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Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy

Pity, I tried to look this up http://www.google.com/search?q=Kraft's+new+Vegemite+product but the first ("Getting Lucky") link just takes me to this BoingBoing thread. Recurse you, Kraft corporation!...

Commented on Fon releases open meshing WiFi router

There are a couple of things I haven't liked about FON -- I tried it out and unplugged it a while back. First it forces me to sell instead of give away the service; second it does attribute all the...

Commented on TED2009: Al Gore

And there's more: http://www.nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g01360_upward_looking_sonar/index.html "This data set consists of upward looking sonar draft data collected by submarines in the Arctic Ocean. It includes data from both U.S. Navy and Royal Navy submarines. Maps showing submarine tracks are available. Data are...

Commented on TED2009: Al Gore

And (yes the original is all caps): http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/co2conference/transcripts/day1_gaffney.pdf VICE ADMIRAL GAFFNEY -----excerpt follows----- DATA COLLECTED BY SUBMARINES 0187 1 OVER DECADES INSIDE AN AREA CALLED THE GORE BOX -- 2 ISN'T THAT A STRANGE NAME? – THE US GOVERNMENT TOOK...

Commented on Arizona continued

> Screwfly Solution Q.v.: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/sheldon/sheldon1.html...

Commented on TED2009: Al Gore

> #1: So, what the hell is a vice president > supposed to do? Look it up: nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - "The Navy has collected data for decades on ice thickness in the Arctic, ... The...

Commented on WELL party video, 1989: proto-online social network meetup

I saw Robin (robngail) go by in the background early on. Is this video dowloadable? That'd make it much easier to step through to name more names. Elly, hi!! -- Hank...

Commented on Boing Boing's serialization of The Deal, Chapter 2

Chapter 3 please?...

Commented on Top 10 TED Talks

> #22 posted by Avi Solomon > June 27, 2008 10:47 AM > > I'm looking forward to see Peter Ward's talk Me too, haven't found it. Anyone have a link?...

Commented on Millimeter wave scan machine at Denver Airport

Terahertz radiation increases genomic instability ...[Radiat Res ... Terahertz radiation is increasingly being applied in new and evolving ... [Environ Mol Mutagen. 1999]; Do recorded doses overestimate true doses received by ... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18666810...

Commented on Sony Ericsson makes the futuristic phone I wanted in 1987

Hmmm, this reminds me -- anyone ever build a Bluetooth headset into an ordinary old dial phone handset? I've noticed how many people shout into their cell phones or headsets -- and recall the reason the original Bell handset was...

Commented on SpaceX Falcon 1 craft launch live online (as in, now)

> failed stage separation Do they use explosive bolts, like Soyuz reentry vehicle?...

Commented on Boing Boing's serialization of The Deal, Chapter 2

Got to Ch. 2 -- what character encoding is that 'text' file? Apostrophes and quotation marks are something else. FF 3.01, Mac OSX....

Commented on Boing Boing's serialization of The Deal, Chapter 2

Got to Ch. 2 -- what character encoding is that 'text' file? Apostrophes and quotation marks are something else. FF 3.01, Mac OSX....

Commented on Testicle talc

http://www.google.com/search?q="people's+pharmacy"+crotch+itch...

Commented on New Sedaris audiobook is a DRM-free download

I've come across a surprising number of sites lately that want my email, or my address book, and offer to automagically slurp them off my computer if I just don't say no quickly enough. Brother!...

Commented on European airlines test spycams in every seat that "detect terrorism" in your facial expressions

Oh, sorry, the system was actually focusing on a reflection in your husband's eyeglasses of the movie you were watching, TerrorTerminatorXV, and when Mr. Schwarzenbronner's face came into focus it hit its limit and tased him. The automatic seat-taser will...

Commented on Post-Rapture document delivery

Hysterically funny. I can already predict the after-the-event explanation: "It happened! But God decided to rapture your assets and leave you behind. He took mine and left me, too. Pray with me now, brethren, in the last days ..."...

Commented on Cricket folding, portable laptop stand

Also useful when setting a laptop on any insulating surface like a bed as well as for armoring a carrying bag: http://www.target.com/AirBake-Natural-3-pc-Cookie-Baking/dp/B001329JS8/qid=1212180678/ref=br_1_1/601-5187655-8513701?ie=UTF8&node=13458991&frombrowse=1&rh=&page=1...

Commented on Bruce Sterling's visionary novel Distraction: still brilliant a decade later

Those who haven't read Brunner probably don't know how much they're living in the future he foretold....

Commented on The Giant Pool of Money, Explained

If you liked that, you ought to be reading http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/ Look. Nothing else like it. (That's one of the sources thanked in the NPR program, and is very good thoughtful reading every day.)...

Commented on The lost NY Times steampunk feature

> a sack of gears that she is using to replace > the knobs Brass, no doubt. Wash hands immediately after handling brass. Brass keys, for example: "... source of lead exposure was determined to be my brass office key...

Commented on Nalgene changes plastic recipe amid health concerns

http://www.eastman.com/Company/Corporate_Citizenship/Responsible_Care/Resp_Care.htm "In the mid-1980s, the chemical industry realized that its success would be greatly enhanced by gaining the public's trust...." What do you suppose broght this on? AND --> Where can we take the polycarbonate for recycling, so the bisphenol...

Commented on Satellite to be junked because lunar flyby is patented

I have now patented nuclear warfare, biological warfare, chemical warfare, and rude messages on the Internet. Welcome to the new era of peace and prosperity....

Commented on Feds hand eight-count obscenity charge to porn producer

Well, the homebuilders quit donating. The realtors quit donating The bankers went broke Who else are they going to go to for money? First you threaten to regulate them Then they start supplementing your salary. Politics ........

Commented on The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves

Moonie, dear, the illiterate ones have to ask....

Commented on Man creates vigilante robot to battle drug dealers

> standing on a nearby corner Oh, good reporting sir. And when the drug dealers see this thing in action tonight, will they shoot the guy standing on the nearby corner? And if that doesn't stop the robot, shoot the...

Commented on Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required

This is wonderful. Whose imagery is this, I learned it in the 300-baud modem days --- that using the Net can be akin to walking into a huge dark library and shouting out your question, and having voices from the...

ankh

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