It's worth mentioning Jonathan Coulton's "Baby Got Back"

See http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs/ under "Thing A Week One", about half way down the page.

Wooo, that would make one hell of a game.

It reminds me of Man Conquers Space (http://manconquersspace.com/)

I'd like to contribute my collection of files in my Windows Trash. In many respects, it's a retrospective on my own existence and the existence of the "every man" who uses a computer. Downloaded files, spam, images. It's what we all are, it's what we all become. It is art, it is reason, it is the calming music that plays at the end of LOST when all is... well?

The shoe bike reminds me of Kinetic Sculpture Race vehicles such as from the Corvallis Oregon da Vinci Days race and the Eureka/Arcada race.

Maybe there could be a separate blog run by the Random BoingBoing Blog Post Generator and we could all comment on it. Real posts would be off limits for comments.

So, when a headline reads, "US asks Canada for better terms in trade agreement," you think it should read, "Elected representatives of the US ask elected representatives of Canada for better terms in trade agreement?"

Yea, I do. And I don't subscribe to any papers. We actually have internet out here in Oregon, though sometimes the pully on the semaphore machine sticks.

Don't get me wrong, but....

STOP SAYING "OREGON" - say like "SOME BUREAUCRATS IN OREGON!"

You're lumping the whole state together by doing that. We am not them, we am us!

PS

It rhymes with "Washington", not "Calgon"

think of it as evolution in action

I believe the whole J Lo "bubble butt" is a progression towards this. Eventually people will be able to just sit on the arm wrests without discomfort. In the mean time there are always those padded Butt Enhancers.

I spy comment spam @9.

Actually it's the page on Classmates.com for the high school the girl went to. There are a number of people that would have been there at the same time as her. Anyone have a paid account so they could email someone and ask? I posted on their class forums but don't have a paid account to be able to email someone.

Oh come on there's a lot of details in there. Even if it's a trick, it's a thorough one! Play along and hunt "her" down!

Map to Queen's High School for Girls in Kingston, which is fairly close to DeHaney Park, a part of Kingston in her address.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=queen's+high+school+kingston,+jamaica&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=18.026159,-76.818552&spn=0.032402,0.058365&t=h&z=14

Can anyone figure out the name of that street? "31 Buc(something) Ave"

379 alumni from Queen's High School in Kingston, Jamaica are already here! Join them now and get back in touch.

http://www.classmates.com/directory/school/Queen's%20High%20School?org=36330

OK Boing boingers, certainly there is enough information on the net now days we could track her down? Addresses, names, schools, dates, ages, etc.

uh, Roach; Oregon is right above California

Thank you. We like to be forgotten in general, but not when it comes to fallout.

You should start posting IRC links as a URI. If you've got Firefox and are using the Chatzilla plugin (or maybe some other IRC clients), all it takes is to hit irc://irc.freenode.net/boingboing to connect.

Yes. It's a very common and well understood phenomena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

It's what runs a certain percentage of Boing Boing when it gets all political :^)

Kids, don't listen to the teacher. It's a piñata!

Kids, don't listen to the teacher. It's a piñata!

Takuan, damn your rapier whit and internet search skills! Thanks though. Ironically I've gained a kneejerk "Must be FUD" reaction to a certain number of BoingBoing posts.

/me slaps knee back into temporary submission

@ #19 POSTED BY MONKEYFRAUD

I"m with you. Until someone can show me a study that shows an increase in accidents, I call FUD and bullshit on the first paragraph of the original post and also #22 POSTED BY GNOODLES. It's nice to THINK that's what happens, but until someone shows me some real studies proving it, it's just FUD, and I don't mean Elmer.

Red light cameras cause more accidents, and not just because drivers slam their brakes to avoid getting a robo-ticket -- also because the optimal money-making strategy for red-light cams is to make them less safe.

Can we have references on this? It's a great story but has anyone studied this?

Magnatune is indeed awesome. With their permission, I have used their content in some not-for-profit computer games developed at a university. Very nice to see them getting some BoingBoing lovin'

Beautiful!

When do we get the BoingBoing split (ala TV and Gadgets) to create a "Funny, But It's Exactly Why We Are Blocked in DIA" sub-site?

I am thoroughly disturbed. Perfectly normal people mutilating or hurting themselves for the sake of beauty/fashion is something that's been around for a long time, but it seems to me that it's getting more and more ridiculous.

Meh - tons of this all around in our culture. It's called piercing and tatoos. We call that "art" and "self expression". Why can't this be too? If she stuck a hunk of metal in there or carved a hole so she could look out while her eyes were shut we would be all giddy.

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remember Adam Selene?

Like it was yesterday, gosopodin!

Personally I think it's just payback for that call button.

I, probably like a lot of geeks like to check out those screens when I can. And I can imagine if someone had access to a machine they could mess around until they got whatever they meant to sneak on to pass as an ok object. I'd assume that the reason they don't want to publish pictures of what it looks like is because essentially they don't want to publish "make it look like this and you can fool us" information.

When they outlaw catapults, only outlaws will have catapults.

Wow!

#1: I'm organizing a movement/petition to detach all Civlib and politics to its own BBPolitics site. Now let's see how the moderator army would react.

I'd totally agree with this notion. That or make a BBFuhShizzle where everything that might end up creating "issues" for places like DIA could go. Fark was smart enough to create foobies.com to keep things happy.

I'm finding BoingBoing a little depressing today. You?

Nope. Depressing is when BoingBoing posts juvenile stuff like zit popping movies. As harsh as it is, this stuff is BoingBoing at it's best; using it's connectivity and soul. This is BoingBoing grown up.

Not to be a cynic, I for one will do what little I can, but do you really think the US (or Canadian) governments I might petition would really take a stand? And do you think the Olympic committee is putting any 'real' pressure on china?

What do you think the people in Tibet are doing? Does one person there standing up and holding a sign or being hauled away make a difference?

Keep posting Xeni - your personalization of it by your remembrances is what makes it more real for me as I read.

This is the good Boing Boing. It shames the things that need unicorn chasers.

A very nice post and appropriate eulogy. Definitely brought a smile.

Remix the OP video with a porn sound track? relabel it "money shots" perhaps?

Gabe I was just going to suggest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzFNkPI-S2I and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auA2_8oSft0

Google for "dermatillomania video" for some hot hot action.

"Jardin is tired of her tech-update site getting blocked by private and government filters just because it occasionally posts respected artworks that might include nudity."

And gross stuff.

:(

As long as it's not the BigWheel of fun scraping the curb of silly posts to avoid the pot holes of the internet filled with muddy analogies!

From someone's online post on another topic...

"It's not a pretty sight when the lug nuts of reason have fallen off the wheels of progress on the SUV of misinformation causing the occupants to drive off the road of wisdom into the yawning chasm of ignorance."

I'll let you know come November :^)

You know as much as I dislike how things are, using FUD, abusing statistics and bad arguments is not the way to go about creating change. A knee jerk is a knee jerk whether right or left.

There's an interesting list of argument fallacies which makes an interesting read if you think about the actions of the current government, but equally as important, the actions of groups like the ACLU.

I know this is like totally a far out crazy idea, but just suppose it was some human being with a deformity that included some hip problems. Accustomed to being laughed at, stared at and generally not accepted, said individual goes out of their way to avoid people. Anyone ever seen Elephant Man?

Awesome!

1) One number
2) One growth rate
3) Extrapolate
4) ??
5) FUD!

Talk about abusing statistics. You don't draw a line between two data points and make conclusions.

Oregon has a special place for Mr. T. See this Oregon Lottery TV ad

Well said Joe. Very interesting what-if or alternate history concept.

Interesting to think about how continued pursuit of this mental model could have lead to some proper treatments. They may not have been able to see or realize the true cause (virus, bacteria, parasite), but they had the right ideas. You don't have to see an atom to understand chemistry, but you have to have the mental model of the atom to see how it works.

Beats the heck out the not so old habit of bleeding people and trying to remove bad "humors" or "vapors".

"angry, testy, hyperfocused, they don’t want to be bothered"

Honestly, that's not too far off what I see in a lot of my friends whom I'd consider exceptionally bright, or myself when in "the zone" without any kind of pharmaceuticals. Just hard core passion and creativity.

I've got options in self sealing stem bolts

Need good Joel picture...

Oh God, I log in to see if there were any comments in the old picture thread and I find this! Now I HAVE to put Joel in I see.

Oh yea and if you can't think of what this photo could be turned into, you aren't worthy of a monkey badge! http://www.xeni.net/images/lat-E1.jpg

Good one, Holtt. Where does Joel fit in?

Oh, you mean ToTo? :^) And I was gonna get some real work done today!

I'm sure someone can do better than I, but...

http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bloggersofozuz2.jpg

I'm starting to form the germ of an idea here. Fan fiction. Like Boing Boing fan fiction. You can sort of smell the lust in here, isn't it time someone put it into writing?

Cory's hand hovered over the enter key, touching it, stroking it. Should he submit this story? Or keep it for his private amusement.

"Do it", purred Xeni. "You know you want to. Share the love!"

"I'd hit it", lol'ed Pesco.

"And @ #5 & #6, is vulgarity a reason to lock it down completely, when I can just as easily bring the latest edition of 2GirlsOneCup-Uncovered magazine and look at it all I like?"

Not at all. I think our (my at least) point is that BB et al shouldn't call themselves tastefully artistic. Sometimes it's purposely vulgar. It doesn't do "the cause" much good to talk one way to the press but act another online.

Seyo you took the words right out of my mouth. BoingBoing definitely dips into the vulgar now and then. I like reading it but I occasionally don't bring it up in a public space, out of respect for who is around me.

Definitely RTFA as it's not just about music, nor just about $100k

#28, 32, 34, 36 - good comments, thanks.

Meta comment - I'd pay a subscription fee to BoingBoing if it allowed me to ignore posts by some people. Seriously. Cory. Really. I'd be one of your 1000 if I could ignore the vacuous and inane.

This is actually not too far off what is a very successful model for some small yet very popular indie games. Small "boutique" or indie games with a small number of very dedicated fans, no publishing deal, and a happy, small and successful development team. Usually they do not appeal to any kind of mass appeal, and instead aim for filling a niche.

Examples off the top of my head include A Tail In The Desert (2-3000 happy players paying $15 a month), Mount and Blade by a Turkish couple whom I gladly gave $20 for the coolest indie game ever, and of course RuneScape, which looks like crap but in 2007 hit over one MILLION paying players ($5 a month) yet started out with those happy 1000 fans.

Two good article that cover this kind of game development are...

http://lostgarden.com/2005/10/game-business-model-learning-from.html

and

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_75/431-Boutique-MMOGs

So all you smarmy people posting - laugh and snark away, some of us will be out harvesting those that could have been your loyal fans if you hadn't been so "boingboing clever" :^)