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• Commented on The Jet-Propelled Couch: true story of a physicist who thought he was a science fiction hero on another planet
  Finally got around to reading the great article. I wonder if the film K-Pax, in which the title character played by Kevin Spacey purports to be from another planet, was inspired from this....
• Commented on Storm-sewer dwellers of Las Vegas
  There's an episode of Al Jazeera English's Witness program about this! http://www.linktv.org/programs/al-jazeera-under-the-neon...
• Commented on Jerry Andrus' optical illusion video
  I remember seeing this many years ago on PBS! Anyone recall what this segment is from?...
• Commented on Dutch Schultz's secret buried treasure
  He's gotta be hiding all that Charlie Brown money somewhere....
• Commented on Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
  I bet Obama pressured them into making the switch. He'll stop at no end to advance his leftist agenda! Tip your waiters folks....
• Commented on Shane Speal's cigar box guitar lessons
  And I like Shane's t-shirt!...
• Commented on Write an iPhone disappointment Haiku in the comments, win a Mophie Juice Pack Air
  All the Internet, Available everywhere, Except here and now....
• Commented on Naoto Fukazawa's colorful Samsung netbooks
  I definitely like the idea of a rubberized back. I'd rather my netbook be a little rugged son of a gun that wouldn't require a neoprene sleeve....
• Favorited Mark Dery: Post Mortem on Boing Boing
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  In the young officer's defense, Mr. Dylan DOES look like some sort of warlock cowboy nowadays....
• Commented on Seaweed on beaches in France produce deadly fumes
  Breaking: Frnc srrndrs. Sorry, I had to....
• Commented on A Young Person's Guide to the Pathological Sublime
  Wow!...
• Commented on A couple of neat tools for making cheap camcorders produce awesome footage
  Gee, I made a video surprisingly similar to yours, using a pocket digital camera. It's actually semi-timelapse because the camera can't do video, so it's a rapid series of stills: http://vimeo.com/4857299...
• Commented on Uighur crisis in Xinjiang: updates, link roundup, images.
  Hey ya'll, We compiled about ten news sources into a report for this week's Global Pulse on Link TV: http://www.linktv.org/video/4086/uighurs-vs-han-chinas-west-side-story...
• Commented on XCM Eye Candy Nintendo dsi Case
  Remember when the original Gameboy came out in different colors, and a transparent case? What a hoot....
• Commented on Goodbye
  Dude! No! Well okay. Fare ye well, Mr. Johnson. Yours is a unique voice in a sea of... less interesting voices....
• Commented on Mexican jumping bean video
  I remember playing with some as a child, visiting family in Rosarito. They're neat. When they stopped jumping, I figured some horrible creature was bound to emerge, so I didn't hang on to them....
• Commented on Sony Vaio NW is for the movies
  I have a Vaio VGN-FZ348E (catchy name!) from a about 1.5 years ago, also $800 or so, with a blu-ray drive, and I love it. Mine has a 1280x800 screen, which is only a little less than ideal--- HD movies...
• Commented on Whatever Happened to the Self-Portrait of Hananuma Masakichi?
  There's a rather nice vintage postcard of the statue on ebay: http://bit.ly/YiMxu...
• Commented on Iran Elections Crisis: Online Reading List
  You can watch a daily compendium of Middle Eastern news at http://www.linktv.org/mosaic...
• Commented on Searching for "purveyors of curiosities"
  Though it's probably too established and academic for Atlas Obscura, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford deserves a mention (http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk). It's an amazing anthropological collection, shrunken heads included. It's part of the natural history museum in Oxford, which is also...
• Commented on Whoa there, Sun Chips: Ingeo corn plastic not suitable for backyard composting
  The misleading implication of the commercial is mildly unfortunate-- but it seems like a rather nice technology....
• Favorited A bit of surf history: The Waikiki Beach Boys on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on Microsoft wants to rename netbooks with absurd five-word phrase
  I don't think they literally intend to use the phrase "low cost small notebook PCs," but to market them as that, excluding the netbook label, or any label, really. I also think it's really unimportant....
• Commented on Obamabot to be installed at Disney World, will robotically cover up torture, suspend habeas corpus
  I think this is really neato. Some of you are awfully cynical and doubtful of future political progress. Did you know Obama's only been in office for five months? True fact. No one has a magic wand (except Mickey)....
• Commented on Video: iRobot "Ember", a swarming battlefield robot
  That Linksys router looks like it's having a good time....
• Commented on Welcome, <em>Wired</em>. We call this land "Internet"
  I don't know what to say; the articles in the beloved mag are distinctly different from posts on an ever-active blog. Print media can't compete with a website to convey news, obviously, but as a monthly collection of journalistic cultural...
• Commented on My first cigar box guitar
  I wonder if I should start work on a cigar box guitar of my own, or if I should learn how to play guitar first....
• Commented on Video: Light Art Performance Photography
  My mind goes to the new Tron movie. I hope they do some really innovative visual stuff, simulating these sorts of effects....
• Commented on Avid's new logo
  #1 Keep in mind Avid/Digidesign also owns Pro Tools, the ubiquitous industry standard for mixing audio. Anyway, neat logo....