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• Commented on Media players, digital art galleries, and pirate TV
  Can you verify they "WILL SELL YOU SOME RIGHTS"? The last line, "the art is free," you mean you can get art from Corbis for free to use in your home? How can they make money that way? Usually agencies...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  #102 RINDAN: thank you for your right on response. Sometimes all we need or want or can afford are the cheap, disposable items. But for those things we value, we spend the time and budgeted money for something of longer-lasting...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  I have dead bees in my overhead fan above the stove top. I finally convinced my landlord to send out a real beekeeper to see if I have a hive. I don't, but he attached screening to keep them out....
• Commented on What your dad had instead of email scammers
  I made and sold them with photocopies of my original punk rock photos and some press kit photos I got from a few record companies. My best pal Mark A Martinez and I colored them in with markers, made them,...
• Commented on Drew Friedman fine art print of The Three Stooges
  I grew up on the Stooges. I thought they were silly and wild. As I celebrate my 59th birthday this Monday, I feel the same. Yeah, women can deal with the Stooges. If they can't, they are missing out on...
• Commented on Goats enjoy living in their own tower
  "Mountain goat": does that ring a bell? Goats are designed to climb rocks and hills and mountains. Their hoofs, and weight distribution, is ideal for rocky, hilly terrains. In fact, because of that, mankind has been able to survive in...
• Commented on 1930s Kotex brochure
  Wow, that was amazing. What is often discussed in shame or hints, was rather straight-forward, and very warmly supportive in many ways. However, there was no mention that menstruation has anything to do with reproduction. The mother explained we eliminate...
• Commented on Claw shoes
  Me likee, and I never wear shoes, just sandals or running shoes. I could learn to live with these. Ah, if I only had during my punk photo days and nights!...
• Commented on Alex Pang on Tinkering
  It's rather arrogant to take a very common and old word and spin it around to relate only to recent engineering, electronics, and technology. Unfortunately, that kind of behavior just reinforces the experience of many that too many programmers and...
• Commented on God comics: God asserts his copyright in the universe
  God damn, that's funny. (And not too far from the truth nor the future! I CANNOT believe how many common words and phrases are being trademarked and registered! Pretty soon we won't be able to write ANYTHING without circle R...
• Commented on Antifascist collages that made Hitler crazy
  The Getty in LA exhibited a bit of his work a few years ago. The work was incredible. The exhibit small and badly produced. Like previous posts, I've been aware of him for decades, as I'm sure all or most...
• Commented on Life Inc
  OMG BRILLIANT! I pray this book and author is on every major TV show, starting with Oprah, 60 Minutes, cable news, whatever most peeps watch, plus major articles in Newsweek, Time and Vanity Fair, NY Times (LA Times, gotta laugh...
• Commented on Lisa Randall on the origin of the universe -- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  @29 re @26: thanks for responding. I have NO idea what @26 was ranting about. Me thinks LF is not a woman. I've yet to meet a woman who wasn't constantly struggling as a young girl to learn science and...
• Commented on Lisa Randall on the origin of the universe -- Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  jennylens.com/ada-lovelace-day.html. So where's the discussion on ADA LOVELACE?? We women NEVER get the credit due re technology, esp those who were the true pioneers. It's hard for us to be respected and encouraged if we are constantly left out of...
• Commented on Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking
  "Wishful Drinking" promised more fun than delivered. A quick read, slim book. Sorry, but not as witty as "Postcards," the book nor the movie. Her life has been stranger than a movie, full of truly tragic events. But she's known...
• Commented on Trader Joe's fan commercial not to be missed
  Re ethnicity of TJ employees: I walk to the TJ's on Pico and 33rd, bordering Santa Monica and West LA. Many employees are African-American, Latino/a, Asian, and some pale like I. It's one of the few stores around with so...
• Commented on Obama inauguration speech fed into speech-to-text application
  LMAO! I agree, Mark, but not only is this what political speeches sound like, but the msm "pundits" and "newscasters" rarely make more sense than this transcription/interpretation. This might even make more sense than what people routinely are spoon-fed, especially...
• Commented on Wolfenstein casemod
  Damn, this makes me laugh after another long, hard day staring my iMac monitor and typing' away. I long for knobs and dials, cool designs with hidden and past meanings. Love it. I start and end my day at boingboing.net,...
• Commented on Making sauerkraut is easy
  I found an AMAZING site: http://www.therawdiet.com/vikraut.html. Michael posted all kinds of info, including Sandor's book, which I love. I bought these great half-gallon jars from Mike, although his site shows only the one gallon jars. So easy to make the...
• Commented on Good: The return of amateur science
  OMG, were there smaller versions of these kits? They were metallic, with a beige background and red and black lettering? My heart stopped a beat when I saw this image. I am sure I had a smaller version. I never...
• Commented on Make your own Alka Seltzer for a fraction of the cost
  OMG, I'd look at the source of the indigestion and not reach for any medication, purchased or home-made. Those "remedies" don't go to the source of the problem. You don't want an ulcer, cancer, or other things to be developing,...
• Commented on Petition to "Get a Secretary of Real Food appointed" in Obama Administration
  I just read on huffingtonpost.com, it's Vilsack, although http://haphazardgourmet.blogspot.com/ stated he's just another mouthpiece for farma-agri-big-biz as usual: "Here at HHG, we beg to differ. Whomever is steering Barack away from Vilsack is a genius; Vilsack (pictured) was excoriated here...
• Commented on Hotel is "proud to be dirty and carry a wide variety of bacteria."
  Wild Fermentation is one of my fave books! Makes me want to leave Santa Monica and join the author and his pals. I'm a vegan and can't get behind all his recipes and ideas. But I would love to grow,...
• Commented on HOWTO cook a kick-ass pizza crust in your home oven
  Cory, I am very confused by this story (not the linked story, but this posted one). How do you get Domino's dough alone? Do they sell it by itself? Then it says the dough is "really good," not it's "disgusting."...
• Commented on The Newspaper Industry and the Arrival of the Glaciers
  As a life-long resident of LA and avid reader, I've been increasingly dismayed by the LA Times, LA Weekly, City Beat, etc. I find the NY Times online more relevant and better written than all of those three combined. It's...
• Commented on How I learned to love my persimmon tree
  PS WHY are you peeling persimmons?? Most of the nutrients found in most fruit reside thisclose under the skin. ONLY peel if sprayed (after washing). That goes for apples and most everything else. You have to cut away melon and...
• Commented on How I learned to love my persimmon tree
  OMG I saw persimmons at the Santa Monica farmer's market by the beach today (Wednesday, October 8, 2008). Soooo early this year! I only saw the smaller fujus, crisp and yummy when hard like an apple. But I let them...
• Commented on How I dehydrated my vegetables
  Hey Mark, you do know figs and tomatoes (and squash) are FRUIT?? Your post states dehydrating vegetables. But ALL seed-bearing produce are fruit. That includes cucumbers, avocadoes, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, etc. And Halloween pumpkins! [They are part of the squash...
• Commented on How I dehydrated my vegetables
  A few tips: There's increasing controversy over plastic food containers. My mother always recycled glass jars and it's a habit I can't break. If you don't have glass jars (from peanut butter, almond butter, tahini, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, etc), you...
• Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
  The copyright laws are weak and ineffective for the majority of artists due to lack of money for legal representation and minimal recovery fees. Copyright laws need to be strengthened to protect individual artists from the predatory public -- individuals...