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• Commented on 1.7 sextillion dollar suit filed against B of A
  Flanian pobble beads...
• Commented on Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads
  Why stop at the internet? If they're using electricity to listen to 'illegal' music then cut off the power to their homes. If they take a glass of water while listening to their music, cut off the water supply. The...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  Getting off coal in the short term, and getting onto wind and solar, combined with reducing consumption should be the goal. Getting onto renewable energy sources is a vast undertaking, because wind and solar are dilute forms of energy -...
• Commented on Gary McKinnon: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Guest opinion/Oxblood Ruffin)
  America is up shit creek financially. Why bother going to the expense of locking up McKinnon? He's stupid to do what he did, but I don't think the public interest is being served in America by prosecuting him....
• Commented on Videos from an animal's perspective
  Antonio, exactly. BatCam™ must operate via sonar and ScopCam™ by sensing vibrations through the ground, otherwise we're not getting the true picture. PS. I wonder, if bats could breathe sulphur hexafluoride or helium and report their experiences, what would they...
• Commented on Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax
  Could MAKE magazine cover how to pull off these tax dodges?...
• Commented on Sprint executive killed when boulder drops on his car.
  That's a terrible thing to happen to a family....
• Commented on Robot negotiates with mentally ill man who threatened White House (UPDATED)
  I think the point Jewels is making - the vast majority of people with `mental illness' are normal people who have an illness, although it's a common prejudice that all people who have a mental illness are dangerous and unpredictable....
• Commented on Report: Deet, popular and potent insect repellent, is neurotoxic
  pah. ethylmethylphosphonylthioate. There's a compound that actually attacks your acetylcholinesterase enzymes, DEET's a walk in the park....
• Commented on TED Talk: Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
  #73 - Darwin travelled in his lifetime - he saw things that made him realise that large changes can accumulate from numerous small changes occurring over long periods of time e.g. at the coast, he found limpets clinging to rocks,...
• Commented on Movie/record industry rep says that you shouldn't expect to be able to play your media for as long as you own it
  There is a very important difference between the gradual decay of analog information, and the active decision to remove a key-server in a DRM scheme. A sculpture might degrade if it's exposed to the elements, and a book might rot...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Yeah, he was asking for that and Buzz gave it to him. No jury would convict....
• Commented on Looking for Bill Barker (UPDATE: Found!)
  #73: giyf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa...
• Commented on Video about wannabee amputee
  There are some documented cases of this as a neurological condition, Oliver Sacks has a chapter about this kind of disease / illness in 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' - Sacks thinks it's to do with...
• Commented on Airplane toilet gobbles a whole roll of TP
  suppose we try and flush a cro-bar, or something that'd jam the mechanism open - how long would it take to depressurize the cabin?...
• Commented on Fake receipt printing service
  ...and then in six month's time, the people running this service can automate the blackmail process by feeding their list of clients into www.extortr.com yay!...
• Commented on George Bush Goes Skydiving
  and we think North Korea is corrupt for passing on power from father to son......
• Commented on Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!
  The Pirate Party should run in the UK, too. Hell, BoingBoing should run in the European elections. We need a good cause to soak up the protest vote, in a way that we won't cause lasting harm. The British National...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  It's a paradox - there's plenty of evidence that drugs and alcohol, etc. can and do damage some people, and that others can manage themselves without much of a problem. This BBC recent interview with a London doctor highlights some...
• Commented on Space monkeys appreciated
  Does anyone here remember the quantum leap episode where Sam is one of these monkeys??...
• Commented on Weird Science
  'wavefunction collapse' is the diffusion of quantum correlations out of the system you're following. point is: If you can arrange for a quantum correlation to occur between different states of the same particle, it becomes a lot easier - experimentally...
• Commented on Swiss Writing Knife
  I think Rucker's choices of topic are interesting, thanks. I like to think this jewelry is creative, expressive, and has been made for the joy of making - in that sense I don't care if his kids made it or...
• Commented on Rare form of amnesia involves inventing continuous stream of fictitious events
  The disease - Korsakoff's - sounds the closest thing to hell on earth imaginable....
• Commented on Steampunk D&D Beholder sculpture
  This is the first item tagged 'steampunk' that I thought was any good / interesting / creative. Just so you know....
• Commented on The End of Personal Finance
  Once you've bought gold, (and even beforehand) it's an immutable object - either a literal a brick that you put in a safe, or a piece of paper noting that someone else keeps a brick on your behalf. One thing...
• Commented on Secretive US prisons hold "terrorists" including animal rights activists and people who gave to the wrong charity
  It's all explained here http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/goodbad/Combatant.html...
• Commented on Swine Flu Fun Facts
  TBH, the world's overpopulated with people at the moment, and we could do with a good pandemic to ratchet down the numbers somewhat. He says, sneezing....
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