you guys should be aware of this I suppose, not that I really want to encourage you're grandiloquent verbiage.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4799560.ece

can we get a moratorium on uppity Europeans sniding on the US?? seems like every post generates at least one...

damn no one should be able to steal Mike Watt's bass & get away with it. That's just plain wrong.

it's also probably really bad karma. I hope whoever did it gets what they have coming.

@#3: "The Parks Department says they were placed in the lake more than 20 years ago to hold down plastic sheeting in an attempt to control water plants."

wholeheartedly ditto #2. totally.

I'll be over there later today as well. Wearing my Happy Mutant hat of course.

@11: "What if a (sick) bird lover felt angry at people wading through ponds and lakes disturbing his beloved ducklings and just wants them to stop doing this? It looks to me just like applying good old American problem solving techniques to a new field of dispute."

interesting point - I remember hearing that hikers were stretching wire across single-track trails in parks where there were mountain bike/hiker disputes, (I've no idea if that ever happened.. could be pure fiction); but I do wonder if this could be some kind of insane version of same.

BoingBoing is there when you need it most ... I was a bit foggy on what exactly went on last night.

scratch the petty critique and give it up for a new independent bookstore. something I think all can agree we don't have nearly enough of.

@1,
clutter rules! At least around me it does. How can one be free and happy and commando and joyful amidst so much artificially enforced order.

AMEN my BROTHER.

maybe we can start a club or something.

I vote for Takuan as best commenter evah.

a little swell of sanity in a sea of idiocy.

slackslackslackslackslack SLACK

We have a light rail that runs on the same system as the one mentioned in #33 in my home town - but it's jersey city nj.... Still, most people do buy tickets. To my surprise, I might add :).

I've certainly been approached by Police - mostly in NYC - and told that I am 'not allowed' to take photo's in certain areas. I usually take a shot of the cop and walk away. I know of at least one person who likes to shoot in the subway and carries a copy of the law that stipulates that it's legal to do so, because he's been approached so often.

I think its a pretty serious infringement; and am willing to be confrontational when approached.

/mytwocents

Boing commenters are the best. I was ready to chime in with the HCE reference, and there it was, succintcly stated in the 3rd comment.

of course its Joyce, so there's lots more fun:

http://mv.lycaeum.org/Finnegan/HCE.html

riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.

finally, my fair city makes it to Boing. JC-NJ reprezent.

wow @mitch - I was so psyched until I read that.

some people really suck, huh.

@NE2D - according to this 'law of innernet wrongness' you cite, your own post 'has a high probability of being mistaken itself.".

or does that only apply to scolding 'not done by NE2D'.

those who can, do. those who can't, become consultants.

ditto @PS re: Biomega. Just a plain - well made - bicycle would be more than enough. Why is this so hard to find these days?

Plus, their site resized my browser. grrrrrrrr.

people who stop in midstream on the sidewalks of NYC /should/ be arrested.

this is pretty futile.

Why don't they spend some time and resources blocking botnet drones from spamming - oh right, that might actually *help* as opposed to *hinder*, so it's against their charter.

boingboing rules the school.

well the big reason for me is: vegetarian fast food.
(bean & cheese burrito). I'd love to never ever eat fast food, but sometimes ya got no choice. As a vegetarian, it's either Taco Bell or a baked potato from Wendy's.