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• Commented on Custom sonogram cufflinks
  Rapid protoype your skeleton from CT scans....
• Commented on MIT's futuristic, networked bus stop design
  Buses? In America? Land of the free? Praise the lord and pass the Prius....
• Commented on RunPee: when you should leave the movie and have a wee?
  There are plenty of films where the pee start times and end times would coincide with the film start and end times....
• Commented on The Twitter Book, by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein
  This is like having an address book to write email addresses in....
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  If the picture used on the specs is that of the lady who was attacked, I think she should pluck more often....
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  And besides, what if there are two gorillas? One standing next to the other... tricky....
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  Marty Feldman was once attacked by two gorillas simultaneously....
• Commented on Bamboo bike by Ross Lovegrove and Biomega
  Multi material frame too complicated to recycle....
• Commented on London cops mug tourist for his bus-station photos
  Organise a "flash" mob to "photograph" a key location with participants encouraged to bring their old empty film cameras....
• Favorited Knuckleduster umbrella -- Boing Boing Gadgets on Boing Boing
• Commented on TV commercial for a women's razor: "Mow the lawn!"
  Very funny: two lips on the mound, indeed. Could do without the american styley styley, though: we do have a culture of our own in the UK, thanks....
• Commented on Darkly Surreal UK Comedy Masterpiece "Jam"
  Hey, you BB snots, This site used to host all the radio Blue Jam episodes in semi shit quality. http://cabinessence.cream.org/ I can't see it now, but that may be due to work firewall. Google blue jam haddock, and you'll find...
• Commented on Detroit and the future of America
  Try googling "the fabulous ruins of detroit" I remember being fascinated by this 9 years ago....
• Commented on Are the photos of Borneo's monster snake real?
  Video is an option on pretty much any camera these days. The tricky thing for forgers on a budget is all that travelling matte stuff on a moving camera for video jiggery pokery....
• Commented on European Commission demands a single, standard phone charger
  And you can bet that whatever solution is agreed/enforced, the connector will not be symmetrical, so blind folks will still have to piss about orienting it to plug it in. Ha!...
• Commented on Prince Charles: Dharavi slum is a model for sustainable living
  Nouveau pauvre....
• Commented on How to recycle crayons
  @13: were you born in Yorkshire in the 18th century by any chance?...
• Commented on How to recycle crayons
  To make new regular crayons, why don't you try casting in a paper tube. Just roll a kingsize cigarette paper around a pen tightly and secure it with the glue that's already on it. Slide it up the pen, leaving...
• Commented on Slave reunion photo from 1916
  Fascinating image which draws sadness. Who gives a toss whether they're over 100; they're old enough to have lived as captives and as free people....
• Commented on How Homemade Rockets Are Made in Gaza?
  All emotive music backed material such as this should be taken with a pinch of potassium chlorate; it ain't journalism....
• Commented on Bike-light that paints a laser-lit bike-lane on the road around you
  Lasers in built up areas? You are joking?...
• Commented on Electric Bath Duckie
  @2: There has to be a ground pin in order to get the plug into the socket. It doesn't have to be connected inside the plug....
• Commented on Bike parking system in Japan
  I use a Brompton and simply take it everywhere I go: no locks required....
• Commented on Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing
  @2 You use msn IM and get them to relinquish control of their desktop to you....
• Commented on Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing
  When I read stuff like this it makes me realise just how inventive I was nearly 10 years ago....
• Commented on BBC episode rescued by illegal home taper -- the sort of thing the Beeb is stamping out with DRM
  They only make rubbish now, so I wouldn't worry about 30 years hence....
• Commented on Hotel is "proud to be dirty and carry a wide variety of bacteria."
  Unless you are HIV positive, then you might think twice....
• Commented on Stem-cell trachea transplant was endangered by EasyJet: "your cell culture is a security risk"
  What would they expect from a budget airline... mature well paid expertly trained staff who could make snap decisions or underpaid kids barely out of school?...
• Commented on Adaptive Design Ass'n: MAKE Magazine meets the AMA
  Often, from the disabled child's perspective, the "special" chair is reviled; it's another reminder of cripplehood. I speak from personal experience....
• Commented on Books turned into music boxes
  Why destroy perfectly good books when bibles are ten a penny?...