Something tells me that this post was skipped over as uninteresting by all the people who commented "I get around this by not breaking the law, you silly turkeys!" on the talking-to-cops Instructable.

@2 - I think it's meant to be an awareness campaign - it's probably safe to say that the target audience isn't direct FGM practitioners so much as everyone else in the world.

You put "raise awareness" in scare quotes, but this is how most people (especially in the western world) begin to learn about things like this. Public-service ads are as legitimate a medium for getting a message out to many people at once. Those who are moved by the striking but simple images will find no problems locating more information (especially now in the age of Google).

It's then these made-aware people who can then clump together and start to effect change. The ads are only trying to catalyze them.

@ 6 & @ 17 -

Missing the point. The article isn't "Hey, wow, there's this device that you can place liquid into and it shoots out, kazow!", it's "Hey, I bet you never thought of putting yummy high-intensity pepper sauce into a spritzer."

And, verily, I bet you never have, either. (I haven't!)

Ahh... this is good. The very first thing I thought was "Finally, competition for Escape Pod".

EP's a fine and groundbreaking audio SF mag, but has one editor and most definitely one voice. I've been listening to it for nearly three years, and for a long time now I've definitely been yearning for more variety to the SF media on my iPod.

I look forward to listening to this new magazine, and hope it succeeds!

"The Most Beautiful Machine" is another implementation of the same idea, and I think it looks rather cooler, too!

I discovered them a couple of years ago when a dear friend bought me a packet of "Monkey-picked tea", which dried tea leaves... picked by monkeys.

It's a fun conversation piece, but I don't foresee ever opening it. There's a definite have-versus-eat problem with these sorts of things!

Thank you so much for sharing your film archives with all of us, Robbins!

While you put so much planning and creativity into these films, you must have thought your audience would never stretch beyond your family and friends. How thrilling it must be to suddenly see them become globally popular through a medium that didn't even exist at the time!

Hi BB tech folks,

Could you please share more details of your fix somewhere? I run an MT4-based blog as well, and it's been brought to my attention that this same gotcha's bit my own users.

I smile and congratulate you quitters, and think it's great that the handheld game solution seeems so ready and obvious that y'all discovered it independently.

Every other person in my nuclear family's had to quit smoking at some point, and it was an ordeal every time. The final one to go was my oldest brother. He doesn't cotton to video games, so his alternate hands-doing-thing was making coffee. So yeah, he would have like 20 coffees a day for a while. He was like Fry in that one episode of Futurama. This led to memorable times.

Oops! My apologies, Holtt. The wording of the #9 comment looked at first glance to me like it was written by a bot!

I spy comment spam @9.

Oh... this makes me want to die. Look at that hopeless mug. At least the elevator dude got out of his cage eventually.

s/prankster/vandal/, please. Throwing rocks at shit, or at vehicles with alarmed and confused people in them, isn't very much in the prankster spirit.

This reminds me of the time I almost got seriously hurt because some kids slapped the emergency stop button at the bottom of a tall escalator while I was the sole rider at the top, and I fought hard to not pitch forward onto my head. Little shits scattered as soon as I looked down at them. Ha ha, such merry pranksters!

Is the school's statement of beliefs in print somehwere? Coz I've always been curious how you'd spell [ several minutes of hairy-simian screeching, chest-pounding and shit-hurling ].

Yay, Fluxx on Boing Boing! I'm proud to help host a publisher-sanctioned online version of Fluxx over at Volity Games.

Our version's predated by MicroFluxx for PalmOS.

http://jmac.org/images/subtext.jpg

Also, #8 Prufrock - Bwahahaha!

What is that strange dance the cats keep doing where they hold their hands out, palms up, and bob their heads like pigeons?

It happens often enough that it's gotta be a reference to something popular of the day, but I have never seen actual humans dance like that, to my knowledge...

Aw, I love early Dr. Who!

Surely Boing Boing needs a "THINK SMALL" tag to complement its "THINK BIG" one (seen on the nearby elevator-testing-tower post).

No Wikipedia? They're halfway through a major fund drive right now.

Reminds me of how I could never bring myself to torture my Sims to death, even though many of my friends had fun coming up with creatively macabre ends for them.

The one time I did the usual thing of building a little 10-by-10 windowless room around one, his pleading for help (directly at the screen!) while slowly curling up in a pool of his own filth just broke me. I couldn't keep at it.

This story pinged the baloney meter of physicist Matt McIrvin earlier this week.

Zyklon #2, I rather think that wearing one to the airport would get you surrounded by guards demanding that you change your shirt or miss your flight.

Wait, do they not let kids toddle up to the cockpit to meet the pilots any more? I used to do that all the time when I was wee.

David #2 - I'm a fan too, but I make a conscious effort to balance this with the acknowledgment that, until such research starts to show palpable success in humans, we continue to be just as frustratingly gravebound as our stone-age ancestors.

Because of the presence of de Gray et al, I actively resist the memento mori nature of popular culture, and have been known to disagree with friends' macabre one-liners about the inevitability of death for all. It's just not a sure thing any more. Convincing people of this is hard, since it goes against thousands of years of human culture's (heretofore quite correct) acceptance of it.

At that said, I appreciate this clock, though if it were me I might add a parenthetical (all things being equal) after Dead. It's good to be part of the fight against aging, and also good to remind yourself what you're fighting for.