Rob Cruickshank

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• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  "Reborn" to "undead" with a just flick of the wrist....
• Commented on Anatomical vegetarian ad
  Usually it's a very bad thing to have a leek in your trachea....
• Commented on Art Predicting Life
  If you're in the habit of hanging around naked, with a naked kid (winged or not), telescopes, monkeys and a pug in the room, you might want to pull the drapes. Just sayin'....
• Commented on Crop Art Is For Everyone!
  Crop art Katamari: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84221353@N00/1396613013/...
• Commented on HOWTO remember to retrieve food after a playdate
  Didn't they do this in The Ice Storm? Oh. Not that kind of playdate....
• Commented on Here come the airport rectal exams!
  Did you hear about the terrorist who managed to commit suicide in Gitmo by using an ass-bomb? He ended his sentence with a semi-colon....
• Commented on Big-ass flying boats full of water save LA from fiery doom!
  There's a Martin Mars pool on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/martinmars/ My sister lives in Port Alberni, and I've seen these planes close-up. There's nothing else like them....
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  If you substitute the Keyboard Cat music, all the hand-slapping works way better. I'm sure someone out there could sync up a nice edit. Pleeze?...
• Commented on Humanthesizer: humans painted with conductive ink to trigger sounds
  Just sad. It gives the whole "T&A + electronics" genre a bad name. Now if someone would find a link to the videos of Godfried-Willem Raes' SensoPole that were yanked from youtube, that would be more like it. For now,...
• Commented on US border station scraps sign that says "United States" because terrorists might attack it
  @ #18 danlalan: If the threat level at your swimming pool is raised from yellow to brown, get out immediately!...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  Bee vac to the rescue! http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/02/how_to_build_a_bee_vacuum.html...
• Commented on Last Galapagos Pinta turtle finally knocks up a mate's eggs
  I hope we'll soon hear about this tortoise and his heir....
• Commented on Pea shooter traditionalists decry use of laser sights at annual competition
  Clearly, this man believes in peas through superior firepower....
• Commented on Man arrested for defacing TV at Sears
  Now he's probably thinking (with apologies to the late Koko Taylor) "That dang wang doodle!"...
• Commented on Airplane toilet gobbles a whole roll of TP
  Does this still work if the plane is on a giant treadmill, instead of flying?...
• Commented on The Devil's Kettle
  This is a very cool spot, and quite a nice campground too. Here's a closer look at the mysterious hole: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84221353@N00/1396615711/...
• Commented on Girl who claimed her face was tattooed while sleeping comes clean
  Oh my God, it's full of stars!...
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  @45: As takuan points out, the monkeys do have (kinda greasy) fur- which no doubt helps, but yeah, it was reasonably cold out, about 0 C, and we couldn't figure out how they managed to stay warm. They did fight...
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  I once took pictures of those famous Japanese hot spring snow monkeys with a stereoscopic camera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_Realist The lenses of the camera look like eyes, and boy, did they hate that. Almost as much as they hated each other....
• Commented on Are the photos of Borneo's monster snake real?
  I'm saddened that the link went to Scientific American. I'm old enough to remember Sci Am as a magazine that didn't suck....
• Commented on Fish with transparent head
  @#27: It would have to be this Hemi, of course: http://www.musclecarcalendar.com/las_vegas_15.htm...
• Commented on Heart-shaped pizza - reality vs. advertisment
  Maybe there's a marked for a "swollen kidney" shaped pizza....
• Commented on Futuristic cities inside your PC
  @ Kingofcats: There's a retro-futuristic steampunk skyscraper in every vacuum tube....
• Commented on Helicopters for everyone!
  @ned613: It's a mail bag....
• Commented on Helicopters for everyone!
  Autogyros for everyone: http://www.start-flying.com/new%20site/how_to_fly_autogyros.htm...
• Commented on How to make smokable freebase caffeine
  Remarkably steady camerawork, under the circumstances....
• Commented on Reporting from Banff for BoingBoing
  There's a nice add-on for google earth to show the peaks of the Canadian rockies: http://www.peakfinder.com/GE_Peaks.htm And make sure to go to the Indian Trading Post to see the mermaid....
• Commented on The Butterfly Dance
  @4 and 7: There's an interesting article on the history of frame rates here: http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/18_kb_2.htm...
• Commented on Armless man steals TV
  And they didn't catch him red-handed, either....
• Commented on "MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS ARE REAL!"
  I bought some for a girlfriend who was in nursing school. We took her stethoscope to them and were both freaked out by the sound of the larvae in there....