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• Commented on Fangst
  Tŕŭę, bůŧ ŷøŭ şţîłl rëåđ tĥĭš àŝ Ėñğłíśħ, ŗıĝĥŧ?...
• Commented on Hope is fading
  Well, at least there's nothing wrong with our two-party system. Because the only people who think there are major problems inherent in the system are those who read about politics on the internet....
• Commented on Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners
  This is nice, but it still won't work. I actually wrote a dainty little screed at my blog on why, but it boils down to: DRM'd books aren't "permanent," and will never find mainstream acceptance until they find the permanence...
• Commented on The birth of District 9
  Little CJ would have been a sad omission. His interactions with Chris contribute a lot to giving the Prawns a sense of humanity. In particular, Wikus smiling in front of the hatchery toasting would probably have been a less powerful...
• Commented on Y2K ten years later
  it was one of the only times in recent memory that the world has come together and spent a ton of money and time to prevent disaster (which we can't seem to do with other impending crises) This is because...
• Commented on Try the beef in "Wikipedia flavor"
  If only it had been listed under A7 instead of C15....
• Commented on More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
  Wow. I never thought about it that way, but it fits together: We live in a silent, real-life robot uprising whose enslaving substance is not of silicon and steel but regulatory and cultural. We built these machines of capitalism to...
• Commented on Crucixion and beheading for child rapist in Saudi Arabia
  No man could ever truly pay for such a crime, but it is always unsettling to see how humans will attempt to quote a high enough price. Bloodlust. The most unhealthy natural state....
• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  You will know this has reached critical mass when the US president appears in a broadcast address affably explaining, in exquisitely engineered language, how this treaty is being drawn up with a deep respect for individual liberty and due process...
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  It seems terribly unlikely to me that this was anywhere near as simple a matter as the girl becoming "too westernized" to live by her father's provincial standards. A man kills his own daughter. You don't do that because you...
• Commented on Sony unveils new 3D display
  Robulus and Finchypoo are probably right, but I'm holding out hope that Sony has figured out a way to do this through optics and without a ridiculously-high-RPM spinning device. Accomplishing this with no moving parts (or at least not moving...
• Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
  10 years ago, the top-of-the-line iMac was the 15" CRT iMac DV SE. 10 years later, the top-of-the-line iMac has a 1440p 27" widescreen flat panel, comes default with wireless networking, wireless keyboard, and wireless multi-touch mouse, and makes even...
• Commented on To the Moon, Alice!
  That has to be the most graceful and majestic data visualization I've seen all year. I want a large-format for my wall, to be viewed with the original soundtrack to Carl Sagan's Cosmos playing in the background....
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  Perhaps those who insist it's "not a relationship unless there's sex" feel the need to reinforce this to maintain denial of their own personal regrets....
• Commented on Videogame Minimalism
  http://twitter.com/joeljohnson/status/4692737147 Alas, the lack of Offworld links built into the strange new BoingBoing probably pointed this way....
• Commented on Strap-on autonomous vehicle kit
  This fills me with an indescribable sense of wonder, not just for what it is itself, but for the pattern it is part of. It's the standard progression for any technology: 1) Unreliable, broken prototypes (early DARPA Grand Challenge) 2)...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  @Spikeles Have you ever actually used one of those? http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embed&sec=1366042...
• Commented on Exclusive sneak peek at Ch. 19 from The Book of Genesis Illustrated, by R. Crumb
  The Sodomites' faces, p.2 panel 4. Simply fantastic. I'm also really digging Crumb's renderings of ancient Semitic architecture and fashion....
• Commented on QWERTY Is Obsolete
  If that magazine were still running, I'd so subscribe....
• Commented on FreeAgent Theater+ goes 1080p
  Its terrific have a spammer who make attempt to comment on article! Now what I want to know is what it is about 60° beveled fasciae that looks so retro simply by virtue of the angle used. It's uncanny....
• Commented on Get Settled: first iPhone <em>Catan</em> screenshot, beta applications open
  I do not think that it is entirely out of the realm of possibility that upon later inspection, the release date of iPhone SoC will be found to have coincided with a slight but quantifiable spike in the sales of...
• Commented on Nokia N900 tablet runs Maemo, runs flash, likes money
  Oh. Oh, yes. http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/ As expected, it'll be on display at Nokia World next week before this quad-band GSM/EDGE, 900/1700/2100MHz UMTS/HSPA handset heads to select markets in October for €500 (pre tax and pre carrier subsidy). And by the looks...
• Commented on Write an iPhone disappointment Haiku in the comments, win a Mophie Juice Pack Air
  Squeals, bursts, trickles, runs Waves of filth reverberate There's an app for that...
• Commented on iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult
  When the iPhone was first announced, I was joyous for what I perceived as an unambiguous wake-up call to the mobile phone industry: It's time to focus on usability! Indeed, how mistaken I was. And yet, segments of the market...
• Commented on Night Cars: gorgeous dreamlike picture book about the traffic below the bedroom
  There is a special place of security and perfect happiness whose inaccessible, effervescent nectar, trapped by the density of time, is somehow tapped by this book....
• Commented on Dating Tip #238: Find A Computer Demo Center
  I wish I could find that love-child of Futura and Gill Sans they're using on headlines. Also, dig the retail box design! I don't think Apple even had an art department yet....
• Commented on Sony assaults Kindle with new touchscreen 3G reader
  The thing is, there's space for someone in this market to try and do to Amazon over ebook DRM what Amazon did to Apple over music DRM. We may say the publishers would never go for DRM-free books, but we...
• Commented on Dutch government tries to stop 13-year-old girl from sailing around world solo
  Could a well-trained thirteen year-old girl survive a solo sailing trip around the world? Perhaps it is not unthinkable. But it strains my credulity to imagine that allowing and encouraging a child to do this fits under any definition of...
• Commented on Highlights of the Inspector General's torture report
  Um, Teapot, not cool. You know which part I'm talking about. The whole point of this is that we don't lower ourselves to barbarism just because someone else's culture may permit it....
• Commented on iTablet photoshop disaster
  Whither the art of the fake leak? Once the province of artful prognosticators with a taste for industrial design, a skillful hand in Photoshop (or a 3D package, or even practical sculpture), and a puckish sense of mischief, today it...