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• Commented on What the $*@&#! is the Nephroid of Freeth?
  Interestingly enough, that particular curve is also used to represent the directional pickup pattern of your basic shotgun boom microphone used in all manner of film and TV production, with the microphone's position at the "butt" of the kidney pointing...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  I just saw that you had covered that already. Never mind. :)...
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  Senator Franken can draw the entire country freehand, including all the states and how they border one another. Seriously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfcrqXtxOM clearer more fast motion version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-FYyuvrRk...
• Commented on Video about world's greatest soda pop store
  I *heart* Galco's. You can buy CASES of Dublin Dr. Pepper there (that's the cane sugar Dr. Pepper made in Dublin, Texas). There's another place in Burbank that I go to a lot because it's only blocks from where I...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I love the redesign in terms of the vision behind it. Most redesigns exist just because the old site is stale and they want it to look cooler. But you guys actually have an editorial vision of a renewed 'zine...
• Commented on French burlesque film: The Dancing Pig
  We actually watched this short at USC film school as part of a lesson on "Cinema of Attractions," which is the concept that in the very earliest days of film history the medium was not used to tell stories but...
• Commented on Oldest bird-like dinosaur
  Wait, where are the intermediates between Archaeopteryx and this? What about the ones between this and a penguin? This new fossil is just more evidence against evolution because it creates even more gaps? Oh noes! Srsly though, beautiful find....
• Commented on What a Wonderful World as a zombie soundtrack
  12 Monkeys had it as the closing credits music, after (spoiler!!!) the virus is unleashed and young Bruce Willis sees his adult self get shot....
• Commented on Vladimir Nabokov discusses “Lolita"
  That 1997 movie isn't terrible, it's certainly more faithful to the novel than Kubrick's and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty is spot on. Dominique Swain and Melanie Griffith are also very good. Irons does his best, but there's no way...
• Commented on Vladimir Nabokov discusses “Lolita"
  If Cory were to gain a few pounds and develop the accent he could totally be a dead ringer for Nabokov. :) I saw Dimitri Nabokov talk about his father once in college. The family position is that Nabokov was...
• Commented on BB Video: The 1944 "soundie" that inspired Devo's "Whip It" (Oddball Film + Video)
  #4 - Soundies were shown in these big video jukeboxes that different bars and dance halls had. Fun fact, due to the nature of the jukebox the film on Soundies is usually reversed. Swing dancers looking for old footage on...
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  Some random observations about the vegan community from someone marrying a vegan and who lives in LA and is familiar with many of the vegan restaurants in the study (and might have had the author over at his house once,...
• Commented on Videos from stage production of Little Brother
  My brother is the director of a high school theater department in AZ, he would FLIP if this material were made available on CC. Even if it weren't free, if you had to pay a royalty it usually isn't much....
• Commented on BB Video: "Web of Love," Prescient '60s Homage to Online Dating (Oddball Video)
  Will all the awesome Scopitone love you've bene displaying, you guys should do a piece on Soundies, the 1940's video jukebox that predated the Scopitone. My exposure to Soundies began while a swing dancer in LA. Swing dance historians use...
• Commented on Lisztomania
  Oh I forgot. The last ten minutes involves an epic rock battle between Liszt and Wagner, who (spoiler alert!) reveals himself to be a bloodthirsty vampire. The battle is kickass and rocktastic, and Liszt wins with the power of his...
• Commented on Lisztomania
  In my first film sound class at USC we got a visit from the folks at Dolby. They used a clip from Lisztomania, specifically the last ten minutes, to demonstrate Dolby SR (the lecture was all about the history of...
• Commented on The Least Exciting Moments in Sports
  Least exciting moments in sports: The College Bowl undercard games. Absolutely nothing at stake, both teams getting paid off big time by sponsors and ticket sales, not to mention some of the least interesting matchups in the history of sports...
• Commented on E309: the 5 things you need to know about Nintendo's press conference
  I wouldn't mind using it to track my pulse in Wii Fit. The simulated jogging might be more useful if it measured how well you were doing by your heart rate and not your pacing....
• Commented on Friday Night Zappa
  It's incumbent on any true Zappa fan to visit Vilnius, Lithuania and pay respect to his statue: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=zappa&w=11868335%40N00 Those are the pictures I took during my trip. In general Lithuania is freaking beautiful and everyone should visit, but the Zappa...
• Commented on Swiss Writing Knife
  Isabel also made our wedding bands. We went for the hammered rings, which are absolutely gorgeous. We're REALLY happy with them. Tell her I said thank you!...
• Commented on Everything Is Alive
  Putting aside the debate for a second, y'all should read Rudy Rucker's very funny and quite poignant short story "Panpsychism Proved" for a fictional application of this principle. I love how directly the things Rudy is thinking about translate into...
• Commented on Guest blogger: Rudy Rucker
  Welcome to BB! I'm a huge fan of your work - "Mathematicians in Love" is one of my all-time favorites. I'm really eager to see what you bring to the BB mix. Also, your daughter Isabel made me and my...
• Commented on Zogby poll: 52% of Americans support legalization of pot
  Too bad I wouldn't trust a Zogby poll at all. His polling during the 2008 campaign was laughable. I would love it if the result was true, and I do think that more and more the legalization question has moved...
• Commented on Michael Jackson face appears in Muhammed Ali video: hoax or pareidolia?
  Jacko, Bumaye! Jacko, Bumaye!...
• Commented on BB Exclusive: John Waters on the Origins of Teabagging.
  The NuArt in Los Angeles played that short too. I dunno if they still do....
• Commented on Dubai bashing and 'what-aboutery': Joi Ito
  Antinous - I don't know what the solution is. I just don't like the idea that unless you're writing about solutions that you're doing something negative. Sometimes negativity is necessary, and sunshine on a problem should always be appreciated. Like...
• Commented on Dubai bashing and 'what-aboutery': Joi Ito
  #6 - I imagine the media spotlight was in the same place it was when it was avoiding Wall St's problems. Do you mean to imply that the media's silence during the boom nullifies anything they write about now? If...
• Commented on Dubai bashing and 'what-aboutery': Joi Ito
  The second paragraph you excerpted is really awful. Okay, so the parking lots aren't full of homeless expats. Even so, is there a debtor's prison system that is unfairly imprisoning lots of people? Does it leave people like this lady...
• Commented on Man in "I [Heart] My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for domestic battery
  Ironic hipster violence....
• Commented on Mall rat philosophy in Charlie White's cartoon OMG BFF LOL
  "Do you by any chance live in southern California?" Hey now, let's not accuse someone of generalizing and then generalize some more. (socal represent)...