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• Commented on Tip For Aspiring Cable Vandals: Read The Newspaper
  Aw shoot, now I notice the mention of a similar event in San Carlos, I eat crow now....
• Commented on Tip For Aspiring Cable Vandals: Read The Newspaper
  "South of San Francisco". Hands in the air for everyone who hasn't heard of San Jose? Sorry, always feel like my neighborhood is the ugly stepsister in the closet when musical acts hit SF and Oakland but ignore South Bay......
• Commented on Is <em>Six Days in Fallujah</em> too soon?
  IMHO, only too soon if they make it a video game. Read: everyone's an enemy, shoot everything that moves, you win when everyone else is dead. Personally, I think it'd be far more interesting to have innocent civilians and have...
• Commented on Razer Mamba and Microsoft SideWinder X8 mice reviewed (Verdict: Both excellent)
  Why not Bluetooth? Bluetooth mice/keyboards seem to be a true rarity. Bluetooth trackballs all but fiction....
• Commented on Le Whif, a chocolate inhaler
  #1: LOL I thought it was called "huffing". Oh......
• Commented on Ancient flatbed scanjet plays Imperial March
  Please for the love of the Emperor, re-do the video with a quiet room and a proper mic! That's an awesome idea, too bad the audio is sooooo bad, I can almost understand the background conversation....
• Commented on Komodo dragons kill man
  #18: true, plus how long did it take for the guy to die? I am guessing he died a fair amount of time later (he at least made it to the clinic which may have been on another island even,...
• Commented on Flammable water
  Dumb question, how do they use a water heater without posing a huge fire hazard? Or did they never turn on the hot water (after all, ya get the ultimate hot water at the tap. ;) Yeah, it seems that...
• Commented on Generic vaporizers offer Volcano-class features for half the price
  Marketplace.org had a story on how they're pushing the Volcano as a tool in the high-end kitchen. Which will drive the price up more, the drug culture or the haute cuisine culture? Maybe Viking will come out with a chunky...
• Commented on Review: An hour with the Acoustibuds
  a friend constantly replaces his Apple bluetooth headset pads and occasionally his headset 'cause he loses the pads and wears the rubbery ring on the set...This seems like a nice solution for him, he doesn't need high-quality sound, just reliable...
• Commented on Manufacturer confirms chip: iPod headphones now have the Apple Tax; Update: Apple confirms no DRM, authentication, just licensing
  I'd like a leg and wing of crow, lightly breaded and dusted with salt and pepper, and fried 'til tender. (Mmm, Korean fried chicken == heaven.) Seriously, though, I am not fond of the whole "license our technology to get...
• Commented on High-tech mousetrap gains engineer a new friend
  Excellent post, amazing photos, thanks! Technically the strobe/camera had nothing to do with the trap, but I do like the "teetering cutting board with the food on the end with a trashcan below" technique, very nice! (For folks trying this...
• Commented on We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? (Update: It is not!)
  #72/Morcheeba: ah, thanks, I thought it was a separate board stuffed behind the board with the buttons. (Wonder how hard it'd be to get a logic probe in on the traces? I'm guessing they epoxied the whole board so it'd...
• Commented on We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? (Update: It is not!)
  Some serious questions for ya, since you have this opened already. What does the back of the board look like? Can you describe the other chips? Can you tell how many pins the chip has? A digital chip would need...
• Commented on Lon Chaney night hosted by James Morrow, Seattle, next Monday
  Aw crap, not only am I a big fan of Morrow (Towing Jahovah is an amazing novel) but also of classic horror...And I was *just up in Seattle* this last week. D'oh! Timing imperfect......
• Commented on The Cult of Mac Mini
  Surprising, how? Number of responses, or...what was your expectation? Full disclosure, I have 2 mini's and am considering buying a new one and moving my wife off her PPC mini. Silence is golden....
• Commented on Replace Hardcovers with a Bunch of Big Signs
  I heard (years ago) that hardbacks had the same manufacturing cost as the equivalent book in paperback (I assume trade paperback.) FUD?...
• Commented on Epson R-D1xG rangefinder camera isn't for plebes, but is pleasantly knobby
  #1: shutter *lever*, not shutter level, yah? Although as someone who often takes pics off-level, I would love to see a point-and-shoot digital camera with a level (or a high-sensitivity accelerometer and software to indicate when the shot is level.)...
• Commented on Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones.
  #37/Rob, thanks for the clarification. I seriously didn't know what BB's relationship was with Wired, and was obviously mistaken about it being an ownership relationship. #43/HJack, agreed 100%. Oh, and I'm sure Apple has cried all the way to the...
• Commented on Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones.
  #26: Hmm, if he works for Wired, doesn't that make him a journalist? Do BB writers use the blog in order to get press credentials to events? A little bit of full-disclosure hurts nobody. #28/Rob: I am aware of BoingBoing's...
• Commented on Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones.
  Rob, it would behoove you (as it does any journalist) to fully disclose that you work(ed?) for Wired magazine. http://www.bornrich.org/entry/cool-geek-of-the-week-rob-beschizza/...
• Commented on Amusement park offers surveillance footage of you as a souvenir
  #28: 'zactly, bring along a high intensity LED attached to your hat. IR LED might be interesting/fruitful. Ok, besides the "omfgmyprivacy!" and "whatsthebigdeal?", my first reaction was, "cool, what sort of creative ways can we interact with this system?" Seems...
• Commented on Time lapse of snails slithering amok
  I love snails, with a nice layer of butter and olive oil. Seriously though, I water in the early early morning (less likely to cause root rot). That many snails can't be good for your yard. But the time-lapse video...
• Commented on Stranding on the edge of the Hoover Dam, a copper blue cable artifact
  #3: correct (at least in 2007 when I was there.) I have my little segment of history on my window sill at work. At some point it was worth more in raw copper than the $5 I was charged for...
• Commented on Medieval Suits of Armor
  "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses?"...
• Commented on OpenPandora gaming handheld nears final design
  Yeah, looks like a bunch of Linux devs designed it. If I want a gaming device with a keyboard, I use my laptop. (Or on-screen keyboard of a DS or iPhone.) Oh, and love the shift key placement too, nothing...
• Commented on The world's largest vacuum chamber
  Perfect accessory to the biggest wind tunnels in the world, at NASA Ames. Largest cross-section is 80'x120'. http://www.windtunnels.arc.nasa.gov/nfac.html See it off 101 just south of the Google campus, or find it on Google Earth/Maps. Given that the tunnels pulls air...
• Commented on Ours is not to question why: Paul Robertson's Cakedogg and Presentcat
  I did not need to see that avatar. NSFW...
• Commented on Samsung Lapfit secondary monitors are exact height of primary display
  Actually, this is quite useful if you want to visualize stereo data in full resolution/refresh rate, either using the cross-eyed technique or using prismatic eyeglasses. Or you can just buy two identical monitors for your desktop, but this is more...
• Commented on BBC hoodwinked into running ad for magical cell phone
  Oh hey, kinda like the Palm Pre, that Boing Boing touted as wonderful and cool and great. Where do I buy one? Oh yeah, they aren't out yet. I'll put $20 that at least one significant feature will be missing...