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Orbus

Bio: Not Steampunkist.

Boing Boing's Moderation Policy

July 1, 2008 10:14am

I had thought that the 'Disemvoweling' (Wow - That's an amazingly passive-agressive term...) was just a poster trying to be clever and draw attention to themselves. After reading elsewhere about some possibly questionable editorial decisions (Vague enough to avoid outright deletion?), I found out that it's actually an editorial device. Is it possible to make this tampering a little more obviously editorial to the casual observer, or do you intend to continue to pass your mutilation off as the original content to everybody who dosen't venture into the unused lavatory in the basement... etc. to find the disclaimer?

Sound waves snuff fire

January 28, 2008 7:40pm

... In space? The place where you can put a fire out just by opening a window, and you have to pay $x0,000/oz to import equipment?

Nifty experiment, lame justification.

Heathrow Terminal 5: Electricity-free no-laptop zone?

January 21, 2008 8:27am

You folks do realize that just about every wretched greyhound terminal I've been in (Even Detroit, for crying-out-loud, which looked like a layover in Tikrit.) had a power strip for recharging cellphones?
I'm guessing it's probably because in the station that didn't have a strip, somebody shoved the soda machines out of the way so they could get at their outlets. After enough property damage and lost soda revenue, the vendors probably get wise and spend $5 on screwing a power strip to the wall.
I'm sure there's a moral in there somewhere.

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