#13: you're both wrong.

Godwin's Law is a statement on the inevitability of Hitler/Nazi comparisons.  It is descriptive, not prohibitive.

So did anybody else notice that on the website, they're all just "Doll Families" now?

The company seems to have noticed that they screwed up.

Sounds like he got off...

Wait, looks like everyone else already went there.

This just reminds me of why my wife is more awesome than...

Wait, someone covered that, too.

Well, I have nothing to add.

Ah, the quiet, contemplative break from worldliness of the monastic Buddhist tradition.

The cognitive dissonance is bracing, isn't it?

Why are 5, 6 and 7 the same thing?

I can't believe it took 91 comments for someone to ask that.

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And on the "was there a historical Jesus" debate... there is exactly as much historical evidence for the existence of the man known as Jesus Christ as there is for the idea that a large society of Jews were once enslaved in Egypt: absolutely none.

They sell POT plants?

Settle down, that's just the UK term for what we yanks call potted plants.

Yes, there is a conscious, deliberate push to turn the US into a authoritarian state. We are on the brink as it is and have been in a constitutional crisis for some time.

I doubt these loyalty oaths are particularly new.  Chances are, the requirement dates back to McCarthyism, if not earlier.

Note: I'm not endorsing the agreements, just saying I'm not surprised by them and doubt they're new.

Seriously, I'm starting to wish for an "everything except steampunk" boingboing feed.

Lesson 1:

It's only a crime if you get caught.

Man, the actual theatre people are gonna be pissed when this loophole gets closed due to abuse by unintended businesses..

I'm gonna flag everyone in the neighborhood I want to live in.  Then I just have to wait for the property values to decline so I can finally afford a house there!

You know, I'd completely forgotten about this tech, but now I know what that irritating speaker above the entrance to the grocery store I go to is for.

I'm 34*, and I can hear it just fine.  It's annoying, but not enough to make me choose another store.  There were often about 4 to 6 kids hanging around the store for no obvious reason prior to the installation of this, and they have in fact moved on.  On the other hand, the presence of a handful of youth near (but not blocking) the entrance never struck me as a "problem" in the first place.  Why they didn't hang out at the Starbucks 50 feet away always escaped me.

* My wife, who is 28, is now irritated that I can hear it and she can't.

Wow, steampunk and cosplay, together at last.

Are you trying to get all my snark out at once?

Finally, I too can have an ugly, jagged piece of twisted metal sticking out of my wall!

Brought to you by Tetanus Industries!

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[Yes, I know how tetanus actually works.]

On the one hand, I think Brian Eno is a great pick.

On the other hand, I'm 34 -- and that's probably pretty well over in the left side of the bell curve for his audience...

It doesn't update as often as it used to, but I recommend WTF CNN? for more headline-spotting fun without the pain of actually reading CNN.

Vik said:

The main problem with this is that if the files get copied to the ipod database, they'll disappear when you sync up back to the itunes library.

This is only true if the user in question has their ipod set to automatically sync the itunes library.  That may be the default, but most people I know choose the "manually manage music" option so they can do things like manage more than one ipod on the same computer or copy files to their ipod from more than one computer.  The latter case is what people will be doing here, and they'd need to change their options to support it if they haven't done so already.

Of course, if your solution is "don't use an ipod," then this thread isn't very useful to you -- it's obviously about an ipod-specific accessory.  Funny how that works.

Do you also comment on threads about vinyl-only releases, making sure everyone knows they are incompatible with your car's CD player?

Your idea of a simple device which can achieve this same result across multiple mp3 player platforms is admirable in theory, but inherently unworkable unless some sort of unified mp3 player standard comes into broad use.  Until then, the device would need to use a myriad of potential hookups, work with a broad array of formatting and file management solutions, and somehow still be compact, simpler to use, and more resilient than a laptop with a shoebox full of cables and adaptors.

It's not an open platform, but the ipod is the closest we have to this standard right now.  Maybe that will change at some point, but we're not there yet.

That counts as channeling Orwell?

If I run a meatpacking sweatshop, am I "channeling" Upton Sinclair?

Please, stop being mean to George Orwell.

I'm posting this here because this change came in at about the same time as the ones announced here...

I'm now getting video ads in the rss feed for boingboing.  Of course you guys can inject whatever you want in the feed, it's your content, but I thought I'd post a comment here and mention that this is really irritating, and then wait a couple of days before removing boingboing from my daily reads.

I'm not saying I'd blacklist you guys, but removing BB from my rss feed will definitely put the site in the "sometimes read" pile.  I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way.

So the moral is, baby rhino = cute. Save AFRICA!

Save Africa?  From what, continental drift?