@zikzak

I love the way that a lot of that stuff tastes too, so I recreate it in my kitchen with real, whole, healthy ingredients, that don't contain emulsifiers, artificial colors, preservatives and texturing agents. You are the one polarizing this issue. Why can't your nachos be delicious AND healthy? They can be. Burgers, fried chicken, nachos, cakes and cookies all existed and were delicious before industrialization. Industrial processes aren't so much about making things delicious, they are more about making them cheap to produce so as to increase profits in a market that suffers (from a capitalist's perspective) from inelastic demand. The growth rate of the market is linked to population growth, which is only 1% per year, not enough for big business. The only way for capitalists to create growth of profits in this sector is to simultaneously reduce their costs while adding the perception of value to their product so as to increase it's retail price. It has nothing to do with deliciousness which, I agree, is subjective. It's about MONEY. The reason this is so important is because capitalism needs to let go of the food supply, otherwise we'll all be faced with disease and starvation in the very near future. Well, all except for the rich, as usual.

I couldn't disagree more. Everyone is affecte dby what he is talking about, especially those who don't give a shit about what they eat and consume mostly processed foods. They are the ones who have diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks and can't afford health care.

I'm reading The Omnivore's Dilemma right now, it's really a great book. I'm in the chapter that exposes the truth behind all the so-called organic food being pumped out now by the same industrial agribusiness that has been degrading the quality of food, depleting the soil and polluting the waters. It's quite revealing. Whole Foods and most all the organic brands being sold there and elsewhere are for the most part a scam and marketing ploy. What ashame the the organic movement has been subverted into a tagline.

k, mthrfckng rtrdd. r, bldy rtrdd. r, rtrdd pc f sht.

fckng rtrdd.

Makes me hungry for rabbit too. Oh wait, you were being a sarcastic veggie prude. Oh well. More rabbit for the rest of us. My grandmother braises hers with olives, white wine, tomato paste, shallots, garlic, olive oil, sea salt and herbs. Served with some boiled baby russian banana potatoes and parsley butter. Sooooooooooooo goooooooooooooood mmmmmmblarghhh drools...

I object to the use of mahogany.

Yup, the link is dead. Thanks a lot JimH, you ruined it for everyone.

I too prefer having my jus delivered in a bowl for dipping between bites, and then guzzling down what's left after the sandwich is gone. I couldnt imgine eating a sandwich that was pre-dipped. And some people order theirs triple dipped? That's retarded. Yet another justification for my mocking hatred of LA.

“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year”

-Truman Capote

dude, thats a total 'shop job, my friend has photoshop and i've used it a lot so i can totally tell.

I dont have a vagina, so this is just a guess, but I think his pointy little ears would be uncomfortable in there.

That is amazingly awesome.

Thats a total shop job, I can tell, because I have used photoshop a lot b4.

"it's going to look great on the scrapheap of history in a decade or so!"

Yeah, electronic waste is sooo awesome! Hopefully there's lots of gold on those circuit boards for little kids in India and China to pick off so that they can buy some rice! Sweetness. I love barely useful mass produced electronic gadgets that have a utility lifespan of about 9 months.

This reminds me very much of Up the Line by Robert Silverberg. Best time travel sf novel evar.

dumbass should've just gone to newyork.craigslist.org/ers/ like everyone else does.

Mmhmm. You still have no point.

Am I the only one who thinks that motto "The Evolution of Security" a tad ironic? Seeing as how the a-holes running the show dont even believe there is such thing as evolution to begin with?

Anyway, again, any lawyers read this blog? Why hasn't anyone sued them yet?

TAKUAN this statement:

"just because it occasionally posts respected artworks that might include nudity."

is dishonest.

Posts about Uncle Dirty the 100 year bodybuilder in a thong who enjoys pasting penises onto magazine photos are VLGR. Posts about tele-dildonics are VRTLY SXL. There are tons of posts to this site that are about sexual things having NTHNG T D WTH RT. Not just the occasional peepees or teetees as depicted by a work of art. That statement makes it sound like they were banned for showing Michelangelo's David. And that, again, is DSHNST.

What is your problem anyway? You have a real baloneyshit attitude.

Seriously though: is there a way the People of the U.S. can bring a class action lawsuit (or whatever the proper term is) agaisnt the TSA? I mean, they actually have killed people... Why hasn't this happened yet? If not "the People", can't all the families affected so far band together and sue them, asking for an immediate halt to the practices that led to these deaths and injuries until the verdict is in? Is there a lawyer in the house???

"I'm guessing it's lazy CYA"

Bravo! You win the big prize!

@ #18: I LOL'ed! Although I don't really get your point. Do you have one?

Xeni, and everyone else at BB: please, don't change a bit, even if DIA has blocked you. This is an adult site. That's why I like it. I'm an adult! Where else can I get such wide ranging ecclectic info from howto sneak shit past the TSA, all kinds of whistleblowing articles on egregious abuses of power by government and corporations, pop and geek culture, art, technology from the high to the low tech, and yes, (sometimes weird) erotica?

That's what it's all about. As intelligent, educated open minded adults, I don't see why these things should be segregated, and I enjoy the fact that you mix it all up. Just be honest about it. That's all I'm saying.

American culture has always been and will always be prudish and has always enjoyed scapegoating sexuality as the root of all of society's ills. That will probably never change. Even places like so-called liberal Denver will practice "won't somebody think of the children" CYA policies. This is non-news. Get over it.

#9, did you read my post? I said I was not in favor of censorship. I also said that it is pure baloneyshit to qualify BB as only occasionally posting articles about respected artworks that might include nudity as the reason for which the fascists flagged the site. Again, I'm not in favor of ANY flagging, but that statement is totally false and hypocritical. Especially when it comes to Xeni posts, that very often are interested in such universally respected artistic memes as tele-dildonics, just to name one in particular. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

"just because it occasionally posts respected artworks that might include nudity."

Listen, I love you guys, been reading for years, but there are plenty of posts on this site that are gratuitously vulgar. I am by no means in favor of censorship, but come on. Be honest.

I still have rabbit ears and am fairly good at adjusting them.

I am hoping that instead of a tax rebate check from congress, I will get a gift certificate redeemable for 1 free penis enlargement surgery.

That carpet alone is enough to make me seasick.

Sean just wants some of that Suicide Girl ass.

Is that really a 4 year old kid's handwriting, or is it it's teacher's? Looks way to good to be a kid. I don't even write that neatly.

Yeah, I don't buy it either.

w00tz for all!

cant you burn them as an audio CD and then rip them back to mp3 or some other open format?

@ #8: uh, yeah, ok. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I already knew this, without having "done the math." You dont need a harvard egghead to know this, all you need is to have grown up and lived in NYC and had to rely on it's public transportation system.

I'd rock it.

I wish I had been conceived in space. Stupid hippy parents.

Thanks, I've been practicing.

#17, great point. I'm sure you'd agree that the best thing that could ever happen to a Jew would be to be made into a bar of soap and a lampshade, right?

I think the painting is awesome. Please, someone of the patronizing pov, critique this and explain just why it is so horrible.

thats not a pizza. its a flat bread with tons of shit on it.

CORRECTION: his last name is Felton, FELTRON is is DJ name. I know, because he's a buddy of mine, we went to RISD together. (I actually havent seen him in years, I feel bad about that...)

I hope Michael Vick reads bOINGbOING in jail, maybe he could set up a cricket fighting ring with his fellow inmates to while away the time.

yes, "carry on" designates the luggage you carry on to the plane, as opposed to the "checked" luggage which goes into the luggage hold of the plane.

I am going to move out west and become a black truffle / peyote farmer...

It's some LA comedy producer, looking for looney-tunes to exploit for their madness and make fun of and (he hopes) tons of money on in the process:

http://karimmovies.com/about.shtml

TERRIBLE!!!!

Coop may be a decent illustrator, but he's no T-shirt designer. Just imagine how disgustingly uncomfortable that shirt will be, especially in the summer, it will be a sheet of hot plastic on your belly.

Good t-shirt designs are minimal for this reason. Too much printed area is not only very uncomfortable because it heats up and doesnt breathe, it also breaks up more easily. After two washes (maybe Coop doesnt wash his clothes, since he's so rich now, he can just throw them out) it will be all cracked and will start to peel.

Back to the drawing board Coop!

I prefer the art of cats

PS: look back at all your posts on art objects and other curiosities, and you almost ALWAYS start it off with this pseudo humble statement on how you can afford this or that but if you could you would.

come on cory, thats only three gama go hoodies. and i'd venture to say that, accidents notwithstanding, this sculpture would last a lot more than 3 times as long.

@ #30:

I think the proper term is BoBo.

who knew sperm could be so colorful!

Despite the weak dollar, many of my European friends have stopped coming here (they used to come in the 90s almost every year). The horror stories they've heard about the way they are treated upon entering and then departing our country at our airports has deterred them. Thats a shame, especially since we can use as much of their euros as we can get.

uh, if they know the phone numbers of the "badguys" to begin with, what do they need the algorithm for???

maybe this is martha's entry into the mollecular gastro scene. each marker is filled with its own delicious inks designed to compliment the cheeses, such as a port wine marker for stiltons, balsamic vinegar for the hard sheep and cow's milk cheeses such as reggiano or aged gouda, herb and olive oil inks for the goat cheeses, maybe some kind of smoked maple ink for cheddars, fruit and nut flavors like fig and hazlenut, and of course the various ersatz truffle flavored inks. The possibilities are endless. They would sell by assorted packs... Ok, by writing this post everyone sees this is MY idea, copyright for ever and ever.

I disagree that luxury is in essence all smoke and mirrors. Luxury can sometimes be all branding and design, but that is rare, and truly is for suckers. When you compare a real $1200 handbag to its $20 knockoff, the difference is evident. The idea is what is being knocked off, but you cant duplicate quality of materials and craftsmanship. Compare these two vehicles:

http://www.ceosmack.com/2007/08/28/bmw-ceo-fuming-over-chinese-knock-off-of-popular-x5-suv-pics/

From a distance and with a good photographer, the chinese version of the BMW x5 looks great.But when you see the car up close, as I have, the differences are appalling. No one would for an instant mistake the chinese version to be a luxury car. No smoke and mirrors there. A luxury item is a luxury item for a reason, QUALITY.

I have some korean buddies, i go out drinking with them at some korean bars from time to time, and they have tricked me into eating these larvae. these ones came tossed in a red chili (what else) vinegary dressing. they were revoltingly disgusting. and i am NOT a squeamish eater. there is also a preparation of these larvae that is dry, like a nut. the larvae are black. they tricked me into eating those too. even more horrible, as the dried larva seems to suck all the moisture out of your mouth. MORE SOJU PLEASE!!!

so much guilt and self hate, so much denial of what we are. so much is forgotten about what it is to be alive, about what our food really is and where it comes from. this is the result of luxury. like an armchair warrior sending troops to their deaths without having ever been in a fight. you are disconnected.

Cory is too cool to correct his posts apparently...

This was featured on NPR today. The most disappointing part was when it was revealed that Orwell has suspicions about other British private citizens whom he believed were dangerous Stalinists. He gave all of his information over to MI6, all while being spied on by MI5. How's about that for ironic?

(oh and Cory, the title of this post has a typo in it. You wrote m15, it's mi5)

I've been to Burning Man, I went three or four years ago. I had been reading about it for a while, first herad about it in 98, and was curious, and finally a friend dragged me there. It was fun, but definitely seemed like the original spirit was watered down if not lost entirely.

The last few days, a huge contingent of frat boys showed up, no doubt spurred on by legends of free loving hordes of naked ecstasy-addled young raver chicks to be had at will, to them just another huge rave and debaucherous party to attend without really being culturally part of. Frat boys dont care about that shit, they just want to get hammered and get with some drunk/stoned chicks. It was pretty disappointing to see them there, with their red cups, white hats on backwards and oakleys, like escapees of a girls gone wild video.

Burning Man would be awesome again if they just shut it down for a while and returned to their more humble and more low key origins after a few years, letting all the hype die down. Either that or they need to make participation more difficult, like some sort of mandatory interview, essay questions and art submissions along with the application in order to get a ticket. That would be the only way to do it in my opinion.

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w00t! comments are on! Thanks boingboing! Now I can leave snarky remarks and corrections with ousing the suggest a link interface...

(that planetarium timepiece you posted last week WAS NOT A CHINDOGU btw ;)