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• Commented on Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
  Trivia (from a Swedish colleague): In .SE, the Govt also hired hordes of school children for a little pocket money, to stand at intersections and point drivers to the "right" side after the turn....
• Commented on Ed Fredkin and the universe as a computer
  Look at the periodic table of elements Top row, two elements. A bit has two values. All other rows = 8 (2^3) elements, element properties are similar for each element of the column. Why 8? Why not 7, 9,...
• Favorited Video: Making a Vacuum Tube By Hand on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  If you're ever in Vegas, go here http://www.pinballmuseum.org/, I think it was featured on BoingBoing previously. Better fun than the entire Strip, and cheaper too, easy to get chatting to the guys who run it too......
• Commented on I Survived the Bush Administration (t-shirt)
  Not directly related, but this is a good a time as any, the following struck me last night: Search youtube for any Charles Manson interview (preferably the longer ones). Don't look at the video, just listen to him, don't focus...
• Commented on Future of News video from 1981: epitome of dumb futurism
  The Internet will allow the spread of "the Good Book", but not of godless heathen sedition. The Internet will speed the spread of information but not of disinformation....
• Commented on Video of a guy who makes his own vacuum tubes
  Umm, guys? You already posted this 9 months ago :) Not that I mind, it is a great video. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/07/video-making-a-vacuu.html See my comment on that occasion, found some background info on the creator. Boingbing: The new Slashdot?...
• Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
  Spätzle = southern German egg noodles, my wife still makes them herself - addictive stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A4tzle...
• Commented on <i>Super Blockquote</i>: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division
  The sentences seem to have the same amount of information and relevance even with half the words gone......
• Commented on Laptop ad from 1893!
  This thing is _begging_ for a Steampunk creation. Have a tiny screen tastefully integrated, with a fold out Fresnel lens like in the movie "Brazil"....
• Commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
  Totally, totally über cool release - havent read this in almost a decade - thanks muchly! I'm 98% sure that this text includes both books "Time of the Dragons" and "Last of the Zinja", can anyone confirm this?...
• Commented on Video: Making a Vacuum Tube By Hand
  The guy is definitely quite old (*), he learnt to do this at a time when you HAD to wind your own filaments - and you were happy about it! :) I guess nobody learns this complete skill set today...
• Commented on David Byrne considers IKEA as a video game
  >>Who lives here? What do they do? Why is that book on the table? Is that significant? Could it be some kind of clue to the occupant’s identity? I know someone who worked at Ikea as a decorator/set designer. She...