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Commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
If it exists, the Japanese have made a gadget out of it....
Commented on Just look at this awesome banana saver clip.
Funny but unnecessary. Who is unable to finish a banana? And the plastic that thing is made of is probably worse for the environment than just throwing the unfinished banana away....
Commented on Astronaut-guided video tour of the International Space Station
Duct tape is like the force: it has a dark side and a light side and it holds the International Space Station together. Hatches looking fine, keep up the good work....
Commented on Pink Floyd and seizure warning sign
Whether it is ultimately viewed as a cynical story about the futility of life, or a hopeful journey of metaphorical death and rebirth, the Wall is certainly a musical milestone worthy of the title "art."...
Commented on Fancy thermochromic swine flu masks
Great report I saw on BBC News last week showed mothers discussing whether they'd give their 5-year-olds the swine flu vaccination. Most wouldn't. The pros of vaccination far outweigh the cons. Like choosing between 1% chance of dying vs 20%....
Commented on Good News from the Large Hadron Collider
Jardine, come on now, this is the LHC we're talking about here. Of course Gordon Freeman is there, holding a crowbar. http://geeklad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gordon-freeman-lhc.jpg...
Commented on Goldwag: Some thoughts about 9/11 Truth
A list of everything that's suspicious about the official 9/11 story would probably contain into the hundreds of items. One example off the top of my head: there are DOZENS of people on video at the scene at the time...
Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
Wouldn't mind seeing "Reality TV" volunteers go through this....
Commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
Presumably this is supposed to offer something love-dolls don't; but what? To load a truck load of batteries into it so that it sort of freakishly vibrates/moves? And this is supposed to replace human affection? I don't buy it. (hint)...
Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
The rest of the world welcomes our new overlords. Heil USA....
Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag (with pictures of the device in action) "Designed by Adam Harvey, the Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag is designed to deter photographs by reporters or paparazzis. When the device detects camera flash, it will send out a brighter flash...
Commented on JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America
Talk by Naomi Wolf: The End of America....
Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
So it's ok to call somebody a rapist and a murderer as long as you say it's satire?...
Commented on 1,000 surveillance cameras = 1 solved crime in the UK
The UK is fast turning into Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It needs to be said though that the cameras are not just there to solve crimes but also to prevent them. I feel safer walking down the street in the middle...
Commented on "Snow Day," by Emma: 8-year-old girl rocks out massively.
That was indeed awesome. :D Omg, there's a whole bunch of them: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=srmaximo&view=videos...
Commented on Awesome CSS IS AWESOME mug
Why do a table based layout in 5 minutes when you can do a CSS based layout in 5 days? Because CSS is awesome. It would be harder to get onto a mug though....
Commented on Neutrally buoyant balloon
On second thought, scratch that. It's probably just air currents holding it temporarily in that position. Ok. My work is done here. ;)...
Commented on Neutrally buoyant balloon
I think the knot would be at the bottom if the balloon was perfectly spherical, but it isn't....
Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
BoingBoing doesn't practice it's own advise: Why URL shorteners suck. If it's a Twitter issue, isn't it possible to install some script on the web server that unshortens the url's and creates a regular html link? Or give the submitters...
Commented on Florida town orders employees to wear underwear and cover wounds
Banned in Brooksville: the Salli saddle chair....
Commented on Health insurers invest billions in tobacco stocks
Capitalism. I'm not advocating communism -Americans have a thing about this-, but in a capitalistic system you only win if somebody else loses. Is this really so hard to understand? To put it in other words (is this needed?): corporations...
Commented on Stabbing pen, the competition
I'll give you my pen when you take it from my cold, dead fingers!...
Commented on What the world needs now is more shiv cosies
Am I the only one who finds this sick? People carry knives to threaten the health of others. It's not something funny or particularly clever. I'm sure I'm out of step, or I've missed the irony... Maybe it's meant for...
Commented on Ex-drug czar John Walters made a fool on CNN
Why is tobacco legal? Why is alcohol legal? How many people arrested for violent crimes have alcohol in their systems? How many people involved in a car accident have alcohol in their systems? And that moron keeps associating marijuana with...
Commented on doihavepigflu.com
Sure the media likes scaremongering, but pandemics are -pardon the pun- nothing to sneeze at. Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu. Larry Brilliant wants to stop pandemics. (goto 13:00) For the moment however everybody can keep coughing and...
Commented on The Pirate Google: making the point that Google's as guilty of linking to torrents as The Pirate Bay
There is a difference between http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4729001/STEAL_THIS_FILM_____TRIAL_EDITION.4729001.TPB.torrent and http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/...
Commented on Applying behavioral economics to climate change
Preaching to the converted. I don't know about this "community" they speak of in this article. This might work among a group of people who actually care and understand about these issues. But society as a whole couldn't care less,...
Commented on Can scavenger died wealthy
>> "Capitalism rewards good ideas" Bullshit. If all the good ideas made it, the world would not be in the mess it is in now. Then again, define "good idea". These credit default swaps -just an example- definately were an...
Commented on TV news about man with Fir tree growing in his lung
How can somebody inhale such a thing and not remember it? Oh wait... it's Russia. :D...
Commented on Obama's "reset button" metaphor: which is more correct, "restart," "reboot," or "reset"?
Here's the video again of the "reset button" fiasco: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220289&title=Brown-in-the-USA (segment starts around 3:40)...

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Sarah Neptune commented on Just look at this awesome banana saver clip.
We break or cut our bananas and put the part we're not eating back into the fruit drawer in the fridge, no cover needed. That part lasts days. My grandmother just snaps the banana apart - no knife - and one banana, depending on length, can be eaten for several days this way. I've even left part of bananas (unpeeled) on my desk at work and it's fine. Trouble comes, perhaps, from peeling before deciding how much you want....
hbl commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
Make it stop, Cory, please. I get it, I really do, we've shown those creationist that man has shaped the banana to his very will. We've manipulated it, caged it, sliced it, diced it, and created a simulacra of it that will never darken, or rot, or return to the earth from whence it came. But in the words of known bananaphile Gwen Stefani, "This shhh is bananas, bee ay en ay en ay ess"...
Daemon commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
For the curious - the sound effect for peeling a banana is, apparently, "peron"....
WalterBillington commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
But. But. But. How? I can't get my head round this. Is there an apple-coring simulator? Fighting robots, ok, that's fun, but - what does this do for people? Except, obviously, intrigue them. I'm intrigued. And I tell you what else - I can't find another banana gadget on Google that Cory hasn't mentioned - so the next one, I really, really am going to be surprised!...
hjayala commented on Just look at this awesome banana-peeling simulator.
I think the banana series is great. I'm so sick and tired of STAR WARS and NOM NOM NOM and EMO and all that stupid repetitious trash. Seeing the world as reality may be a shock to many readers and other bloggers, but it is wonderful to see how creative people and things are right in our midst, not a billion light years from now. PS Some people think putting a banana in the fridge can make it poisonous. Not true. There are also like 200 different kinds of bananas from ones smaller than a pinkie to ones as long...

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