I read BoingBoing for the same reason I read slashdot: habit. I'm still trying to decide if a month of kittah is better or worse than a month of tube maps.

Barry--I thought that was the name of a Guided by Voices song.

They make the children cry.

Some auto detailers use a clay bar after a wash. You'd be surprised how much dirt there is left on a "clean" car. This sounds like the same principle on a much grander scale.

It's a German reissue (BMW owns Mini) of a British design.

Took a fish head out to see a movie, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

Yep, my kids asked me to buy this for them when they were playing it on the big screen at Fry's. It's one of their favorite videos.

What's white and crawls up your leg? Uncle Ben's Perverted Rice.

Poor widdle buggies. :(

Bah, show me the video of the terminally-ill kid using suction cups to cling to the back of the world rail-speed record run. I find I'm getting increasingly more difficult to impress.

Wow dep--I was pro-Iraq and pro-gun before your comment. The relevance and eloquence of your comment has completely changed the whole of my thinking, and thus my entire understanding of the universe. If there was a Nobel Prize for blog commenting, you would most certainly be a front-runner.

CJ--

Most internet "wisdom" is attributed to either Einstein (if it's pseudoscience) or the Dalai Lama (if it's pseudospritual).

--Albert Einstein

And which industry would that be? I might consider investing in that sector.

I see people like this and wonder what event sparked their decision to distance themselves as far as possible from the rest of the human race.