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• Commented on LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype
  MattF: even so, check out the Cree LR6 or LR4 (depending on the size of your fixtured) for a quality LED bulb that fits in a regular light bulb socket....
• Commented on LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype
  MattF: The problem there is that the LED light itself rejects most of the heat from the back of the fixture, which is the opposite of how an incandescent bulb behaves. So normally you need an LED light and fixture...
• Commented on LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype
  Very interesting article! Certainly not the usual boingboing fare, but I like it. Can you comment on specific brands? What do you think of the architectural lighting developed by Cree? They claim to be paying a lot of attention to...
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Why don't they just go ahead and rename it "Diabetes"?...
• Commented on SWAT team raids orchid grower for fudging import paperwork
  It's so easy for these right-wing sites to troll Mark. Mark, you have posted these kinds of things from the Washington Times and from Reason many times, and it's usually less than 10 minutes before they are debunked. Remember the...
• Commented on US Senate cyber security bill sparks debate, "internet takeover" fears
  Declan McCullagh hasn't been right about anything in the ten years I've been subjected to his omnipresent screeds. Why should we take this any more seriously than those ridiculous cut-and-pasted articles from Reason magazine that Mark reposts here, which are...
• Commented on Science of BBQing
  The trick to enjoying BBQ is to not invite the uptight food safety gasbags....
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  It doesn't have anything to do with architecture. It has everything to do with giving away national park land to private interests....
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  #30 No, but Central Park was also never used as a political pawn for Newt Gingrich to simultaneously indulge his love of privatization and give liberal San Francisco the finger, which is the reason the Presidio became the only National...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Anonymous #17: I note the distinction between "lives in the area" and "lives in San Francisco." There are undoubtedly a great number of people in the Bay Area who enjoy driving to, around, and in San Francisco, but it is...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Antinous: normally I just enjoy the wonderful things without comment, but do feel compelled to chip in when the post is full or wrong, like this one, or when Mark posts one of those ridiculous works of fiction ripped from...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Supposedly the LDAC has 1500 employees....
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Here's Nancy Pelosi in 1996, during her capitulation to the Republicans on the issue of privatizing the Presidio: REP. NANCY PELOSI: In the law that exists and in the law that I am advocating we say that there cannot be...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Don't try to blame this on vague "preservationists". Fisher is a megalomaniac and his demands are incompatible with everybody. He wants the collection to remain intact and never be broken up. He wants his estate to retain complete control over...
• Commented on Geodesic dome solar greenhouse for growing vegetables
  I don't think putting the word "solar" in front of the word "greenhouse" adds any valuable information. All greenhouses are solar....
• Commented on Mario recreation on India's Got Talent
  Boring and tedious inside joke confused for talent, once again....
• Commented on iPhone app lets you squash Wall Streeters
  These fake names of famous Wall St houses are pretty funny, but by far my favorite riff on financial collapse is "Capital None"....
• Commented on Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco
  That's a ridiculous assertion Rosenkrantz and quite frankly it would only be mouthed by the uncritical sycophants who hang on every of Steve Jobs' words as if they were gospel truth. You can load whatever code you want onto your...
• Commented on Magic Lantern: a filmmaker-friendly firmware replacement for the Canon 5D Mark II
  Seems it also disables the right audio channel....
• Commented on Rocket Making for Amateurs - Another Living Dangerously Art
  Wheat flour also forms explosive clouds....
• Commented on DIY breast lump examination gadget
  #10: does mammography improve outcomes? There was recently an article in the popular press (NY Times etc) regarding how prostate screening apparently has a negative impact on outcomes due to the detection and needless treatment of otherwise benign ... prostate...
• Commented on Dave Hill's Chihuahua Dance
  Amazing what passes for comedy these days....
• Commented on 1800s surgical kit unboxed
  #15 I had exactly the same reaction. Bonesaw + Kritzkrieg == victory....
• Commented on Ankle weights save tippy strollers from forgetful parents (like me)
  Touché, moderator....
• Commented on Ankle weights save tippy strollers from forgetful parents (like me)
  Another good solution is to throw the stroller in the trash. Nobody needs one....
• Commented on Slow motion video of grid of magnets lining up after being disturbed
  Super-obnoxious advert at the end, and the video can't be paused/stopped while the ad is playing. Particularly annoying after silent content!...
• Commented on Tonga Room, San Francisco's magnificent tiki bar: doomed?
  Whoops, looks like I'm the ignoramus here. My colleague points me to the drawings where this Tonga destruction has been proposed. Eek....
• Commented on Tonga Room, San Francisco's magnificent tiki bar: doomed?
  This is pure, unvarnished ignorance. The Fairmont building which is being turned into condos is the tower across the street from the Fairmont Hotel, on Sacramento St. The Tonga Room is in the hotel proper, off California St....
• Commented on Playlist of great movie themes
  Brilliant! I really enjoyed listening to this all the way through....
• Commented on Device alerts drivers to red-light and speed cameras
  A similar effect can be achieved by driving under the speed limits and not running red signals....