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• Commented on Fugitive hides from arrest warrant by working at the DHS
  Because anything is possible in the Theater!...
• Commented on Make: Electronics, a great new book to learn hands-on electronics
  When is Make: Atomics coming out?...
• Commented on Bed looks like a dinosaur's mouth
  Where's Jesus' mount?...
• Commented on Furniture made from reclaimed wine-barrels
  Beautiful stuff. I think the wife will be getting one of these. So Cory, where are your photos of the Giant's Causeway?...
• Commented on Homebrew Kodachrome factory
  With all the chemicals and wooden construction, let's just hope it doesn't become the "Fulminator"....
• Commented on Ultraviolet: 69 Classic Blacklight Posters from the Aquarian Age and Beyond
  When I was a wee lad, I had a "power to the people" fist poster above my bed (and a blacklight bulb that I would screw into the lamp late at night). Whoa!...
• Commented on Taste Test: Raw eggs
  I limit myself to quail eggs. Mmmmmm, creamy rich quail eggs!...
• Commented on Visit to the home of a steampunk house-restorer
  That porthole on the door in the first image is from a circa 1949 Chris Craft. It can be flipped open to provide air for the v-berth. The three strakes keep you from putting your foot through the glass when...
• Commented on Combo mousetrap and cheese cutting board
  That cheese array is a cheat. The first two wedges are both Jarlsberg....
• Commented on Rotating Kitchen art piece
  I believe this happens naturally in California....
• Commented on Charity auction for characters names in forthcoming sf novels by great writers
  For the curious: Tuckerization...
• Commented on Presto, alakazam! "Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" magically re-appears
  I bought a copy... and ALL THE PAGES WERE BLANK!...
• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  It looks like the business end of a remora or a lamprey. Do your chickens swim a lot?...
• Commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
  This End Up Just watch your elbows on the corners!...
• Commented on Technology to generate power from slow moving river and ocean currents
  #2 SamSam Even nuclear (fission) reactors never really worked out. If you sneak inside the containment building all you'll find are a bunch of people in sweaters rubbing balloons on their chests with one hand on the grid....
• Commented on Sex advice from D&D players
  It will be interesting to read their advice once one of the actually has sex with another person....
• Commented on Plaices of Death
  Kyle #121 Much of the world has no idea what a vegetarian even is. Yeah, like India. (And the reasons for not eating other people are far more complex than CJD, kuru and prions.)...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  [I was pondering an improved reality during the quiet time. The veil which had obscured my vision had not so much been lifted, but dissolved by my newly found theory.] “We felt it was necessary to revive everyone before announcing...
• Commented on The Senster - robotic sculpture from the late 1960's
  Hess Winery in Napa has an amazing collection of modern art with a number of very interesting interactive pieces. If you are in the Napa area, it is well worth the time to see....
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  I have to confess that even as a child I never understood battery-powered/wind-up toys that you started and then just sat there... looking at them. Give me Legos any day. And Tinkertoys, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, Estes Rockets and Gilbert...
• Commented on Soap will wash away your sins
  Sorta like Dr. Bonner's Magic Soap?...
• Commented on UK stamps to feature famous album covers
  So Diamond Dogs/David Bowie makes it to stamphood! In the States, with a few rare exceptions like the Man on the Moon commemoratives, you have to be dead for 10 years to end up on a stamp....
• Commented on Insta-Beard
  At least it's not a merkin....
• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  PROSSER: Mr. Dent, have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you? ARTHUR: How much? PROSSER: None at all....
• Commented on Disposable laptop design
  @ angusm Absolutely....
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  So Extravagant is the new Grotesque?...
• Commented on Evolution of heavy metal design
  Heavy metal design today comprises a vast field of images that no longer compulsively refer to adolescent power and provocation fantasies. Pity about the music then....
• Commented on Old song about emasculating Castro by giving him a crew cut
  Once, Fidel Castro's beard gave a 6 1/2 hour speech to the United Nations General Assembly....
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: From pocket-sized Altoids tin hack, big dreams emerge
  Nick's documentation and business are far more impressive than the project itself. It's one thing to cobble something together but not everyone can explain the process for others. That being said, a true hack of an Altoids tin would use...
• Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
  I assume after the Anvil Launching Contest he's headed down to Key West for the Hemingway Contest. Guy must be busy....