Timothy Hutton

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• Commented on OUTRAGE: documentary outs anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay
  I'm old enough to remember the homosexuals insisting that the government didn't belong in their bedrooms, they felt they deserved some privacy - when did that change? ANd this mysterious "something" you say you found out about "me" - how...
• Commented on OUTRAGE: documentary outs anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay
  Antinous - neither being gay nor holding certain opinions about so-called "gay rights" are illegal. (I put "gay rights" in quotes because it is a catch-all that means differnet things to differnet people, not because I don't believe in anything...
• Commented on Stop Making Sense turns 25
  Best staging of a "rock concert" I've ever seen - evolving band (for the first half of concert new bandmembers are added for each new song), and starting with a bare stage ("I have something I'd like you hear..." leading...
• Commented on State Dept offers $2.5 million for hackers to wire the Mid-East and Africa
  From the above posting: They're offering up to $2.5 million in grants for pilot projects that use wikis, blogs and social networking platforms to connect and educate young people and improve civic participation. A pilot project is not the same...
• Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
  crenelle - a valid point, but my limited understanding of the process leads me to belive there were numerous, repeated visits by both the representatives and the voting members of the IOC. Also, again, my limited understanding of the process...
• Commented on OUTRAGE: documentary outs anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay
  Wow, a person's sexual preference/orientation is no longer private? That's awesome... What a huge step forward for civilization. The politician's right to privacy ends at the prurient interests of so-called activists acting in their target's best interests? They assault the...
• Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
  So the idea I'm supposed to accept is that US Immigration & TSA policies are so onerous, so unbearable that the Chicago bid was lost because of them, BUT oddly, the IOC didn't consider these terrible, onerous policies until Chicago...
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  IRONEDITHKIDD predicted: the first politician subjected to the rectal exam will be the author of legislation to dismantle in the TSA. Depends on who the politician is - some of them like that sort of thing, from what I've heard......
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Eutychus reminded us that: the bomber passed through a metal detector no problem True, but if you look a little deeper this person was to be a passenger on the Prince's private plane, and it would make sense that the...
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  DANLALAN suggested that: This system will have the added benefit of allowing airlines to carry more passengers per flight, as they will be able to stacked like cordwood. I argue that is not possible - if that would allow more...
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Is there any particular reason this type of bomb wouldn't be picked up by current detection systems? Your ass is an odd place for metal, and you would likely have traces of explosives on your clothes/body for a "scent detector"...
• Commented on Suggest links with Twitter!
  I think a better name might have been (could be?) "zeitgeist" - not really picking nits, just that is what I think it will evolve into, not the most interesting links, but a balance between interesting, well-known, and timely links....
• Commented on Suggest links with Twitter!
  Looks like the spammers have found it already, not suprising, esp. when only three mentions are required to shoot your link to the top of the list! Seriously though, interesting idea, not sure how valuable all the metrics will be...
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  Ever look at the systems your bank tellers are using? Around here (NJ, USA) character-based interfaces are quite common, typically served up on modern, small form-factor PCs running trminal emulation programs back to the datacenter......
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  No shame using COBOL, CICS, and IMS/DB - just the way your father used to code... Really though, the sight of a CUI (Character User Interface) is foreign/alien to many Boing Boing'ers? I guess I'm old-school... BTW, COBOL (at 50...
• Commented on SGI releases personal supercomputer
  There are three versions - "1-way" 19x Atom dual-core CPUs, "2-way" 20 Xeon quad-core CPUs, or the "Graphics Workstation" 2x Xeon quad-core CPUs. The power is listed as up to 4x 1000 Watt PSUs, redundant power optional. All configurations are...
• Commented on 8-bit house numbers
  I'm confused, "8-bit" means low-res pixelation? As I look at it, the numbers are made up of a lot of "pieces" (or pixels), implying higher-resolution than I would have assumed from an "8-bit" console (I would have expected a 5x7...
• Commented on Years-old fast-food cutlery chunk removed from man's lung
  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! A 1" piece of plastic in his lung by drinking in big gulps? Where did the big gulp of liquid that carried this 1" hunk of plastic into his lung go? I thought people, you know, drowned...
• Commented on Ask the Government Printing Office to release the US Constitution in XML
  For an idea what they are referring to, look here for a link to the 2002 edition, with updates available with a little fishing on the website. The issue isn't having access to the text of the actual constitution, it...
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmOe2geZ4Q...
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  Hopkins Douglas discussed: Stored Railroad Cars here in the USA Please don't take this the wrong way, but everything has to be somewhere, and RR cars are much easier to store on tracks (and they have a tremendous shelf-life) than...
• Commented on BBC wants to put DRM on the TV Brits are forced to pay for
  Action Ben wrote: Due to the very short duration of the consultation, interested members of the public like myself have not had time to examine all sides of the argument. Welcome to the new Transparency in Government, it's all the...
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  manicbassman so when they are sailing, just what do they ship back to China? Their trade is disturbingly one way Paper and consumer electronics, both to be recycled... And of course, U.S. Treasury Bonds......
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  MDH - You were blind-sided by the looming economic crisis? It too was considered inevitable by those willing to look at the housing market honestly. House values (in the US) rose at a multiple of rise in income, and the...
• Commented on KlezHop freak Socalled
  Hey, I'll admit it - I had to google "Klezmer"......
• Commented on Ghost fleet of container ships off Singapore
  Is it just me, or does The Fine Article Cory linked to have the roles of Cause and Effect reversed? The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed,...
• Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
  Elk - reminded us all of this skit from SNL... I thought some might appreciate a link....
• Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
  "Nobody puts baby in the corner" Wasn't he involved in a project recently? Links, info? So long Patrick, and thanks for all the fish!...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  Moviequide.org has, as far as I can tell, no reference to this movie - it DOES have a book review on a book about Darwin called: Darwin's Racists Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow... Not quite the same thing. Also, I'm not...
• Commented on Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists
  hail_diskordia said: #12 - Could it be that distributors in the US know that we as a nation would rather watch something idiotic like Transformers 2 or Saw XXIV rather than a biopic? This isn't the highbrow nation many like...