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• Commented on Free Sega Megadrives top "Babies are being beaten to death" at the Daily Mail
  I wouldn't be surprised if the "Mega Drive" was one of those "50 games in one pad" bundles. Which probably means the numbers aren't that off. However, a mint Mega Drive, with the box still intact should still be worth...
• Commented on Unusual house addition in Boulder, Colorado
  There's a few case like that in Porto. Not stone cottages, but late XIX century houses that were abandoned and dilapidated, until a building company acquires the estate. As some of them have HUGE gardens, they are quickly transformed into...
• Commented on Apple says netbooks are "nascent category" but they have "interesting ideas"
  They aren't selling? If he says so - I know at least 10 persons that bought one, and I don't even know that many people to start with... and if I wasn't planning on buying a guitar, I'd be buying...
• Commented on How to avoid getting stuck in a ditch...
  #4 soupisgoodfood - but still better than continuously falling into a ditch, no?...
• Commented on <em>LittleBigPlanet</em> recalled over Quran quotes in music
  While it was somewhat sensible of them to do this, wasn't the Sony response to the CoE when Resistance: FoM featured the Manchester Cathedral pretty much "go piss up a rope", and only later issued an apology? Why wasn't the...
• Commented on MXP4: New music format changes to fit your mood, but why?
  Music 2.0/MT9 actually seems (sounds?) more interesting, useful and easy to put in practice....
• Commented on Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted
  Dbarak: Nail. Head. Hit. Touchdown! Is it me, or Palin looks more scary than Bush and Co.? I mean, the current lot look like biblethumpers who are only into that to reap a sweet profit, and keep their popular base...
• Commented on Fake Disney movie trailer for the Sarah Palin story
  Good, but not as good as their minesweeper trailer....
• Commented on Modern games as Atari 2600 carts
  They're cute, but IIRC most Atari 2600 boxes featured watercolour action sequences, some of which had those "rainbow trails"....
• Commented on Zen-like dimpled wash basin
  As they say, this seems more suitable for posh restaurants and VIP rooms (not so sure about hotel rooms), so grooming isn't a concern. It surely looks pretty, 'to....
• Commented on Deadmalls as new urbanist playgrounds
  Around here there's a cool new mall established last year that features only small movie stores, art galleries/studios and two small open-air meeting plaza. It's by far one of the most pleasant spaces around, and a must-visit in Porto. http://www.ccbombarda.blogspot.com/...
• Commented on Dell Studio Hybrid makes Mac Mini flaws apparent
  It surely is pretty. But how well built it is? I mean... Dell?...
• Commented on Incubator workstation design stacks neatly
  I'd like one of those, if it was barely modular and ergonomically sensitive. I mean, the ability to safely use the space above the computer desk to store more useless junk is very appealing......
• Commented on Police smash car window to "rescue" reborn baby doll
  Well, I'd rather see this headline than "cop ignores baby in car; dies of heat stroke". And I'm pretty sure anyone reasonable agrees... Also, this: "Gympie Sen-Sgt Phil Edwards said last week's incident had been frightening for both police and...
• Commented on Optimus Tactus touchscreen keyboard concept art.... now featuring lesbian lolitas
  The Art Lebedev Studios are pretty much the only guys right now doing something with the decades-old keyboards. At least they're not cramming in aluminium, cold-cathode lights, pointless multimedia keys, reorganizing the navigation keys or making wavy "ergonomic" design and...
• Commented on Buy the typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote <i>Hitchhiker's Guide</i> for $25,257.94
  If he's anything like other typists I know, the X is so worn because he used it to black out typing errors. A guy I knew used to hammer the key for whole paragraphs because he was not allowed to...
• Commented on Defender in a Favicon
  @3: I agree, but maybe they tried to avoid the cliché....
• Commented on Rock, according to different video games
  Some of those might even be slightly older: I remember seeing one with less images slightly after both HL2 and Doom 3 were out. Doom 3 being my favourite. @1: That would be a great idea. "From Sokoban to Half-Life...
• Commented on Man can dip fingers in boiling oil
  Can he retrieve his mum's wedding ring from the egg-boiler?...
• Commented on Irony Meter Splode: Reporter covering iPhone launch mocks shoppers for <i>their</i> triviality
  To be honest, harassing the kind of people that spend hours queuing for luxury goods seems fair play to me. And strikes me as "journalism" as much as the onslaught of completely trivial news segments done by people with their...
• Commented on Rumor: Microsoft to allow third-party 360s
  I've been saying this is the future since I've seen all the third party Sega Mega Drive/Genesis hardware done by Amstrad (the Mega PC), IBM (TeraDrive), JVC (Wondermega) and the Aiwa Mega CD. Leave the console manufacturers to develop the...
• Commented on Man robs store with plant as weapon
  It was a viciously sharp slice of mango, wasn't it, sir?...
• Commented on MPAA sez, "We shouldn't have to prove infringement took place before collecting $150k per file in damages"
  The MPAA boss ran over my cat yesterday. Unfortunately, as he was driving a large SUV, I can't find any proof my cat even existed. However, I still demand 5 mil. in compensation....
• Commented on Does Sennheiser use this cardboard packaging? (If they don't, they should)
  Blister packs are awful. I made a large dent on my brand new X360 Windows gamepad while trying to open one....
• Commented on Children's synthesizer from the USSR available on eBay
  I bet someone from Franz Ferdinand is making a bid on one right now....
• Commented on LucasArts says old adventure games "impossible" on DS, SCUMM says "lolwut?"
  It's not only compression that has evolved: the Grim Fandango resources (mostly videos and background bitmaps) could be downsampled for the DS 256x192 screen(s), which would reduce the size even more. I doubt the console can output crystal-clear audio, too,...
• Commented on LucasArts says old adventure games "impossible" on DS, SCUMM says "lolwut?"
  I really don't understand the space limitation excuse. Big companies are usually moronic when it comes to excuses to rehash games from their past (unless it's on a zazzy new genre with a whole new bad-ass atitude), but they've outdone...
• Commented on Photojojo Mac keyboard editor hotkey <s>stickers</s> overlays
  This stuff is useless. If I had to look at the keyboard in search of a hotkey, then the whole point of *being* a hotkey is kind of defeated. For the less used commands that I can't remember or don't...
• Commented on Autoloc Flame Thrower for car exhaust
  Well, I'm pretty sure carjackers would be scared shitless if they approached a car spitting flames....