You can be sympathetic to the incarcerated (although in the interests of full disclosure, I have little to no sympathy towards Manson), and still call someone a loon or josh around a website about a funny project. The world isn't so black and white and neither are most people.

Forgive us, we're liberal.

And YOU look like an ass when you leap to conclusions about people based on nothing more than a few sentences in a website comment. I'm a born-and-raised in the Bay Area bleeding heart liberal who supports prison abolishment.

Forgive ME, but I hardly think pointing out that CHARLES FUCKING MANSON has a less-than-firm grasp on reality makes me some kind of conservative monster.

These letters aren't "mean", geez. When did the bOINGers turn into such sissies?

The Manson letter was delightful. What a fucking loon. My cousin once sent him a letter as part of a school assignment, he was a senior in high school. Manson sent him back some incomprehensible gibberish about trees.

This is some sort of social experiment, isn't it?

Cross stitch is my first craft love and still my favorite (although embroidery is right behind it). It always tickles me to see it being used in non-traditional ways.

And hee hee @ "textile art hates you". Yeah! *sticks out tongue*

Sissy Hankshaw does not approve.

"I don't think he actually believes that a war with Iran is going to bring about the Rapture or any such nonsense."

Like I said when he came out in support of teaching ID in public schools, and many of his supporters expressed belief that he didn't really think that was good: He's not stupid, just a hypocritical douchebag, yay!

(Forgive me if this comment double-posts, I got that annoying "text entered wrong) message.)

#12 It was Criminal Minds. ;)

I've only seen about 4 or 5 eps of that show, but that was one of them.

Couldn't you do this with any city? Pick 5 arbitrary points, draw a pentagram, and go ZOMG SATAN!

Oh right, it's useless to use logic with these people.

Also: Bunny ears? Lolz!

Keith Olbermann covered this last night, and quoted The World According to Garp: "Garp bit Bonky."

Also, if a shark is attacking you, GO FOR THE EYES. It's where you can do the most damage, and if anything will get a shark to let go, it's that.

But has anyone ever decided to go vegan because of Pam Anderson's lettuce-clad boobs? If the answer, as I strongly suspect, is no, then all feminist arguments aside, it's just a stupid fucking waste of time and energy.

That being said, I find the idea of eating ANYTHING served by/in the presence of naked women repellant, for purely hygienic reasons.

And the Suicide Girls are stupid because they say they're promoting an alternative ideal of beauty. If 99% of them are white, skinny, and young, all the Hot Topic clearance bin underwear in the world doesn't magically make them "alternative". Sorry, try again.

I always thought living forever sounded like a cold-sweat nightmare. And I'm an atheist, so it's not like I'm looking forward to spending eternity flitting around the clouds in a white robe, playing a harp.

Like others have said, sounds like Ray is so busy not dying that he ain't living. Like those starvation threshold diet freaks.

Is there some reason why adoption wasn't considered? I don't understand people's insistence on reproducing their own DNA, even in the face of hundreds of good reasons not to, when we're all virtually identical anyway.

Free wi-fi is a commie mooslim plot to sap our vital fluids!

ITS best, ITS BEST AAARGH.

The Indian comment isn't racist, simply truth uttered by someone who's been to India. Wiring over there is... interesting, to say the least.

The last 2 are actually pretty funny and endearing.

And steam does indeed set off smoke alarms. When I was growing up in the '80s and '90s I used to set ours off all the time if I forgot to close the door after showering until all the steam went out the open window.

I very much doubt there are any plans to prosecute Manson for any remains that are found. I think this is more about being able to give a definitive answer to the victims' families.

That is some Lynchian nightmarish stuff right there. I have no doubt it's just some kid pulling a prank but it looked creepy as fuck.

"Postmodern" = weird for the sake of being weird. At least according to Moe Szyslak, and he's never wrong.

Oh, come on. I think Jackson is a pedophile freak of nature (although his father and the Jehovah's Witnesses probably have to answer for at least some of that), but to say Thriller "sucks" just completely invalidates everything else you've said.

Beware of murderous hobos: FTRA

I'm just surprised they didn't rip the tube out of his stomach to make sure it wasn't packed with C4.

Anyone dying from penis pills they bought from a spammer is (hopefully) Darwining themselves outta the gene pool.

...uh, boner? I'm no good at puns.

I always used to take this before I flew somewhere--I have an artificially supressed immune system and the filthy air on airplanes ALWAYS made me sick. It seemed to work, although I was aware it was probably a placebo effect, hey, I'll take it.

But it failed SPECTACULARLY when I flew home last Christmas. I spent the entire 2 weeks of my vacation coughing up what felt like used engine oil and not being able to sleep more than a half hour at a time. I'm STILL not fully recovered.

"Odd"? That's vague.

I look forward to the inevitable BoingBoing post that's a screed against TSA for hassling someone who's carrying this bag.

Come on, man. There's actually being hassled over nothing; then there's just asking for trouble. And like others have already pointed out, this is rude to all the other people you're going to inconvenience with your little "prank".

I'm mad at him, because just when I lost enough weight to wear the clothes he makes for Target, he announced he's discontinuing that line. Damn you, Mizrahi! *shakes fist*

And heeeeere come the aspartame conspiracy theorists! ...That being said, I don't think drinking 2 or 3 liters a day of any chemical slurry can possibly be good for you.

I like Diet Coke. Yes, it tastes diet-y, but that's part of its charm for me. I don't drink it because I'm trying to lose weight (if I want something sugary I go for a Jones Soda), I genuinely enjoy the taste.

Caffeine-Free though? Now that's just sad.

#16 THANK YOU! I knew there was something familiar about the concept of a menacing Elmo; I could feel it tugging at my mind but I just couldn't pin it down.

I remember Erik Larsen mentioning this in Thunderstruck.

Surely I'm not the only person who finds "Elmo Knows Your Name" to be a vaguely unsettling and even threatening name for a toy. What's next, the "Elmo Knows Where You Live" doll?

Or you could just, y'know, produce product that doesn't suck.

Fun Fact: It was actually Flavor Aid that was used to kill the People's Temple members, not Kool-Aid. I've always felt kind of bad for Kool-Aid that everyone remembers it wrong.

Joan D'Arc is a "subtle" reference to Joan of Arc? If you're an idiot, I guess.

Parts of this were used in a History Channel documentary about Jonestown I saw last year. Jim Jones' son was interviewed, he seems like a fascinating person (not in a scary way, like his father, whom he hated). Absolutely chilling.

Well, that's about the amount of attention-whoring and crybaby antics I'd expect from a Suicide Girl.

There's no such things as a "midget", god. That's like saying " 'Nigger' is a certain kind of black person!" Use the M-word in the presence of a little person and you're liable to get kicked.

They're ALL dwarves, people. There's just different kinds of dwarves. This man appears to be a primordial dwarf, as other commenters have pointed out.

Just say no to huffing paint thinner, y'all.

Too bad Howard the Duck will always be associated by most people with one of the worst movies ever made.

That was AMAZING.

What the hell is an "American face"? "American" isn't an ethnicity, it's a nationality.

When Guidos collide with Kogaru.

Wow, when did Gibson morph into a grumpy old man intent on sucking the fun out of everything?

You know what's REALLY dumb about this movie? It's about a gigantic 6-legged monster tearing the hell out of Manhattan and devouring hipsters! I mean, COME ON!!

Okay, so maybe I'm just a rube, but can someone explain why this is "horrible"?

Durr, I mean Mac vs. PC. But my point stands!

This is sure to end well.

No, Kali has black skin. This guy looks more like Shiva.

"Not necessarily seen on TV"? Not seen by who, Amish people? I can't watch 10 consecutive minutes of TV without seeing one of those Mac. vs. Apple commercials.

Daiso is actually a "$1.50" store in America. I should know, I've practically moved in to the one that opened in the next town.

Ha, that's a very good point, #13. Environmentally safer, my behind!!

Oh, come on now. That "Ho, ho ho" vs. "Hi, hi, hi" thing is so obviously an invention of the neocon media to bolster their stupid fake War! on! Christmas!!! non-issue.

The listener infers, the speaker implies. As a speaker, you can't be "inferring" something.

I don't have a problem with hunters who actually consume what they kill, but this "Shewt it 'cuz it's weird!" attitude is pretty ignorant. Besides, like other have commented, ever hear of a tranquilizer dart? Maybe the eye-gouging horn can be removed.

LOL, Tresser! Thanks for that.

She was born an aristocrat

So??

I'm no fan of Yoko Ono's art (I don't dislike it, it's just not my thing), but I've never understood the intense hatred some people have for her. You'd think she'd killed John Lennon herself, the way some people spew venom about her.

Oh wait, yes I do understand: misogyny with a dash of racism.

I think I have just been inspired to create some embroidered spam samplers. I currently have nearly 200 spam emails in my gmail, I should go see what's there.

Pennies haven't been pure copper since the early 19th century. In 1968 they were actually brass: 95% copper, 5% zinc. Whether the copper would be worth a lot, after you seperated the zinc from it(if you even could, I know bupkiss about metallurgy)... I have no idea. Maybe?

Could someone just sum up what it is? I'm sure I have no desire to actually see it, but hearing it mentioned as the Grossest Thing Ever is sort of tweaking my curiosity, and I'd rather it be satisfied with a dry explanation. I have no doubt that if I actually watch the damn thing, I'll regret it for the rest of my life.

It's got something to do with poo, is all I can gather thus far.

Stupid kids, were they just standing around waiting politely for their turn to be mauled? I don't think even badass Biblical bears can maul 21 kids at a time; I would have shoved whoever was standing next to me at the bears and ran for it.

Huh. I can't say I've ever been approached by friends-of-high-school-friends, or creepy ex-co-workers, or anyone else I'm only marginally acquainted with. Nor do I feel any obligation to "friend" people just because they ask; nor do I hesitate to remove them if they start being obnoxious. I guess I'm just weird.

Josh Bernstein claimed this was the resting place of the Ark in an episode of Digging for the Truth a few years ago. And it wasn't a new theory back then. As for me, I'll believe it when I see it.

TOOGREEN, you're not the only one, I have less than no interest in Facebook. And it's not like I'm some cave-dwelling luddite, I have 2 blogs, a flickr account, even a MySpace (although I haven't logged in in months) Twitter and Jaiku, blah blah blah online presence. I just don't see the POINT of Facebook.

I've heard that dogs are better than pigs, because pigs will always try to eat the truffles but dogs aren't usually that interested in them. They get rewarded with a doggy treat and that's what they want!

That's funny, I have a friend who always jokes about wanting her ashes dumped in the Haunted Mansion, but I had no idea that it was something that people actually DID.

Binaryloop, you're a fucking jerk, and you have no clue what you're dribbling on about.

Where are the guys who have "RLS"?

Well, my uncle is one of them.

And, what do these women who have RLS do? My guess is that they lead a sedentary lifestyle in a household that makes over $100,000K / yr. and they spend at least 3 hours a day watching TV.

I don't own a car, and I walk and ride my bike evrywhere. So no, I don't lead a "sedentary lifestyle". Nor do I make anywhere near $100,000/year. I do watch a lot of TV though, you got me there!

I think there's a typo? It says Parris was ordained in 1698, but that would have been 6 years after the trials.

My strategy was to quit when I got bored or tired. Sorry, that game used to bore me to tears. And it's not because it went on so long, because I could play Risk or Trivial Pursuit all day. I guess I just find capitalism tedious.

I would imagine they incinerated her extra limbs, like any other medical waste.

Wow, I didn't know Africa was the Wild Fucking West. No laws! Anarchy! Do whatever you feel like! So does this mean if I go to South Africa and beat this fucker with a baseball bat until he's in a coma, I won't get in trouble? Because I have a lot of vacation time coming to me.

That was my reaction, too. "She paid $216 for that?! She got hosed, it looks like hobos were using it for a toilet." Stupid Yahoo.

I would also like to see what the painting looked like.

Because the cop who pulled her over obviously knew the skin color of the man she was married to? What a fruitcake.

"Incense" is a pretty damn vague scent description. That's like saying it's "scented candle" or "perfume" scented. There are probably thousands of different incenses in the world.

All her epiloguing in the last book involves characters being married and having bred. So I would chalk this up as a lack of imagination on her part: that's the only sort of happy ending she's capable of imagining.

And thus another generation of gay people grows up ingesting subtle cues from our meta-narrative that they are somehow shameful and that there is no happy ending for them.

Because gay people never get married--or if that's not allowed where they live, live together in a monogamous lifelong relationship; or have children? Umm.

I'm childfree and celibate, and I didn't get a "subtle cue" that my life is "shameful" and incapable of having a happy ending. Marriage and family are what constitutes a happy ending for the majority of civilization, and I'm not so self-absorbed that I don't realize that, or demand that popular authors include a female character that lives like I do.

I'll start using CF bulbs when they start making the kind that have 3 different wattages. I have 3-way torchieres and I have yet to see CF bulbs that can go in them.

Actually, you know what? I probably won't use them even then, because I hate the sharp lighting flourescents provide. And they make a high-pitched buzzng noise that drives me bugfuck.

However, I don't own a car and I'm not having children--not reproducing is the single biggest thing you can do to save the environment, not going vegan--so I still feel pretty smug about my environmental footprint.

I like my cereal soggy.

Mocking wht trsh dts never gets old.

Because most convenience stores have change for a million dollars just lying around. Or was he buying a LOT of condoms, Slurpees, and candy bars?

Why Grover Cleveland??

Huh, that's ironic, because I can actually feel my IQ dropping whenever I hear Ann Coulter speak.

Christovir, if you are immature then take comfort in the fact that you have plenty of company. It was my first thought, too!

"Twilight sleep" was scopolamine + morphine. They stopped using it for childbirth because it presented a significant risk of ashyxiation to the baby, but I believe dentists used it for a while longer.

I don't care how unhealthy it is, I WANT ONE!

"I did everything the Bible says! Even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!!"

-Ned Flanders

leaving side hair uncut

I always knew God was anti-mullet.

Vaccines don't cause autism, god. Do some damn research, that asinine theory was fully debunked a decade ago.

As for aspartame being bad for you: well, duh. Anything is bad for you if you drink 2 liters of it a day. I've drunk 12-24 ounces of Diet Coke nearly every day for more than 2 decades now, and I don't yet appear to be suffering from it.

Similarly, I've drunk fluoridated tap water my entire life, and all it's ever done is prevent cavities. (Also, please note that there is a u in that word, it's not spelled "floride". Amazing how conspiracy-addled pinheads never know the correct spellings of the things they're ranting about.)

I don't doubt that there are people who react badly to tiny amounts of either, just like there are people who are allergic to aspirin or peanuts. That doesn't mean any of those things are harmful--in reasonable amounts--to the entire population.

Is it wrong if I hope this is true? The "religious police" can suck it.

"The Illuminati employed elaborate special effects, stage magic, and phony journalism to scare the world into pacifism."

Oh, well that was certainly a rip-rousing success.

That must have been some brain-meltingly awesome sex, if they didn't even notice that guy crouched two feet away. He's not even behind a bush or anything.

Pretty soon young people won't even know what that contraption is. (Although I suppose older technology probably persists longer in developing nations.)

I see an ASBO in someone's future!

All joking aside, this is abhorrent behaviour, and I'm sorry but I don't think inebriation explains it. Like many kids in their 20s, I imbibed more than my fair share of controlled substances during that decade, and the most horrible thing it ever made me do was wear some pretty awful rave gear. It would never even occur to me to do anything other than try to get help for someone who was dying. And I don't think I'm an exceptionally moral or upright person; I'm pretty average in those regards.

This woman likely couldn't be saved--pancreatic failure is pretty much a death sentence--but her last moments were made sickeningly humiliating and uncomfortable by this piece of human trash.

I really feel like I shouldn't be laughing at this... yet I am unable to stop.

Bergen-Belsen is where Anne Frank died. Smooth, Bell Canada!

This from the airlines that used to make their flight attendants wear hotpants.

No, I was refering to the comments on the original, linked post. I hadn't even read yours. Although I find your "Eww, gross!" attitude kind of sad and ignorant as well. And BoingBoing is writing for a huge audience, many of whom don't share your attitude. If something "grosses you out", how about you just move on to something that doesn't?

Sorry, but you asked.

Someone at Glamour needs to watch the entire first season of Ugly Betty, then have the meaning of the word "irony" explained to them.

Wow, the comments on the item about Larry/Lana Wachowski are exactly the kinds of enlightened, unignorant commentary I'd expect from fans of The Matrix.

I always wanted to see Gumnaam, if only to figure out how that splashy, upbeat dance number fits into what is (unless I've been terribly misinformed) a horror movie.

I'm not a huge fan of Bollywood (mostly because I don't have the stamina for it), but LOVE the music. I have several compilations of music from Bollywood movies from the 1960s-1980s.

I've been to Bodie! It's kept in a state of "arrested decay", meaning when they made it a park it had already been deserted for years and was falling apart, and they halted further deterioration but didn't do any restoration. It's a wonderfully photogenic place.

Wow. If you want your kids abused, why not just do it yourself? Save thousands of dollars!

I think there was a Law & Order episode based on this school.