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• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  Ah! Yes it would be easier to read partial hours if the numbers were arranged clockwise and the chain went widdershins (Umm, yummy word. Thanks JTinmouth!). It fits matches the traditional model of reading progress through an hour....
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  Lovely. At that price though, it is crying out for DIY version. I would like a yearly calendar with this concept. Of course I'd have to move to a place with at least one very tall wall. Shmengie, it looks...
• Commented on Teen sex belongs in teen lit
  Anonymous #20 believes that teens should read adult literature, but I disagree. There is a huge difference between 13 and 19. I'm not sure how the industry defines the category. When I was a tween I read stories about fifteen-year-olds...
• Commented on Coital "model" machine used in condom study
  I'm with you Rajio. My brain went into a skid at "returns." Did any of you with breakage think, "Damn, I better return this defecting product."...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  Thank you #66! That "bit by a dead bee" reference was going to drive me nuts!...
• Commented on Free CC-licensed kids' fantasy short story every week
  Try just http://thepowerfactory.com/ and follow the link in the Short Story section. I got the same spam message in Firefox and IE....
• Commented on Abbey Ryan's painting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  She also has an Etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5317502 And a blog: http://ryanstudio.blogspot.com/ Love her work!...
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  I was a temp at Dukane for about 6 weeks in 1997. I mostly filed invoices for the underwater acoustic beacons for black boxes. http://www.dukcorp.com/seacom/Products/Beacons.htm All the major airline manufacturers were customers and plenty of companies I'd never heard of....
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  a hint of sadness like a drunk who's lost a bet don't say the zed-word you've got red on you there's a girl in the garden they're a bit...bitey a slice of fried gold cockacidal maniac fuck-a-doodle-do...
• Commented on Pool rules at Florida condo complex
  @Elisd - Swim diapers for kids are usually thin versions of regular diapers, but without the swelling that occurs as they fill. Often they are colorful pullups. When immersed they pretty much just hold in the solids. They replace the...
• Commented on Unicorn Chaser
  @Arkizzle - Thank you! I did think it was wonderful and it made me laugh. I've been thinking of the story this one chased all day. I wanted to talk about it be didn't want to expose anyone else to...
• Commented on Unicorn Chaser
  Not enough unicorn art in the world to wipe out that story. Please post some delightfully wonderful things now. That damaged my soul....
• Commented on Notebooks made from punchcards
  Wow! Memory surge. My dad brought these cards home from his job at IBM all through my childhood. We used them for scratch paper and crafts. I still find them in my mom's recipe box, my baby book, and boxes...
• Favorited Free ebooks' effects on book-sales on Boing Boing
• Commented on Free ebooks' effects on book-sales
  Crap. I totally lied. In my post above I said 25 books from the Random House authors. But seventeen of them were from an author not on the list. I got the first one of a series free from another...
• Commented on Free ebooks' effects on book-sales
  I downloaded three of those books from Kindle. So far I've bought 25 (17 + 4 + 4) additional titles in e-book format from those three authors. I would never have tried any of them had they not been free....
• Commented on 9.7-inch Kindle DX brings big screen to e-book reader
  This is also a big improvement for people using e-book readers for large print access. The largest font size on the Kindle2 makes for excessive page turning. I've been surprised by how many people asking me about my K2 are...
• Commented on Michael Jackson's weirdest detritus, a photoset
  I've got to think some of this was gifted to MJ. I hope at least of few of those portraits are elaborate fan art given by the obsessed. The signage from zoo and entrances are just sad, but those creepy...
• Favorited EFF launches "Surveillance Self Defense" -- comprehensive guide to blocking govt snooping on Boing Boing
• Favorited The Twenty Weirdest TV Interviews of All Time on Boing Boing
• Favorited Sticky Wonder Tales: comedy science fiction story reading on Boing Boing
• Favorited US passports can be read and copied from a moving car using a $250 rig on Boing Boing
• Favorited Jonestown, 30 years later: Life and Death of People's Temple (PBS video). on Boing Boing
• Favorited President-Elect Obama's first YouTube address (actually, America's first presidential YouTube address). on Boing Boing
• Favorited Recycling E-waste the right way on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on DIY funerals
  A family friend died this winter. Jim fell on his icy driveway fetching the mail, hit his head and died 10 days later. We were all shocked. His best friend made him a pine casket. It was beautiful and appropriate....
• Commented on The world's most expensive vacuum cleaner
  I have yet to see a blinged-out vacuum cleaner that beats the one a classmate created in art school (~1992). That upright had genuine steer horns, faux-zebra skin dust bag, ball-fringe and rhinestones. I think there were rhinestones, maybe it...
• Commented on Legend of "pull tabs for dialysis" lives on
  There is a collection jug in my lunch room with the dialysis minute-per-tab lie on it. I printed out the snopes entry and left it under the jug since the owner of the jug is unidentified. The article disappeared, but...
• Commented on Emailing while asleep
  I've taken Ambien for years and my shrink asks me about sleepwalking/eating/driving every time he writes a new Rx. I'm not aware of any incidents, but I live alone so it's possible. I do know that deciding to do anything...
• Commented on Yep, Kindle 2. It costs $360.
  Thanks Mappo, my day wasn't complete without pop up my nose. I still want one, but was really hoping the price would be low enough to be an impulse buy. Is still too high for spontaneous shopping. Drat....