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• Commented on Climate Camp to London cops: We won't tell you where the next camp is because you keep beating the crap out of us
  Good video, and I think people are making too much of the guy's "middle-class" accent. Someone had to narrate the video, but I don't see anyone complaining that it's a male voice not a female one. To be honest, if...
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  I used to find Calvin Harris kind of likeable (despite his music), because he seemed to have little respect for the egos and trappings of celebrity culture. But this just makes him look like a dick. 15 skinny women in...
• Commented on Eclipse Phase: CC-licensed tabletop singularity RPG
  It appears "transhumans" are incapable of moving beyond tired gendered body images. How ironic. http://www.eclipsephase.com/sites/default/files/bennewman_zoramoller_ghostmorphresize.bmp...
• Commented on Radiohead Song in memory of Harry Patch, WWI survivor and pacifist.
  I downloaded the song last night, and it's one of the best Radiohead songs I've heard in a while. There's something really fantastic about the strings plus Thom Yorke's voice, with very little other instrumentation. @ #5 CICADA: "Hard to...
• Commented on Radiohead Song in memory of Harry Patch, WWI survivor and pacifist.
  What an amazing guy. The great uncle of a friend of mine died recently; he was the last living survivor of Stalag Luft III (the German POW camp on which The Great Escape was based). Similarly, my great uncle was...
• Commented on Tim and Eric: New "Awesome Show" DVD, new music video dir. by Eric Wareheim, and Vanity Fair interview
  "I don't get it. It's awesome, why exactly?" I don't think you needed to continue that sentence beyond "I don't get it". FWIW, I thought the video was good fun. Also, what kind of boring places do you work that...
• Commented on Pranknet's Skype "phone assaults" detailed, head bully in charge lives with his mommy
  Dave, you haven't acknowledged that you almost completely misquoted Xeni in your first criticism. And besides, I think a little light mocking is appropriate in this case. The guy's a scumbag....
• Commented on Pranknet's Skype "phone assaults" detailed, head bully in charge lives with his mommy
  He kind of looks like Marty Feldman. http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2002/31/1756_1012611579.jpg Shame he's about a twelfth as funny....
• Commented on Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government
  Bagsy the "Jesus Riding a Dinosaur" statue. It'll look awesome next to my "Moses Riding an Ammonite" statue....
• Commented on Boing Boing Video shoot notes: The Mighty Boosh
  J FRANCE: Actually, I prefer the first series to the second, and the second to the third. The third series was reeeeeally inconsistent. Also, the adolescent Boosh quoting gets really irritating after a while (like Xeni said, it's HUGE here...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  Careful they don't get in your eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MqTCIDKhU Also, kudos to the Eddie Izzard and Arrested Development references. The only other classic comedy bee reference I can think of is Black Books: Manny: "I ATE ALL YOUR BEES!" Bernard: "You...
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  At my friend Holly's wedding, she and her husband did a swing dance to "I'm Just a Gigolo" for their first dance. Such behaviour should be encouraged....
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  Whee! That was awesome. Wouldn't be my choice of song, dance, outfits or venue, but the best weddings are the ones that the bride and groom make their own....
• Commented on One-of-a-kind Star Wars vinyl toys for kids' charity
  What makes the vinyl "urban"?...
• Commented on Swearing mitigates pain
  FUCK THE PAIN AWAY FUCK THE PAIN AWAY FUCK THE PAIN AWAY FUCK THE PAIN AWAY (Can't believe no one had made that reference yet...)...
• Commented on The Significant Objects project
  Interesting project. It reminds me of this comic by Kevin Huizenga, "The Hot New Thing": http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101041011/comic/index.html...
• Commented on Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
  Uh, this is a spoof; a satire. This is quite obviously not a real anti-piracy campaign....
• Commented on Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
  Sorry, here's a link to the Adam Buxton song and vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZpxVI7Pa8...
• Commented on Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
  If you like the IT Crowd's spoof anti-piracy ad, you'll love Adam Buxton's anti-piracy song. Sample lyrics: "That's the mind of a pirate / Did you hear the hate and greed? / And our beloved entertainment biz is where those...
• Commented on Why "new novelists" are all old
  It's interesting to read this. I was just reading an article about MuuMuu House, an online indie publisher run by poet and novelist Tao Lin. Tao Lin has had a novel published, "Eeeee Eee Eeee" as well as poetry and...
• Commented on Grant Morrison book signing at Meltdown in LA
  SAMMICH: I would admit that Grant Morrison's weegie lilt is a little further from the Queen's English than Alan Hansen, but I get your point. I mean, Morrison is hardly Rab C. Nesbitt, is he? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yeqSgNxiE...
• Commented on Grant Morrison book signing at Meltdown in LA
  Presumably his accent is only impenetrable to people not from Scotland?...
• Commented on Justin (aka "Tsimfuckis," aka "Tsimfuckus," aka "chick3n little.")
  This is one of the most baffling posts I've ever seen on Boing Boing, which in some way makes it one of the more notable. But I don't get it - the kid's annoying to me. I mean, there are...
• Commented on Wikimedia's picture of the year
  @ #7 - ELI: Whether or not you consider Navarre/Navarra/Nafarroa to be a part of the Basque Country is pretty politically loaded. I know my Basque friend does (she's from Pamplona/Iruna), and there's certainly a strong Basque cultural and historical...
• Commented on Green-glowing marmosets
  I've heard on the news that this has proved "controversial" and that some people "object", but they never mention how, who or why. I mean, what are the objections beyond "It's stuff I don't understand and I think it's ICKY!"?...
• Commented on RNC chairman says that gay marriage is bad for economy
  Why should anyone care what gay marriage does to the economy? What bearing does that have on whether or not homosexual people should be allowed to marry? Also, this MSNBC presenter is really annoying....
• Commented on Julia Dales: beat boxing champion
  Just been blundering around YouTube, and found this UK beatboxer BELLATRIX, who's not only pretty damn awesome, but has some interesting things to say about beatboxing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxp6CetTBYo&feature=channel_page Also, the more I listen to Julia Dales' audition, the more impressed I...
• Commented on Robert Frank Outtakes
  My girlfriend and I saw this exhibition in Paris a couple of months ago - it was fantastic, and we bought the book shortly afterwards. We didn't see these particular "out-takes", but there were a few extra non-book photos around....
• Commented on Julia Dales: beat boxing champion
  @ #29 MDH: No, I'm not interested in taking it up. I'm also not interested in becoming a novelist, a painter, or a musician, but I'll continue to express opinions, critical or positive, about the work of those who do....
• Commented on Julia Dales: beat boxing champion
  Don't know what happened to my comment with all the links to better beat/vocal beatboxers... Oh well, people have covered some of them already here....