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• Commented on The Cove director on watching his film with the dolphin hunters
  Astin, Mahi mahi, also called dolphin, is not a cetacean but Coryphaena hippurus - a fish. They are very pretty, though "cute" would be a matter or personal taste. Ahem....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Seeing the old logo/header from the analog BB made me smile. My first reaction to the new design: "hey, look. BoingBoing has been hijacked by WoW.com. I wonder if this week's guest blogger will be Basic Campfire, promoting its campaign...
• Commented on Dinosaur auction
  @10: since we're dealing with tyrannosaurs, shuoldn't that be "beebaIhavefiftyfiftyfiftycomeoncomeonCretaceousCretaceouseebadabe" ?...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  @ 42: That would not be the Red Flag of Obviousness that you might think. It's not unusual for female athletes to be amenorrhoeic. In fact, it's probably more common for elite women athletes not to have regular periods because...
• Commented on Magical short story podcast about Google Book Search, data visualization and the Olde Curiousity Shoppe
  Eerie. I was just looking at this story last night before going to bed. Nice to see it make an appearance on Escape Pod....
• Commented on A Train-Wreck of Privilege
  When I saw the post intro initially, I read it as saying "the uncomfortably made-up dead children." Russian oligarchs are adopting the spectacle of a neo-Victorian death culture? Who knew they had so much style! Imagine my dismay upon re-reading...
• Favorited Warhammer to erect (virtual) statues of top players on Boing Boing
• Commented on China's mondegreen war on net-censorship
  There's backstory to the mythical "grass-mud horse" that might help illuminate its role in protesting censorship. It's one of the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures, along with the fǎ kè yóu, or French Croatian Squid. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_10_Mythical_Creatures_(Internet_meme) And a discussion of...
• Commented on The Donut Chef, by Bob Staake
  @13: Ah, donut-making machines going haywire. That reminds me a little of that old sk00l Sesame Street short. I have only the vaguest memory of it, but I remember it taking place at night, in a donut bakery filled with...
• Commented on Maggot cheese that tries to eat your eyes
  This gives me an even greater appreciation for Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms: "Menocchio [the heretic miller] said: "I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together;...
• Commented on Photos of London shopfronts
  Yeah, hold on there: Someone's been photographing and cataloging London street locations? Including shops with Arabic signs in the windows? And a CCTV cam at the upper right-hand side? Oh noes!!! They are terrorists!!! Seize their doom-dealing camera weapons of...
• Commented on The Pet Dragon, by Christoph Niemann -- wonderful illustrated kids' book
  Visual stealth learning FTW....
• Commented on Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee
  Dunno. I've always thought of Yoshi as a Nanotyrannus, or at least a juvenile tyrannosaurid, rather than a Utahraptor. He's never struck me as being particularly dromeosaurid in any way....
• Commented on Torture in video-games -- a moral dilemma
  @ 2: Indeed. (Casino Royale, anyone?) Yeah, Bartle says he frames his reaction as a design critique rather than a moral one, arguing that the design covenant breaks because a) there's a bait-and-switch going on and b) it violates player...
• Commented on Cops raid house because flowers smelled like pot
  It's a lowdown shame he tore up the phlox. It's fodder for both bees and butterflies. And the fragrance is rather nice, and decidedly unmephitic. In fact, almost any other plant would have been a more likely choice to have...
• Commented on Two new books from Feral House
  Ah, I have the fondest memories of Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People. My grandmother had a copy, and I used that in biographical research for more middle school projects than I can count....
• Commented on Norwegian Übër-Bläck-Mëtäl Devotees Captured In New Portrait Book
  He's doing the metal horns wrong. Poser. Maybe he's really trying to sign. Nothing says "I wuv you!" like a chubby, greasy death metal fan in tear-away mesh boyshorts....
• Commented on Douglas Repetto's Squirrel Cages
  gnawing your electrical wiring, chasing the cat, assaulting the elderly... filthy nut-stealing, fledgling-eating little vermin. You say that like it's a bad thing?...
• Commented on Permission for Persimmons, please
  Meh. You can keep your Diospyros kaki. I'll take Diospyros virginiana over it in a heartbeat. It makes far superior pudding. Ah, pudding of the gods! /nomnomnom...
• Commented on Merrill Lynch Needs a Dressing Down
  While it does not own Di Modica's Charging Bull, Merrill does have an anatomically correct logo....
• Commented on IT Crowd third season starts on Friday!
  As they say in the parlance of our times, "w00ters!" Very good news, indeed. And while I agree "The Work Outing" episode is abject genius, I laughed so hard during "The Haunting of Bill Crouse" that my abs hurt for...
• Commented on Chickens stop rabbits from fighting
  #1/3: To clarify my last comment: in that period the chicken appears to be just acting aggressively to the lower rabbit after that rabbit is no longer fighting. The lower chicken does give the spotted rabbit an additional dose of...
• Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
  @29: "'2 in the pink, 1 in the stink'. Yeah, as in two wars and a collapsing economy." Ah, different gesture. That would have to be the Nacho Scoop, also known as "3 in the Stink." Personally, I like to...
• Commented on Obama and McCain systems were hacked during election run-up
  Palin is a grotesque and a laughingstock to us, yes. But there is a fervent group of people who adore her, and to them her travails are validation of her credibility rather than indication of her incompetence. I don't see...
• Commented on Is This Thing On?
  Sexist is kind of a pre-internet word for what it is. A more precise and post-Internet word might be "misogynist." Not because the satire is sexual, but because it chooses to lampoon a woman for (and through) her sexuality rather...
• Commented on Chanel gun heel
  They look particularly painful to wear, one-upping the "Platforms of Terror" that came from Prada for Spring 09. Look at where the heel connects to the sole - it's right in the instep, not the heel of the foot. Heel...
• Commented on Kembra Pfahler: Sit-Ins
  "Kembra uses her own semi-naked form to make her mark." What a coincidence! My dog uses HER own semi-naked form to make a mark on the lawn every morning. I have to concur with Joshua. There's nothing in their methodology,...
• Commented on Adele Lack's micropaintings
  Given the show's genesis as part of the film's PR campaign, I suspect the paintings are, themselves, pointless as anything other than a synecdotal gesture....
• Commented on Forty-foot long ancient snake
  This was an gem of a natural history museum, at least when I was growing up in Gainesville. Their old building was built into the ground, a combination of earthship-meets-hanging-gardens-of-babylon. (I beleive they've since moved to larger digs.) They had...