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• Commented on Type n Walk mobile app
  Obviously, this needs image recognition to place polygonal outlines around potential dangers!...
• Commented on Win an Envy 15 laptop for your prime-cut literary travesties
  The Time Machine by William S. Burroughs I laugh. The twingers found the gizmo, and oiled it all up for me. Guess they worshiped it, or maybe wanted it to work for themselves. A shiver goes through my spine, Happy...
• Commented on It's healthy for kids to get dirty
  #8: With everyone getting sick so frequently all around you... Have you ever considered that you're the carrier of some crazy megagerms? :)...
• Commented on Rotating Kitchen art piece
  Oh, drat... looks like #64 beat me to the punch. :)...
• Commented on Rotating Kitchen art piece
  Because I simply had to, I present the Unrotated Kitchen. A bit of MPlayer/MEncoder goodness for cropping and frame extraction/rehydration, coupled with a custom anti-rotation script to handle the fits and starts of the device resulted in a video that...
• Commented on Classic Meme Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
  I worked with a fellow that had one of the original tapes of this, in very high quality. I claimed to have been the one that uploaded the higher-quality version long ago....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Microwave Lava
  I did this myself back in 2002... but on accident. Got in on the beta for Xbox Live, threw some dinner into the oven, and hit the timer on the microwave (except I turned on the microwave, not the timer)....
• Commented on The Cocks Machine
  While island2 was spamming, I have to admit that I rather like the Paper Blog animation and sound effects. I hovered over the little icons, swishing this way and that at least 20 times....
• Commented on The Cocks Machine
  Reminds me of an internal website at work I stumbled across during the early years. Apparently a division in Asia was titled "Ten Doors User Education and Experience." A common practice in the company was to abbreviate the UEaE to...
• Commented on Sick of graphs tee-shirt
  Finally, a truly ironic situation! You see, his t-shirt can be either interpreted as a play on the word empathy or apathy. If you interpret it as empathy, it doesn't make much sense. If you see it as charting...
• Commented on Liar: YA suspense novel that elevates the unreliable narrator to a new level
  After reading Cory's writeup, I'm surprised everyone has been so opinionated about a misleading cover. Isn't that the whole premise of the novel? "Don't judge a book by its cover," and all. :)...
• Commented on Upside down house
  I'm oustounded to be the first to mention Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and her magnificent upside-down house left to her by her late pirate husband! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Piggle-Wiggle...
• Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
  @2: I thought it was a common belief that anti-depressants can cause switching in bipolar patients (especially without mood stabalizers). http://www.everydayhealth.com/bipolar/specialists/do-anti-depressants-make-bipolar-mania-worse.aspx http://www.psycheducation.org/bipolar/controversy.htm...
• Commented on How to speed read
  Thank you #44 & #48. I, too, was going to say that speed reading isn't something you have to use all the time. Most comment threads I skim and speed through, pausing on the nuggets of insight. Some content is...
• Commented on Ed Fredkin and the universe as a computer
  Doh! /plank/planck/...
• Commented on Ed Fredkin and the universe as a computer
  It's all a giant computer, and Plank's Time is the clock tick! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time...
• Commented on What is the meaning of this unusual tombstone?
  Searching through Alibris, I could only find this book with a title of Honor and an author of HS (though not his last name)... Google Books Link...
• Commented on Rome in a Day Project: 3D reconstruction from Flickr-found photos
  I am somewhat surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft's Photosynth: http://photosynth.net/Search.aspx?keyword=rome&sortby=Best%20Synth BoingBoing previously covered this technology in a demonstration at TED (complete with Rome flickr photos): http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/26/top-10-ted-talks.html...
• Favorited Carl Sagan on Flatland on Boing Boing
• Commented on Living in a massive high-rise with no neighbors
  #18 I was much more interested in a french film titled '.' :)...
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  #71 wins....
• Commented on Humans will hand render any image like a digital printer
  Do they charge a lot of money for the ink?...
• Commented on Photos of parkour
  #4: Why do you say that the claim of untouched photographs is false? Granted, I only had a brief amount of time to study the photographs, but I don't see anything that I couldn't pull off with an SLR and...
• Commented on A library of the world's most unusual compounds
  #4, I once broke a pair of scissors trying to open that kind of plastic packaging. Brutal stuff!...
• Commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
  Awesome use of pallete shifting fractals at 0:30!...
• Commented on Heather McDougal on black widow spiders
  My grandmother recounted the story of being bit by a brown recluse (unknown by the small community at the time as being quite so lethal). She bandaged it with a family remedy salt-water pack (disinfects everything and draws out the...
• Commented on Kids lose their summer break due to impenetrable bureaucratic mess
  Absolutely ridiculous. The schools should man up and take responsibility for their actions, rather than forcing everyone else to deal with the problem. I agree that year-round schooling is better... but that comes with longer breaks throughout the year resulting...
• Commented on Hit by a Rock from Outer Space?
  Agreed, #34. I've been forced to re-evaluate my beliefs of the readership's intelligence pretty much since BoingBoing enabled the commenting system....
• Commented on Whip It Good
  #21 Anon: I was just about to leave a comment about Morgan's whips. My boss bought a trenchcoat from David... says he's a fine fellow that really does his research to find the best gear....
• Commented on Japan: Man Beaten Into False Confession of Child Murder Set Free After 17 Years in Prison
  I highly recommend reading this 10-part journal of a gaigin in a Japanese prison(covered by Boing Boing here)...