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Greetings,
I have avoided saying anything in this thread because I felt that there was nothing I could say that had not already been said by those smarter and better informed than myself. I have lately only returned with the hope that there would be some nugget of information hinting to the more complete response promised to us weeks ago. What I find is something that has degraded into anything but wonderful.

I come here now to implore you, Boing Boing to shut this thread down.

Free speech is a wonderful right that we have, but as a community we generally decided that blatant hate speech is simply unacceptable. Regardless of the nature of the reason for the unpublishing, we should not accept people wildly speculating and eventually slandering all those involved. No one here in their right mind would knock on all their neighbors doors telling them that the Johnsons down the block liked to kill puppies with a spork on the roof of their car at the full moon. Yet thanks to the anonymity of the internet people are embolden to scream from the rooftops just that.

Though the moderators have thankfully taken a relatively relaxed stance on this topic to give people the leeway to express their anger and frustration at both VB and BB, that should not preclude them from moderating the things that are said only to hurt and defame others. This discussion has at times become too heated that the moderators themselves have had to be moderated to remove their own acidic, slanderous statements, but for some reason I return to continued hate and anger being tolerated and possibly even encouraged.

So again, I implore you Boing Boing, stop this. I want nothing more than to give you as a collective the chance to think this through and deal with it appropriately. Evidence in this thread shows that quick and rash statements have only caused more trouble. Your silence does hurt, and to a degree I feel like I am being ignored, but I am willing to tolerate it in order to give you the time to reach a place were you feel comfortable with your decision.

None the less, letting this continue makes you complicit to the worst that is being said. I have been listening to you all for many years now and I know full well that this complicity is simply not true, but the feeling is getting harder to ignore the longer this is allowed to continue. The thread has served its purpose, a great discussion was held here about something that is crucial to this new age of information, but it is done, do not let the worst of those who would participate tarnish your reputation any longer.

Mr. Knutsen is holding on to and standing in front of the most amazingly wonderful tool for urban gardening, the self watering container! Depending on the weather they only have to be watered once every few days and can grow a lot in a small space. I can get hundreds of delicious cherry tomatoes, many meals worth of string beans, fresh herbs and more from just a few 18gal container.

Some pictures from my garden early last summer:

http://tinyurl.com/47pdlm [flickr.com]

You can build them for around $20 (cheaper if you build a few) out of a RubberMaid container, some PVC pipe and zip ties in a few hours and they make container gardening much easier.

I had the pleasure of seeing a number of clips from the film a while ago on This American Life (the Showtime TV show version). A whole episode of the show was dedicated to G.J.'s film, so if you cant manage to see a screening (none listed for Portland yet) the TAL episode is well worth it.