Do I get an honorable mention for using both the nicknames "Unicorn Chaser" and "2Medics1Heavy" at varying points throughout the weekend, and also using a spray with Cory's face on it? :)

a 4x4 INCH grid? Why grandma, what big eyes you have!

Yay! That was a fun weekend! I demand server stats! :)

@#10: I'm sure it'll pick up around 6pm Pacific Time, after everybody gets home from the work-land and eats some foods.

@#7: Well said. I agree absolutely, and am in pretty much the exact same boat.

@#9: Cory, I don't think your presumption that people are making money off of being "internet famous" is correct. I'm sure that some of your income comes from your internet fame, but I presume that's primarily because you run a successful business called Boing Boing with decent ad revenue.

There are millions of bands on myspace who are getting exposure via the internet, but they're not making money off of it, and I've seen countless talented-but-not-business-savvy artists try to make the transition from "free internet content" to "commercial release" (like, for example, a myspace band pressing a CD) but only end up with a pile of unsold stock and a diminished sense of self-worth.

On the other hand, if you know something we don't, then I would love to hear any insights you have into monetizing internet fame.

Good thing nobody plays tabletop games anymore, or this could be a problem! :P

aww, when I read the headline I was hoping for a Haunted Mansion themed hotel.

I don't see how people buying canned air is much of a surprise since they've been buying bottled water for years.

still waiting patiently for these to come down below $50...

Well, its dual analog sticks already give it a HUGE advantage over the PSP, not to mention the keyboard. Now if only it had GPS and a camera...

Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, you've heard the prosecutor's testimony. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is "2 Girls 1 Cup". These two girls are moderately attractive, but they have chosen to spend their time eating poop out of a cup. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would two good-looking girls want to eat poop out of a cup? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. A man's life is on the line, and I'm talkin' about 2 Girls 1 Cup! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If two good-looking girls eat poop out of a cup, you must acquit! The defense rests.

@#19: You win. :)

ah, good ol' Hug Bot...

Cory, I'm still waiting for you to write the groundbreaking short story / novel about the "almost here technology" of glasses that automatically take a picture every second and the subculture that rises up around the people who wear them.

...ebay says $1. Good thing I sold all my He-Man figures and Transformers for $800 before the dotcom crash!

I still have an Ewok glass. I wonder what those are worth now...

on the downside, this being Britain, all 200 of those students were male. :)

@#12: Don't forget the DRM! :)

"Anti-Emo Riot" is totally gonna be the name of my new Emo band. It's brimming with emo-irony!

@#67: "the Night of Broken Glasses" is full of win. Terrible, terrible win. :)

@#1: Actually, I thought I'd skipped a page, and "nigger in the woodpile" was the name of another game. It took me a minute to dredge up the original meaning of that charming little colloquialism. :|

yep, that's an ear all right.

We've been watching lots of Arrested Development, so all I can think when I see this is "yeah, but where did the lighter fluid come from, right?"

It's hard to take a warning of impending doom seriously from someone named "Goehber X".

I've got your male mushroom-capped shaft right here!!

@#24: http://www.unm.edu/~luvcraft/bush_fiddled.jpg

@#14: See you in Pittsburgh.

Sea cucumbers are my favorite invertebrates. Any animal that yarks up its own internal organs, lets predators eat them, then slowly regrows them is OK in my book.

both of those links are wrong about NM; talking or texting is also illegal in Albuquerque, although hands-free headsets are OK.

http://www.cabq.gov/blogs/councilhighlights/2007/02/hands_free_not_cell_free_1.html

I'm waiting for Soylent Cola.

I trizzed.

I'm sure this case will get thrown out. IP infringement occurs when it's reasonable to assume that consumers will confuse the infringing work with the infringed work; for instance, when Negativland released their "U2" album, and designed the cover specifically to trick consumers into thinking that it was a new U2 album called "Negativland", rather than a Negativland album called "U2".

Dead Rising is certainly reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead, but it is unreasonable to expect that a consumer would confuse the two.

My imagination looks SO much better than that.

@#12: You win. :)

...except in the context of this article, it means "whore". :)

@#4: Cool. I guess I'll swing by Bruce Schneier's house if I ever steal a credit card and want to order some crap online. :)

What terrifying Twilight Zone alternate universe have I fallen into where Cory Doctorow has never played Fluxx? Fluxx is as Doctorow as Steampunk and Copyfighting. Next you're gonna tell me you've never read Schismatrix.

unicorn chaser, PLZ.

the real question here is:

Are Elizabeth Bear and Emma Bull the same person? And if not, are they OPPOSITE people?

This is cute, but let us not forget that Kresky did it first over 10 years ago! :)

There was another similar project a few years ago, too; a game company published a sci-fi tabletop RPG based on a Blakes-7-like show that never existed. Does anyone remember the name of that?

no thanks. I'd really rather not give my entire neighborhood free access to the fileserver where I keep all my stuff and make regular backups.

And to anyone who suggests that I should put security on the server to protect it from the people I'm sharing free wifi with, I will suggest that you put deadbolts on every door in your house and then leave your front door unlocked so that random strangers can come hang out in your living room whenever they want, but can't go into your room and poop on your bed while you sleep.

my undiagnosed OCD demands that I point out the lack of stilts. :(

most girls just sit on the amp.

What wonderful news, both for the boy and his sister and for video games.

Mark, I think it reflects badly on your personal hygiene that you think vacuuming is a "fun trick". :)

Heh, when I saw the headline of this post, I thought it meant "Turkey" as in "Some turkey". Looks like I was only half-wrong!

Good timing. Damn Interesting just posted an article about "The Radium Girls" yesterday:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=660

god damn, that sounds terrible!

Speaking of Daniel Abraham, I'm surprised that his short story "Leviathan Wept" hasn't been BoingBoinged yet. It's chock-full-o' the kinds of things Cory loves, and it's available for free online!

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/abraham2/abraham21.html

what... the... donut?

any other mirrors? Coral Cache is full of the slownesses. :(

My money's on JimH's theory.

If these are less than $50, I'm totally getting one. Otherwise, I'll wait for the sub-$50 knockoff.

Sweet! I'm also gonna print out business-card-sized letters to hand to the paperboy, requesting that the free coupons in the newspaper offer more of a discount. That'll show 'em!

When I saw the rendered dice rolling on the rendered mat using simulated physics, a little bit of me died inside.

Good try, WotC! I, for one, salute your sinking ship.

yay

That Panasonic does look awesome, but it doesn't have a line-in.

Yay! My very own Peking Homonculus!

one small step for man, one giant leap for the porn industry.

Whenever I hear the name "Blackwater", the first thing I think is "are we the baddies?"

It's from the second season of the Muppet Show.

There's a nature park in San Diego where you get to ride a pickup truck out into the park and feed giraffes and rhinos. They told us to make sure to feed the giraffes as far outside of the truck as possible, to keep them from sticking their heads into the enclosed space of the back of the truck, freaking out, and bashing us and the truck with their heads. Apparently they frequently kill lions by doing this.

This puzzle is made a lot easier by the fact that I removed the bullets from Tuco's gun last night, so I only have to worry about Angel Eyes.

There are two kinds of people in this world, Mark; the ones with loaded guns and the ones who solve logic puzzles. You solve logic puzzles.

Yes, but where are the YouTube videos of cops tazing him out of confusion when they discover they can't handcuff him?

The Great San Francisco Earthquake article is very interesting, especially for its shades of New Orleans a HUNDRED years later:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E7DA113EE733A2575AC1A9629C946797D6CF

I think this is an opportune time to bring up our country's growing, undiscussed epidemic of "Bro Rape".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8

Just a sobering reminder that there are far, far worse fates for a bro.

This makes a perfect follow-up to the post about the movie "Idiocracy" I just read on a friend's blog.

Humanity == Sad. :(

OOTINI!!!

Oh, someone beat me to it. Oh well, you can never have too much ootini!!

I don't see the irony.

You could always decorate the outside of your cartridge with totally awesome stickers!

"My Other Cartridge Is a Porche"

"I'd Rather Be Jetpacking"

"Warning: In Case of Rapture This Cartridge Will Be Unmanned!"

"Impeach Bush"