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• Commented on Dead cell-phones: suspense movie cop-outs
  The dead cell phone trope doesn't bother me... at least it means they're trying to make things make sense! I was more annoyed by the use of Wikus's phone in District 9. If you're a fugitive with a cell phone,...
• Commented on Double Nickels on the Dime by the Minutemen turns 25.
  So dig this big crux!...
• Commented on Revealed! Where babies come from!
  Hi Cory! Glad you liked our video! But can you do us a favor? Please link to our original video, not the poor-quality copy above! That copy was posted on YouTube by a well-meaning stranger. The original looks much better....
• Commented on Inuit throat singing video
  For some reason I kept picturing this giant space cannoli bearing down on the Enterprise....
• Commented on Brother Theodore on David Letterman
  That was brilliant! Great post. @DEDALUS #13: I don't think Letterman was being a git. He was just playing the role Brother Theodore set up for him. They're both pro entertainers, and clearly they both know comedy. Ted was deliberately...
• Commented on Magenta isn't a real color?
  @39: what you're talking about are metamers: pairs of different sensory inputs that produce identical sensations. Here's a nice demonstration of how metamers work. The original article is really lame though. Ms. Elliott starts from a series of faulty assumptions...
• Commented on Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart
  I didn't realize George Washington went to Penn... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZ2_Zur7kM (He'll kick you apart! He'll kick you apart!)...
• Commented on How Lost bends the rules
  I watched the DVDs of the first four seasons, and I gotta say, Lost hasn't failed me yet. It's a marvel of post-modern storytelling that also just happens to work as a knock-down piece of entertainment. The writers have systematically...
• Commented on Handlebars as flute
  Aw yeah! I saw him do this live at the Odeon a couple of months ago, at the Monsters of Accordion show. Growden's an amazing talent!...
• Commented on Computer-Generated Sarah Palin Interview
  @#10: Search YouTube for "Palin Couric Interview" to see for yourself! As far as coherency goes, she hovers somewhere around Eliza's level mostly, but dips down into total word salad when pressed on subjects she knows nothing about. The website...
• Commented on Olympus WS-110 digital voice recorder
  I've got the Olympus WS-100 (the earlier version of yours) and have been very happy with it so far. Thanks for the tips on all the dictation/transcription software!...
• Commented on Orwell's 1984 as a pulp novel
  Wow, I have that exact same edition! Like CHAIRCRUSHER above, I've got a tall stack of great sci-fi handed down from tha moms. Can't wait 'til my daughter's old enough to read this stuff!...
• Commented on Numbered drawers
  Um, I mean a "zero" drawer. I swear it was the numeral "0" I typed... is boingboing running some kind of disemnumeralizing script?...
• Commented on Numbered drawers
  The perfect gift for the obsessive-compulsive who has everything (and nowhere to put it.) Am I the only one who wishes there were a "0" drawer?...
• Commented on Mindwebs: Free old science fiction radio plays
  This is awesome. Does anyone know where we might find some good metadata about all these files? The archive.org listing is pretty bare-bones. It'd be great to have info like author name and story title for each episode......
• Commented on Brain-rainbows of great beauty from GM mice
  I couldn't resist a little mashup action: Radiohead's In Brainbows....