Isadora Who?

#2 Strider. That has to be one of the funniest boing boing comments I have read ... ever. Still chuckling.

Good art, generates debate, criticism, and strong opinions. For a post thats fresh on the top of my feed to have pulled down so much in the way of articulate and well thought out comments so rapidly ... well, I think this is good art.

What about scrabble jewlery for ladies? I'd buy my mom some of this in a heart beat.

"subdue a sense of excitement" priceless. Thank god I don't live in that future.

Thats not 'swiping'. Directors on films, ad shoots, etc often will talk to thier art directors in images and with atmospherics to give a complete visual sense. Its what gets thrown into the subconcious that gets recreated into a new something something that generates new interesting work.

You're right to be flattered. I think if you want to get hired by the director for the next video though, you need to just meet up with him/her and chat with about all those ideas you're working on. Thats the talk that gets people hired.

Great! Thats brilliant! I miss that feel of the plastic pushing at my fingertip until i hit the cold metal stop.

Now all I have to do is start memorising peoples 10 digit mobile phone numbers and I'm good to go!

My grandathers number till 15 years ago was 3 digits. The place on the phone for the rotary dial was blanked out. We picked it up, and told the exchange the 3 digit phone number we wanted to get in touch with, or booked a trunk call to our relatives in other cities. All the numbers were written in this lovely little modern phone book full of tabbed cards that closed with a spring catch. You slid the spring catch to the right letter, and the phone book would only unlock to that page.

Sonny,

You just made me dig through my dvd's to find Oh Brother Where art thou. Just so I could LISTEN to it while boingboinging.

Well done.

Here's how far ideas like that got. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/06/pedal-vehicle-for-tr.html

speaking of which, there's a dangerously similar comment on that posting to yours sonny.

BBC's got a good obituary. They would, he's one of thiers.... even though i remember the British media trying to scrape dirt up on this more than incredible human being for living in Sri Lanka all his life as well.
He came up with the fictional country U.S.S.A, never said it, but I always knew he meant the United States of South Asia.

This man dreamt in ways we don't even begin to allow our imagination to move.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2358011.stm

Umm, what the US could do to any company dealing with Cuba, no matter what country they were from started with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms-Burton_Act

It changed the domestic/international policy divide overnight because basically it was a domestic piece of legislation that said any company anywhere in the world that trades with Cuba and whose trade brings into play any materials once owned by US concerns in Cuba, or US citizens (who were Cuban at the time, thereby covering most everything industrial and commercial that exists in Cuba). Could be sued in the United States. Whether or not they had anything to do with the US of A.

Time to stop commenting here and start pushing back eh?

I have to agree with that. I think if you want to do the whole attack the system thing, its going to have to be a fight-club esque affair.

Does the theatre community get a royalty from the barsales? I think its only fair that these bars and pubs sponsor real theatre events in compensation.

Now thanks to these guys, when the authorities start adressing the loop hole, every $%^)(*&^ theatre company in the twin cities will have to prove that they ARE doing theatre and aren't a bunch of smokers trying to 'act'.

RFID being carcinogenic?

A very close friend of mine went for an EEG for some routine test around three weeks ago. The technician casually said to her, while looking at the oscilating pens scratching away on the continous feed paper,
"you hold your cell phone on your left ear don't you?

"How do you know?

"Oh your left side brain activity is slower than your right by a visible margin, everyone who comes in these days has a difference and its always which ear they hold the phone on.

I'm thinking of going back to a wired world with an answering machine that i check remotely from public call phones (except, now they're all cellular technology as well!).

Thats pretty nifty, sad thing is that these guys usually can't afford to pay, its not that they're just sponging off the railways.

As for electric wires, the trains in mumbai are run by high tension electric wires overhead with less than 5 feet of clearance between the train roof and the cables, people still ride the roofs.

Western Railway in India has a term for rush hour trains 'super crush load' they aren't kidding.

For good Manga meets religion check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha_(manga)

I just read them and they were just brilliant. His art work at times is a bit glib, but at the end of the read, he's pretty much got buddhism 101 across to anyone who reads all 8 volumes (hard not to, they're quite difficult to put down).