I wonder how many of the upright citizens of the U.S. who gave funds to the IRA in Northern Ireland are on the no-fly list?

If you think the IRA was justified, in the same way many think the ANC was justified, then perhaps you'll eventually think 9/11 was justified too.

I think it's more important that the editors write/post about what amuses and interests them than try to pander to some mythical consumer. That's the way the television industry went, trying to romance the ratings and spewing out cheap junk.
Whatever the motivation, Boing-Boing usually hits the right balance for me, so I come by pretty much every day. Of course some items interest me more than others, some don't interest me at all, that's the nature of publishing on the net.

Pint to line or pint to rim?
Real beer is sold from hand pumps. It's a living thing, a bio-culture. So it foams, and leaves a head. A good bar-person pours it well, lets it settle, then tops it. The foamy bit, the head, is mostly air. I can get all the air I want for free. So, with justification, when I ask for a pint of beer, I don't expect to pay for 80% beer and 20% air.

Any businessman knows that selling short measures of anything is fraud. It's not Rube Goldbergism to appreciate a standard measure, verified by a compliance mark on the glass.

As a northerner and a Yorkshireman, I would like to say to Fnarf that we still have some rather nice pints of mild around here. Timothy Taylors Golden Best pale mild, and the same brewery's Ram Tam dark mild, mmmmm...

Hugely recommended by Soubriquet is the movie "Leningrad Cowboys go America", by director Aki Kaurismäki.
A crazy rock band from the steppes leave their tractors behind to tour America, with their deep-frozen permafrosted guitarist in a pine box on the car roof.
And the village idiot following....

Great idea.
I've linked to you, donated, and blogged it myself, with a suggestion that other bloggers spread the word too, maybe this really could work.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/33dmoe
All of us, I think, know someone who has lost their mind in some way.

Well, Cory, I'm against wasting useful stuff in order to make mediocre stuff.....

As for mating with the bosun?
gak!

I visited the linked site, seems the guy had a fairly cool idea, but then failed to turn it into anything worthy of the effort and resources he expended.One of those things that looks pretty good in a second year art-school show, but not so good when done by a graduate.
The idea has promise, I'm just criticising the way he uses it.

Waste of good rope.
The Eames chair is a somewhat upright design, and a more laid back lounger design might work better here. But overall?- It's a concept piece that does not look as though it would function well as a chair, nor does it score well as a piece of sculpture. The chair would work better without the rope, the rope ball would look better without the chair.
Thumbs down.

Further to my earlier comments ande links, I forgot this one, I posted Paul Pena/Kongar-ol Ondar, Kargyraa Moan, Here:- http://preview.tinyurl.com/36vpa8

Enjoy!

If you liked Paul Pena....
You might like the Mongolian band Yat-Kha, led by Albert Kuvezhin.
I posted a track here:- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2sfyne..
The track is off the album "Re-Covers".
Or there's a great Polish band with throatsingers.... Yerba Mater... You'll find them here- http://preview.tinyurl.com/2nzlpq along with Masala Soundsystem.......
The Internet has wonderful diversity.....
I found all these after an interest in Tuva was sparked by Dr Richard Feynman, physicist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman