I feel his pain. At least three or four times a day I have to unsubscribe from some list or newsletter someone else decided I need to add to my reading list.

As far as "information" goes, I have never seen anything of remote value in a press release. Theyu are not information, they're glorified spam.

Keen's more intent on protecting his niche than getting it right. I sent you a long list of stories broken (not "aggregated") by bloggers a few weeks back that was a response to more of the same...O'll see if I can't relocate that link.

Maybe he shouls have just married it first:

http://www.berlinermauer.se/

I thought about trying this, but I think I'd just use the led-nightlight we've already got.

Speaking of geek pumpkins:

http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2006-pumpkins/deathstar1.jpg

It's actually very easy. We use our molds to make paper mache versions, too, which we decorate with dimensional paint...they come out pretty close to the real thing, and you can keep them without getting mice. :-)

They apparently waited a pretty long time before calling paramedics:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071025/airport_death_071025/20071026?hub=Canada

Love the bare feet.

It's a dalek...

Somewhere I saw a video-debunking of a "chi master" who used a magnet to make objects slide on a table.

I think that people are a lot more upset and angry about this than is commonly accepted- but what can you do? Can't vote it away, can't fight it without being disappeared, can't emigrate (nobody wants us.)

It is the very definition of fascism when you need state permission to move about or freely associate, when you're spied on in the streets and in your home, and when you're subject to search just about anywhere you happen to go.

And just in case we won't accept it as a safeguiard against terrorism, or to "protect" voting, it's all about nasty illegal aliens taking our healthcare and lettuce-picking jobs.

I think it's greta that he's doing that...I'm also wheat intolerant, and it would sure be nice to have garlic bread again someday.

Actually, the lions weren't found next to the fence- they came to that guy looking for them when they vanished, and he admitted he'd buried them after his fence killed them.

Har, har. :-)

I have a bucky corpse on my porch. Since putting him there, I haven't had any religious solicititation, and these people used to interrupt me daily. I might keep him there.

Weirdly, some strange guy stopped by and kissed him.

Here's a (bad) picture of him:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/infinitysnake/322008060/in/photostream/

We had him boarded at the piratye store last year, but he creeped out the owner's wife and they kept him in the back.

You guys posted this one almost exactly a year ago. :-)

I did that for awhile earlier this year, but I got tired of all the people who can't spell but still insist on participating.

This whole story has been very interesting. Even before Benedict became Benedict, he was investigating Templars. As for the conspiracy angles, there are a lot...anonymous "Templars" were making "apologize of we're telling on you" threats, and Ratzi was reportedly taking them seriously. IOW, there were a lot of strange thing going on behind the scenes.

I would call that "fake," not counterfeit. The latter implies intentional duplicity on the maker's part.

My FIL sells aircraft salvage...used to have literal tons of this stuff lying aroun. The bomb bits always looked like rockets to me, so I had this fantasy about making a marvin-the -martian style playground...

I would definitely wear that...

This would go well with the victorian hair blog...

No, they're for Denis Kucinich to keep in his pocket! ;-)

Gods, yes!

Why spend money when you have a comb or (as the previous reader mentioned) a piece of cardboard? This is consumerism at its silliest.

These remind me of Muslinm calligraphy.

One of my readers figured this one out yesterday; it's a promo for a local artist:

http://www.paradox-carving.co.uk/paradox/

I know those- there are directions in Martha Stewart's halloween issue from last year...maybe on the website now?

Wouldn't it be a great day if corporate entities were varred from copyright ownership? I would love to see what would happen if only originating artists were eligible for copyrights!

"For some parents, statistics about the rarity of child kidnapping just don't allay their (arguably) exaggerated fears."

I think it is exaggerated, and there's a different attitude now. When i was young, I walked to school (about 2 miles) with my younger sibs. We had an incident where a creep tried to pick us up, and tried with several other kids. He was unsuccessful, because every one of us knew better and he was caught, and we kept on walking to school. Now, I get funny attitudes from other parents for letting my own kids walk a block, to a school I can see from my yard.

That's handy...I think more than half of what I get these days is press-release spam.

Shoot, whoops. What I meant to do was quote and repond there, must have got cut off- what I said was: Oddly, they don't seem to have them in holding rooms, or interrogation rooms- places where you'd think they'd be most necessary.

A low tech possibility:

http://www.reminderband.com/about.php

With mom & dad's cell numbers, of course.

I'm wondering if there was a camera in the holding room

Yes, the unicorn dream and the origami were in the original director's cut.

I cut my teeth on the GEnie SFRT and Usenet. I don't blink for trifles. What you're saying is that you personally didn't dislike those passages.

Congratulations on being such a fast reader, by the way. Not all of Boing Boing's readers are so thoroughly on top of things that they see all the first states of comments, and then re-read all the comment threads frequently enough to spot the changes as they happen.

-- get vandalized.
Do you think so? Yet I recall you having no trouble reading Cpt. Tim's disemvoweled text.

Awesome...I have a whole collection of my own to add to this.

Actually, Theresa, Xeni did tell Tim that his comments had not been edited, when clearly they had. I'm sure it chalks up to a misunderstanding rather than a lie, but nothing Tim has claimed here is not technically true- and I do think he had every reason to have his feeling bruised over the whole silly thing. He was made to look like a crackpot (and later, a crybaby) after he had perfectly reasonable comments moderated.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who finds the level of comment control here disturbing- I've seen a lot of things that wouldn't make anyone blink get vandalized. It makes the bloggers look oversensitive at best and certainly dampens the conversation- should people really have to worry so much about expressing an opinion here? And if so, what is the point of opening comments if the conversation is so restrained?

I'd also lioke to address the continual arguments about censorship on privately owned fora- I think that yes, it's a given that one has a right to censor one's own propterty. That being said, it seems awfully shortsighted to exercise that right when not truly necessary. There is no public square on the net anymore, so in effect, there is no free speech. Consequently, one would hope that the people who provide a forum would be as restrained as possible when policing it.

My husband grew up on a repurposed Nike site, and we lived there until about four years ago. Trust me, it's not worth the work to make the places livable. Lead in the walls, paper phone lines...and there's a definite down side to blast-proof floors.

Also, they want way more money than it's worth.

Calton, I remember that guy..I even have one of his flyers somewhere. I used to have a decent collection from berkeley, inc. the guy who was being destroyed via fluorescent lights by the government, and the 'aliens are everywhere' guy..

Gnosticism? Seriously? Muight as well include Buddhism for espousing a near-identical philosophy.

Sheesh.

I think they're fantastic, I I think some of the arguments against these are intellectually dishonest. One computer in the hands of one clever child can bring all sorts of new ideas to the table, and allows good ideas to be shared more easily. It's not going to make anyone's life easy, but that's not the point- I think the idea is to provide a light at the end of the tunnel.

My own life hardly parallels most of these childrens' experiences, but I did grow up in poverty. Well meaning donations of clothese, food, etc. certainly helped, but my kids are living an upper-middle-class lifestyle in large part because I was given opportunities to further my education, including computer access and training at a time when a lot of people were still clucking about the 'computer fad.'

It is technology, not food aid, that brings countries into prosperity.

What a strange issue. I can certainly understand if an artist takes exception to another artist copying their designs, but I can't believe any would object to a client disaplaying their own body any way they see fit. I do think it's aklin to the dress issue- as per the example above Meryl certainly doesn't need permission to wear her designer dress to be photographed in; the same I imagine holds for decorated skin.

I'm also happy I opted for antique art myself so i won't have to worry about some furure claim on my skin.

Ih, funny- we've been doing something pretty similar to this all week. The fakes go with some real quack medicine & poison bottles as part of our display.

@LesNez:

Well said, than you.

Theresa, I still think that went over the line into pointless censorship. If you didn't like what the poster had to say, then why not simply tell him why you disagreed? The idea that one might get censored over an idealogical pov here of all places is just mind-boggling. I think that electing to mangle a perfectly valid opinion rather than rebut it showed a great deal of disrespect to the poster and to the readers.

Yeah, I find the editing disturbing too- after I finally worked out what he was saying, it didn't seem the least bit poffensive. What gives?

Sci-fi dystopia, here we come.

Hmm...maybe next time I'm pulled over, I'll tell the officer my license is my "intellectual property." Pft.

Love the ASCAP report. ASCAP behaves exactly like the mob. I remember they used to come around Gilman and demand we pay for "insurance" (ie protection racket) that cost more than our rent. After we said no so many times, they turned up one night with baseball bats to "persuade" our director.

Iirc, Abbie and jerry lived in our building whern I was little. (Or the other way around)

Everyone behaved badly here. The protester os just the sort who comes around looking, hoping for negative attention, and when he gets it, he ruins the effectiveness of the protest. I do think the police overreacted, as seems to be typical- but unless their silly charges are held up by the court, it's kinda moot.

I spent years goping to these things and it's common practice for them to charge you with every last thing they can think of- assault on a police officer (yelling), resisting arrest (squirming when they hit you), and so on. The only way to be effective in these situations is to leave no shadow of doubt on your own behavior. People latch on to any reason to believe in puclic officials, especially cops, so your own behavior has to be near-saintly if you want to prevail.

Voodooism?!

Cool...an arachnid art collective. :-)

I read a recent story that mentioned American programmers moving to China for better hours/conditions, so I'm not sure the US is much better.

"I love repeating my point that I bought more CDs when Napster was around then after the crackdown, but anyways."

So true. I found hundreds of new songs and artists using audiogalaxy back in the day- and bought tons of music because of it. Now, pretty much never..or when I hear something I like on a blog or in passing.

Good for him.

Obviously it wasn't for protection, but a silly publicity stunt. And afaik, it's only illegalk when deadly...the threat is probably legal.

I think it is certainly likely. The obvious sell would be child molesters, possibly immigrants, prisoners- any "undesirable" where fear can be played on for public acceptance. Combine that with "voluntary" tagging of children, alzheimer's patients, government employees, etc., and it could become a matter of routine for some classes of people.

"Is this really a violation of fourth amendment rights? "

Yes. If they ask, and you volunteer, that's one thing- but the minute they tell you you can't leave, that's a fourth amendment issue.

Thane is wrong. pricvate property or not, they dio not have the right or any reasonable excuse to search your person or your belongings- the fourth amendment applies no matter where you happen to be. The store is perfectly within reason to ask, but never, ever to force.

It goes without saying I have no plans to ever set foot in another circuit city store.

Exactly- and sports reporters aren't necessarily bastions of level-headed sanity to begin with. (Rael is another ex-sports reporter cum Jesus in the flesh, come to think of it...)

In what way is Icke not a crackpot? Yikes. Of course, I've been accused of being a space lizard myself...

Not very original..they've been doing that to the julbok for years.