#22 Who said I buy books?

Simply do not care. I don't watch movies, don't watch tv, don't buy cd's. Instead I find other sources of entertainment (books for instance).

Not because I don't like movies or wouldn't want to buy a cd to support a favorite artist, but because it is so incredibly blindingly obvious that they are in the hands of money grubbing a-holes that I simply don't want to send my money their way.

So to me this is nothing new. Just more of the same.

#8 Sure, but why would not not be a good time for more drastic change? I see it happening already: copyrighted content was being hijacked so much that more flexible content creators picked up on this mechanism and adapted to it. This is what the focus should be on, not the old failing mechanisms. It's a drastic change.

The book is called arts, inc. I haven't read it, of course, but since when is arts something you can define and thus undermine?

I seem to find that art springs from change, from shifts in perception. So, the process described in the book will create more art. Different art. Perhaps so different that we won't be able to realize it's art until our children tell us it is.

Only that which springs from the process you describe, slow evolution, can be undermined. But perhaps that isn't the actual art. If that is only a shallow evolution of the origins, is it worth worrying about?

Won't the destruction of a culture not just create a different culture? Go with the flow, create your own world instead of clinging on to the last one.

Someone please remove this account. I'm done with boingboing and no longer wish my name to appear in your database.

Ww, nxt tm y rcmmnd gm 'll gv t pss.

t-shirt fabric streches. This will look awfull in a week.

Reminds me of the virtual artwork from William Gibsons Spook Country.

Didn't like this though: what it did was put some pictures in a very very boring context. It drags your focus away from the scene in the picture, instead of enhancing it.

So, sponsored content vs. sponsored content, but one of them is disclaimed by the content creator.

Sorry, I still haven't gotten over the shock and let down since then. My fault, won't spam again. (promiss)

Sounds a bit like what we heared earlier about Boingboing having sponsored content. I think there was a discussion here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/13/hamsters-lunch-at-co.html

Wow, man.. I've got this song you totally got to listen to.. Change your life, man..

If I care to read frequent news updates, I go to bbcworld.com.

I've only just realized that some of the content I might be reading on Boingboing is actually an advertisement.

I might have been living under a rock, but that doesn't make me less uncomfortable with this.

Honoustly, a large site like Boingboing that lives ONLY from its content doesn't really have to infect that content with advertisements, does it?

At least for me, I will now be more cautious when visiting bb. Also, thanks for ruining the idea that bb knows what it's doing.

Heh, the only way for those plants to be even more chinese, is if they would have clear plastic bags over them.

#6 they might have to wrap it up because the American Idol final is next.

I'm used to turning off people in my view of forums I frequent.

Don't see it as self-censoring. I just save myself a lot of irritation.

Seems very Boingboing to me: streamline the flow of information to GTD. Save yourself unnecessary headaches.

#18 It's not the knife itself, but the belt-buckle + knife combination that has me wondering.

So yes, I guess it's an American thing: while I regularly encounter people wearing belts here, I don't ever see someone with such a big slab of iron on the waist. And especially not one containing a tool.

Also, no. I don't ever have to use a knife, unless I'm cooking.

I'm not talking you down, I just remarked that this must be particular to a certain society. I was interested in this because no one of the earlier posters seemed to think the concept itself was goofy.

I guess this is an American thing?

I can see no use for this.

(Except if you need to cut people up regularly without them seeing it coming.)

The music from the Halo add is a composition by Chopin, called regentropfen (rain drops).

I recommend listening to it in its entirety.

The ways of getting around the firewall have always existed, and could be found by those who were determined to.

And although it might become easier to do so, the key remains: this is only for those who actively try to break Chinese law.

I've lived for two years at a Chinese university and haven't met any student who wanted to or had need to do so.

shackles of the need to be "on" continuously.

it's rubbish. You'll be fine calling back later if you've missed a call.

without a covering the light will get in your eyes.

The trees they were made from haven't been around for longer than a couple of years.

It's not millions of years old carbon dioxide. Don't worry.

First an probably most unoriginal: Zero Cool

Are you joking? They have been selling this as "storage solution" on tv for as long as I have consciously watched it

Drop the whole social networking BS and gone are your worries.

With these things you have to add some salt to the water.

The salt reacts with the iron, which causes the brownish color.

What will it do to the brains of the people in the car?

Tune it to BBC World Service!

Neven, the guy is the president. I guess he _has_ seen the outside world.

We used to collect boxes from stores and build our own. What the fun in this?