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• Commented on Sherrifs speak on "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter's jailhouse tweets
  It doesn't matter whether he's making it up or not. Giving him more jail time because he tweeted is tantamount to putting him in jail specifically because he tweeted. Unless there was some specific provision of his program that didn't...
• Commented on Cute Apple parody from The Sun
  I don't understand all the negativity about this ad, frankly, because it does a great job of highlighting the good things about print. The "this is how easy it is to share content with friends" section was especially good in...
• Commented on On the power of "bhaiya" (Hindi for "big brother")
  "Sir" would've been so much better, I wish I'd thought of it :(...
• Commented on On the power of "bhaiya" (Hindi for "big brother")
  STOP PRESS - Inflection used to express feelings! Insiders at a famous Delhi firm have today revealed startling facts about speech in the East, which may completely change the way we use language. These experts - who chose to remain...
• Commented on Cellphone contracts getting even better!
  "[Carriers] wish that American consumers would just pay full price for the phones, the way people do in Europe." Wait, what? For the most part we have the option of buying phones (which are expensive) on PAYG (which only costs...
• Commented on I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
  Man, you think that's bad, you should try playing Dwarf Fortress in a starting area infested with unicorns. Those guy's'll gore your starting dwarves up pretty good. But not as bad as the murderous carp would, I'll give you that....
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Borderlands</em> and <em>Bomberlands</em>, <em>Hook Champ</em> and <em>Earth Dragon</em>s
  #1 - It's "No Heaven" by DJ Champion. You need to get some Google-fu, it took me 5 seconds to find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou3_gfyh9Oc...
• Commented on What to do if you smell a terrorist
  I'm not sure how "I watch my street, I watch my city, I watch my community" I supposed to be reassuring. Sounds bloody scary to me....
• Commented on Spiral staircase built around a 75' tree
  Jesus Christ, I have vertigo just watching that. The bit where he's climbing the ladder and the camera moves to the right, showing nothing but blue... that's scary stuff!...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Meat Stick Blowtorch
  The cucumber is presumably a nod to this, which did it first: http://boingboing.net/2009/04/15/bb-video-the-flaming.html but with bacon, which clearly makes it much awesomer than this peperami monstrosity....
• Commented on Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
  Presumably the species that lost this trait did so because you'd have to be bloody stupid to eat a GLOWING MUSHROOM....
• Commented on A Doctor's Advice On How To Read Health News (And Know Whether It's Full of Crap)
  It's National Health Service, but I'm only finding fault with that because the rest of the post is impeccable :)...
• Commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
  This is some freaky stuff. Not only because it's a giant writhing maggot that just wants some love, but also for the philosophical and social aspects, which were weird enough when it was just a pillow, but now it can...
• Commented on Royal Mail uses legal threats to shut down service that provided postcode lookups to charities and nonprofits
  It's weird because there's two aspects to "looking up postcodes". One is the "find stuff near me" aspect, which is covered by the Wikileaks database. The other is "I have an address, what is its postcode", or the inverse, which...
• Commented on Madagascar Institute's jet-powered merry-go-round
  #14: It's similar the starter motor on your car. The engine won't ignite unless it's already spinning, so compressed air is used to set it off. I guess a leaf blower is a handy source of quite high-speed, directable air?...
• Commented on Ariel: the unabridged, DRM-free audiobook of the classic swords-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic adventure
  #10 - that's three more than a lot of people, but I get your point. And $40 is an OUTRAGEOUS sum to be charging, DRM-free or not....
• Commented on How to saber a bottle of champagne
  #3 has it right - I'm also told that if you run the knife along the seam, the top of the bottle won't snap clean off like has done in this video - you'll normally just take a chip out...
• Commented on Author John Scalzi "On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers"
  I think Neil Gaiman said it best when he said: "George R R Martin is not your bitch." Weirdly, Amanda Palmer tweeted this blog post earlier today and that's why it was on my mind. With that and "I will...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  JB NicholsonOwens, #30: Your argument is a bit fallacious though - you're supposing that nobody cares about who he sleeps with, enough so that they'd collectively rather he stay in office where he can be coerced. But in a world...
• Commented on HOW WE DECIDE: mind-blowing neuroscience of decision-making
  Wow, that's, er, quite a review you have there Cory. But this book does sound EXCELLENT, and I'll certainly give it a look!...
• Commented on One year walk/beard grow time lapse video
  His name is Christoph, though, not Christopher....
• Commented on "Average gamer is 35, fat and bummed" [Really?]
  Age: 22 Height: 5'10 Weight: 200lbs Mental state: average to above-average happiness I play games for an average of about 2hrs a day, but not every day. Weekend gaming binges, ooh yeah. However, BMI is an utterly crap way of...
• Commented on (BB Video) Mighty Boosh, pt 3: Slashfic, Boosh books, Eleanor's NORAD link
  #9 - thanks for linking that! "You have SEEN a bush right?" "No, never! Someone showed me a drawing of one once." "Have you guys ever heard of Nicaragua?" "Yeah, 'cause we were schooled in England."...
• Commented on Coital "model" machine used in condom study
  For science!...
• Commented on Behold! Slim PS3
  #6 - power consumption is down in addition to size and weight. Hopefully that'll help to balance that out a bit, but I feel your pain :(...
• Commented on More Griping About Advertising: Bing Edition
  Poor search results? No. Poor searching? That's more like it. If Bing can take any half-formed noob-fart of a search query and make it return a decent result, then it'll have lived up to this claim. If it replaces one...
• Commented on Boing Boing Video shoot notes: The Mighty Boosh
  A Boing Boing crimp? This will surely be a thing of legend. My favourites: Croutons, croutons! Crunchy friends in a liquid broth! And he melted, like a pink bitch....
• Commented on Ginormo Sword: a hack-and-slash commentary on video games
  As well as social challenges and PvP, which I feel the previous commenters have covered, there're also PvE challenges as well. They're nuggets amongst the dross while you're levelling - the occasional harder-than-normal, miniboss fight; the area packed with hundreds...
• Commented on Leverage season one DVD: crime drama about Delta force who take down corrupt corporations
  I dunno that it's crap; it's middlingly good. The writing is pretty patchy in places and I enjoyed Gina Bellman much more in Coupling, which she was brilliant in. After watching it I didn't feel like I'd wasted forty minutes...
• Commented on Mario recreation on India's Got Talent
  Not as far as I'm aware - no Mario games include any Rob Dougan, either (which, frankly, is an appalling crime, but that's by the by). What it is is pretty inventive and it takes some interesting liberties with its...