@ #24: Hear, hear...if you can pull off the "I-just-had-my-frontal-cortex-removed" expression, you're good to go.

I'm wondering how far off we are from tattooing a barcode on the forehead of every man, woman, and child just to save the hassle of weeding out terrorist by hand. Which creeps the hell out of me.

Only on BoingBoing could there be a topicless article with 500+ comments.

It's nice having a girl around the house...skinned and on display as a rug like the soulless inanimate objects they are.
Though she was a real b*tch, our hero didn’t have to pull a gun on her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to curl up and die at the sight of his manly wrinkle-resistant Dacron/rayon blend PANTS!

That is basically the subtext, yes? :P

Pfft. Disney? Fie! Back in my day we had TELNET chatrooms, and those didn't have any filters at all. We'd talk about whatever the bleep we wanted, and we mercilessly mocked the weird creepy 50-year old guys who asked us what we were wearing.

...and WE LIKED IT.

Actually, considering that turning a bulb off and on a lot reduces the lifespan of a filliment, it would make sense that this thing has lasted so damn long. Of course, the whippersnapper new bulbs probably wouldn't last this long (LEDs excluded.) :P

That's actually pretty damn cool.

Awesome sauce. I wanna make one! :D

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, MUSIC OWNS YOU!

Bah, there will always be pirates.

@ #18: I saw this Good Housekeeping issue while in the checkout line at the grocery store. The eyes FOLLOW you. o_o

@ #8: A tool orgy, even. This is the kinda thing a guy with a five-car garage would own (and probably never use.)

All conservative/liberal p***ing matches aside, when I heard about this my immediate thought was she was murdered. I do not doubt it one bit. I don't care what Joe Media says, if you screw with a government enough, they WILL wipe you from the face of the earth like the pittance of a human being you are.

And I highly doubt anyone less than a sacrificial patsy is gonna go down for it.

Wow. Didn't see that one coming. o_O

As a child of the 80s growing up listening to my elders gripe endlessly about outsourcing to China, I'd travel to China sometime in the future just to hear some of the old folks there gripe about the cheap crap made in the USA. That would amuse me to no end. :D

Can someone explain to Mr. Stein that:

Nazi Scientists = mostly evil

Regular, run-of-the-mill Scientists = not Nazis

?

It's not a hard concept to understand!

What'd really be cool would be two aliens, the Virgin Mary, Elvis and the Loch Ness Monster on a wall.

That was trippy. o.o

Jack Thompson nearly had a heart attack over it...? I'm disappointed in Rockstar for failing to visually induce a full and complete cardiac arrest.

Aww, poor lil' turtle. At least it can move around again.

It makes me sad when I see frogs, birds, etc. mowed down on a street. Nobody cares when they get hit by a car. ;-;

I don't really see the logic in paying $140 for sole-less shoes when I could buy a pair of flip-flops with no support whatsoever for $5.

If you want natural and organic, go outside and eat grass. I don't expect my ice cream or frozen yogurt to be additive-free because it's a FRIKKIN DESERT. IT'S BAD FOR YOU ANYWAY.

... *Caps Lock off*

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go eat a fudgesicle smothered in nuclear waste.

I dunno, I think a d20 would be more comfy.
...
I'm such a nerd. T_T

...it's not so much the subject as how poorly executed the photoshoppery is. It makes my soul weep. :(

I think the reason why she isn't as creepy is because:

A. boobs.
and
B. She doesn't have those god-awful creepy lidless eyes.

I already hear this kinda crap from my (now divorced) parents, I don't want to hear it on my computer from someone else as well. SO YOU HATE EACH OTHER, GREAT! JUST GET THE DIVORCE AND SHUT UP! >_

Is there a self-esteem and ethics book that comes with this as well?

Kinda remind me of the eyeballs GLaDOS has in Portal.

Actually, if you use a coke-type bottle with a 1/4 cup of some type of sweet drink (orange juice works best), a bunch of bugs (especially gnats) will drown themselves in it.

It looks like a disgusting insect death-pit, but it works. :P

That's effin' awesome. It's like seeing Super Mario Bros. on a 1800's stereoscope. XD

So I'm guessing Perrier is considered ghetto now?

@ #27: ...I don't care if you're a Communist from Mars, it's a stupid place for this sort of thing.

Like Morehuman said, it would be a better idea to put such a facility in the middle of a desert. Far, far away from a potential massive biological disaster.

Yay, just what we need. Another Plum island. Only it's in the midwest, rather than the eastern coast.

I'm sorry, but regardless of politics, this is an idiotic idea.

Awww, that's sweet. :)

Aww, that's adorable! ^_^

@ #3: Yep. So if you want to build a giant robot that is resistant to EMP from, oh..say a missile capped with a nuclear warhead, vacuum tubes are the way to go. :D

Nuclear wessels...??? D:

Awesome. Some of these would make kickass dorm room posters.

So, in her opinion, Atheists are godless heathens who want to destroy the American way of life? Wow, that's a real learn-ed and mature way to think.

What about Agnostics? Are we worthy of existing, purely because we're undecided and therefore fair game for conversion? :p

Poor things. :(

Aww, that's kinda cute. I mean, seriously, considering how thankless and impersonal the job of a foodservice person is, getting a genuine thank-you is really sweet. :)

@ 25: The only violence playing videogames inspires in well-adjusted people is cursing loudly and throwing the controller at the tv when the player gets frustrated. If you flip out and kill people, you are either a ninja or had problems to begin with. :P

There are a couple of historic figures I wouldn't mind sitting on the lap of.....but Chairman Mao is not one of them. Ew. D:

@4: OMG, my thoughts precisely. Now all they need is that device that can zoom in and around things in a photograph.

My library just has a 'weird' section for occult stuff.

Sweeeet!

Funny they don't target goths en masse. I guess they're afraid of being verbally emasculated or something. :P (And yes there IS a difference. Emo is the bastard child of goth, even though both parties will virulently say to the contrary. Which makes sense because we're subcultural relatives. :D)

But yeah, this is pretty pathetic and jumps right back to the old "OMG SOMETHING DIFFERENT, LET'S KILL IT!" shtick. We really are no more civilized than animals sometimes.

@5: Hah! My thoughts exactly. He's a strange guy. O_o

I'd like to see what would happen if Yuri Gellar got a hold of this.

Aww, it's not creepy, it's cute. :(

Actually, here in the states you'd be frowned upon for something like that if you lived in one of those really uptight neighborhoods with codes that tell you what kind of lawn ornaments you can have.

I find nothing more offensive than someone else telling you what you should do with your own property. The house there is a bit extreme, but if I wanted to arrange an army of garden gnomes and flamingos reenacting the battle of Gettysburg in my front yard, then by jove I don't see why not.

@ #14: By the looks of that stunningly hot past-their-freshness-date couple, it was probably mutually boring.

And that BB headline title is made of win and awesome. XD

I see they've forgotten to add "General Stupidity" to the list. If for nothing else, I'd like to hear the confession "Forgive me father, for I am stupid."

Okay, I can see their draconic reasoning for restricting how much baby food you can carry on, making you put everything in easy-to-search plastic baggies, even taking off your effing shoes every single time to be checked for explosives, but this is an abhorrence.

Isolated incident or not, that TSA guy needs his ass kicked for doing that to a sick kid.

...just put it in a giant Ziplock baggie like everything else.

Actually, I rather liked the flavor of the original Airborne...kind of like Tang or flat orange soda. :]

That's...just a bad idea. An EXPENSIVE bad idea. Possibly one that would get you thrown to the ground on some places. >_>

The creature from the Black Lagoon..? O.o

I wonder if GEICO covers that kinda damage.

Oh god, you Canadians have them too?!?! D:

So wait, let me get this straight...they let other film-makers have tax breaks, but not ones that have films that are deemed "offensive"? I think he's hanging himself there. If you were to make a word-for-word film adaptation of the Bible, they'd have to ban it because there's plenty of sex and violence in there.

In all honesty, I don't think people who support censorship based on good christian family values have ever really cracked the spine on a Bible, and if they have, they don't know how to read it. :P

I will never get tired of watching these.

Doesn't look like much fun to play with, either.

Throw in a high-tech chamber pot, and you'd almost have an entire living space there.

Aw, I thought this was going to be something steam-punky...

#15 posted by tapemonkeyadmin
Dear world:
On behalf of my batshit crazy government, I apologize.
Yours,
An American.

Seconded. =_=;

I'm surprised security hasn't started doing routine anal probing.

meh, I like the plastic spider rings more.

I'm sure Gorey doesn't care, and this is due to the fact that he's been dead for several years now. If he'd been alive, I'm sure it would've chosen him right off the bat to illustrate it.

All over-analyzing aside, in GTA, you're not really forced to kill and destroy everything in sight, you always have the vigilante option. But running over hookers and blowing things up is way more fun.

I haven't played Bioshock all the way through yet, but it's just as bloody as GTA...only the motives for violence are different. :P

...if there was a point to that, I totally missed it. :/

"This is just symbolic!" *giggle*...I thought that was cute.

And JEEZ PEOPLE, LIGHTEN UP. :/

Ehh, I don't see how Ono could win this one. Unless of course, she's also going to sue all the companies, persons, and cities that are also named Lennon. :|

Gahhh, this is like trying to pick out which kind of chocolate you'd want. They're all good @_@

@ A New Challenger: Seconded that...yikes O.o;

Ugh. -_-

Give me a thin boy with a deathly pale complexion over a guy like THAT any day.

It's nice that they're at least CONSIDERING using other fuels, but this is gonna go over like a lead balloon. >_>

My god....it's like something out of MYST. O_O

Dammit, now I want a steampunk treehouse. :(

Haha, oh god...the ending of this one is priceless. These vids are utterly brilliant. :)

@ #71: That's a horrible idea.

We should ship them to another planet, THEN nuke them to hell.

@ 29: ...Ti--- *headdesk*

@ 13: Yah, Grapes of Wrath was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

So menstrual blood doesn't really cause everything it touches to shrivel and turn to dust?
Dammit, now I'll have to figure out another way to destroy earth! >:(

Hellz yeah! :D

Bizarre. O_o

In the immortal words of the great George Carlin;
"If God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter."

Japan called, they want their Shojo back.

/sarcasm :P

Seriously, this sounds interesting..I'll pick it up when I get a chance.

Nevermind that little Billy's father also drinks Martinis, and lots of them!

@ #6: Dude, chillax. It's coffee, not Meth. O_o

...

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHahahahahaha..hee..heehee.. *cough*

...I'm sorry, but I would take that as a complement. :P

I

Being a child of the 80's, this delights me to no end. :)

...Gothlings! XD

Totally agree with #3 there---parasols are a MUST.
Especially if you want to keep your naturally deathly pallor. :)

Transparent rubber...? Latex, maybe? O.o

Good god, can't I eat a damn cheeseburger without effing HS sticking their nose in it first???

Man, now I want pizza. Thanks a lot, BB! :(

Awesome. Nothing gothier than wearing a Singularity. :D

I have three separate comments that I must express:

1. The cake has a bigger rack than the actual bride.

2. That stomacher and that dress do NOT match.

3. As cool and skillfully made the cake is, there's something very disturbing about serving a piece of yourself to all your guests. And what part of the cake exactly do you save for your anniversary? The head? (Of course, this is coming from a girl who wants a coffin cake for her own wedding.) *a-hem* >.>

Joel Hodgson is the man. I loved MST3k! :)

Yeah, Rabies does have a cure, but it's an uber creepy proposition because we don't even know for sure what a virus is, whether it's a living organism or a non-living agent.
It just seems like a bad idea to be screwing around with things we don't fully understand, because we aren't capable of dealing with it.

Now, once we figure out the nature of viruses, and if possible, know how to properly control them, THEN we can safely screw around with it.

I dunno, iguanoid, looks like a pastry cone to me.

ZOMG! The zombie apocalypse is at hand! :O

Well that's bunk. Why, just the other day I was so inspired from playing Doom that I went out and got a nice workout...by chasing people with a shotgun.

:P

w00t, here be my entry! ^_^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/22717109@N03/2184489755/

I know Photoshop fu, but these are still hi-freaking-larious. XD

Diplotendronia, maybe...?

The asbestos one takes the cake. O_o;

WHY MUST WE DRAG THE OVER-BEATEN CARCASS OF POLITICS INTO EVERYTHING?

Can't I read a damn comicbook without someone griping about it? *cry* ;_;

Is that a.....deep fried hooker??? o.O

I'll hold out for the anti-personnel death ray. Now THAT would be impressive.

@ Dean:

You could say they might've been blinded by hope? *smirk*

Trashiest art I've yet seen. Very cool.

I'm still rooting for the Bladerunner future. Flying cars ftw.

DRM will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. *shakes fist*

I misread 'carp' as 'crap' at first glance. I'm not sure which would be more disturbing.

Interesting idea. Probably wouldn't be worn by the masses with something like that, but in way more practical clothes like t-shirts.

Doesn't cursing someone also curse you twofold? Or am I thinking of Voodoo?
If not, that chick's gonna have like 1100 years worth of curse to work off.

Squishy pigs. Utterly useless. So naturally, it's COOL AND I WANT ONE.

Just when you thought Gaiman couldn't rock any harder he up and does something awesomely awesome like this.

That sounds quite lovely. ^_^

I usually hate the glittery shit that people plaster on their MySpace pages, but these actually look cool. :P

My adult mind thinks "Hey, this would be a great space-saving technique for the recycling pile." while my inner child says "Dude, I could build a FORT with that thing!"

D'aww, it's cute! Almost looks like a Pikachu. ^_^

I can see the headline now: "BoingBoing Users Start International Petition to Kick the RIAA in the Balls"

It'd be glorious.

SCIENTISTS! SHOCKING AS IT MAY SEEM, WE WATCH PORN ALSO.

Now go do something useful like patching up that ozone layer or finding a cure for AIDS. :P

LOL @ the Eraserhead one. creeeeeepy.

...please tell me I'm not the only one slightly creeped out by Baseman's art.

I have three gallons of (various year) pennies, and I shall continue to save them until I get to 10 gallons.
Why? Considering a gallon of pennies is worth around $50, that's 500 bucks right there. Of course, the look on the banker's face would be nothing short of priceless.

But I like my electronic doodads and dee-vee-dees. They are ever so much more fun than the wooden Hoop-and-Stick. :(

@ poster #7: There is actually confectionery glitter that is used on wedding cakes, cupcakes, etc. Looks exactly like glitter, but it's made of gum arabic.

Of course, this being a unicorn, it's probably magical fairy glitter that tastes like sugary beams of sunlight. :)

If it weren't for organizations like Greenpeace, we wouldn't have anyone pushing for things like the Kyoto Protocol. Sure, they're loud and obnoxious about how they do things, but so are the ones who'd sell their own grandmothers for a $50 hike in oil prices. :P

It may not be a HUGE help in controlling harmful emissions, but it's a start.

Imagine the horror show this baby would bring to the attention of hotel guests. *shudder*

Actually, what'd be better is if you stacked them flat on their sides in a sort of hollow cone shape. That way you could put little Christmasy trinkets on it to decorate said book tree. :)

Only one thing worse than getting this for Christmas........Vista.

How can you NOT choose that name?

Sure, and while they're at it, the DHS ought to go fight fires and rescue burn victims from five-story buildings. Because you know, they're so specialized in that sort of work. *eyeroll*

Radioactive water dispenser...what a great idea. I always wanted to glow in the dark before dying a slow painful death.

Sure, that'd go great with the jewel-encrusted iPod that I don't have.

I like my cheapass plastic drive that holds 2 gigs for $20, thank you. :P

Does anyone still truly take FOX news seriously? It's kind of like the Weekly World News of all the news networks...only with less Bat Boy.

Considering that was back when Dr. Pepper had actual sugar in it, it probably tasted alright.

Buh? Cingular (now apart of the AT&T collective) charged the same upgrade fee, and they were pretty decent. Thing is, I despise AT&T, so there's nothing I can do about it other than burn my cellphone in a funeral pyre in the phone company's lobby.

Did one of them wear a beret and shout "Viva la revolucion!"?
We may have an uprising on our hands. :o

I rather like to think of it as unsolicited art. Art is not just something that hangs on the walls of a gallery collecting dust.
As for it being vandalism, who's it hurting? People smoke, play music, and dump their trash all over regardless of a little plastic sign. :P

*snerk* God I love finding random stuff like this.

Great...more doublespeak from the people who run our country.

Whomever makes a steampunk tinfoil top hat will have my undying respect. :3

I've actually seen this guy's jellyfish glasswork in person...the photo here doesn't do the work much justice because it's just so mesmerizing to look at from different angles.

"During the course of my shower, occasionally an arm, thin and yellow as an egg noodle, would squeeze through the crack in the door, check the water temperature, adjust the knobs accordingly, and then slip back out."

Flying Spaghetti Monster? ZOMG! :O

Yay, profiling. Can't wait until they start saying people who eat all-beef hotdogs are terrorists.

We'd be better off voting for Satan...at least we'd know for sure that he'd be out to damn all of humanity and bring about the apocalypse. No hidden agendas there.

To each his own.............though I'm not into doing kinky things with chains.

Can't beat a music vid with singing and dancing condoms...that sort of thing sticks in your mind.

@ poster #5: I don't think they'd let in anyone with hair and shoes that pointy.

But yes, the infamous friendliness of our customs agents strikes again. Even if you happily cooperate, they still treat you like a criminal.

Should've kept the tiles...better than the crap they pass off as computer hardware. :P

Whatever kind of saw it is, it's AWESOME! :D

Life Cycle Stage: Immature? I wonder how big the adult ones are... o.o

Yet another example of how welcoming we've always been to foreigners. Ugh.

Man, you guys are jaded.

@Jack

For reals...NASA needs to come up with an astrogarbage truck to jettison all our crap into what is basically one giant nuclear furnace.

Solid Snake needs one of these.

...CHIBI KILLSTICK!!!

Sorry, couldn't help but think of MegaTokyo here. >.>

I didn't get a chance to read the whole book yet, but of what I read was pretty horrifying, and makes me wonder how far off America is from degrading a different way, but with the same effect.

Snazzy...I'll have to try this! :D

Why not just eat dry cereal with a glass of milk? >_>

All that just for tabbed browsing? Meh, I'll stick with my PSP and its limited 'net capabilities, thanks.

This congress so far has shown the testicular fortitude equal to that of a jellyfish. As the kids say these days, it's "full of suck and fail".

Bet you $1000 bucks that if it were two police women they'd have had no objection. :P

Amusing, but does not trump the lulz of the infamous Dunkin Donuts one.

That's as ridiculous as the RIAA suing little girls, college students and 80-year old grannies for copyright infringement.

Both sad and funny at the same time. :(

Oh yeah, that'd go great with my HR Giger and John Lennon posters. :P

Fixed.

Shopping? Fashion? ...BABIES?!? WTF UBISOFT?? Who runs your research department? 80-year old men???

I deal with that crap IRL! I don't want to play a GAME about it! Give me your Gravity guns, your Zerg rushes, and your hordes of zombies infesting malls!
But for crizzsakes, don't make another goddamn Barbie Princess Makeover Fairy/Mermaid/Unicorn Adventure clone!