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• Commented on A blog about horrible fake tan jobs
  I ranted about spray tans at some length....
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  Sure, all marketing is much alike, but what I'm asking is there a fashion magazine that anybody with even a trace of enlightenment doesn't regard as some kind of oppressively proscriptive catalogue of insecurities? If so, who buys them?...
• Commented on Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh?
  The handwringing about fashion magazines: Why do we care about people shallow and stupid enough to be interested in them, exactly?...
• Commented on Antony Gormley - let's all go barefoot
  Yeah, when I lived in the Third World (Africa) I wouldn't dare go out of the house without boots. I'm of the firm belief that if you're not wearing shoes in which you can run over broken glass in a...
• Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
  The level of detail in these mooks is just superb. If you're a modelmaker or similar hobbyist of any sort, looking for quirky details to make your work more authentic, you can be absolutely guaranteed that the acme of reference...
• Commented on Legal battle over Shepard Fairey Obama poster takes an unexpected turn
  Got to suck getting into all this trouble for a candidate who turned out to be Bush Mk. II....
• Commented on Are Muslim Women Oppressed? Ask One
  Like all religious people, they choose to oppress themselves....
• Commented on Radio Free Africa
  Traditional societies, those hotbeds of social and intellectual development. Traditional societies. Tradition. There's your tool of repression right there. Whether it's slicing off bits of bodies the ancestors didn't approve of, executing deviants or being forced into a chattel-like servitude...
• Favorited Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of EULAs in order to watch BluRay Sleeping Beauty on Boing Boing
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  I think the problem is that too many boards'/forums'/comments' editors auto-parse URLs badly....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Once the bad seeds realise that all it takes is will to completely rule over timid, civilised folk, the civilised folk need a gun to reclaim their territory. I like to think of myself as a civil libertarian, but I...
• Commented on Have Atoms, Will Travel: Mobile Soviet nuclear power plants
  I believe the US fitted nuclear-powered taps to Russian undersea cables during the Cold War. Simple, self-contained nuclear reactors designed to be dropped into the deeps and forgotten....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Certainly. Tim'll fetch a much higher price at an auction, I've no doubt....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Now that I like. Coquettish bandwagoneers? Less so....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Nearly every time I browse BoingBoing....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Oh, nothing. It's just that inadvertently revealing the greasy specifity of his pecadilloes is probably not quite as invitingly twee in effect as he thought posting these finds would prove....
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  I'm beginning to think that Mr Frauenfelder requests of his bang-sporting activity partners that they play a ukulele for his pre-coital amusement....
• Commented on Laptop Lifts
  Most hardware stores carry some variety of adhesive rubber feet. If it becomes popular, I can't wait for the edict to issue from Cupertino forbidding the faithful from rubberfoot iconoclasm....
• Commented on Misanthrope Jackalope plays "The Maker" on ukulele
  This is getting slightly creepy now....
• Commented on Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones.
  Wired has a department called "Cult of Mac". Reading their Apple-fellating (blowjobs?) propaganda, you'd swear that 90% of computer users owned Macs, and that nothing ever happened in the world of Windows and Linux. Linux in particular seems to be...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  @51. The Geneva Convention does not forbid the use of large calibre weapons on personnel. Since it generally aims to prevent cruelty, it doesn't follow that a large calibre weapon is more cruel than a small calibre weapon. Rather the...
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  I'd like to say, for the record, that a childhood of unfettered access to ultraviolent entertainments made me the man I am today: really wary of weapons....
• Commented on Cabinet door's squeals are eerily Chewbaccaesque
  Zarking fardwarks, I love the internet....
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  How exactly can you violate the Geneva Convention in Call of Duty?...
• Commented on Video Exclusive: Tettix shows HOWTO make "Fake 'n' Bake" chiptunes with Reason
  After some sleep, I've decided to recant slightly. I do think that using vintage gear makes things more of a labour of love, but musically I say whatever gets the sounds out. That said, I would like to hear somebody...
• Commented on Video Exclusive: Tettix shows HOWTO make "Fake 'n' Bake" chiptunes with Reason
  I dunno. It's extremely slickly done, and sounds marvellous, which is really all that should count. And I'm really loth to use loaded terms like "authenticity" in regards to music. But without using the old equipment it just seems somehow...
• Commented on European Commission demands a single, standard phone charger
  NOTMARC, Absolutely correct. Have you ever seen what consumer electronics companies charge for a replacement AC adapter for their laptop? It's astounding. Price gouging for sure. There's simply no way a low power AC adapter needs to cost over $100....
• Commented on Shuttered guitar store becomes giant amp
  This is the kind of shop design that children's book illustrators and toy city designers have been preparing me for since my early childhood....
• Commented on Amazon Sells Rape Simulation Game
  I would gladly date a girl who played a castration fantasy videogame: other girls have to sublimate their castration urges so much less harmlessly....
• Commented on Obama's "Disgraceful Abandonment" of Civil Liberties in Extraordinary Rendition Case
  What part of "politician" did everyone not understand?...