Commented on Saint Expedite
  "an icon of "popular religiosity" who never historically existed." Oh! You mean like Jesus!...
• Commented on The great punk poet Jim Carroll has died.
  @black_rabbit_queen I was at that show too - spoken word at the mab - and it broke my heart to listen to it. It's breaking again...he is one of the people that has had a deep, deep effect on my...
• Commented on Urban legends about the Smithsonian
  Ummm...the flag that inspired the Star Spangled Banner had 15 stars (1812) , and was not the original banner (still incorrectly attributed to Betsy Ross) that was used during the revolution...
• Commented on If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay - parenting book full of things you don't need to worry about
  My daughter, who has a one year old, is getting this sent to her today! Thanks!...
• Commented on Collection of Curiosities auction
  @GODOT and ANON #2 - I would say that I am surrounded by dorks, but the fact that I get both references would give me away as one. As a side note, you can also buy you creepy taxidermy locally...
• Commented on Museum Boerhaave photos from Morbid Anatomy
  @Kristin Actually, I believe that is a nightcap....
• Commented on Museum Boerhaave photos from Morbid Anatomy
  They seem to be missing an apple there....
• Commented on Delete this book
  niconiconico - "The best solution to this is to just not buy ebooks from Amazon; it's not like they force us to buy them." An excellent point, and one that I am sure more people would agree with if the...
• Commented on Delete this book
  The legal areas around downloading are still very, very fuzzy because very few of the cases ever make it to a court to get decided, most are settled out of court. The few that have gone to court though have...
• Commented on Delete this book
  "The downloaded copies would be copyright infringement, rather like illegally downloaded music." Rob, I am pretty sure that they would be more like old-timey, physical bootleg albums - the buyer is not going to be in any trouble for having...
• Commented on Delete this book
  Shannon, this is not theft in any way shape or form. It's copyright infringement. Your example of a stolen book being sold and recovered has *nothing* to do with this. Let's say a small press published 2000 copies of 1984...
• Commented on Delete this book
  Rob, well Orwell wasn't really in favor of anything that is tagged "Orwellian" either... Since Bezos does run Amazon though, and gets the credit for what's good about Kindle, he should also get the blame for what is bad about...
• Commented on Delete this book
  I have written a blog post on this (http://www.edgore.com/archives/2009/07/no-sales-are-final.html) but the important part is this: "While some might call these restrictions, and Amazon's recent intrusion into private citizen's personal devices to remove material they found unsuitable "Orwellian", I have to...
• Commented on TrickleSaver
  I suppose this might be semiuseful with a Wii, whcih already uses very, very little power even when it's turned on. WIth an Xbox 360 or a PS3 I think that the horrible wind tunnel fan noice would remind you...
• Commented on MAKERS, my next novel, serialized online
  Yay! I was wondering what happened to that story! Looking forward to read the rest of it (in thrity or so years, after I finish Quicksilver. 4 months so far and only 300 pages to go!)...
• Commented on HOWTO make delicious, beautiful unhealthy food out of gross, unhealthy fast-food
  @8 - the great thing about unicorns is that they provide their own spit!...
• Commented on Hot chili grenades
  @buddy66 If they are using the Scoville scale their figures are probably about right. A Poblano pepper - which is about as average as you can get - rates a about 3,000, while pepper spray rates about 3,000,000. So you...
• Commented on Hot chili grenades
  Don't very hot chilies increase bloodflow to the surface of the skin, and also make you sweat? Wouldn't that be a BAD THING in cold conditions? Why would you use them as a food additive in those circumstances?...
• Commented on Sir Richard Francis Burton, Cardinal Mezzofanti, and other eminent polyglots
  There are gondolier-specific oaths or adjurations? I obviously need to get out more....
• Commented on WSJ: Jobs had a liver transplant
  I hope he's okay, though this does underscore the hassle of not having a user-replaceable liver....
• Commented on A Map the Size of the World
  It also sounds a bit like the film Synecdoche, New York with it's full scale model of New York City located in a warehouse in New York City...
• Commented on "Pet Spa," an automated dog-washing unit
  I have no doubt that this device will allow us to get the information we need from these animals before the ticking time-bomb runs out....
• Commented on For sale: San Francisco church converted to home
  Hmmmm...I may have been to a party there years ago....
• Commented on Cannabis Industry Boom
  Mark, what were you smoking when you typed that title?...
• Commented on Microsoft thinks it costs $30k to fill an iPod
  Actually, 30K is CHEAP if you include the cost of my RIAA settlements! That said, I do wish that Apple would offer some kind of subscription service. While iTunes has managed to kill the record store quite effectively the next...