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• Commented on Satellite photography alphabet
  A personal sticking point: these are aerial photographs, but not necessarily satellite photographs. Most aerial photos in Google Maps/Earth are taken from airplanes....
• Commented on Retro Mega-Fridge: Huge, Red and $10K!
  I wonder how those old timey-looking door latches work. That style of latch was banned a long time ago so that children couldn't shut themselves inside and suffocate to death. Are they just ornamental, or is there some sort of...
• Commented on These are not just ugly stuffed animals
  Fleshlight cozies?...
• Commented on Compulsory calisthenics
  The calisthenics will continue until morale improves!...
• Commented on A few days with the HTC Touch Pro 2
  You're not that late Rob, considering this phone still isn't available from any carriers yet. I'm torn between getting this and the new Samsung Omnia II that is also soon to arrive. Do you think the TP2's physical keyboard is...
• Commented on Video: Thank god, it's the Comfort Wipe
  "I wash myself with a rag on a stick." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPYQtuDH6_o...
• Commented on HOWTO Click Train Your Dog
  The video looks cool, but what do you mean about the discipline comment? It's just video of dogs being dropped to the ground, but played backwards and in slo-mo, no?...
• Commented on Welcome, <em>Wired</em>. We call this land "Internet"
  I keep my Wired subscription active pretty much just due to a sense of fealty to its earlier self. But I honestly can't remember the last time an issue seemed relevant to me. Print isn't dead, as The New Yorker...
• Commented on Clarkson: Honda Hybrid is "Biblically terrible"
  FYI Joel - Honda is also planning a hybrid Fit, hopefully in about a year. That's the one I'm waiting for, if my ole Elantra doesn't give it up before then....
• Commented on We may or may not have refreshed <em>BBG</em>
  Like a mashup of Offworld and Bloomberg News. The black isn't so hot....
• Commented on Naked man tasered at Coachella for refusing to wear wizard's robe
  That was so not cool, tasing a woman just because she has two belly buttons!...
• Commented on Nifty gaming gadget administers nitrous oxide to kids
  Mmmmm....stimmmpaaaak....
• Commented on Man bites off tip of own penis
  I agree with #3: he said he did it himself because he didn't want to get caught at whatever he was really up to....
• Commented on Photos: IBM machine, City Hall (1961)
  Does that count as redundant use of an acronym?...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: God &#9733; Jesus
  What, no Holy Ghost?! God damn cheapo-import holy trinities!...
• Commented on Bizarre dog walking flyer
  Why has the number been blurred out? It's an ad, after all....
• Commented on Prom dress store changes photo of dress
  I'm afraid to ask what it looks like from the back. goatse?...
• Commented on Zipper dress
  Nor straight from the dryer....
• Commented on Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage
  The National Organization for Marriage, created to stop....marriage....
• Commented on The inevitable peroration of cheap R/C helicopters
  I'd totally buy one of these, if I could just get a round tuit....
• Commented on Fan Edit: <em>Airwolf</em> versus <em>FireFox</em>
  Airwolf never would have had a chance if Clint remembered to think in Russian....
• Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
  This toilet would be great if people pooped like deer. Large quantities of small object do not equate to small quantities of large objects....
• Commented on Visualization: 3 years of GPS-tracked running in the Bay Area
  I think he means how thick the lines are along his most frequented routes. The thickness probably isn't because his path wandered 50 feet left or right as he ran, but because the GPS triangulation varied by that amount each...
• Commented on Vaino is brilliantly-named Vaio P clone, has unlocked GSM modem
  I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one!...
• Commented on Pen with four SD card slots
  Not bad, but it's no monkey with four asses....
• Commented on New Mac Mini has better specs, same bargain price
  @Sean Eric Fagan: Monoprice sells a Mini Display Port-to-HDMI cable. No mention about audio though. Search product ID # 5311....
• Commented on Red states consume more porn?
  The study just shows that red staters are too dumb to know how to get their porn for free....
• Commented on The anti-Apple ad that RIM dared not run?
  @#1: Yeah, totally a Pink Floyd lift. I was expecting to hear the loons next....
• Commented on What's in the bag?
  Sadly, this would never fly here in DC. If I tried to secretly plant a "technological device" in a park in my neighborhood I'd either be whisked off to Gitmo or shot on sight....
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  Don't bother posting here, Joel took his post over to the Mother Boing for greater exposure. He's too good for us backwater gadget slobs now. Dance with the one who brung ya, Joel! :)...