The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Eric:

@38: The *outside* is not clean; the *inside* is close enough. Washington State health code has a specific exception for steaks- they're required to cook to 130, not 140, because of this. I'd worry more about the veggie salad, per Kitchen Confidential. (Now, is that rule broken over and over? Of course- prime rib is medium well at 130 internal.)

I like this method- but I use the broiler and don't flip the steak. Sear in pan for two minutes, then stick under the heat; given a 1" steak, three minutes for bloody, four for good deep pinkish-red medium rare, 5 for medium, longer to ruin it. Once you've done, return the pan to the stovetop and make a pan sauce- the cast iron is still warm enough to reduce it.

@34: wow, top sirloin called London Broil? Fancy- my Safeway usually tags its top round as London Broil.

Holly: IANAengineer either, but it doesn't seem like *that* intractable of a problem. I'd think you'd keep the alarm on your keys; if the transponder fob is within 10 feet of the seat, the alert system goes to sleep. For added assurance, add a janitor's keychain belt-reeler.

Mandating an electric alert system be added to all *vehicles* is somewhat extreme and would be just one more thing to break. However, what if the alert system from the article was mandated to be added to all *child safety seats* at some point in time? This wouldn't affect any vehicles except those with built-in child seats (not just the LATCH lockdown points, which most cars have these days.) Require sensors in all new carseat models at one year out, subsidize retrofit kits, and have sensors be mandantory for infants, just like car seats are, two or three years out.

Really, all something like this needs is a couple microphones and perhaps an accelerometer- it's the kind of thing that can be put on one chip these days, and it would be dirt cheap in volume if there was a demand imposed by regulation.

If this system can save 10 lives a year, that's about $50 million dollars (at least using the pre-George W Bush statistical value for a human life.) How many carseats are sold a year?

Bruce@ 143: I'd also note that the posts weren't taken down all at once; there was one last Violet-authored post that lasted at least a day longer than the rest. Violet reported this a week ago on her blog; Valleywag picked it up two days later. BoingBoing has not commented on this yet. From what I hear, comments on BoingBoing mentioning Violet Blue are getting deleted.

Niall #114:

http://www.boingboing.net/2002/08/08/censorship-in-dc-com.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/21/south-park-petition-.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/12/15/virtual-hooking-real.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/20/la-times-censors-new.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/27/stick-michelangelos-.html

#81: See http://web.archive.org/web/20060926103226/boingboing.net/2006_09_01_archive.html

and search for VIOLET.

"BoingBoing pal and intrepid sexblogger/podcaster/author Violet Blue today made her debut..."

language hat, at post #74, expresses my sentiment precisely. I've read BoingBoing for a long time and come to trust them; this feels like a loss to me. I expected a reasonable level of transparency. Now, to link to any content from BoingBoing, I have to wait until it hits the Google cache or archive.org.

And that's the other thing: BoingBoing has been a place that champions the fact that clamping down on information just draws attention to it- see the DeCSS debacle. I'd think they'd have the savvy to figure out the inevitable reaction to something like this.

Does anyone have the full set of redacted posts, or links to them on archive.org?

Born December 1977; first thing I remember is watching my parents see the vote totals in the 1984 elections. It left a strong impression on me-my first real memory of circumstances clearly beyond my parents' control, that whole "Damn! They're not omnipotent!" moment.

Thinking about it, I really got how they felt when I watched the results in 2004.

Between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit.

Obey it.

Please note the world's smallest pancake recipe.

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