I think you guys were had on this one. A search of ohio.com does not bring this article up.

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AK&p_theme=ak&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_site=ohio&s_trackval=AK&p_text_search-0=38-year-old%20AND%20Cole%20AND%20Avenue%20AND%20man&s_dispstring=38-year-old%20Cole%20Avenue%20man%20AND%20date(2003)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2003&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes&s_trackval=

LOL . . . just something more for the BB crowd to complain about. Forget about enjoying witty posts and learning about interesting sites, it seems a majority of BB readers come here to flex their internet muscles and complain, complain, complain. What evil corporation will sponsor BB next? Wal-mart?

Many have asked why are the police STILL interested in the suspect.

Though I am not involved in the criminal justice system, my guess is that the police want to CONFIRM that it was a tripod and not a gun. But this is just a guess.

Rottin's account of the police visit is funny. But it also makes me wonder if I should close my open WiFi network. I don't want cops taking away my computer.

Well, d'uh. :-)

Evolution of Security? Shouldn't it be called the Creative Design of Security?

#96 I lay $5 on the table that the Mythbuster ultralight will take off. I also lay $20 on the table that some people will still not accept that answer to the problem.

Spot on baby, spot on.

I was going to write some uniformed opinion, but I see . . . oh, nevermind . . . I'll wait until Wednesday evening to find out what Jamie and Adam come up with.

You lost me at Golden Earing and great song.

Cute, but overall useless.

How about making BoingBoing recognize I'm using an iPhone and then presenting BoingBoing in a more iPhone-friendly fashion?

Granted, I'm only using a WordPress theme on my blog, but this stuff is out there.

They took pictures of all the players at the tables, all the rooms, the chips, the cards, the dogs - everything.

This was not a home-poker game. There were multiple tables in multple rooms that occur in multiple places several times a month. This is pretty darn close to organized crime.

At least his parents name him properly. Imagine if they called him Jeeves Laws. We'd have a field guide on butlers and all things butlers do.

(Note this joke was stolen from some comedian, who was much funnier than me).

Why the heck did they name their kid after a beer? The No Fly list will be the least of his problems. ;-)

My son loves McDonalds. He could eat their 7-days-a-week. However, since I'm his parent, we don't go their that often.

Remember kids don't drive to McDonalds; their parents do.

Quick question: If your name was on the list, would you travel using it?

Joel Johnson's comment brought back memories of a delightful TV movie called The Enormous Egg that I saw too many years ago.

'The Enormous Egg' was originally a children's novel by Oliver Butterworth, who wrote a few books for young readers during breaks from his career in New England as a full-time professor of English and Latin. 'The Enormous Egg' was his most popular book; he wrote a sequel called 'The Narrow Passage' (note the contrasting titles) which featured the same boy protagonist ... but without the dinosaur who features so prominently in 'The Enormous Egg'.

This 1968 TV special is a simplified version of Butterworth's novel. Nate Twitchell is a 12-year-old boy who lives on his family's farm in Freedom, New Hampshire. The family raise chickens, but one hen is Nate's personal pet. One summer morning, Nate's hen lays an egg that is much larger than usual, and the wrong shape and colour. Conveniently, a professor of palaeontology just happens to be holidaying nearby. He examines the egg and, with great excitement, makes Nate promise to notify him as soon as it hatches.

When the eggshell opens, out steps a baby triceratops! Nate's hen has given birth to a throwback. (Birds aren't descended from triceratops, but who's counting?) Nate names the triceratops Uncle Beazley (how can he tell it's a male?) and in an amazingly short time the baby saurian grows to adult size... very large adult size.

Read more of F Gwynplaine MacIntyre's commentary at imdb.com.

@ ILL LICH

Your post reminded about the Soviet study to domesticate silver foxes which I first read about in Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Though domesticating one caiman might prove difficult.

Nasty creatures. Remember when Steve Irwin took his child into the crocodile pit, http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y8OyqxojZlw ; he said it was perfectly safe as well. Different strokes for different folks.

An interesting experiment, though their definition of a pacifist is pretty loose.

Level 28 opens up the Missing Diplomat quest series, and I might actually do the fights (since nobody actually gets killed) to go as far as I can with them.

Isn't pacifism, non-violence?

Let me try again.

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Deep Fritz

Hmmm, thought I saw that graphic somewhere else before.

That is Ultraman, right? God, I loved the Ultraman series as a kid (okay, I love it is an adult as well).

@42 - thppppttt!

@38 - Yes, terrorists exist, but your average police officer is never going to come across one.

Using that logic, we should take away all firearms from police officers since the average cop never pulls his out . . . his gun I mean.

w00t!

@#7 -- I propose an amendment to Boing Boings name:

Boing Boing: If David doesn't want to read it, no ones twisting his arm

Nice thought, but I don't think they'd go for it. However, if the powers that be want to run everything by me first, I'm game. ;-)

Why doesn't BoingBoing stick with it's slogan of being a directory of wonderful things instead of trying to be a civil rights platform. There are other websites that do this better and more effectively.

I have a vague feeling that the TSA is somehow behind this . . . and unicorns of course.

Hey IBURL, sweet stereotype of people living in trailer parks.

Whew! Now if I can get the mall cops to stop tagging my car when I leave my Christmas presents on the back seat, I'd feel much safer.

Does anyone still use iTunes? Blah.

Tisk, tisk! Security through obfuscation is something that BB readers so often condemn. Why defend it here? The police are publishing a possible security exploit with the hope that the responsible party will take action.

Right on the money, Seanbot.

Goddamn hippies. Thank god for US Customs!

What's it like working with writers who grew up watching The Simpsons?

It was originally done on the Simpsons.

It should be remembered that Dave Winfield may or may not have killed the seagull on purpose. After the game he was escorted out by police and charged with cruelty to animals. The charges were later dropped.