Simon Greenwood

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• Favorited Snarky Amazon reviews for Denon's dumb-ass $500 Ethernet cable on Boing Boing
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• Commented on Dyson Airblade nuclear blasts your hands dry
  Dyson seems to have got a contract with Northern Rail as the toilets in Leeds railway station have these, which is a strange contrast to the tcubicles with spyholes in the doors....
• Commented on Sharp brings Zaurus story to a close after 15 years
  The Zaurus had a certain popularity among hackers here at least - there's very little about a palmtop machine with a full Linux install that's not to like. They were fairly easy to get hold of as well - about...
• Commented on Nokia to make 3G notebook dongles
  It's taken long enough to get to this point though. The 3G licences were auctioned off in 2000 and the telcos tried everything but offering data until about two years ago: live football, music videos, video calling - until T-Mobile...
• Commented on Old Gadget Ad: Sinclair C5
  Actually, the law was changed so that anyone over 15 could drive a C5 without a licence, specifically for the C5. Sir Clive had a very similar reality distortion field to Steve Jobs, except in his case it was used...
• Commented on Boing Boing Charitable Giving Guide -- the 2008 edition
  That's my corporate charities decided for this year. ORG may well have just come into its own in the last week as it pretty much uncovered, promoted and opposed the IWF adding a Wikipedia page to its blocklist, in a...
• Commented on HOWTO cook a kick-ass pizza crust in your home oven
  Antinous@43: For pizza in Scotland and 'nasty' almost any chip shop will sell you a 7" frozen pizza folded in half and deep fried, like an olinageous calzone. More bizarre was the mobile chip shop in Dunfermline that offered the...
• Commented on First 3G Netbook on 2 year cellular contract: $100 for the machine, $1,440 for the plan
  Controlbroke: These people: http://www.joiku.com/ have software that does that all ready. It isn't free, or indeed free, but it's not expensive....
• Commented on Kisai Tenmetsu: TokyoFlash's new skinny OLED watch
  Cory, good Glub that's ugly: http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.html...
• Commented on MiFi puts portable 3G hotspot in your pocket
  Is that the 'femtocell' device that T-Mobile are promising I wonder? Looks good if it is....
• Commented on British censorship of Wikipedia prevents anonymous editing
  Gah, it's only *anonymous* editing that is prevented through the proxy. If you log in with a valid username, as editors should in my opinion, you can hack away to your heart's content. It doesn't make it right of course...
• Commented on First 3G Netbook on 2 year cellular contract: $100 for the machine, $1,440 for the plan
  The UK mocos (that's an appalling term and I will never use it again) have been doing these deals for a year or so now, offering a free laptop with a 3G dongle at around £30 a month on a...
• Commented on Portable CD player sales going strong
  That Discman is great, CD player and offensive weapon if used properly. Tell that to the youth of today and they wouldn't believe you....
• Commented on Stephen Fry hates the Sony Vaio
  Vaios were pretty much the Macs of the PC world at one point - nice to look at, well specced and slightly ahead of the curve technologically, but man, Sony's software was appalling, and is still appalling today. Some elements...
• Commented on The Radio Shack Catalog archive
  Tandy brought the Battery of the Month club to the UK, which was great for a teenage geek with a burgeoning pile'o'electrocrap. I was never much of a hobbyist but did occasionally try and put together boards for projects, although...
• Commented on Windows Vista goes PRODUCT (RED)
  That's great, as Vista is practically a virus itself. German Army parka with a penguin drawn on the back in Tipp-ex, thanks....
• Commented on Video: RAF Harrier does low altitude fly-by pass in Afghanistan
  Many years of going to RAF air shows have left me a bit blase about that sort of thing but I can still vividly remember one of the Red Arrows' routines where one of the nine planes disappeared and suddenly...
• Commented on Kogan Agora Pro is a new Android smartphone
  For those who haven't heard, T-Mobile in the UK are now doing the G1 on a £30 a month tariff with 'unlimited' browsing (they tend to make coughing noises if you regularily shift over 3Gb a month in reality). My...
• Commented on A perfect, no-bullshit black rotary telephone that works
  ACB, it is indeed a replica GPO 746 table telephone, complete with the GPO issue label on the dial by the looks of it. They are easily converted to run on any phone system that provides a 5V DC current...
• Commented on Angry bored octopus goes wilding
  Takuan, I now have this image of you walking down the street and being ambushed by an octopus with a flick-knife....
• Commented on Britain ordered to destroy its database of innocents' DNA
  The truth is that there are several pressures on every Home Secretary. They receive all of their briefings from the permanent staff of the Home Office, who, it has been confirmed in recent years, essentially give policy rather than options...
• Commented on Ah, Horseradish!
  Horseradish sauce under toasted cheese is remarkably tasty. It comes from Colmans, purveyors of popular heat, so it's not as painful as when grated fresh with vinegar....
• Commented on Lionel NYC MTA Subway train set with working lights, station announcements
  Do some parts have to be installed on elevated tracks and others under the floorboards?...
• Commented on Buddha Machine 2: revenge of the ambient music transistor radio gizmo
  I got five of the originals for £20 after Christmas 2005 and they're great fun but that's pretty much all they're worth so I hope the new ones aren't silly prices - they were being sold at £19.99 *each* previously...
• Commented on The Mysterious Case of the Beer that was Poured from the Bottom
  Holy mother of glub, I clicked through to their website. They're responsible for everything evil in the beer selling market: taps that serve near frozen beer complete with condensation on the riser, froth dispensers and now *shakes finger* that ABOMINATION....
• Commented on Let's wave goodbye to <em>PC Magazine</em>
  It kind of bears out what I've been wondering for a long time - who buys PC magazines and why these days? They weigh a ton through what is mostly advertising and the content will have been prepared up to...
• Commented on Netbook of the Day: Epson Endeavor Na01 mini
  The Acer Aspire One is selling well in the UK with the Asus EEE not far behind as they're being stocked by the big electrical and computer chains, with the basic 8Gb flash Aspire One being sold at £179. They're...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  #283: couldn't agree more. Having seen brain dead cretins scream 'paki' at people of Asian origin walking down the street far too often I don't believe that they're merely acknowledging the existence of a woman wearing a sari. And using...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  kleinzeit@240: My family are from Nottinghamshire and an off licence was always a beer-off to them. These could range from actual shops to small counters in the backs of pubs where one could buy bottles or indeed have jugs filled...