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Alden

Website: http://www.aldenbates.com/

Bio: I'm a Perl programmer, twisted Perl programmer

Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day

May 9, 2008 4:37pm

Time to learn morse! (until they work out a way to ban . and -)

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April 24, 2008 7:09pm

Ah, Boing Boing ran out of Internet to blog about. :)

Project Chanology continues.

February 12, 2008 9:32pm

That's a good idea, except for the fact they've got Hubbard's birthday wrong. It's the 13th, not the 15th!

See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

Man unveils 30-year-old "instant water boiler" invention

January 30, 2008 8:53pm

Who looks at a tea kettle and thinks "This could be a bit more sonic"?

(sorry, obligatory Doctor Who quote)

Nextwave Agents of Hate: merciless attack on underwear pervert comics

January 29, 2008 9:13pm

One of the cool things about Nextwave is that Aaron Stack's awesome characterisation has been carried over to his appearances in the Ms Marvel series. I love Nextwave. :)

Polyglot electrical outlets at the European Broadcasters' Union

January 14, 2008 2:42pm

Error404: Yeah, I know the E's for European, but last time I checked the US and Japan aren't part of Europe, and there are sockets for them. :)

Not all NZ plugs are 3-pin. Some are only 2-pin (no ground), so it's possible they could fit on the third socket from the left...

Polyglot electrical outlets at the European Broadcasters' Union

January 4, 2008 3:22am

No Kiwi/Australian outlets? Awwwww

Old Age Rejuvenator Centrifuge of 1935

December 31, 2007 3:38am

What's going to stop these poor folk from sliding towards the head-end of the bed and ending up hunched against the headboard? Are there going to be ropes linking their feet to the bottom of the bed? Perhaps something like stocks for them to stick their feet through...

Evolution of the heart emoticon <3

November 22, 2007 2:38am

I've seen quite a lot of quotes on various IRC database sites about <3, my favourite being this one: http://www.bash.org/?670121

Dalek cookie kit

October 18, 2007 2:48am

The new series just opened the flood gates for wacky Doctor Who merchandise. You just know somehow, somewhere, one of these will turn up in 50 years time on whatever eBay has mutated into by then.

Dalek-Human hybrid fright mask

October 11, 2007 10:15pm

I notice the dangly face phallic objects are substantially bigger than the ones on the prop in the show.

Tintin movie! Tintin movie! TINTIN MOVIE!

October 3, 2007 10:25pm

I was kinda surprised when they announced Steven Moffat was writing the scripts - surely if they're writing them from the original books, the plot and most of the dialogue is already going to be set. Is there going to be much for the writer to do?

OTOH, if there's not a lot of actual work in it, it frees him up to write some more episodes of Doctor Who. :)

Why is the US Army internet-blocking Time Warner?

September 27, 2007 11:27pm

The Decepticons are hacking in via Road Runner now?

Puzzle: three-way pistol duel

September 21, 2007 6:33pm

I use the "Look! The Goodyear blimp!" gambit and leg it to the nearest saloon.

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