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• Commented on Woman dines with cardboard cutout man in San Francisco
  Oh, Lisa, if you haven't seen it, you are just going to LOVE the movie, "Lars and the Real Girl (2007)." Tagline: "The search for true love begins outside the box."...
• Commented on Scientist explains why climate scientists talk trash
  Peter Watts implies that the bickering and backstabbing in the recent email disclosures are a good thing. But science usually works better than this. Though it is true that all scientists gossip and complain about peer review, science is usually...
• Commented on Infographic: Left vs Right
  Ah, but the poster designers anticipate us here in the boingboing comments gallery! "There are two versions with different colours: a US and a World version. This is because the US and Switzerland are the only countries in the world...
• Commented on One terabuck, visualized
  How timely. This very morning, my 8-year-old and I had NPR on the background over breakfast, and the announcer mentioned 1 trillion dollars in connection with health care reform. My son asked, "is there really a trillion dollars?" I agree...
• Commented on "I'm Fat and Nobody Likes Me"
  What makes this so uplifting, in a media culture that gives fat kids such a rough time, is that he gets to make his own media and its so clear he will be so well liked....
• Commented on Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy
  Delightful. Inspiring. A model of clear use of graphical illustration. I would be embarrassed to admit what I learned about the units for power and energy....
• Commented on "Marx was... second???"
  Yeah, for both stylistic and pragmatic reasons, I like the great American radicals better than Marx. Jefferson. Paine. Frederick Douglas. Thoreau. Much of the radical sense of economic justice that we associate with Marx can be found in Andrew Jackson's...
• Commented on NY Times and 'Serious' Journalism
  At #3. Don't be silly. Unicorns aren't real and hobbits can't ride very well anyway....
• Commented on Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions
  It's a great challenging question whether rules of war make war better. On a tour a couple years ago of the International Committee of the Red Cross museum in Geneva, the guide was clearly wrestling with questions about whether his...
• Commented on BB Video: (This is an ad) Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, pt. 1 of 6 / Cheetos Boredom Busters.
  Boingboing readers will differ on this question. Airship's criteria are that advertising is okay, so long as the blog is (1) having fun, and (2) being honest. I would say instead advertising is okay, so long as (a) the blog...
• Commented on Were McCain Supporters 419-scammed by Nigerian "African Press International"?
  @WarEagle, the most recent major post-911 terrorist attack on U.S. soil was the deadly anthrax letters. Who should have been preemptively attacked to keep us safe from those?...