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• Commented on Best Buy allegedly sells brick in a box ... <em>again</em>
  ♪ I put my brick in a box...
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Favorited Untitled 1 on Boing Boing
• Commented on What does being the "Official Blog Partner" of CES actually mean?
  Oh it's a Tuesday... Wow this is so sad Joel, sorry to say but get back to writing about gadgets and don't whine about how others have done well. It's a sponsorship / promotional title, that's how business works that's...
• Commented on <em>Boing Boing Gadgets</em> explains: "Just How The Hell Did I End Up In Infomercia?"
  The post fails to mention upcoming superpower gdgttia... Infomarcia should be fearing them....
• Commented on <em>Gizmodo</em> reviews LASIK (Verdict: having your eyeball sucked out of your skull and sliced open with a laser hurts.)
  I still never quite understand the differences between LASIK and LASEK... but I do know that eye surgery is some of the safest and most sucessful......
• Commented on Boombox from THE AWESOME FUTURE
  it's a mini hifi system and it's sold out because it's discontinued I believe......
• Commented on Brain implant results in non-stop self-stimulation
  First I thought sex addiction was a lame excuse to get some attention. But this seems pretty severe....
• Commented on Strawberry found inside tomato, says gardener
  It's such a hoax!!...
• Commented on Mom accused of stealing daughter's identity to attend highschool and become a cheerleader
  pool party at the cheerleading coach's house. Something else that they should be investigating? Isn't this a bit weird or is that commonplace in the US?...
• Commented on Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener
  Well although I do understand that it was completely unreasonable for him to be suspended, I think a lot was overlooked here. The child was described as a good student, well in (primary) school that makes you prone to bullying...
• Commented on "What your global neighbors are buying" - Superb interactive graph at NY Times
  Sorry, but this was on digg a few days ago and it was pointed out what a bad map this is. a) A lot of the countries are the same colour, making it hard to differenciate between spending at a...
• Commented on Adam Savage inhales sulphur hexafluoride
  @5: Yeah not like it doesn't go into the lungs, pass into the blood stream kill some Haemoglobin and what not......
• Commented on Would someone make a movie with dot matrix business cards?
  Not EVEN Patrick Bateman would be jealous of that. @VIADD probably not -_-...
• Commented on Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities
  @ Thebes : Discovery deciding not to air an episode of MB as it may harm their advertising revenues is a moronic idea of suppression of free speech....
• Commented on Electropop remix of the oldest Japanese song ever
  its fun :)...
• Commented on The English language in 3000 AD
  Reply to the article and #3, also my 2 cent: I think it's taking ridiculous assumptions to consider the language that existed 1000 year AGO could be called English. And then to consider a derivative of the language English too......
• Commented on Train nearly runs over idiots (video)
  @10 - /thread...
• Commented on Mother Jones interactive military presence map
  The Marshall plan was a good investment I see. ;)...
• Commented on LAN party massacre
  I look forward to not checking it out....
• Commented on Device clamps on face to preserve goatee
  All this talk about facial hair makes me want to grow more than just my "chops"... erm regular sideburns...
• Commented on Stealing things according to the "If value, then right" theory
  This is the wrong way of looking at it. But he's thinking along the right lines. "If paid, then mine" And if the value you have to pay is 0 (i.e. for Napkins) then it is yours to do with...
• Commented on Jetpack reviewed. Verdict: undeniably awesome.
  @#2 : The thing is WAAAAAY smaller than a Schweizer 300, for one, it doesn't have a ma-hoosive tail. @#3 : It's called a jetpack and therefore has jets, it's not a ducted fan helo....
• Commented on XKCD's "Choices" -- now an audio drama
  #1 DBARAK : Your wish is my command :D http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4231/xkcdkoolaidop4.jpg...
• Commented on Woman who couldn't stop itching
  @#36, Cool....
• Commented on Woman who couldn't stop itching
  What's the green fluid then? I've watched enough of House to know that CSF is clear......
• Commented on Mystery bone photos at Treehugger
  As you can tell by the femur it's obviously human. (facetious)...
• Commented on Soviet Winnie the Pooh cartoon
  Ahhh ostalgie in full flow....
• Commented on Man declares island (pop. 1) to be a new nation
  @11, Gibraltar is within territorial waters of Spain, why has that got more hold than an independent nation?...