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• Commented on Japanese Graveyards
  Donating organs is great; but know that none of them will be used for medical research. There is a serious lack of healthy brains donated for neurological research; by bequeathing your brain to research after death, you can benefit many...
• Commented on Another Swarovski marketing solution: Swarovski-brand contact lenses
  Mm, nothing like a little aesthetic discrimination. Good one, Garr -- ten points. Aside from that; isn't the weirdest thing that these contacts, ultimately, make a wearer look like they have Brushfield spots? Now that's an intriguing style choice!...
• Commented on Video: 3 Designers + 4 Days + Lots of Sweat = Omaha Beach Recreation
  That is bloody amazing! As a 2nd year university student studying digital media, I would cut out a pound of - no more no less - intern with the people who made this. Insane!...
• Commented on Music video roundup from the 1960s
  The one for '7' punk and post-punk female singer videos doesn't work, because it should be /8/ punk and post-punk female singer videos. DUH! ;D...
• Commented on HOWTO make an animatronic lion mask with superpowers
  Aw, HICCMUT, don't be a Goofus to the proverbial Gallant. Furry is just like any other subculture - there are crazies and there are norms, and this dude, regardless of subscribing to the Furry lifestyle, is a god damned artisan....
• Commented on HOWTO make an animatronic lion mask with superpowers
  Hey! Isn't the creator the same guy who was in that Furry documentary that was posted, er, here I believe? The lion obsessive!...
• Commented on Crumpled beer cans in porcelain
  Ethan, I still think it is important to look at the styles of pottery which each artist is using to de-familiarise the respected physical objects themselves - because each style has it's own unique subtext. They're both blue glazes, certainly,...
• Commented on Crumpled beer cans in porcelain
  Meh. I don't think it's right in saying Lie Xue's work is derivative of Krafft's. The medium might be similar, but the message I'm reading from them is totally different. Krafft's use of Dutch Delft style porcelain paired with modern...
• Commented on The Truth About Female Desire online
  Did anybody actually watch it? I did. There were 8 women, a few of which were bisexual/bicurious, and one who was openly a lesbian. It wasn't about 'what turns you on' as much as 'how, physically and mentally, are women...
• Commented on Push Presents: When Creating Life Just Isn't Enough
  Somebody has to alert the Scobles, stat!...
• Commented on Karlheinz Stockhausen, RIP
  Oh man, total sadness....
• Commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  Oh Bah Bah Hospital in Camden -- so silly!...
• Commented on Man Makes Life-Sized LEGO Minifig from Cardboard
  Ahahaha....
• Commented on Run DMC on Reading Rainbow (video)
  This was my favourite episode of Reading Rainbow when I was a kid!...
• Commented on Music video made from wacky old religious footage
  Fantastic! This has opened a whole new interest in Swedish electro-pop!...
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Yay, comments are good. New layout is also good. But serif fonts are bad. OH NOES! The conflict, it's immense....