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• Commented on DIY Low-NRG Fridge: Coolest Ice Box Ever?
  Just for context, how much energy is a regular fridge of similar size using? (or similar storage capability, given that you can't exactly stack things on top of a carton of milk) When I built a keg system, I considered...
• Commented on Olympic cyclist predicts the future of bicycles
  how do you put a rack on it? or will we not need to carry things in 20 years?...
• Commented on Awesome jump blues/swing duo doing "Nagasaki"
  They swing those vocals so hard.. it's like molasses on top of that icy crisp big band.. Go watch everything Peter has up on youtube....
• Commented on Torchwood, reviewed (Metzger likes it)
  I found Torchwood pretty unwatchable - compared with Doctor Who.. I don't know if it makes any sense, but it felt like they did a very bad job of trying to make an american style action show. Nice to read...
• Commented on Piglet with monkey face
  Gerta, couldn't it be a NODAL or TDGF1 mutation? .. I'm not a biologist, but homologous genes in model organisms do that same kind of fun cyclops thing. or is it just that it's more likely that environment disrupted development...
• Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
  It's not he-said-she-said - even the police narrative is nothing more than a long version of "I arrested him because he was REALLY REALLY angry with me, even though I had figured out nothing illegal was happening"...
• Commented on Mysterious Youtube Videos of Famous Dancer
  See, I know this is all bunk because Vaslav Nijinsky isn't either of the Nicholas brothers, and therefor can't be considered the greatest dancer of the 20th century....
• Commented on HP releases classic scientific calculator emulators for iPhone
  I agree about $30 being worth it for an hp48 emulator - I've been using hp calculators since I was a little kid, since my dad was an engineer at hp, but since the second half of that life has...
• Commented on Tweet (#2209282025)
  is it immediately jailbreakable, or should I wait?...
• Commented on Cats getting stoned on catnip
  My cat does all of that rolling around and licking and cheek rubbing without the presence of catnip, a narrator, or ominous music. I'm not saying it's complete bullshit, but there's definitely plenty of bullshit gooping around in that video....
• Commented on Praying man gets tazed by police and escapes
  Do Canadian cops have to tell you too? crazy zealot victim guy sounded Canadian....
• Commented on Praying man gets tazed by police and escapes
  It's almost like torturing crazy people is somehow not effective....
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  This doesn't do half as much as my Dr. Bronner's! ...all one or none... ...all one or none......
• Commented on Wolfram|Alpha is Live
  even with it's limitation that it only knows about human genes - I thought, ok, let's let it do some math over that data. it couldn't deal with "average length in bp of human genes"...
• Commented on A week with the Verizon MiFi personal hotspot (Verdict: The best 3G device yet)
  I haven't messed with tethering, but assuming you have an unlocked iphone and you set up tethering - would this device work better in some way? is the performance better, or is it just that the setup is easy and...
• Commented on Myka, the set-top box I talk myself out of buying in just over 300 words
  The neuros link site says it's a 2.8gz athlon, from what I remember, the appleTV is a 1gz pentium-m.. This is a cool thread - I'd never heard of the neuros link before, but it sounds an awful lot like...
• Commented on Myka, the set-top box I talk myself out of buying in just over 300 words
  Isn't that why you use a cheap cpu married to a gpu that has driver support? you're still sharing the work between devices, but you get the benefit of software updates. (or at least, more software updates than you can...
• Commented on Myka, the set-top box I talk myself out of buying in just over 300 words
  Seriously, put together something cheap built around the 780g chipset - the motherboard has hdmi out & optical digital output. Mine is hooked happily up to my TV & receiver. All that I remember about the cpu I bought was...
• Commented on Myka, the set-top box I talk myself out of buying in just over 300 words
  I have like a flock of ubuntu machines - I actually got back into using linux years ago in part because I wanted to use it for media stuff.. my backend server runs ubuntu still - but I actually ended...
• Commented on Welcome, <em>Wired</em>. We call this land "Internet"
  I read nearly half of the last Harry Potter book displayed sideways on my thinkpad, so I could hold it like a book*. Reading on a screen is ok for me. Has the iphone made any kind of real dent...
• Commented on Welcome, <em>Wired</em>. We call this land "Internet"
  I feel like such an insider reading this. I clicked over to that Cougar Ace article, and it looks really good and I want to read it - but it's also intimidating to try and read it in the little...
• Commented on A New Kind of Search
  It doesn't do all that well with bioinformatics, because it seems to assume human is the only species for which biological data is detailed.. trying to get information about, say, a mouse gene will get you info about that gene...
• Commented on We may or may not have refreshed <em>BBG</em>
  I don't get stars, I get little character symbol boxes with numbers in them. using firefox & ubuntu jaunty (my initial reaction to the redesign isn't terribly positive, but I can give it some time.. I think I might like...
• Commented on This picture of an ATM put a vegan anarchist in jail
  There's a law against taking pictures of ATMs? citation please..?...
• Commented on This picture of an ATM put a vegan anarchist in jail
  I really wanna know what he was arrested for....
• Commented on Capsule office by Iwan Baan
  I think it would be fine if I didnt have to share it with anyone. ...and I could have a decent chair....
• Commented on On Being Gizmodoed, Boing Boinged and Hydrogenated
  I was going to make this comment the first time around, but the thread seemed dead and I moved on.. A little bit ago a friend of mine who plays classical music professionally needed to rehearse for an audition, so...
• Commented on Windows 7 Starter Edition: The Final Insult
  Geekman, My research was that the the hacked iphone had more life in it's open source community than the phones that didn't require a jailbreak.. so it's working out ok, it's just that apple's restrictions are lame in the same...
• Commented on Windows 7 Starter Edition: The Final Insult
  Amen to the crippled OSX on an iphone as the ultimate rebuttal to that essay. I have an iphone, and it's so crippled that they actively fight to stop me from running a bash shell. That's ridiculous. With ubuntu, I...
• Commented on Trivia: We spill a lot of gas on our lawnmowers
  I love how domestic the blog has gotten since you moved to Eugene... since I live here too and once the weather gets nice, it seems so natural to start nerding out about lawn mowers and weed whackers. I have...