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• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  I'm not sure why people are calling BS on this. Here's a Nightline segment and story that just aired: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/las-vegas-strip-home-homeless/story?id=8652139...
• Commented on I will teach you how to make sauerkraut this Sunday in Los Angeles at Kraut Fest 2009
  Don't you want non-iodized salt in your ingredient list?...
• Commented on Improbable Video Games
  There's a Flickr group devoted to imagined Nintendo DS tie-in games: http://www.flickr.com/groups/77139108@N00/pool/page10/...
• Commented on Geodesic dome solar greenhouse for growing vegetables
  It would be so much easier to just build a boring, normal-shaped greenhouse instead of spending a ridiculous amount of time cutting out all those triangular pieces of plastic....
• Commented on New research on shark repellents
  This was on a shark-themed Dirty Jobs episode a couple of years ago: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/shark-week-shark-repellent.html...
• Commented on BB Video: The 1944 "soundie" that inspired Devo's "Whip It" (Oddball Film + Video)
  Interesting, because they've claimed that it was based on an article about a retired actor who ran a dude ranch and did the whip striptease as entertainment - and the fact that people mistakenly thought the song was about S&M...
• Commented on Wii Bowling Ball
  It's like the uncanny valley of fake bowling - you hold a realistic ball, but can't let go of it....
• Commented on Video of people watching porn
  Talia: You're not the only one who thought of Beautiful Agony....
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  It may be dumb, but I'm sure Axe is loving the free publicity....
• Commented on A Map the Size of the World
  Steven Wright has a bit about a map that's 1 mile = 1 mile, and how difficult it is to fold....
• Commented on Tiny little phonograph from an old Datsun
  The old See 'n' Say toys used a similar principle: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/see-say2.htm...
• Commented on Microwaving a cellphone is surprisingly cool
  I was wondering why the turntable wasn't rotating. I guess the 3D artist was lazy....
• Commented on Untitled 2
  Web zen?...
• Commented on Frozen movie of cops vs. clowns in hospital shootout
  You're missing out on the full experience - this is a viral for Philips TVs. The official site lets you scrub the video and see some behind-the-scenes clips: http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en...
• Commented on Hyperbolic Bronnerianism in Graphic Design
  One of my favorite examples of this brand of insanity is the Shopsin's menu: http://www.shopsins.com/media/redshops/shopsiemenu.pdf...
• Commented on Mall rat philosophy in Charlie White's cartoon OMG BFF LOL
  Wait - the same Charlie White that did those tableaus with that profoundly creepy Joshua puppet? Wow. Actually, that makes perfect sense the more I think about it. I'd be surprised if anyone doesn't know about Joshua, but if you...
• Commented on YouTube clips as instruments
  Yes, my mind has been blown repeatedly by these remixes. Make sure to click on the credits to see links to all the original clips....
• Commented on Lost nose-brassieres of 1930
  I saw a joke version of this in the fake newspaper included in one of the Bloom County books (the Bloom Picayune!). I would not have expected it to have a real counterpart. Thanks to the internet, there's a scan:...
• Commented on Sending your video camera around the sushi conveyor
  My brother did a version of this too. Filmed by a friend in Hong Kong. http://www.vimeo.com/3052175...
• Commented on Amusement park offers surveillance footage of you as a souvenir
  Based on the clips on YT, there's a lot of artful editing to put "you" inside of generic point-of-view video of the ride itself. With an added rockin' soundtrack, of course....
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  I like that some wiseacre tagged that discussion with "get off my lawn"...
• Commented on Cabinet door's squeals are eerily Chewbaccaesque
  Waxy did a small roundup of these, likening them to the nerd equivalent of a Virgin Mary sighting. If you go to youtube you can see them all in the related videos....
• Commented on Kittens Inspired by Kittens After the Dentist
  #2 - I was about to say the same thing!...
• Commented on Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)
  There's a bunch of hilarious f-bomb-only edits of movies on YouTube. It's also reminiscent of the brilliant "profanity only" version of Straight Outta Compton. One of the funnier skits on MadTV was The Sopranos edited for broadcast on PAX TV...
• Commented on Oblique Tweets
  Someone under the name Brian_Eno posts mostly Oblique Strategies and occasionally other Eno-related things. I think it really is Eno, but under name it says Fake Brian Eno, so who the hell knows: http://twitter.com/Brian_Eno...
• Commented on Interactive Photo-Hunt Game on YouTube
  Of course there's nothing stopping you (besides honesty) from hitting pause to buy more time......
• Commented on Spraying hot water at -29.4C
  Years ago I saw a TV clip where a weatherman threw a mugful of hot water into freezing cold air and got an awesome instant snow plume. The water was hot to keep it from freezing in the mug. I've...
• Commented on What is this science fiction image?
  Regardless of the mystery of the drawing, you have to see Silent Running - an inspiration to MST3K among other things....
• Commented on Princess Bride DVD ambigram
  I always think of ambigrams as inversions too! My brother had the good fortune of meeting Scott Kim at UC Santa Cruz years ago. Scott was doing ambigram "autographs" on the spot (yes, impressive) and my brother had him do...
• Commented on Making sauerkraut is easy
  I think the holes are there to make it easier for the disc to sink and stay in contact with the cabbage. I started a sourdough culture. No "catching" of wild yeast was necessary - it was already on the...