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• Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
  I imagine that Haruki Murakami's works would have a similar benefit....
• Commented on Odd photo of the week
  Saw this first in my blog reader... first I thought I was looking at , then I saw it was on BB, and thought this was a picture of a vomiting werewolf. Scrolling down to find it was a chimp...
• Commented on Great OS for babies?
  When I was 2 (in 1983) I could type things like: Load "Jumpman" ,8,1 into our Commodore 64 to play the games I wanted to play. We had a few games for learning where letters were on the keyboard (letters...
• Commented on Great Depression Cooking show
  (potatoes + onions) x fried = yum canned peas = ok in a pinch pasta = fine water to stretch a meal = sure All in one pot = BLECH!...
• Commented on The Pen Which Shall Never Be Lost
  Wouldn't this post be more appropriate over in BBGadgets?...
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine plays "The Beard Song" on ukulele
  @#13 - You keep your dangerous ideas to yourself!...
• Commented on Speeding bullet stopped by hair weave
  "Police in Kansas City, Mo., said a woman's tight hair weave stopped a bullet" Tight hair weave....
• Commented on Costs of Education in Japan
  That's fairly pricey for grade school, but that's way less than my undergrad cost me....
• Commented on BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes
  Ridl, Brotherprovisional, and I are all in Eugene (I'm a librarian at UO). We should have a little happy hour when you arrive!...
• Commented on Robot model kit: Chubu 01
  CHUBu... Reminds me of a timeless Tim & Eric song, "I've got chubs for you. Itty bitty chubs for you!"...
• Commented on Holiday / Christmas Music: An Open Thread.
  A bit of visual "music" I created for the holidays....
• Commented on Send your old shoes to Dubya's Liberry
  Won't anyone think of the librarians?!...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  In Vancouver, BC everything was referred to as Mac's (excepting circle-k's?) In Portland, OR, it's all diminutives of their proper names: The Plaid, The Sev....
• Commented on Small Wonder robot girl TV show
  Wow... I have not seen a "webring" box since 1998....
• Commented on Baby pygmy hippo
  Though, I will admit my mistake of thinking that that boinging bunny was on cuteoverload, rather than canhascheezburger. I can't handle all of these blogs blogging each other....
• Commented on Baby pygmy hippo
  @Homingpigen - duh. I was getting "deeper" though with my seeing what was "did there."...
• Commented on Baby pygmy hippo
  @Antinous - Did I see what u did there? and what cuteoverload did there too? Could you (and cute overload) possibly be pointing out that Boing Boing has echoed stories from Cute Overload twice this week? (and days after they...
• Commented on Flickr set of behind the scenes photos of Obama watching election results
  Thank you for the link to the Flickr set. BBC News posted a few of these pictures today and said that they came from Flickr, but they didn't provide any link! FAIL...
• Commented on Amazon forcing manufacturers into less frustrating, more efficient packaging
  Are they actually cutting back on packaging at the manufacturer level, or are they just repackaging everything? If it's the latter, that doesn't save the environment at all....
• Commented on Bjork explains TV
  @#10 - does it matter how affected Bjork's weirdness is? Even if it was originally "put on" she's been doing it for so long, and to such a level, and with such creativity (which alone suggests that it's not a...
• Commented on Randall "XKCD" Munroe and me on our work habits -- video
  Yes, to echo #1 - PLEASE turn off the auto playing! I'm interested in it, and yet I haven't watched it because every time I load boingboing, it starts making annoyingly loud laughter and audience noises and then I spend...
• Commented on USA Today thinks going through puberty is the same as getting fat
  @#15 - Girls most definitely are still developing after their first period. If I hadn't still been developing after the age of 12, I would still be completely flat chested, almost completely hairless on my body, and any number of...
• Commented on USA Today thinks going through puberty is the same as getting fat
  Not to mention that girls who "limit portion size" and "exercise the most" tend to be the same ones who binge eat, binge drink, and yoyo diet. Girls who are active without being obsessive about it, and who eat when...
• Commented on Artificial foreskin lets you keep your sensitivity AND the covenant of Abraham!
  @#43 - Absolutetrust -- And that is why many women elect to remove their breasts before they get cancer. What's your point?...
• Commented on MySQL hacker needs $400K for his son's bone-marrow transplant
  @#7 - I have no idea what the specific expenses are, but if a broken arm (compound fracture -- broken skin and leaking marrow) with 3 days in the hospital can cost $40,000 (luckily covered by insurance), I'm amazed that...
• Commented on Who is this Rosh Hashanah person anyway?
  @35 - Oh no! What's wrong with Fred?...
• Commented on Who is this Rosh Hashanah person anyway?
  This is cute... but I call FAKE! - A Jewish woman named Kristi?!?!...
• Commented on Japan's badass new prime minister
  I'm sorry, but I cannot have confidence in any Japanese prime minister whose hair is that uninspired. The former prime minister's hair was much better....
• Commented on Lamps of Walt Disney World
  I got (was forced) to sit in on a crazy Disney presentation on customer service once at a Librarian conference and I learned all sorts of things about the details of art in Disneyland and -world. The lamps are just...
• Commented on Grapes with a EULA
  @#28 - Bananas have seeds -- they're those little black things through the center....