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• Commented on Chumby Guts for sale at Maker Shed
  Back when men were men, we'd hunt down a wild chumby and gut it on the spot....
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  "...the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." What if it's the gun hanging over the mantle? All...
• Commented on Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China
  Space Toast@5 LogopolisMike@6 Actually I'd say commenting on her gorgeous appearance is perfectly good. The whole point is that short of a greater propensity for melanin production, and lovely and unique features she is no different from a "purely" Chinese...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  New Rule for fanbois (The Golden Jobs Rule): Would Steve Jobs put up with using a specific "feature" on a daily basis? And we're not taking J.Random Fanboi who is always ready to blame any deficiency of Apple on himself,...
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Stupid idea, holy water is used to fight vampires not swine flu. And this is triggered by infrared sensing. But vampires are room temperature. Furthermore it squirts a bit on the hands, which has some impact on vampires but is...
• Commented on Ken Seagall on his old boss
  nixiebunny@1 No that's not a particularly good skill. A great boss convinces his people that they can improve upon perfection and that they must to keep the company going. A boss who convinces the customer that the product is perfect...
• Commented on Radical Militant Librarian tee
  Looks like something Yomiko Readman and her friends in ROD would wear...
• Commented on Apple 1984 ad, updated for 2009
  If only Jobs knew what the Cossacks were doing!!! If only there were competing GSM carriers in the US that could compete for better service. Then Jobs could play the two off of each other for better service! And of...
• Commented on As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
  Cant hold a candle to RoboGeisha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig Especially with regard to the special effects...
• Commented on Camera iPods: game over for cheap digicams
  Several problems: a.) Cameras on every cellphone are a big enough problem in secure or sensitive areas, much less locker rooms or the like. b.) Pocket cameras have zoom lenses, autofocus, image stabilization, and last but not least a 1/4-20...
• Commented on Dreamworks to make ViewMaster: The Movie
  But is it going to be in 3D?...
• Commented on Verizon locks customers out of phone upgrades (Update: Freedom!)
  This is why I do prepaid (virgin), you take a hit on buying the phone, but you own it outright, and you can cut off service at will. Very happy w/ my Virgin Kyocera m2000 XTC...
• Commented on Europe, meet your new phone charger standard
  Charlie @ #5 You forgot to mention that the micro-USB on the n810 isn't for charging, its data only. The n810 also has a tiny Nokia coax for charging. It's a pity because my new Kyocera x-tc has a micro-USB...
• Commented on Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco
  Say, I've got an idea: what if they stopped playing mad pope emporer of your telephone and let you install any code you wanted on your property? The problem in that assertion in the case of the iPhone and the...
• Commented on 9.7-inch Kindle DX brings big screen to e-book reader
  #6 on note taking So basically given the Kindle "kill switch" all ur notes belong to Amazon. The kill switch coupled with the DRM coupled with having to pass everything through Amazon to load it onto the Kindle coupled with...
• Commented on Chunky crapgadget used to conduct the US census (kind of)
  To some extent I'm w/ #2 on this one. Check out the computers the UPS/FedEx guy carries. Big ugly clunky but they can take a drop down a flight of stairs into a puddle. Also keep in mind that the...
• Commented on I Love Charts
  coming soon: Sgt. Tufte and his howling visualizers...
• Commented on Pointless speculation about the next iPhone's camera
  It is pointless to speculate, since, of course it will be teh greatest camera evah!!! In fact when the photos taken with it do not match reality it is reality itself which is at fault: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/13/photon-gating-makes.html...
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• Commented on Obama turned the Queen of England into a copyright crook!
  Goodness, have they started the impeachment hearings yet?...
• Commented on Honda builts brain-to-robot interface for Asimo
  Can I has Angelic Layer? see at the 6 Min point....
• Commented on Democratic North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan Saw What Was Coming (and no one listened!)
  What you mean "we"? My mom (who can remember the last Great Depression and worked for the FDIC), said the same thing. As did PBS Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html It was and is a no brainer....
• Commented on Old inline iPod/iPhone adapters don't work in new Shuffle
  Now they just have to incorporate a serial number so users can't exchange or replace earphones. That, and a hidden superglue dispenser that bonds the earbuds permanently to the eardrums....
• Commented on Oldie but Baddie: The Etherkiller
  Power over Ethernet (PoE) ur doin it wrong! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet...
• Commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
  Actually I'd love to have my bank (which is quite solvent) run with a tenth of the efficiency the DMV and the post office run at. My last two visits to the CA DMV were incredibly fast, you get an...
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  This morning, I finally put my finger on what was so horribly wrong with this post. It is fundamentally un-American, and antithetical to the founding principles of our nation. The basis for the relationship between church and state in America...
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  Replace "atheist" with "jew" and see how this reads. Pretty ugly isn't it? Generally Atheism is the only belief system which can be publicly vilified without retribution....