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• Favorited Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind video -- baffling mentalism on Boing Boing
• Commented on Overaggressive spam filter
  I dunno if any of my comments got 'trapped', but I am sure a few have gone missing. Personally I am starting to learn the fact that commenting is probably not really something thats worthwhile, blog post comments aren't threaded...
• Commented on TED talk about cool materials for toys and other uses
  This was an interesting talk but the presentation was awkward however the stuff they present while many people will go 'WTF this isn't all that innovative' well thats the point with this talk most of these ideas were brainstorms, they...
• Commented on Palin Brutally Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy
  Listening to this I found it hilariously funny, maybe because I am Canadian, and numerous CBC comedians have had regular access to our politicians, and while they might not always come off the best they snicker about it nonetheless. It...
• Commented on BBC admits that TV detector vans only work because Britons believe they do
  I wonder if you use a computer to download BBC shows and watch them that way... (outside of BBC web presence I mean) you are not getting them via broadcast someone ELSE who paid the cost did, so therefore you...
• Commented on Wars and social unrest lead to more zombie movies?
  Oh great does that mean we have to instigate wars and social unrest so I can get my fix of the living dead? And I thought Zombie Movies were only just enjoyable educational materials for the coming apocalypse. But as...
• Commented on You've got mail... <em>chainmail</em>, to be precise
  Its long its tedious but the only way to really trust the mail you are wearing is if you make it yourself. You might not always have time with the zombies at your back (those people from Britain have it...
• Commented on Blu-ray's thriller app: making you install firmware upgrades before playing disks
  Best thing ever, DVDs with no menu's just drop them in and most DVD players don't even need for yout o push play... its the only thing I burn of all those movies I download... a thing of beauty my...
• Commented on Paul Spooner's Amorous Automaton (SFW)
  This was too cute for words... the punchline was priceless......
• Commented on Jack Thompson disbarment listed
  Couldn't happen to a more worthier fellow....
• Commented on Ancient mummy hair suggests drug use
  Terrence McKenna, when he was alive and giving lectures and the like used to discuss often about the idea that early proto humans received their increase in brain size due to systemic use of mushrooms and other psychedelia.. its just...
• Commented on German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
  The funny thing is that they refer to the Muppet as Ernie from Sesame Street as whats in the photo. Granted in other references they do refer to the fact this driver has been known to change the muppet in...
• Commented on Tracks
  Got some nice racks err Tracks there, yeah I meant to say TRACKS, I was only off by ONE letter Come on guys!...
• Commented on Tuvan Throat-Singing Rap by Ondar, with the voice of Richard Feynman
  For a fairly obscure subject (Tuvan Throat Singing) how is it I am hearing about it like every few days now... there was a short segment in a recent True Blood episode with Tuvan throat singing and another of my...
• Commented on New US RFID passports manufactured offshore at a huge profit, transported by unsecured couriers
  Capitalism its the American way....
• Commented on Librarian fined $500 for saying nice things about his daughter's book
  Far be it to try and get darn kids to read Shakespeare. Oh well at least he wasn't in Canada the fine might be higher because it wasn't completely original Canadian content he was pushing....
• Commented on Woman who has spent her life smelling like a rotten fish is diagnosed with genetic condition
  Granted its not the same condition, but in school I studied a similar condition in which a person can suffer from a malodorous smell, but that a method of taking care of such things was electrolysis, and I am not...
• Commented on Gabe and Max's Guide to Man Style
  I still say these two and Dave Hill getting together destroys the universe....
• Commented on The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg tests airport security
  New module for SPOT http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Bruce_Schneier_1.jpg http://www.jeffreygoldberg.net/global/images/goldberg.jpg Don't let on the plane....
• Commented on DHS perfects the abusive EULA
  Why does anyone care anymore, the America experiment has failed... rights and freedoms which you people used to point towards as being the basis of all that was good and holy have been removed. The experiment is over... and you...
• Commented on How to make cocaine
  Its interesting that this is such a complex process, how a person was able to determine the procedure as to create a highly potent drug from just a mild version you would get from the coca leaf. But the ingenuity...
• Commented on Homes made from shipping containers
  #2 EOSHA Has the right idea... there is potentially a lot of business for a company that is willing to grab a bunch of containers, make them habitable, ship them, and finish the setup on site. Until that is the...
• Commented on <em>Boing Boing Gadgets</em> explains: "Just How The Hell Did I End Up In Infomercia?"
  Someone passed out the electric kool aid and the special sugarcubes didn't they... for a second I thought the worshippers of the invisible pink unicorn took over or something. To say the least... this is fucked up. Not to say...
• Commented on SteelSeries to release 15 button <em>World of Warcraft</em> mouse
  15 buttons, I guess you could macro in all sorts of stuff and when you accidentally press the wrong one and accidentally aggro Arthas causing your entire party to wipe worse than what Leroy Jenkins did you don't have to...
• Commented on Video about Tarvusim
  I love this, almost a direct parody of some of the $cieno propaganda I have seen. @17 Sumi: Regarding the neckties, I cannot say this group was attempting to parody another cult purposely but one of the LGATs (Large Group...
• Commented on Xbox 360 Arcade needs additional storage to run latest update
  Buying an XBox with an HD vs an Arcade version is like a massive large steak vs a mcdonalds hamburger... its about cost for a lot of people, the console is great, but buying the ultimate editions of it you...
• Commented on Cool photoblog: elders with style
  I have to also say great site... its like reading 'Street' but better dressed. I don't mind seeing crazy fashion styles but seeing people wear the classics the way they are supposed to be worn... shows you WHY they are...
• Commented on NSA enjoys eavesdropping on US soldiers' phone sex calls
  Information: If its collected, it can and will be abused, the only way it won't be abused, is to not collect it in the first place....
• Commented on Ford will offer special key for teen drivers that changes vehicle features
  Honestly I only really want to see someone crack open the source code and see what other 'options' a person could have made available or not available but were eventually left out of the final product... I mean imagine a...
• Commented on I just watched <em>Aliens</em> for the first time
  There is at least two versions of Aliens out there, when I saw the first I was a kid and I thought it was pretty kick ass, but then 'Blowed em up good' was kind of my movie ratings system...