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• Commented on Taste Test: Raw eggs
  funny, as a child in Brazil my dad would give me something like this when I was sick. thoroughly mix some egg yolks with a generous amount of sugar in a mug, then fill with boiled milk. drink and enjoy....
• Commented on Matt Logue's "Empty Los Angeles" photography book
  there's a section of town in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that looks *just* like that. I knew they captured the feel of SF and Vegas with the other parts of the map but having never been to LA I...
• Commented on Glowing bacteria that finds landmines
  good cause... but a.) will they glow enough to be visible in daylight, or will you be searching for green patches at night? because that sounds totally safe. b.) will you be able to discern green patches of bacteria from...
• Commented on Do chimps grieve?
  people refuse to believe animals have emotions just because they lack the big juicy cortex required to write emo songs or fill a sketchbook with sad drawings. nobody ever thinks that it's far more likely that we humans have used...
• Commented on The Hazards of Lab Work
  in our lab, sodium azide is used in minute quantities to keep solutions for immunohistochemistry free of bacterial growth or other nasties. no one touches it without gloves. generally, institutional laboratory rules dictate that a coffee machine would be in...
• Commented on Time-lapse sim of Earth's land mass movement
  so amazing. to think that the entirety of human history has happened within one shape of this progression....
• Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
  I had a point-and-shoot camera that could take a CF card and a memory stick simultaneously, and there was a rather subtle switch to choose between them during shooting. I always thought that, while using it, if faced with this...
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  I'll join in and pick the standard response letter item that stands for OMG U GUYZ LITEN UP only in the sense that the menage-a-trois is not what's implied. when you add the copy at the bottom (something about the...
• Commented on School newspaper archives go online, embarrassing student writing and shenanigans become permanent record
  I didn't realize Google Groups meant the contents of USENET until a few years back, when during a quick egosearch I found stuff I signed with my real name in groups about Magic the Gathering and video games and whatnot....
• Commented on Infinite Typewriters: Goats webcomic collection is transcendantly silly without being forced
  holy crap thanks Cory. I lost track of some bookmarks a while back and so forgot Goats existed. I think I first read it by going back in the archives, and what was awesome (to my recollection) was that the...
• Commented on Travis Barker vs. teen band geek
  ha! so much sarcasm....
• Commented on Hunt for Gollum: gorgeous-looking unauthorized fan-sequel to Lord of the Rings made for £3000
  yeah but "what has it got in its pocketses" is the actual line, I think. I'm going to watch the living crap out of that as soon as it becomes somehow available....
• Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  I have them. When I see them I leave them the hell alone. I figure they're around eating things I *really* don't want around. like silverfish. the visceral reaction some people are having to Scutigera, I have to silverfish. Something...