huh? what flames?

s ths yr wbst, Nck D?
Tll m wht t d !

It was long time ago, but if i remember right, Jello Biafra had a list of great Names For Bands in the sleeve artwork of one of the Dead Kennedys LPs....
can anyone come up with it?

You mean you don't like scra-scra-scra-scratching and prefer us all to eat Uniformed Opinionions?

Hey Nick D, give it up!

To take your complaints one at a time:

where did you get the Christian Science bit?

The word "Muppet" has been used before, hasn't it? You can't have missed it !

What makes you think i need to be told what to do with my so-called beliefs?

"make war with ideas, not with men"

And who said anything about alien overlords? The Masons are (just about) human. Perhaps they do unconsciously serve other-dimensional entities such as the Archons described by the Gnostics, but that's not so relevant.

Jst sk yrslf why y r bthrd by my psts mr thn by th psts f ths wh dvct wr nd trtr?

Language is a tool that can be put to creative use, and a weapon, but only the lesser minds take it 100% literally and proceed to apply it through violent acts.

Anyway, violence by itself will not resolve this situation, and terrorism (of all colours) has historically been exploited by fascists to justify repression.

Restriction of our freedom and delimitation of our possibility is embedded in our very language which conditions our thought, and so it is my predicament to subvert that language . Guanatanamo is the logical progression from "Freedom is not free" which is a word-virus.

You are welcome to your old-school conservative concepts of coherency. I am not here to argue, and this ain't something that will ever be resolved by argument of the kind you see on CNN.

Please do not betray us now that we have almost completely pwned the pro-war dupes!

And let's not forget that it is the US , since the 60's or earlier who, via the CIA and fck knows what other ghouls, have been busily arming psychopaths , including the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and setting up puppet dictatorships all over the place so as to establish control . . . South America, Africa, Middle East and beyond.

And now they are trying to tell us about terrorists hounding them! Rp wht y swd, mthrfckrs! Dg yr grvs n th dsrt!

lv y wth n xcrpt frm pm wrt whl g:

Dvr ll y cn nw s thr s mr tm t rn t
prnk fls f fls fls rnd thck lk rbbr
blck mmbs thm wndmly nsnt th tr & fthrs
sd m wh syn th bshs r gnn brn n th dsrt
f r dys nd nghts sht n glrs svnty ml
rlrs fn nd ts n yr fc hrlqns grn...

T lsly qt th mppt clld l Gr:

" mn my nvr ndrstnd smthng whn hs slry dpnds pn nt ndrstndng t".

ndrstn!

We are all cozily, self-indulgently, talking about people being kidnapped and tortured.

And all we can do is state our position on the matter . What else is there we can do?
To those who say "so what are you going to do about it apart from bitch?" i say , ask yourself this question.

Me, I am going to bitch till the cows come home, and i hope lots of other people bitch as loudly as possible, because what Saddam was supposed to be doing in Iraq WAS NONE OF THE US's GODDAMN BUSINESS. And only the terminally deluded deny that the only goddamn business the US has any interest in is about who is going to control the oil resources in the Middle East.

To all the american war apologists here: Billions of people HATE the US not because they are jealous of your stolen wealth and plastic shopping mall reality, but because the US is acting like a global bully, rapist and cop. What happens outside your borders is none of your goddamn business, and if you make it so, be prepared for what you get.

War is war , and there are no rules. People will hit back in whatever way they can, because they are deperately trying to protect themselves against a hi-tech superpower.

Scd bmbrs hv lt mr gts thn cwrdly mrcns h-tch bmbng frm sf dstnc. Y r lsng ths wr, nd th nxt n, bcs y r n th wrng, nd y r cwrds. Hv y vr wndrd wht mks mddl-gd plstnn wmn wth fmls bcm scd bmbrs?

'll tll y wht, srl Znsts , wth S bckng, stlng thr lnd nd tryng t rdct thr ppl, tht's wht!
Bt n, n yr rcst dmb lttl prgrmmd mnds y thnk thy'r r ll crzy drty drkskns wh dn't dsrv t lv nd prspr.

Cn't y s hw nscr y r, tht y dmnd th trtr f ppl s y cn fl sf whn y drv t th mll n yr fk dmcrcy rn by nrtc, psd-mrlstc bgts ? hv y vr hrd f prtn Pprclp? Th Cld Wr? MKLTR?
ll s y cn hv yr chp gs !!! Bt n, ths r th rnts f prnd lftsts , srly!

Y'r t wk t ccpt tht y hv bn cnnd , y blv l, tht th S s th mdl dmcrcy tht ll th wrld shld b frcd t fllw, r ls thy r nms.

Y R th vctms f trrrsm, bt th rl trrrst s yr gvrnmnt nd thr prtnrs, wh hv scrd y nt spprtng thr crms gnst hmnty.

Y , n yr dtc , ggrssv, lph-prmt, crdbrd rlty, blv y r gng t plc th ntr plnt , tht yr gvrnmnt s crryng t th hrd bt nccssry tsk f nfrcng "dmcrcy" t th mst bckwrds crnrs f th glb, t lbrt ll ths pr ppl, ppl y knw nthng bt, nd cnnt vn prnnc th nm f thr cntrs rght.

Y'r t dtclly gstc t ccpt th fct tht Y HV BN CNND nt bcmng th pwns f ppl wh d nt gv sht bt y r yr stpd lvs. Y r bng sd t frthr th grdy nd mrdrs gnd f bnch f gngstrs wh wll nvr b stsfd ntl thy wn nd cntrl vrythng nd hv rdctd ll cltrl dvrsty nt glbl mrktplc nd wrk cmp srvng THM , NT Y, NT YR FMLY.
Thnk bt tht nxt tm y dl wth th RS.

Blls r lwys nscr, nd thy wll try t pr-mptvly nd blndy strk t t prtct thmslvs gnst thr mgnd nms. sn't t strng hw nms sm t b crwlng t f th wdwrk ?

Nw fck ff , y scrd , nscr vctms, cs y mkng m ls my gddmn sns f hmr!

Ah, nothing like a good rant!

Some tnttvly dmbd-dwn definition:

Religion: looking up to God.
Mysticism: looking at your belly-button.
Magic: looking at your dick.

Krool, if we stick to the strict definitions, religion is not mysticism is not magic. . . Although they can all be considered as particular forms of insanity...
Then again, according to a definition of insanity, every human being is insane.

Bonewah, did you watch the youtube i linked to? That's yer definition of intelligence right there, sir/madam.

Anyway, have you really got something to say on the matter?

#1 sayz it all... Down with wikipedia!

WP:UNDUE: "Articles that compare views should not give minority views as much or as detailed a description as more popular views, and may not include tiny-minority views at all."

and

"If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small (or vastly limited) minority, it does not belong in Wikipedia (except perhaps in some ancillary article) regardless of whether it is true or not; and regardless of whether you can prove it or not."

and lots of others that i just can't be arsed to dig out. Wikipedia is like the revenge of the nerds and the ultimate propaganda machine rolled into one.

em, isn't it about time we boycotted chinese stuff?

http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/711

Cry Dctrw wrt: "Ths thngs rt dmcrcy".

LL, wht dmcrcy ???

Dmcrcy s smthng prctcd n ncnt thns lng lng tm g. Tdy , t's jst nthr msk fr fscsm .

Ths wrd, lng wth "cmmnty" mst b th wrs spn wrds f r g.

Th snr ppl strt rlsng ths nstd f pthtclly whmprng bt "dmcrcy" nd nn-xstnt "rghts" , th snr w cld pssbly s sm rl chngs.

Th cn s qt smpl, rlly. t's ld t n th vrs cnstttns f th s-clld dmcrtc ntns: Tht "ctzns" hv "rghts", thrby gvng wy th pwr t dfn ths rghts t th wrtrs nd r-wrtrs f sd cnstttns nd thr shdy prtnrs.

s sn s ppl ccptd ths cnstttns , thy hd bn cnnd nt gvng wy thr frdm nd cntrl f thr wn lvs t ppl thy hv nvr ctlly mt. Ths s hw Msnc mgc wrks, by bndng ppl thrgh thr wn wll, wth thr cnsnt.

Th S f strtd s Msnc prjct t crt n rtfcl scty nd cltr f wllng slvs , brnwshd nt chntng "w r fr , w r S fr" whl dng th wrk f thr mstrs, bng pwns n gm thy r cmpltly ncnscs f.

S lt f ppl tdy fnd t hrd t blv tht sch thngs cn hppn n "dmcrcy" , whn n fct by sng tht wrd thy r plyng lng t th wll f thr mppt mstrs.

"FRDM S NT FR" sys n f th S ntnl mnmnts, n hg lttrs. nd th mppts blv tht , nd blv thy hv t fght fr thr frdm. Ths tnnt sys t ll rlly, nd sts th stg fr thngs th Nzs wld b prd f.

f y thnk my rntng s xtrm, myb hv nthr gd lng lk rnd. vr hr w hv dmcrcy, whl ths gns vr thr hvn't , nd thy nd t b lbrtd , rght?

Myb f w gv thm ll lptps nd n ntrnt cnnctn, th glbl vllg wll bcm rlty nd w'll ll lv hpply vr ftr, hr hr hr.

http://www.ytb.cm/wtch?v=WLRHHL&ftr=rltd

ywrck!

rq Rcnstrctn, h|?
bvsly tht psd-wtch btch hs nt yt bn nfrmd tht vryn nvlvd wth "rq Rcnstrctn" , nd spclly th tp ppl, r LRDY crsd. S GTF T F RQ!

ll ths stff s ttlly gy...

wndr wht th pnt f llwng sr cmmnts s, whn cmmnts tht gv th thmbs dwn nd crtcz yr pt tpcs r snrd t nd th pstrs r clld srpsss?

Cn y tk dsgrmnt nd rlly llw ppl t pst wht thy thnk nbd fl wtht mkng thm fl bd bt t?

T mch snshn blchs y t, tk cr.

Hw bt vtng systm , whr psts cn b vtd p r dwn?

W r ll hr bcs w fnd sm f th bst (nd wrst) n th nt hr, s , d y wnt gnn sr npt r nly bck-pttng?

Thanks , Extrema, that's great.

Yep, best to hang out with muppets of comparable brow height...

(Disclosure: I am a Professor of quantum psychobabblology and armchair entheology- I eat pseudo-psychedelic post-grads for breakfast.)

Yes, you can see all my muppet posts by clicking on my username. Don't neglect to check out my totally uncool Web 0.1 website , hope you find some muppetry worth your 2 minutes there.

The very existence of erowid is the evidence of the shut-down of critical faculties among many internet drug warriors.

But I must confess to knowing next to nothing about the subject , i'm jus a muppet who will nevertheless never be intimidated into putting down the banner:

EROWID SCKS SS!

Still , i bow down to the superior knowledge and tactical understanding of the War on Drugs of all the erowid admirers here... lets just talk about USB vibrators instead!

The only reason i prefer firefox is for the anonymisation and filtering plug-ins. Boingboing is so much better with Adblock!

And if u use this too often in a small car without the engine running it will fark yer battery.

Erowid SUCKS big style! It's full of misinfo, and serves as a guide for the DEA on what to ban next... Huge thumbs down!

Wanna read about teenagers abusing high-powered psychoactive chemicals (and combos) while their parents are asleep next door? go erowid!
Wanna get misinformed on any drug-related topic? go erowid!

The idea behind erowid is so naive and so dodgy, it's like all the proof one needs that drugs do not necessarily open one's mind, but , in many cases , promote shut-down of all critical faculties.

Huge thumbs down!

forgot the URL
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DyVppfDhrVc

sorry if linking to YouTube video doesn't work/is a bad move...

Failed chute survivor!
you can hear him saying "good bye" just before he crashes... a very lucky dude!

Extrema, are you saying you are recharging normal, "non-recharegeable" alkalines?

Blister packs should be banned.

They can cut fingers, and , my very succesful shplftng career was ruined when I once took too long with a (also lfted) pair of scissors strugling with a blister pack. I should have had one of these. Farkers.

This issue is central to the world of digital technology and human-machine interfaces.

Apple got it right, although many would argue they stuck to the single mouse button for too long!

Only techno-geeks enjoy having as many buttons and menus and options as possible , most people using computers and other tech just want to get the job done without diversions.

It would be great to see creativity software such as Photoshop, Illustrator , Logic etc. , come with more options for customizing the interface by removing unwanted functions and menus, or even slimming down the app via a more modular design, reducing unnecesary drain on both human mind and CPU resources.

This would also make it easier for new users to learn the software. Most people really are intimidated by huge nested menus containing unfamiliar functions & don't want to have to pore through manuals or endless geeky wiki pages to find out how to get things done, most of us just want to use the stuff and learn in practice.

When there is feature bloat, it's just tiring and tends to reduce productivity by offering too many options and potential tangents.

The art of working with digital creative technology is in learning to narrow down the almost endless possibilities , so that the software becomes useable, just as traditional creative tools , such as paintbrushes, canvas, musical instruments etc. , with their inherent limitations could be worked with, without the interference of the creativity-killing "too many possibilities!".

A flute makes a flute sound, and the player just gets on with playing it, whereas a modern software-based synthesizer can make such a huge variety of sounds that most people waste time and energy tweaking parameters that have no importance whatsoever on the music to be played and the tweaking in fact is detrimental to just getting down to playing some good music.

And of course we know that the best websites are simple and uncluttered, and don't tire the user with endless lists of links and buttons. Info-overload is something all those who work in the digital domain ought to take very seriously.

Barry Schwartz's comment on too many options actually causing paralysis of the decision-making process matched my thoughts on the matter exactly.

Is it fair trade?
Is it raw?
Is it organic?

Nah, Milo Manara is untouchable (and so are his babes) .I'm sorry, but comparing Coop (virtually unknown outside his very small niche) to Manara is like comparing a Ford to a Ferrari....

The checkered pattern on the t-shirt is terrible, terrible computery failed pop-art.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Sophia_and_jayne.jpg

captions , please!

Strangely enough just today a friend was describing me his experience with a WD drive that failed. He took it back to the shop and the techs could not even open the case to get to the drive itself.

nly nv dps wld use an external drive with pre-installed software....

nywy , Wndz srs wh dn't r-frmt vrythng vry wk dsrv wht thy gt ! - ctlly thy dsrv wht thy gt fllstp- hr hr hr...

DRM may be seen as a big deal in some professional environments , but it's just a minor inconvenience in a world of mass, wholesale copying. Break 'em down , folks! There is really nothing these desperate penny-pinchers can do to stop people from copying and sharing. And part of the reason for this is because the penny-pinchers are stupid.

Anyway, remix, mashup and all that is already passé , everyone knows the best stuff is original artwork that does not need to directly steal or copy anything.

aha, that was an excellent little synth. . . I spent hours playing with its knobs :)

The standard version was grey and lacked the little guitar-style neck but if i remember correctly there was a limited edition (and much sought-after these days) guitar-style red version , which gives this cake the extra cool/geek factor.

Hr ss lvs lt t b dsrd, nfrtntly. Jst nt p t stndrds.

excellent moustaches too!

Yh, t scks .... hd t trn ll my fltrs ff t wtch t, nd hd t ndr th cr dvrt t th bgnnng. nd nt vn ny srs Pl dmg n rtrn, nstd thr ws ths wmp pttng t t th nd t "brng t bck t lf". L--M-

Absolutely pathetic. These guys are too cheap to really kill the thing. I was expecting to see at least some hardware damage, if not complete destruction ! They didn't even drop the thing off the table, let alone apply some good kicking with steel toe-capped boots!

As someone who decapitated little sister's barbie doll at the tender age of 13, (using an axe), i look forward to whimpering robots as the perfect target to unleash some pent-up aggression! That would be a very healhty application of "AI" (a concept glamorised by people who lack the real thing) .

Bring on the iGimp !

Apple will probably break this in the next iPod firmware update it will enforce on us.

I am seriously looking at installing Rockbox and taking control of the device I paid for!

Ths s th scnd rfrnc t ths sht n bngbng wthn fw dys....qlty cntrl sms t b gvng wy t shr ttntn skng.

f wntd rmndr f wht knd f sck ppl r t thr 'd g t 4chn r sm thr shthl lk tht, thnks!

SCREW THE COPYRIGHT CARTELS!
SUPPORT MUSICIANS SELLING THEIR MUSIC DIRECT!

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, produced by NIN’s Trent Reznor, is now available for download directly from Saul Williams’ website. You have the option of leaching the album for free , or getting a high quality DRM-free FLAC or 320kbps MP3 for only $5.

(would be nice to see boingboing cover this, its a wonderful thing indeedy)

THIS ALBUM ROCKS and I strongly advise you to pay the $5 and support the movement to break away from the stranglehold of Big Business over music. This is a brave move from Saul, following Radiohead’s recent online release on similar “get it for free or pay the artist” terms. This is the way forward.

The future is already here:

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/62847/?page=1

Here's the scenario: After signing up online, you receive a kit in the mail. In your home, you provide a saliva sample in the supplied cup and ship it off to a lab. For a few hundred dollars, much of your genome is sequenced, and the company places it on a website. It's then linked to your complete medical history, also online.
At this point, the company says, you can learn about your predispositions to diseases, conditions for which you carry a recessive gene, and genealogical information. The website offers medical advice, along with advertisements for potentially useful products and services. You can even communicate with people with similar genetic characteristics, making "friends" and forming "groups."
That seems to be the plan of a Silicon Valley start-up, 23andMe, named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes that hold your genome. Google, Genentech, and venture capital firms have invested at least $10 million in 23andMe. Its founder recently married one of Google's founders. Ms. Dyson is also an investor and board member -- something that didn't come up during her interview.

I hope the idiotic promotion of google all over the internerds will stop about now.

"It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, IT IS REALISED".

You hear, Mr Kinney??? maybe you ought to reconsider your biases!!!!

from an article on Masonry on Jay Kinnock's "late, great" Gnosis Magazine:
http://www.gnosismagazine.com/intros/intro44.html

Personally I am not a Mason. I know no more of this tradition than can be found in books. Yet from the small amount of reading I've done, I'm convinced that every spiritual seeker today owes an incalculable debt to Freemasonry.

i think no comment is needed here...

Perhpas boingboing cannot bite the hands that feed it???

Zeitgeist rocks ass, and some asses will be feeling the heat by now.... I am glad this movie was made and made ANONYMOUSLY.

Perhaps when what happens now in Baghdad starts happening a bit closer to home, some people will start lifting their heads out of their sandboxes of pseudo-intellectual grey-zone relativity which is really a mask for cowardice and complicity.

The Rockefellers are actually philanthorpists working for the good of all of us, for the advancement of civilisation. And that zeitgeist movie is obviously the paranoid rants of hash-smoking jew-hating conspiracy buffs . Watch Mars Attacks again , Mr Jay Kinney!

someone wrote:

Am I to believe that Bush is a puppet of the "Elietes" that control the banks? President after president that has been at war have always been a product from the banks? If so then why do they keep getting elected? HOW do they keep getting elected? Are we not free to vote for whom we want to? Are we as Americans not free to stand up and do something?

:D :D :D

Thats the questions the movie maker probably wanted you to ask , again and again.
The truth can really hurt!

I've read the book twice, (and most of other of PKD's books) but don't recall any hints of Deckard being a replicant.

The teling of stories from an android's point of view was not something PKD particularly indulged in, he seemed to write more from a human's point of view, desperately enmeshed in a high-tech psychedelic nightmare.

I suppose the final scene with the artifical toad could be taken as a hint, but to me it felt like another one of PKD's unhappy endings, where the anti-hero finally gives in and buys into the illusion so as to maintain some semblance of sanity.

Actually the article is fine, it's just the title on this BB post that is misleading.

Please do yourselves a favour and ignore the Daily Filth!

Oh boy, those poor musos got seriously served!

Probably the first time i've seen someone spam their own blog.

Lame William Gibson wannabes.

Swimming, lots of fresh fruit and veg, fresh greens, seeds, a bit of fish.
And more swimming. Blessed are thee with yr own heated swimming pools, ye bastids.

And this is where disemvowelment comes in.... sorry, can't help it.

How much would a disemvowelled blog be really worth, even if it's got a lot of hits?

Could the capitalist spectacle machine accomodate, and - more importantly - sell such radical memes? The very fabric of language , reality and culture undermined thusly?

Should boingboing demonstrate its grassroots non-commerciality to its faithful readers by going totally disemvowelled?

BNGBNG
Drctr f Wndrfl Thngs

sorry, i'll shut up now before i gt bnnd!

Btw before any concerned citizens and assorted yhvh victims start complaining, I DISEMVOWELLED MYSELF.

boinboing crew only supplied the inspiration for a practice that i cannot recommend highly enough!

Is your online persona getting out of hand ?
Are you concerned about insipid agendas creeping into all aspects of yr online activities ?

Slf-dsmvwlmnt mght jst b th nswr!

(Wth plgs fr n spllng mstks)

If you disemvowel chthulu and catholic, they're quite similar : chthl , cthlc. Could there be a hidden link between Real Catholics and R'lieh Chthulu worshippers?

w wll nl b fr whn th lst cnsrvtv s hngd wth th ntrls f th lst librl !

ZN ND TH RT F DSNVWLMNT

Zn mns Zn , gt t?

That would be great with a white noise generator, for the insomniacs.

I am one, and have been using a looped waterfall sound (more organic than just synthetic white noise) to drown out noise pollution with great success!

I don't understand all the geeks complaining about the iPhone. If u don't like it , don't buy it! It's a farking gadget, not exactly essential for your life, is it?

It is unfortunate that Apple seems to be selling out more and more to the Microsoft/Sony mentality, and their products seem to be less well made these days.

Well, a pile of steaming hot sh!+ to M2E and anyone else supplying the military.

Toad - licking is yet another instance of drugs ingorance BS propagated endlessly because of the eek factor.

Licking one of these toads would probably get one poisoned- but the poison is not the psychedelic component.

The milky , venomous fluid that the toad spits out, when its venom glands are massaged, is collected and dried , then smoked.

Smoking destroys the venom and releases 5-MeO-DMT and probably bufotenine (4-OH-DMT) and related compounds. There is little or no DMT involved .

5-MeO-DMT is quite different from DMT , and for most people lacks the characteristic visions and "entity contact" that DMT often triggers. The immediate and intense effects are gone in a few minutes , but the user can expect to be pretty high for about an hour.

Toad venom is probably a wonderful psychedelic/empathogenic gift from nature , ready to use with minimal preparation.

Small amounts of these substances have wonderful anti-depressant properties, without addictiveness or any side effects. Many of them occur naturally in the body and they can be easily metabolised - they can be considered non-toxic.

A dose of 5-MeO-DMT initially increases the heart rate. The only known dangers of 5-MeO-DMT overdoses are death by heart attack (extremely rare, in susceptible individuals) and demonic possession (rare but not unheard of & subsiding after some time, usually an hour) - but these are with the pure , synthesised substance.

Toad "venom" will be a lot more balanced and forgiving in its effect, as it is not a pure synthetic drug but a a mix of psychoactive and inert material. There are other (less potent) actives apart from 5MeO, which will moderate and enhance the effect.

It's probably one of the safest natural psychedelics around thanks to its short duration and very low toxicity (when smoked).

Has anybody got any???

Garett, to put it bluntly, i doubt anyone here gives a **** about judgments of other posters' character.

Yes, boingboing may be a sold-out meta-modern nightmare, where people dying appear next to lame Mickey Mouse fetishism, but that's the mix, and personally I'd like to see more serious topics such as this and less furries and geekiness pretty plz !

CS gas used in confined spaces can backfire on the cop, whereas a taser affects only the (usually unarmed) victim.

Someone wrote that these RCMP cops were offered honorary citizenship in the US?????

$£%**^$%***$@@££!@&$£%^@****£$%!

If this is true, it just speaks volumes of the adolescent fascist character of the US gov.
I'm sure the cops will get work with Blackwater, no problem. Killers of foreigners welcome !

someone wrote:

These people may have been in the privacy of their own home when the pics were taken, but once they give the pictures to the public they're no longer private. That's just how it works.

This is the logic of what i call the internet communist fascists, commonly seen in Wikipedia biographies of living persons. The "public" is hungry, hungry for MORE, and it doesn't really care as long as it can get to watch. And anonymous cowards with hidden agendas or just personal vendettas can enjoy themselves causing some real grief to real people with real lives- qualities the internerds often lack.

They didn't "give the pictures to the public", and, how it works, is the internet is widely used as a machine to defame and hurt people by destroying their privacy- not the case here perhaps- but still something to be very aware of.

In a modern democracy that we may never get to see, all interactions between detained members of the public and the police should be filmed and made public.
This would be closer to the transperency politicians like to talk about. After all the police is here to protect the public, they are public servants , AREN'T THEY?

I hope the taser-happy cop gets maximum sentence for manslaughter, and tasers are classified as lethal weapons.

They needed a taser to restrain one man who could not even run away? If they were properly trained instead of being hired thugs more akin to Robocops than human beings, they would have easily handled him.

All this to me just further demonstrate the bankruptcy of public discourse- at least among us english speakers.

When you have people thinking that BUYING A CAR helps to save the planet, it just goes to show just how much of the human brain's activity has been shut down in American society and replaced by word viruses.

It also annoys me to see boingboing possibly sucking corporate c*ck, (Nike, HP , etc) , but since i installed Adblock it's become an even better site.
:)

GHB is not particularly lethal by itself - it actually occurs naturally in the body in small amounts.

It does not produce nightmarish states. And that's one of the things people like about it.

Higher doses normally just make people fall heavily asleep for a few minutes up to a couple of hours- if late at night many people will just carry on sleeping but some abruptly wake up when the GHB's effect is gone- something to do with its metabolism.

Unfortunately GHB is quite addictive for some people . And illegal in some countries.

I don't think much is known about any possible negative side-effects ... none have been noted so far.

from Lycaeum.org:

1. Never combine with alcohol or other CNS depressants. This combination has been deadly to a number of people.
2. Seek medical attention for anyone who passes out from a GHB-type drug unless you can positively verify they are not under the influence of other drugs as described above.
3. Never use "liquid" GHB unless you know the concentration, as it varies according to preparation. An overdose can cause anything from unrousable sleep (most commonly) to death (at least 50 confirmed from GHB alone), and the steep dose-response curve exacerbates the problem.
4. Unlike cannabis and psychedelics, and like alcohol, nicotine, and heroin, Use of GHB-type drugs can be physically addictive. We have received multiple reports from individuals who have experienced severe withdrawal symptoms when trying to abstain from GHB use. These individuals reported using GHB several times a day (practically continuously) for extended periods of time.

No-one is evil to the core- just insanely angry (terrorist) or neurotically insecure and tragically retarded (freedom fighter).

The sooner American people can understand what the anger of "their enemies" is about the sooner we can hope to see the slaughter diminishing instead of escalating.

Amerika's enemies are not *your* enemies, unless you "choose" to swallow the war propaganda- the same one since the 50's , just different enemies.

If you join in the war, then you can expect to have lethal enemies. If you want to support biological and cultural genocide in the name of a very expensive and fake freedom, cheap gas and gadgets, you can expect to have enemies.

I wonder what it is that drives middle aged women with families to become suicide bombers?

This isn't a battle between good and evil, unless our philosophical background is Star Wars.

A real shame George Lucas sold out after THX1138, he could have done a lot of good work educating our generation.
Instead , he gave us metaphysical neurosis. Darth Vader as the ultimate fetish for an entire culture- more sex than Skywalker and Leia put together.

A fiend of mine enjoys going into such big stores and pretending to be a shop lifter.

He considers this his small contribution to the Downfall of Snivilisation.

Bring back ploygamey!

It's a well-known secret that the Mormons are the chief MDMAnufacturers in the States. Spreading God's love into the 21st century. (Or is Satan also capable of spreading feelings of love, so as to claim more victims? )

Further, people like Kill Beller and Ritt Momney are prime examples of what is on the menu for Cthulhu, as served by Satan.

Vote 4 Cthulhu. Cthulhu IS REAL , and CTHULHU MUST FEED.
What better food for ol' C than American politicans and evangelists?

(insert sinister looking demonic graphics here)

sorry 4 da doble post. can't see how to delete it...

That's fun, but i think a "boingboing Admin haircuts" thread is needed?

Folks, haven't you been around long enough to know that antagonising the moderators is a waste of everyone's time and will usually end with a ban?

Personally i don't care what gets deleted, as this isn't my site...and i really doubt other readers are interested, so don't waste energy getting upset over this.
Attachment leads to suffering. In this case, attachment to the ever-so-important commentary that got deleted before the Whole Wide World could gasp at its immense significance .

Xeni Jardin wrote
Someone should just call someone else a nazi here, and we'll consider it a wrap.

Xeni, you're a nazi.

(good video, btw!)

FA-LA-FEL!
FA-LA-FEL!
FA-LA-FEL!

I propose mass falafel-eating demonstrations.

Gas'em back!

Also needed is a site exploring what happens to torturers sooner or later.

The rest of the world is watching in disbelief at the extreme danger that middle Amerika poses for all of us. The parallels with Nazi Germany just before WW2 are alarming.

Why don't they stop fussin and just round up all the darkskins and shoot'em , cause that's what they really want to do...

The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials
PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A HOAX please !

The chicpkeas in falafels give smelly farts, anyway, so they could rig up some fart analyzer to pick up falafel eaters and send'em to Guantanamo to sweat it all out.

Next time you're ordering that kebab look out for hidden cameras, you greasy , smelly Arab!

Real Americans EAT HAMBURGER

Oh boy, what happened to this world, when are we going to be relieved of these ghouls walking all over us?

Willie , hi, you wrote:

wife and i spent 2 hours in various lines and searches because the computer said that a springer spaniel may have smelled traces of marijuana residue on my clothing 9 years ago when i came back from a brief stay in mexico.

Can you clarify?
Does this mean to say the dog had smelled the weed on your clothes at the Mexico-US border 9 years ago and they had logged it but not told you anything about it or stopped you at the time?

oh boy, i am SO not flying to anywhere that includes landing to the US on the way!

Not only HG Wells but Adolf Hitler would be proud , too.

I wonder if the children learn about fractional reserve lending, by which banks lend, and charge interest on, money they do not actually have , becoming filthy rich in the process. I wonder if they learn about the role of the World Bank in the plight of the Third World. ..

Scopolamine - containing plants, and especially the Brugmansia spp. are very important in South American pharmakopoeia, and even held as highly sacred by several tribes, whose medicine men use it for magical work.... They are not "evil", but certainly not something to get high on!

sounds great, where can i get some?

Firstly, the photo is most likely Psilocybe azurescens, one of the most potent "magic mushrooms", or a related species...note the blue colour on the stem.

As a long-term user of natural psychedelics, i think they should never be sold out of shops, with or without "good info".

Mushrooms are NOT the fun product the Dutch head shop businessmen tried to promote. Of course they CAN be LOTS of fun, but that's not what they're for - as anyone who's had a "bad trip" will tell you. These are "shamanic" sacraments for initiation and "shamanic" work. This is serious stuff that should be kept underground- for many reasons. The commercial atittude of the Dutch when it comes to sacraments is disgraceful .

In this context, i agree with the Dutch government's decision . These things should not be openly available to anyone - and the age of the "consumer" (ugh) isn't the most important consideration.

But it's not such a big deal as serious mushroom users never bought them from these shops with their ridiculous prices and commercial approach. Indeed , there are ENDLESS AMOUNTS of them to be had every year for absolutely no money, if you know where to go!

Thanks to boingboing crew for opening up the site to public discussion!