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• Commented on <em>Bioshock</em>, <em>Resident Evil 5</em> and more go Atari 2600
  Good lord, lightboxing on middle and left clicks? Their web designer deserves a swift kick in the groin for crimes against usability....
• Commented on Satirical WWI maps
  See also the Tory Atlas of the World, from Spitting Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonanamary/231354631/sizes/o/...
• Commented on Leverage: hyper-geeky caper TV show
  I only know this because I've been replaying the game recently, but that zappy noise they use for transitions sounds almost exactly like the stun prod from Deus Ex. Is there a common sample source? I can't imagine what makes...
• Commented on (Apocryphal?) anecdote about Fahrenheit 451
  I've got a copy of Atlas Shrugged from high school that I meant to burn when it was no longer useful. I haven't, mostly out of apathy and disgust for the work and its contents. If I ever get around...
• Commented on Boing Boing's serialization of The Deal, by Joe Hutsko
  You might consider putting this behind a [more] link, since walls of text and full article quotes aren't BoingBoing's usual fare (or especially user-friendly, at that)....
• Commented on Futuristic 1931 miniatures depict NYC in 1980
  Badass balloon corps aside, this model cost upwards of $2M when you account for inflation. This wouldn't cost $200,000 in today's money. Was most of the money spent in the design phase, or what? It's an excellent model and the...
• Commented on A blog written by a stripper who is also a fine writer.
  I know it's her shoes, but every time I look at that picture all I see is a Jawa smacking a droid....
• Commented on Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches -- using game-scoring to keep track of and expand how you browse
  Loved the concept, signed up for the beta, stopped playing the week I got in because it had Firefox constantly grinding along at 90% CPU use. I don't care if it spits cupcakes out of my Firewire port, if a...
• Commented on The $12,000 UFO CD Player
  If it weren't so ungodly expensive, it would make a nice centerpiece to this scale model TARDIS I'm building......
• Commented on The pleasures and perils of chasing book thieves
  Some psychological warfare might help here. If you make a point of greeting all the potential problem customers in a friendly and obvious manner, it could lead a few to have second thoughts... and more to the point, it's a...
• Commented on Toxic waste gets birds laid
  These birds are taking drugs so they can make better music and get laid. And yet, the creationists still say humans are such a special case......
• Commented on Does famous designer read CRAFT?
  Seems like a great case for You Thought We Wouldn't Notice. This is at worst artistic theft and at best a sleazy move, depending on how MAKE projects are licensed....
• Commented on Man busted for installing DIY crosswalk
  To all you meatspace hackers considering adding speed bumps - PLEASE make sure cars can go over them at the advised speed limit without lurching up and crashing back down. There are a few unassuming-looking "speed humps" on the FAU...
• Commented on One million bilked in Chinese ant farming scheme
  I expected #1 to link this one: http://wondermark.com/d/355.html It sucks for all one million of these people, but seriously - 30% growth on dead ants? How obvious can a scam get? Don't these people have the internet? Oh, right....
• Commented on IBM PC from 1981 hacked to play full-motion video
  Why does their flash video interface even have a fullscreen button if that's all it does?...
• Commented on Colormation Screen Test
  It reminds me not so much of rotoscoping as it does cel-shaded CGI. The terrible motion-capture like stumbling through imaginary scenes doesn't help, but when someone sits still under good lighting, the technique it's well worth its flaws. I could...
• Commented on Summarizing Saudi history: "The Kingdom" opening credits
  Ken Hansen - being female is not a crime, arbitrary laws be damned. Law & morality are orthogonal axes....
• Commented on Schoolteacher in Sudan on trial for naming teddy bear Muhammad
  Is it possible to blaspheme Islam in Sudan without inciting hatred and insulting the religion? I mean, I know this is nonsense from all angles, but it's kind of like charging her with assault, murder, and manslaughter for killing a...
• Commented on CIA's "terrorist buster" logo
  Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug (for those unfamiliar with the original). http://youtube.com/watch?v=xQeUiTwzClU...
• Commented on Russia's culture minister bans photo of kissing policemen
  I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. The Culture Minister of Russia has a say in what Russians can show at art galleries in France? I suffer from the geographic ignorance common to Americans, but last I was in...
• Commented on Vocal Joystick for accessibility
  I can only hope for the sake of users' coworkers and caretakers that future products let users control their computers with a sing-song hum instead of the meditative focusing noises in the video. It sounds like the test user has...
• Commented on Post-apocalyptic comedy play opening in Los Angeles
  Alex Jones (British playwright), not to be confused with Alex Jones (raving anarcho-libertarian filmmaker-radio host-agitator)....
• Commented on Star Wars rube goldberg machine
  Filmed in amazing SHAKYVISION® with fun-ruining explanation beforehand!...
• Commented on Supreme Court denies Alabama women mechanically induced orgasms
  Alabama: the thinking man's Kansas. So how long before the backwards denizens that support this nonsense elect a rube who'll treat it like the war on drugs? Crackdowns, seizures, "medical" vibrators... it's an Onion article with the potential to happen...
• Commented on Dont Tase Me, Bro: the new LOLcats
  As I understand things, tasers were originally only supposed to be used as a nonlethal alternative to guns. I like this policy. I certainly prefer cops who will just knock my ass down and lean on me to cops itching...
• Commented on Piracy news on 60 Minutes, from 1978 (video)
  "...Battlestar Galactica, recorded off the air illegally..." Ah yes, life before the Betamax decision. How strange. And right before that, the notion of studios undercutting pirates by selling films on tape. Did it really take years for these bureaucracies to...
• Commented on New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux
  This is certainly in line with their other dumb move for this generation of iPods: 5G-compatible third-party docks with video-out are now broken. Jobs, in his infinite wisdom, saw fit to ship products that were compatible with last-gen technology if...
• Commented on Dr Who services planned for Welsh church
  I feel it's necessary to mention this: http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=211 http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=212...
• Commented on Canadian gov't convenes secret net-tapping inquiry
  I find this especially funny in light of Canadian musings on the legality of Google Street View. Big, obvious cameras taking video of anything already visible from the road is an invasion of privacy, but Mounties reading your dirty IMs...
• Commented on 1966 prediction of home computer in 1999 (Video link updated)
  Oh god, the wires... the shot of the back with a hojillion eighth-inch, banana-plug wires devoid of markings or labels beyond their color is terrifying. The man has a tablet screen and triple-monitor setup. Didn't they assume that in the...