I agree, apart from the fact that they are freaks and deserving of such mocking.

make the bad man stop. I can never be drunk enough to make that ok.

I want some. and a helmet of some description.

do you reckon it's UV reactive - I can see crazy rave kids donning this.

@ #32

"Oh, and as for the word: "own3d"? Do people over the age of 13 (chronologically or emotionally speaking) still use that "word"?"

yeah, but in a kind of geeky self parody way more than anything.

'I take my religous extremism with a pinch of fun! how do you take yours?'

;-)

also #13/12

I think people think about solar energy in entirely the wrong way, to convert one energy source (heat, primarily) into another (electrical) is hugely innefficient. It would be much better (imvho) to concetntrate on it's uses as a thermal energy provider rather than a photovaltaic one. we should promote mechanical means like wind/tidal etc to generate electricity and design with all of these systems integrated (i.e passive solar designed houses, solar hot water/refrigeration systems) these are also much more passive in their production and technologies than a pv panel, no matter how advanced it may be.

#8 wins the thread. how do ya like them apples?!

I spend alot of time at 'underground' uk music festivals in the summer, either crewing for my VJ g33k friends or relaxing.

what I mostly do also is get shitted, in as pleasant a fashion as possible. we already have a lounge we take replete with couches, benches and tables. To be able to make proper cocktails will make this years festival season perfect.

I'll have 2 please.

Takuan, you just got own3d!

We already live in a world that censors. We do not give the Taleban or pro al-quaeda types air time because of their extremist and dangerous views. To refuse an extremist from another mind set is not to limit freedom of speech, but to refuse to give any credence to that belief, one that is dangerous to our culture. It does of course start a worrying precedent in the shape of limiting freedom of speech, but that has already been done by banning the taleban etc.

#64 KICKYFAST - I totally agree with you on the whole inherent nature of the gun, but you lose me on the whole

"I think you can feel the power a gun gives over life and death, and that is what you are attracted to, not aesthetic beauty or sport."

bit tho.

From the point of view of a recreational gun user I am drawn to the skill and science behind the whole process, not to a macho totemistic power. It is too simplistic to have such black and white divisions.

This is why I love Boing Boing! where else could you go from Fat guy with gun, to Buddhist self defence, to happy slapping? truly awe inspiring.

#17 RUGGERREDHAWK - I like the idea of guns, I used to shoot a rifle on a range and love the technical skill and the physics of the whole thing, I think it's unbelievably elegant. I just don't like a culture that is flooded with guns and repeatedly shown to be immature in the approach and use of them (and I'm not singling out the US here). They are mostly designed for one thing, which I would rather see 100% less of thank you very much. Marksmanship FTW.

#20 101 - I said *such* a gun culture, I am perfectly aware that we have a burgeoning gun culture here, it is very different tho to the good ol' US of A.

@ #5 - that is damned impressive, it's the reload bit thats awesome.

still pretty glad we don't have such a gun culture in the UK, although it's prob not too far off, at least for the government...

I do love a good disemvowelling! I pretend I'm a cryptographer trying to break an enemy code, until I realise that I didn't really want to read the post because of it's slightly comedic/nauseous content. Then I bow before the might of the mod. Fanks ;-)

oh, and Paulsballs? srsly dude? wtf?

congrats mr Doctorow! Another imbolc baby; my daughter gained a sister on saturday, also in a pool. Jolly good show sir!

The carbon footprint may be the same(sic) but the type of pollution caused is totally different, there is the chemical pollutant at higher levels that doesn't disperse properly aswell as noise pollution and impact on birdlife (somebody please correct me or site examples as I haven't got any to flesh out at the mo), so driving is always going to have a lower overall impact then flying. I'm not saying this justifies TSA's ridiculous antics by the way ;-)

it's *blessed* of course!
it should try harder, they are not very green at all.

Sam I am would be fine with these.

now if the hen were green.......

Just had a quick flick through the site and it looks really groovy, particularly like the disclaimer on all the vids. This is a great addition to all those 'make' fiends out there, I for one will be trawling this with my 10 year old for interesting holiday projects. I tghought we could start with this one;

http://www.wonderhowto.com/electronics/circuitry-mods-hacks-video/how-to-hack-starbucks-internet-build-a-smoke-bomb-119870/

(sorry HTML illiterate geek, a dying breed)

dogs? swimming pools? jokes? well I never!

#19 - no creativity? does making an accurate representation of an image or still life make it an autistic skill? I'm pretty sure that this has always been seen as a classic artistic style you know. How do you mean Gimmick too?

personally I'm with Bugs @ #14, my pen control is truly terrible, I think these are beautiful and really interesting. Nice links to other artists too, fanks!

Cigarettes and b33r as bear necessities?

I knew it!

that has made my day.

completely random brilliantness.

I want one of those silver suits so much right now.

Fanks!

I'm with stupid ^^^^^^^

first sense in a while.

he he he!

was it a nice painting?

yup me too. in fact, this whole comment thread has been highly entertaining, shame I installed the filter and ignored all of you.

Diversity is an old old wooden ship....

/gets coat

is it just me or does it looks like the FSM in a 10G environment?

if you read the article it states that the group consisted of about 100 members, not that they were all present. This looks like a regular league, probably only about 25 people in attendance at any one time running a few tables at a time. The Cops have raided because of the cover that was being paid towards drinks and snacks, not because of the poker or any gambling. They suspected that the organiser who was collecting this cover was making money off it. still completely lame and retarded imo. To be fair theres not a great deal of information to be making any kind of judgement - on face value it's another 'cops are retarded and stupid and are wasting our time and money' story, I'd like to believe there is something dark and sinister lurking behind this that we know nothing of, therefore validating the actions of the SFPD.

not likely tho is it?

We bought a load of wooden toys for my daughter, lots of Brio ( http://brio.knex.com/ )and some local hand crafted stuff. I was aware that there was a great deal of nostalgia attached alongside a reluctance to buy loads of horrible plastic crap. However, she loved them and still plays with the brio train set occasionally (she's now 10 and mostly a sylvanian families nut, so the trains go well with it)

I have found that kids go mad with desire for the latest plastic fantastic but that the enthusiasm wains fairly quickly when the limitations are reached, with the more old fashioned wooden toys there seems to be a greater imaginative interaction that lasts longer, like the wooden articulated digger for ezample, I mean, grown ups want to play with that!

I'm all for simpler toys made from materials I'm happy for my 2 year old to suck on, these cheap plastics have all kinds of nasty attached. imvho naturally ;-)

That's awesome, they must have been shattered by the time they finished. very inspiring to see what can be done from a small pool of (expert) resources... can't wait to see the whole programme.

#6 - If you look at the product you'll see that they aren't trigger finger rip offs, they are actually a complete mitten with a metal tube inserted for the evil smoking stick.

#4 - it's the Lolita angle, just dressed up in fur coats and mittens instead of wool.....or is that a different metaphor? I forget...

Regardless of 'distinguish', old news, russian or german; That. Is. Awesome.

end of.

#12 - it's not just that it has a high resale value, one reason that the originals hold so much fascination and therefore value is the inherent level of skill involved in it's creation and all the associated history. If I look at a reproduction I am merely looking at a 2D image and can evaluate the picture on those merits (which is fine) but if I'm infront of the original there is a much more to evaluate, less tangible admittedly, but still very valuable. I think that is the point of the article, in our new digitised domain reproductions and counterfeits are par for the course so hold less value, a 'hard copy' or original will therefore be worth much more (to the right person obv.)

Please tell me you can get these for push bikes!

yet more proof that Cock rules, especially when twinned with explosions.

Bravo.

#23, cj is right, oceans are notoriously difficult to cross by ferry ;-)

ok, #20, that makes perfect sense. I am standing down my analogue armies.

gets coat>

As a self confessed anologue whore, this is End of Dayz talk, seriously, the whole point with music is to make something that sounds amazing, to deliberately over produce something to allow for poor playback media hardly encourages devolpment of said media or allows people to experience music the way it was meant to be.

Down with this type of thing!

LOUD NOISES!

To the dismay of alot of 'ethical' UK shoppers, walmart bought out the Asda chain and is slowly but surely developing these travesties across our fair land. Personally I think they are a great idea - you gather a vast demographic under one roof. Sure fire way to save on smart bombs imvho.

FAIL!

Stop and search is becoming a real issue in the UK at the moment, I recently heard of someone being stopped for 'looking like they new something' I swear to God.

V! we need you!

unicorn please

#7 that is a big rat and no mistake. that makes the Baby Jebus cry. cripes. and possibly even lawks.