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…
Tag archives for Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Jason Kottke decides to start a meme and Cory Doctorow can’t help but jump on the bandwagon about the WhiteHouse.gov robots.txt file which went from 2,400 lines to 2. Of course there must be some nefarious purpose there or lesson about the closed nature of the Bush administration vs. the new open Obama administration. Kottke…
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…
I know I should stop reading the Boing! Boing! comments, especially since technically they’ve IP banned me from commenting (because, as the Chinese government has proven, there’s no way to get around that), but I just can’t stop reading them. Part of the fun is the blatant hypocrisy that governs the moderation of the forums…