I just looked at Apollo Diamond's website, and they have some jewelery for sale online. It's comperable in price to regular (mined) diamonds.

You might be avoiding the DeBeers monopoly, or comfortable in the knowledge that it's 100% conflict free, but you're not going to actually save any $$.
If anything, it seems like Apollo is trading on the DeBeers-set prices to inflate their own. Ultimately acomplishing nothing in the overall market other than becoming another sales source.

Its not a truck!
its a series of tubes!

(for #157)

Also, one of the funniest comments ever. :)

Holy crap! I had one of these as a kid, and thought about it a lot after the 90's scooter fad.

Mine was big and clunky, and I figured I'd never know what it was called or where to get one.

Thanks for the post!

At what point can we just rename BoingBoing to TedTed?
I miss the regular BB posts.
I'll come back in a week.

@ drtwist, ditto for me. This'll make a great gift for my brother who does IT support, but I didn't want to pay shipping from the UK. Thanks for the link!

This is a great article! Thanks for sharing!

For the complainers here, get off your high horse. I'm SURE that if you had millions of dollars to your name that you would totally keep living in your crappy 600 sqft apartment so as to minimize your environmental impact.

Riiiight.

OMG! Its a Rock! That's so cool!

The people here are so quick to jump on any corporation as some big evil conglomerate, it’s like a knee-jerk reaction to go along with anything at all that paints some company in a bad light.

I don’t know the victim in this story from Adam, so I’m not passing judgment here, but…

I know for a fact that customers pull all sorts of underhanded shit with returns. I knew one guy who would buy a big and a small hard drive, swap the innards and then return the more expensive one so some sucker could then purchase it later.

Best Buy doesn’t know if the person in this story was some guy pulling a fast one or a legitimate victim. If it is the latter, it is unfortunate, but it’s not like he doesn’t have recourse. Assuming he ordered it online, he paid with a credit card. In which case he can very easily contest the charges with the CC company and then go buy the drive somewhere else.

Or, if he ordered it online and the warehouse is so inept that they didn’t check it in the first place, he could mail it back for a refund and also go buy it elsewhere.

My GF manages a retail store (no, not a Best Buy) and every single day she comes home with a new story of some jackass customer who tried to pull a fast one on them and cheat the store.
If the guy in this story really is a legitimate victim, which he seems to be, he’d be the exception not the rule.

I don’t like Best Buy’s response, but I can certainly understand it.

YES! Rail against 'The Man!' Huzzah!

Because for sure, Comcast is the only company out there with bad customer service.

*sigh*

Anyone tried calling Verizon's CS lately?

It's only a matter of time before we have to strip down to our underwear to go through security.

Last winter going through Denver, passengers had to take off their sweaters or sweatshirts. I was in a t-shirt at the time, but if I was wearing a sweater I wouldn't have had on any undershirt. What then?

So I say, everyone strip down to your skivvies and then walk through the metal detector!

This is the sort of thing that gives lawers in general a bad name, and the reason lawer jokes exist.

To go through so much school, and come out so dumb on the other end is hard to comprehend.

"Save the obscure derelict Hanger!!"

This is one of those things that people care about only after someone popular tells you that you should care about it.

Thanks for the heads up.

I've read Jumper and Reflex and was waiting for the third in the series.

This is literally right around the corner from me! I was just at 'Big Als' this past weekend. I'll have to swing by and check out the turtle. I'll ask how it, uh, expels waste and let y'all know. :)

BTW, This store is an awesome business model. It's a huge aquarium store in a somewhat depressed strip mall. All the products are up front in typical layout, but the back is set up like a small aquarium. It's a popular place for moms to take their kids to kill a couple hours, and the store probably does great business by doubling as an 'attraction' of sorts.
I think it's great that they're getting international attention from this interesting oddity.

"...chuckle ironically at the revelation that the prison system demands higher quality food than the school system."

I find this apauling as well, but I can at least understand the reason. The difference being that prisoners get *all* their food from these meals, while school students get 1 meal. Also, the school kids at least have options. If they (or their parents) don't want them to eat that, they don't have to. Pack a lunch, buy something else, whatever. Prisoners' moms aren't packing them PB&J instead of their prison meals.
Basically it comes down to:
At school, you don't like it, don't eat it.
In prison, you don't like it? Tough shit.

A had a cop aquaintance who was just sent to jail for stalking/harassing his ex-wife. He thought he could get away with it because he was a cop himself and none of his buddies would do anything. (14 year vet, with pension down the drain!)
Well, the DA saw things differently.
He's serving 3-12 months.

#11 posted by Cpt. Tim , September 20, 2007 8:58 AM:
Somehow i knew boing boing would turn into a situation where boing boing editors would remove comments they disagreed with.

I'm sure the issue was about your freedom of expression and not at all about your freedom to be obnoxious on someone else's blog. You don't like it, go start your own boing boing where you can allow everyone to be an ### as much as they like.

...or are you going to get upset at my freedom of expression?

@Xeni, if this post is over the line, please feel free to edit it. This is your site with your rules.
Thanks for the forum.

Cheers.

Pro - Slim chance of skin cancer.
Con - Don't you get vitamin D from the skin's exposure to sunlinght?

Wikipedia says...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_d

"The Hostile Savages." Isn't this how Fox News describes the 'liberal media'?
In a little over a century, some people's narrowmindedness doesn't change, just the targets.

I used to have these self cooling packs in a first aid kit that were chemically induced. The chemicals were kept seperate until you squeezed the pack (think glow-sticks, but without the glass vial).
It was pretty neat, and they were't too expensive. But they didn't get tremendously cold either. And I wonder what the environmental impact would be from producing something like that on the scale that only Coca-Cola could.

I love these bits because it makes me feel better about the crap I inherited with my house. The previous owner ran a phone line all the way from upstairs, carefully through the walls and down into the basement phone box - only to connect the wires *to ground*!
(Plus he staped the carpet upstairs to the floor with a staple gun.)

:p

The point isn't whether or not the action was technically illegal, it was still highly irresponsible. He's given CD's for *advanced* review, and can't keep them in his possession for a few weeks in order to respect the label's request?
What should be the consequence is that he doesn’t get any more advanced CD’s, at the least. Maybe it wasn’t malicious, or even intended, but it was definitely irresponsible.

"Oh, you may think I'm a coward..."

Your word, not mine.

I just find it ironic that BB posts so much about the TSA and how they do ridiculous things, but when it actually happened to a BB person... nothing.

Don't get me wrong, I here because I love BB, not to be a troll. I'm not calling anyone a coward. I'm just, well, disappointed.

Xeni, have you called LAX or the TSA to follow up? Or is this blog post the extent of and end of the story?

So, you stood there for a full half an hour without any explanation because someone yelled "Freeze!" at you?
For anyone who has been in a similar situation (or anyone who wants to wax hypothetical), what would happen to someone who walked 3 feet to a bench and sat down?
Did *anyone* even try? Did anyone say "tell me why, or I'm leaving?"
Or did every person in the hall just freeze and stand there like sheep because someone with a badge on their sleeve said to?
I don't know what bothers me more, that the TSA treat people like this, or that people will accept being treated like this without any pushback at all.