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• Commented on Apple kills Google Voice on iPhone
  Recently, whenever I see the words Apple and Google mentioned together, the thought "Android on HTC Hero looks like it could really be something" gets stronger and stronger....
• Commented on Insanely expensive unopened 1967 Star Trek paint-by-numbers
  I'd rather get the $10K Worf and Troi plate set. Even Martha Stewart would agree that it's the perfect way to present microwave pizza....
• Commented on Kiki, Sony Ericsson's strangest phone ever
  Display looks two sided and see-through. Some transparent OLEDy sort of thing, perhaps? And the little protrusion on the second green bar is where the one on the 5 on a regular phone is, so the bars would then be...
• Commented on "No excess on the outside" for Sony's $1,000 iPod Dock
  Isn't it more of a take on the Squeezebox Boom concept with an iPod dock attached? It's still a chunk of money for network player, but with that remote, the USB connectivity and backwards compatibility with the CD-collection it doesn't...
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  I knew the day would come, but it feels sad. There's something about those Kodachrome colors that's... really hard to define. A bit of magic, perhaps....
• Commented on Mind Over Ship: David Marusek's hyperfuturistic, hyperimaginative soap-opera
  I loved Counting Heads. Best debut I've read in ages. Great story, and the themes made me think along the lines that it might be something like what PKD might produce if he had happened to have a second coming...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  Here in Sweden we have different drinking and buying ages. At 18 you're allowed to drink in bars and buy the 3.5% strength beer that's the strongest you can get in grocery stores, and at 20 you are allowed to...
• Commented on ColorQube: is wax the future of color printing?
  As far as I know, many of the newer printer/copiers that run on fuser oil free systems use wax based powder toners, and I haven't seen much trouble with those. And looking beyond printing, there must be at least a...
• Commented on Show-and-tell laptop bag hacks the TSA? [always read the fine print]
  Somewhat related to the subject... Last week when I flew from Berlin I had this new experience when led into a small room after being told that my laptop and camera needed to be more closely inspected. I was dreading...
• Favorited Videos by two good ukulelists on Boing Boing
• Commented on OnLive: Is this little box the future of game hardware? (Probably not.)
  1. Come up with something that seems clever 2. Find clueless venture capitalists 3. If same turn out to be slightly less than clueless, describe everything as proprietary 4. Come up with some excuse to explain that "the market wasn't...
• Commented on Obama Continues Bush-Era Extremism on Liberties, Secrecy
  I'm not an American so I didn't vote either way, but anyway... Obama hasn't been in office for two months yet, so isn't it a bit too soon to come to any conclusions on what his administration will be up...
• Commented on Hold Your Heads Up High: You'll never drink alone with the Octopus Tap
  Skip the mugs, just gather around the keg and enjoy the beer-hookah together!...
• Commented on Morning Deals
  Should I change my habits if I was thinking the image was showing a knockoff Lian-Li full tower PC chassis...?...
• Commented on Get Free Tosses in Tokyo
  I'm also a bit confused, but could I be right in guessing that it's related to the earlier post on electronics and that the fellow is offering to take old gadgets off the hands of people going to the store...
• Commented on 100Mbps Internet Connection For 11 USD Per Month
  I also have a 100Mbps fiber connection for about USD30 in Sweden, and that's in both directions (top speeds have been about 80 down and 60 up, so I can't really complain), so I'd say itpretty well connected) and uncapped....
• Commented on Grey water toilet system reuses shower water with every flush
  Ultrasound can in fact be used to kill bacteria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound#Ultrasonic_disintegration That would make the use of the word irradiation a bit off, though....
• Commented on Canton CD 90 Speaker Bar reviewed (Verdict: No surround, not self-powered, sounds dandy)
  I'd like to see a "2.1 soundbar" (front, rear and sub) setup. Since it seems one bar can make decent sound, two might should sound even better while still keeping the cabling a bit neater by limiting it to a...
• Commented on USB drive in a padlock
  I'm pretty there are L-shaped USB connectors that would fit. But you can't argue with the cleverness design. And if you make the big metal hoop part (someone should consult a locksmith for the exact term) break the circuit it...
• Commented on HP's Firebird named for heat its power-gaming components will generate
  Since think it would be possible to build something with Intel Core i7, 6GB DDR3 and dual 1GB GeForce 280's for that price I'd say it was obsolete this Christmas....
• Commented on HP Pavilion DV2 runs AMD Athlon Neo CPU, looks down on netbooks
  I don't have any real need for a laptop at the moment, but I've started looking around anyway since I got the idea that one would make a compact, low power and low noise HTPC without the fuss of getting...
• Commented on Gift cards for drug dealers
  Took a few seconds before I got it... and before that I had conjured an image of the dealer issuing gift cards followed by one of Christmas morning at the shelter with two of the patrons embracing... "I wasn't sure...
• Commented on Susie Bright: The League of Amazing Latkes Q & A
  Oh, curse you for bringing that up when I'm hungry but not yet stocked up on potatoes after getting back home! But when I have some, I'll try applesauce with them for a change – here in Sweden the most...
• Commented on Someone left a piano in the woods
  There's something familiar about this. I have a vague memory of a similar story, with an equally vague recollection that it was in the UK....
• Commented on Fujitsu perfects the 12-inch tablet, at least on paper
  I think it lives up to the name Stylistic quite well. At least I'm certain it's supposed to be a frankenword cobbled together from stylus and plastic. I'd like to see a full spec tablet from a company like Asus,...
• Commented on Slides 2 PC slide scanner is a cheap, easy way to digitize forgotten memories
  Neat idea, but for those that don't mind a bit more handling there should be plenty of used Minolta Dimage scanners and similar with twice the resolution and up to get for the same price. Something else I've thought about...
• Commented on Tell me the best place to buy a gaming PC
  @Dondelny: Maybe the Japanese acrylic contraptions Joel posted yesterday would be something to extend the baseplate idea? :) Can't remember any brand names off the top of my head, but if you look around a bit you should be able...
• Commented on Sympathetic magic
  To tie this post together with the one about Open Tech: http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11770144/Smart_Mobile_Phone.html Apparently it runs Mac OS X v10.4.8......
• Commented on Wired reviews Fallout 3. Verdict: Gorgeous but charmless fanfic
  This feels a bit like reviewing a novel after reading the dedications and the epilogue... 30 minutes isn't much of any game, and less so of one that's said to have over 100 hours of gameplay. One thing that's worried...
• Commented on BIC Phone is branding coup de grâce
  When will we see the Gillette equivalent with it's ridiculously overpriced top-ups but incredibly smooth five-band system...?...