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• Commented on Danish anti-piracy group gives up
  'Uskyldsformodning' That may be my new favourite word!...
• Commented on Damning interview with Baby Einstein founder
  Maybe everything *does* stimulate the brain at that age. That being the case, why the hell would you want to make somebody else rich doing something that you could, nay should, do yourself for free?...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  I wonder if at any point somebody said "dude...this is not cool" when the idea of getting lapdancers was suggested? Did they think it was waaaay "edgy" and "coool" (man)....
• Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
  @ anon "Also, @redrichie, we have been needing this recession since about 2005 to fix the insanity that was happening in the realty markets and much of the wackiness that was happening in the financial sector, among others." Oh, don't...
• Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
  @Donal You may be right...I should check. I refuse to fly with Ryanair, though, because of the Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary. Before there was *actually* a recession, I read an interview with him where he said what we needed was...
• Commented on Media centers: the exciting, the boring; the solved, the unsolved
  It's funny...I've made myself a small network in the house for streaming music and video between our various pieces of computer and A/V equipment wirelessly, but I mostly end up just transporting the hard drive to where it needs to...
• Commented on Banned Books Week and "most challenged titles" of 2008!
  Yeah, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Bonobo Chimps display homosexual behaviours. Fact: Chimps are awesome....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  Urgh. The Hollywood apolgists for Polanski make me sick. It's my understanding that, because the victim didn't want it played out in court (understandably), he was able to get the charge squashed down to statutory rape. When it was nothing...
• Commented on Amanda Palmer on why she's not ashamed to ask her listeners for money
  Itsumishi: As regards the gigging thing, it's really hard to know where the truth lies with that. You read different stories about it. For example, I remember one on (I think) The Long Tail talking about the increased amount of...
• Commented on Banned Books Week and "most challenged titles" of 2008!
  http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm There's probably something in the fact that many of the books that are challenged are the type of thing that would piss off small gummint, but socially conservative types. Whereas the sort of thing, like Atlas Shrugged, that would...
• Commented on Creative Commons Salon, San Francisco Oct 15
  This sounds interesting. It is not, however, within my means to get to SF. Will there be anything regarding the discussion of his book on the Internets?...
• Commented on Amanda Palmer on why she's not ashamed to ask her listeners for money
  @MG Farrelly "Because unlike CDs, which are the same price as they were when i bought my first one in 1993, those are all items with real ROI." Is that strictly true? It seems to me that CDs are less...
• Commented on Amanda Palmer on why she's not ashamed to ask her listeners for money
  Phikus. Ace, shame that the band thing didn't work out. Prog often unfairly derided IMHO. THere *is* to be fair some effing horrible stuff, but to paraphrase Sturgeon, "90% of all prog is shite, but that's because 90% of everything...
• Commented on Amanda Palmer on why she's not ashamed to ask her listeners for money
  What kind of stuff do you do, Phikus?...
• Commented on UK Border Agency's pseudoscientific "race-detection" DNA/isotope tests has scientific experts "horrified"
  There are lots of other things to dig this up for. However, does Godwin's law still apply with such a weirdly Third Reichian idea? Utter, utter madness....
• Commented on Amanda Palmer on why she's not ashamed to ask her listeners for money
  Kudos to Amanda. I hope this works out for her...'tis nice and honest. Will BoingBoing keep us up to date with how it runs? There are loadsa bands that do essentially this, though. By, say, pressing up limited CDrs of...
• Commented on Musician's open letter, sung to Lily Allen
  Why not just skip major label dreck altogether? There's oodles of music (some of it totally awesome) which isn't produced by people on major labels which bypasses the whole problem of what is legal/not legal as many of the artists...
• Commented on Lily Allen's copyright problem
  "There have been numerous studies showing that downloaders purchase more, and that promotional material (PR or free versions) massively encourage purchasing." Although that could be a case of correlation and not cause, surely? That's to say that someone who downloads...
• Commented on Augmented iPhone app shows you crappy fast food joints
  I love the idea of AR...but why does it seem always to be iphones that the applications get made for though? I don't wanna buy Apple products, because Apple suck. FSJ and that. Arrghs....
• Commented on Lily Allen's copyright problem
  Lily Allen is an irrelevance. She may be the only person in the world to achieve a higher irritation rating that her old man. And he really is a git :) Surely the best thing to do is to stop...
• Commented on All publicly funded content should be in the public domain.
  When I was doing a placement for a post-graduate degree in library management, I did a placement in a hospital library. I have to admit to being more than a little irritated by the costs involved in acquiring licenses for...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  @JFrancis Harvard are, surely, under no obligation whatsoever to run an ad? The grotbag is free to hold whatever opinions that he likes (although it would be nice if he wasn't being wilfully ignorant) but that doesn't necessarily mean that...
• Commented on How Science Reporting Works
  Oh-ho-ho. Brilliant. I totally lol'd In fact I'm still grinning like an imbecile....
• Commented on Entertainment industry stacks the speaker-list at Canadian copyright "town hall"
  Ugly Canuck: Well, exactly. But didn't I say that surely it is enough to say that the person is wrong? But accusing someone of shilling, if you don't know for sure, you're starting to enter the same territory as them?...
• Commented on Entertainment industry stacks the speaker-list at Canadian copyright "town hall"
  Hi Nelson.C That's fair enough...in fact, I believe that I did make reference to Anon's wrongery. Surely it is enough to argue from that point of view? They are wrong. Their argument is unworthy of any further consideration and can...
• Commented on Musée Mécanique animated gifs
  Nice! Just as well that bloke from the Daily Mail article about the sweets can't see the one on the right. His face would probably explode with rage....
• Commented on Entertainment industry stacks the speaker-list at Canadian copyright "town hall"
  @ Hooeezit. See...that is what gets my goat. It does look as though our friend anon is, in this instance, wrong. But why does them having an opposed view to yours, or the wider BB consensus, mean that s/he is...
• Commented on Father blames others for his own misinterpretation of candy wrappers as "pornographic"
  Snarf...The Daily Mail reporting as hilarious as ever!...
• Commented on UK Pirate Party launches
  Hurrah! Oh, well, I'd always worried that I was the only one that thought that way! Not sure that it makes me feel any better though :( Sorry about the double-posting, btw....
• Commented on UK Pirate Party launches
  Hi Arkizzle, yes, Zeepoli may be being slightly obtuse/ignorant in their assessment of this, but then I have a real problem with this debate. I can't find any proper discourse on the subject. For example, the general civil liberties infringements...