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• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  Eh, come on people- it's not that hard to read all the comments before spewing your own opinion out, is it? You just look dumb if you say something that's already been refuted by a clear expert. Now, for MY...
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Sony
  Ha, sweet, the 1/2" CV reel-to-reel video tape. I have a big box of this stuff in my archives and no player to digitise it with. I bought a player from eBay but it turned out to be defective, so...
• Commented on Bozeman, Montana changes its mind about job applicants' social networking passwords
  Somehow this whole fiasco doesn't surprise me, coming from Bozeman. The only other contact I have had with anyone from that city was in a grant-writing workshop I was sent to as part of my job. The company that does...
• Commented on Keeping a bald eagle feather could result in a $100,000 fine and a year in prison
  #1: Y r mrn. Tht s ll. #8: Indeed: our dumps here in BC are swarming with them too. Most of my best shots of eagles are taken at local dumps. They key is to get the shot without the...
• Commented on Video: World's most awesome Steadicam operator performs the flying Segway dismount
  Dammit, now I have to go hang myself. So much for my camera-fu! On the other hand, I have been pushed off a stage by the lead singer of a famous Canadian band; yes, we will do anything for that...
• Commented on Ten beautiful computers
  My friend's brother works for D-Wave. My goal in life is to meet him and get seriously drunk together, so we can discuss quantum mechanics. (I have no hope in hell of understanding it sober!)...
• Commented on A history of the Klingon Language
  @#8: Last time I checked into it, there were a few of the books done, as well as a bunch of the Psalms. I was hoping to find Song of Solomon, but it looks like that one hasn't been done...
• Commented on ColorQube: is wax the future of color printing?
  $20K is no big deal- most businesses will be leasing anyhow. We have a crapload of those big Canon MFDs in our school district, and they go for well over $20K if you were to buy them....
• Commented on Captain and Mrs. Hook's LP of music for Christian pirate children
  I'd tap the wench! Also, as a Christian, I find this hilarious. Please bring us more! Too many Christians take themselves way too seriously. Did that sentence make sense? Anyhow, this is amazing stuff- I wonder if they were from...
• Commented on Warner Music to Warner Music: You are pirates!
  Suggest adding "EPIC FAIL" caption for the memeheads among us. Now THAT would've made me LOL....
• Commented on BB Video review: Tricaster, and the Future of Live Video Online
  OK, fancy box. Newtek's gear is definitely top-drawer. But I'd hesitate to call it the future of live online video. I'd prefer to award that designation to a product like Boinx's BoinxTV, or ChannelStorm, another software-only studio replacement. Why would...
• Commented on "Your business card is CRAP!"
  In Soviet Russian, the business card hands YOU out!...
• Commented on Surveillance image of thief stealing surveillance cams
  Back in The Day, I worked as a security installer. One day we got a visit from an RCMP officer with a videotape in hand. We popped tape into one of our time-lapse recorders and he pointed us to the...
• Commented on Nom Nom Nom: The Bunny Song.
  Damn site is blocked by Websense, the 'tards....
• Commented on Rainbow Bread ('80s footage of radio ad singer doing multiple takes)
  Thanks, Xeni. I now sentence you to watch every "Mahna mahna" video on YouTube. Sorry, but that's how it has to be. I have to go watch Gary Brolsma again, just to get this tune outta my head....
• Commented on Cute Video of Cute Song by Cute Kid About Internet + Gaming Etiquette Is Surprisingly Cute
  Ah, Xeno, my precious Internet friend. We North Americans are indeed spoiled senseless- at least, those of us north of the Mexican/US border. We are spoiled, and entitled, and we waste vast swaths of the world's resources defending our unsustainable...
• Commented on Apple site suggests 17" iMac on its way back
  Radiohead is right- not only that, but we can also still get the white Macbook in quantity, for around $1K CDN (less if you buy them in 5-packs). That being said, Apple still needs to be pilloried for their treatment...
• Commented on Obama's diplomatic gift to UK leader fubared by DRM
  Two problems: Region coding, and PAL/NTSC. If he pops those discs in his laptop and fires up VLC, it'll work fine. Or, if he's a Machead like Obama, he can just change the region coding on DVD Player and be...
• Commented on Hidden government cameras in digital converter boxes? No.
  I for one, welcome our new DTV Converter Overlords. Signed, Winston Smith...
• Commented on Next iPhone to come in matte black?
  I have nothing to say about the picture, but I'm curious about how iPod Observer went about "attaining" those leaked images......
• Commented on Weird ice balls in London?
  Step 1: Take photos of something a little unusual. Step 2: Write a press release. Step 3: Send a copy to BoingBoing. Step 4: Watch my hit count skyrocket me from obscurity into a sensational new 'artiste'. Step 5: Profit....
• Commented on Do It Yourself! Pocket flashlight into burning laser pointer
  This is indeed real; but your article writeup contains one small error: you need to use the WRITE laser from a DVD burner. The play/burn lasers from CD/RW and DVDROM drives don't have the output power needed to burn paper...
• Commented on A Hypothetical Question to the Boing Boing Community: the Filmmaker and the Bittorrented Screener
  @71: I can tell you why there's no real effort to identify leaks: because deep down, and in spite of what they tell us, studios and directors are scared sh*tless that nobody will watch their crap. Leaks build hype- hype...
• Commented on Cornstarch on a speaker = ectoplasmic acoustics
  Ditto on the Big Bang Theory reference. BTW, I've done this in the past as well, and it works quite well to simply wrap the speaker in thin plastic- heavy-duty kitchen film, or those white kitchen garbage bags. If you...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 2
  Charles, Charles. You really need to move somewhere with a more vibrant ecosystem, if all your nature is tainted by the colour of mud. Come up to Northern BC, where I'll show you vibrant green forests, crisp white mountaintops, clear...
• Commented on Photoshop Competition: What will this liquidated Circuit City become? (UPDATE: WINNERS!)
  I found it rather amusing that in my RSS reader, every single article on BoingBoing is followed by a Circuit City ad. I don't know if everyone gets this, or if it's an artifact of my reader (Sage for Firefox),...
• Commented on Table made out of levels
  Yays! I get to be first to make a lewd innuendo regarding the table's name...ready for it? "The Straight Table...but *anyone* can have sex on it!" I'm sorry, I really am- but it's honestly the first place my mind went...
• Commented on All LaserDisc players go to heaven
  Funny, I just digitised my last laserdisc title TODAY. I have two nice old Pioneer LD players- the kind with the HeNe Lasers in them. Not sure what I'll do with them now that they're not needed anymore. Trade them...
• Commented on Terrible apartment ad -- probably not real, funny nevertheless
  This is hilarious. Obviously a joke; sadly enough, however, my mom had a landlord like this back in the '60s in Toronto. He locked out the thermostat controls in the winter and kept the place at a chilly 15 degrees....
• Commented on Photos of the Northern Lights
  @Ab5tract: I agree- most photogs are pretty stingy with their online galleries. My friend Yuichi runs aurora tours for (mostly) Japanese visitors in the winter, generally in the Whitehorse area. He's got some great pics on his website, but again,...