Canarsie. Where everything looks the same.

Canarsie. Where everything looks the same.

It's reassuring that so many commentators find the scenario depicted to be safe, and confidently explain why this is so.

Nontheless, I find it disturbing and, while of course there are many things far more disturbing than this to be found on the interweb, I am disappointed that Mark Frauenfelder thought it suitable for distribution via boingboing with little more of an accompanying comment than "perhaps it's a joke".

Perhaps it is Mark, but thus far I haven't been able to laugh at it.

> It looks like my aunt

Is "aunt" a typo?

This resonates with a recent Ipod/wAlmart story about someone in a place called Sparta who bought one of these MP3 players as a "present for a ten-year-old girl" (his daughter, apparently) who allegedly found the device contained materials of a "pornographical" nature.

According to the news story, the retailer offered to exchange the MP3 player for a new one but the Spartan decided he would like to hang onto it!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318711,00.html