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• Commented on Doctors Without Borders launches personal stories from Congo: "Condition Critical"
  It is very surreal for this piece to precede the item on the rotating kitchen. MSF >> rotating kitchens....
• Commented on Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
  1. Using your prosthetic thumb for legal ID purposes might be a crime. I am not a lawyer, but I know the federal laws regarding that stuff are byzantine, and aren't generally adjudicated based on intent. 2. Speaking of lawyers,...
• Commented on Mary Travers, RIP
  Peter, Paul, and Mary were an amazing trio. Folk at its finest. My fave was Lemon Tree, but anything was just fine. R.I.P....
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  "To whit: they expressly forbid anyone to link to them!" You're using your wits wrong....
• Commented on Dirty Tats: shocker, but lowbrow game marketing is lowbrow
  Ms. Jrdn, y pt th "jrk" n kn-jrk. I made a boob tattoo with the message "i'm up here" and an arrow. It was ironic and empowering. I find a big difference in the idea that "we could inscribe messages...
• Commented on Court orders Google to ID anon blogger who called model "skank"/"ho", blogger threatens Google with $15 mil suit
  Attention: every clever commenter claiming "truth is the perfect defense to libel" type things You are far LESS clever than you think you are. You have fundamentally misunderstood what is going on. NO ONE expects to win a slander lawsuit...
• Commented on Tibetan documentary filmmaker faces trial in eastern Tibet for "inciting separatism."
  "Dhondup Wangchen has been detained since March 2008 and has suffered torture and ill-treatement at the hands of the Chinese authorities." Are you seriously suggesting that we write to China and say they can't incarcerate/torture people? Don't we first have...
• Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
  As usual, Cory "conveniently" forgets to mention when grandstanding about the conditions he demands before he will put content on the Kindle... ... BB is a licensed Kindle-delivered blog. These very words about how Cory is keelhauling Kindle are being...
• Commented on Artist takes $190,000 out of bank because they won't give him a mortgage
  I don't care about the currency thing (I think it highlights general innumeracy rather than dollar-centrism, but YMMV).... .... but I am annoyed but the foolish apologists who suggest that the existence of other websites to do the conversion is...
• Commented on I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
  I found the actual idioms to be a little bit uninteresting/obvious (de rigeur in BB! comment threads, I guess)... ... but I found the explanations of idioms which then contain idioms to be delightfully unaware... "to rekindle an old flame"?...
• Commented on NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications
  Um, how did LOL get in there? It is NCBI ROFL not NCBI LOL....
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  XOPL is full of win. That is the level on which all rational persons need to be thinking. Entirely separately, I long for the days when calling something a "constitution free zone" is a motivating insult. I mean, seriously... how...
• Commented on Wedding cake clone of bride
  Clone? Pshaw, that is just a likeness....
• Commented on Rushkoff on "The Great Facebook Land Grab of Aught-Nine"
  I often enjoy Rushkoff's thoughts, but on this issue I find myself diverging a little bit. A brief moment of irony is in order... I thought the days of land grabs were long past! This article puts the property back...
• Commented on Lessig reviews Helprin's embarrassing infinite copyright, bloggers-are-stupid, Creative Commons is evil book
  Mark Helprin should not be taken seriously. Anecdotes tainted by confirmation bias. Who can even read it? (Every counter-tactual Helprin presents could be recast in the perfectly opposite direction... would Tolstoy have written _Moby Dick_ a second time instead of...
• Commented on Pirate Bay founder proposes to pay his fine with tiny, expensive-to-receive payments
  In particular, attempting to add cost by reversing the transaction sucks. I happen to like reversal-related safeguards! Let's not abuse them just for a one-off attempt to show some corp....
• Commented on WoWPod: a self-contained hut for WoW players
  The very best BB! items parody themselves....
• Commented on Best Buy allegedly sells brick in a box ... <em>again</em>
  @ #11 "Occam's razor cuts both ways." I wish I knew more about what this means. It *sounds* cool and thought-provoking......
• Commented on London cop's Facebook: "Can't wait to bash" G20 protestors
  @ # 21... "What do you mean by "black" humor?" Go to Google, type in 'black humor' and click on the first link that comes up. Y'know, the ol' bare minimum....
• Commented on Alien hand syndrome masturbation
  Mr Voodoo @ #18 nails the point (almost) perfectly -- if one's penis is not also alien, presumably one has some sensations that help one diagnose when this occurs. Unlike Mr. Voodoo, I am also alarmed when my penis-based alien-hand-masturbation-detector...
• Favorited Rush's YYZ with 13-year-old on drums on Boing Boing
• Favorited Gentleman insists he's not a "douchebag," sues book publisher on Boing Boing
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  Wait, you clicked a link on their website and it made your phone travel back in time? AWESOME!...
• Commented on Legalizing Drugs: The Least Bad Answer
  Legalization advocates: (a word in your ear, if you please) Abandon empirics. The "other" side refuses to learn from empirics. They disregard Prohibition. They disregard the successes from other modern countries with more liberal policies. They disregard the period of...
• Commented on Please take the Boing Boing Survey (It works now!)
  I started the survey, but couldn't get past page one. Several bits of input I didn't want to offer were unwisely determined to be "required" fields. Why do advertisers always design their ideal survey? Be practical, you are dealing with...
• Commented on Bird dances to music
  Hey, that parrot is stealing my moves! Awkwardly bobbing your head back and forth with your feet locked in place, while unable to find the beat -- that's my signature move. What a hack....
• Commented on Divorce lawyer ad: "Life's short. Get a divorce." (and pecs/tits)
  "pretext"? "technical reason"? In my book, not having a permit to post a giant billboard is a totally legit reason to tear it down. Tearing down rogue giant billboards is a great idea! I also don't mind when city officials...
• Commented on Lisa Katayama becomes a cafe maid for 30 minutes
  FERRJERR, This item is of interest because it is a callback to one of the items posted during the guest blogger's tenure. You may have forgotten it. (She posted the startling proposition that in Japan, maids are considered sexy! Evidence:...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  Kurt Godel...
• Commented on Rush's YYZ with 13-year-old on drums
  #24 and #30: Please check your hypertrophied facial processing software at the door. This fine young lady seems to be concentrating and enjoying herself. Reading anything else into her demeanor without personal knowledge is projection; it says more about you...