Watching it without sound was even better. I couldn't hear if the third cat was making any sounds and I imagined he/she was maybe yipping or doing something uncat-like, hence the surprise, and then...SURPRISE!

I LOL'd

I've been using Kiehl's Ultimate Brushless Shave Cream for about two years now. It's about the same price as Jack Black's, and it works a charm. They have two kinds, unscented (Blue Eagle) and hint of mint (Green Eagle). I love both, and the hint of mint stuff is super mild, but leaves your face feeling nice and cool. It doesn't lather, and you don't have to use much so the tube lasts a very long time.

Shaving is so much nicer with the proper tools.

They did same thing when I was in high school. A couple kids stayed home and the cops told us they were dead. I was absolutely devastated. Sick to my stomach. A few hours later the 'deceased' came to school in the white make-up.

I am now an anarchist.

I saw it on Saturday at a local megaplex and experienced about three audio "dropouts." The audio didn't drop out completely, but it definitely attenuated to the point that it sounded very faint...It seemed to happen during very bombastic scenes, and I thought it must be some irritatingly pro-active choice to prevent bleeding eardrums during the loud bits.

Guess I was wrong. It was mean to thwart teh pirates. Heh.

Well Paramount, enjoy your Pyrrhic victory while it lasts. I'm never going to the theater again.

So in summation, you're saying:

"This is our house, to which we graciously offer you entrance and allow you to discuss topics which interest us. However, if you start smearing shit (which is a subjective term, and may be arbitrarily defined any number of ways at any given time by us) on the walls, we reserve the right to politely exclude you."

While it would be impossible to deny your right to do this (nor would any reasonable person want to), and I agree that this in no way infringes on freedom of speech, It definitely lends credence to the idea that those in charge at boingboing have chosen to associate themselves (by dint of their behavior and overall disposition) with such insufferable persons as cranky librarians, PTA parents, and members of the high school debate team.

Perhaps you appreciate the comparison.

That being said, I still love you guys (much as I love libraries and debate), warts and all. :)

Universal-Cyclops Amalgamated Steel Corp...

UNICYCLAM Steel would be a pretty cool truncation of that

I did weekly voluntary work at several nursing homes around southern Alberta for about two years and it was one of the best experiences of my life. During those experiences, I found the following to be true:

1. Nursing homes are generally hellish places: foreign and sterile, with little resemblance to home and often great disconnect with family and your former life.

2. Not all residents have ungrateful children, but some do, and it is truly heartbreaking.

3. Most of the staff at these homes realize what a terrible thing it is to be locked in a brick and mortar box for the rest of your life, which is why they schedule diversions that may seem silly-- and here's an important point that the cynics may have missed: it's not necessarily the entertainment itself that matters, but the attention and communication with another human being who isn't there to change your diaper or medicate you (go to a nursing home and notice how many times total strangers will hold your hand or arm or pat your shoulder...they just want sincere human interaction).

4. In most cases, if a resident doesn't want to participate in such 'demeaning' entertainment, they don't have to. Plenty of residents choose to be escorted back to their rooms when they don't care for the entertainment.

When we went and volunteered, I would usually sit at the piano in the common room and play old-timey music while the folks sang or hummed a long. 95% percent of them absolutely loved it, and I loved sharing that music with them.

Getting old is savagely distressing, and it's equally distressing how many of us in the our western culture treat the elderly, which makes the efforts of Addi and others all the more important.

I think I'm going to start volunteering again, what an inspiration.

It's from an art-group, right? Maybe they were trying to make a satirical statement about the banality of evil? Beside, censorship is always wrong.