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This exchange at Boing! Boing! — in an item over companies lobbying against the stupid card check union bill that will almost certainly become law — left me giggling, #5 posted by Chris Tucker , January 28, 2009 7:45 PM Libertarian fapping in 3… 2… 1… Oh, wait. They’ve already begun. #44 posted by mightymouse1584…
The British Medical Journal recently published a piece arguing that the concern over nut allergies in Western society has gotten to the point where it more closely resembles a mass hysteria rather than a legitimate health concern. The claim is not that there are not people with extremely severe allergies to nuts, but rather that…
John Brownlee over at Gadgets.BoingBoing.net (about the only BB property worth reading these days) has a basic overview of Apple sending a cease-and-desist to Wired Gadget Lab over a piece there showing how to install OS X on an MSI Wind. Yeah, newsflash — Apple sucks. They’re just Microsoft with a much smaller market share.…
Antinous, one of the moderators of the comment threads over at Boing! Boing! has finally surpassed Teresa Nielsen Hayden in his moderation skills. I am in awe after running across an exchange between Antinous and a user going by the handle “Harveyboing.” Good old Harvey made the mistake of posting a comment critical of a…
It is very strange to wake up one morning and discovered you’ve been IP banned from commenting at a site that has a helpful link on every page explaining how to route around such censorship. I’m just hoping they don’t take away my birthday; that might actually be difficult to reclaim.