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Commented on Ants
Love bites are made by sucking and Herbie was the Love Bug. Therefore Herbie is not a crustacean....
Commented on Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart (Updated July 2009)
Any chance you could repeat this chart but for Ubuntu?...
Commented on $100 32GB solid state drive for Mini 9
Will this be yet another option not available in the Ubuntu version of the Mini 9 in Europe?...
Commented on Alvino Rey and his anthropomorphic guitar puppet
The really odd hat indicates he is a Grand Master of Ecky Thump. http://i.pbase.com/u32/bankst/upload/22245288.GrandMasterOfEckyThump.jpg...
Commented on My new desktop: 1970 Nissan 270X Concept
Just the right shade of brown for an Ubuntu desktop....
Commented on RIP Geoffrey Perkins of Hitchhikers' Guide and Father Ted
:(...
Commented on Modern chopsticks for the digitally imbecilic
The fork is a beautiful piece of precision engineering and design. To criticise someone for using a fork rather than chopsticks is to put appearances before practicality. Like a Mac fanboy. And no-one likes them....
Commented on Lenslok: proto-DRM from the ZX Spectrum era
"inability to work with anything other than a tiny portable TV, as the on-screen input window would otherwise be bigger than the device itself" that's not true, the first step of using the lenslok was to adjust the size of...
Commented on Video: <i>Climb Dance</i>, Peugeot 405 T16 run up Pikes Peak (1990)
"this guy" is 1981 world rally champion Ari Vatanen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Vatanen...
Commented on Koss Sparkplug headphones are unusable thanks to a goofy mute
"The sound quality is poor [..] what can you expect for the price?" A pair of Creative phones? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Labs-EP-630-A-Earphones/dp/B0009G6FQI/...
Commented on Kitty cats meet CAPTCHAs
more like CRAPTCHA...
Commented on ASUS to embed "instant on" Linux distro into every motherboard
You could or couldn't care less?...
Commented on Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
I agree that Armando Iannucci's version from Time Trumpet as YouTubed by Adam Buxton is better... http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pY3QtiGyo...
Commented on Record company profits aren't more important than privacy and free speech
For years, the music industry has built a business on other people's music....
Commented on Goth kids at the Disneyland Carousel
Goths on a rollercoaster in an advert for Irn-Bru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInipy617U4...
Commented on Top Nosh cafe in London (defunct)
didn't realise it was Yiddish, I always thought 'nosh' was just an old-fashioned slang word for food, like 'grub' it's not an uncommon word, for example the BBC's spoof cookery series Posh Nosh: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/...
Commented on Patrick Winfield's Polaroid composites
As MrAlistair said, this is very reminiscent of The Tragically Hip's 'Fully Completely' album cover: http://www.rounderstore.com/images/catalog/0114310532_0.JPG...
Commented on Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe: hilarious critic screams abuse at his telly
Screenwipe is much more than Charlie swearing at adverts, in this compelling clip he discusses the nature of aspirational TV... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw ...which contains my new favourite expression "low self-esteem engine"....

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TroofSeeker commented on Ants
I'm experimenting with pherimonal scents, to find universal ant commands for "Attack!", "Worship me!" and "Bring me food!". Then, when the great Ant Rebellion occurs, I climb back into my Giant Ant Disguise, and I'm the Queen of the World! http://pixpipeline.com/d/f9eaa677693e.jpg I'm not gonna tell you how it works unless Mark agrees to do an article in MAKE about it....
Teller commented on Ants
Never liked Arneson's creepy work. But I heart ants. I like how they invade the house during a rainstorm then vanish. They understand that a pillage is only supposed to last three days....
Pipenta commented on Ants
Hymenopterans rule! And yeah, the tagma do look like motorcycle parts. But more than an ant's gaster, the thorax (whatever would the plural be?) of some bees in the genus Sphecodes looks very like a motorcycle gas tank. And a very hip motorcycle it would be! I imagine there are wasps that look the part even more. I think we can call them all bugs in a general friendly way. When entomologists go collecting, they go a "buggin" tra-la-la! And great fun it is, too. The fancy names are useful when you want to know just what kind of bug,...
TroofSeeker commented on Ants
Camping in the desert last November, we were sitting around camp watching a tussle between a large black ant and a large red one. They went 'round and 'round for over half an hour, then they both went home....
palindrome commented on Ants
We have often said that our small daughter is secretly in league with the ants. Always leaving tiny morsels secreted about the house. Under beds, on top of bed sheets, behind the toilet. Feeding her allies the ants. Someday perhaps, she will rule them. As for Arneson: we made a recent family art day trip to the Arizona State art museum and then the Phoenix Art Museum. Both featured a rather large collection of Arneson's works. They all were self-portraits (self-sculptures?) and a surprising number prominently featured Arneson's penis....

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