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• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Fixed gear cyclists are the worst. Fucking hate them and their impractical idiot machines. Get some gears and brakes and grow up! I speak as a 50 mile a week urban cycle commuter who rides a bike that is actually...
• Commented on Review: Dyson DC25 Blueprint LE
  The person making comments about unsustainability should be aware that Dysons are superbly maintainable. It's built into their design. The service you get from Dyson is amazing. Example: I dropped my (already quite old) Dyson down the stairs. Result: crack...
• Commented on Sf for young readers booklist
  Knowing that inclusion of one of Cory's book on the list would guarantee a big fat boingboing mention had nothing to do with it, huh? ;) Not that Little Brother isn't a really good book, that I will encourage my...
• Commented on As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
  A bit dull....
• Commented on Puma: GM and Segway take a swing at a small car
  The problem with this thing is not the thing itself - it's OTHER vehicles. If there were fewer oversized cars/SUVs around, fewer ridiculously large trucks and buses in the city, if more people rode bicycles/mopeds, then this thing would make...
• Favorited Albert Hofmann, LSD inventor, RIP on Boing Boing
• Commented on "COME WITH US NOW ON A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE" --THE MIGHTY BOOSH ON AMERICAN TV!!!
  I saw Noel from the Mighty Boosh in my local bank the other day. He wanted to withdrew some cash over the counter. The lady asked him to swipe his card. It failed first time, so she said "please wipe...
• Commented on "F**king Hell": Jake and Dino Chapmen's "Hell" rises from the ashes
  The fire was in May 2004, not 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3748179.stm The Chapman bros are fascinating, brilliant artists, BTW. But maybe not quite the thing for those of a tabloid mindset....
• Commented on JPEG compression 600 times over
  I did something like this with photocopiers as an art student, back in the mid 80's. The analog nature of the process produced MUCH more interesting results! Re-Photocopy something enough times and you end up with something that looks like...
• Commented on Physical Cosmologies: The Shining
  The article is unreadable. Like the worst French 1970's pseudo-intellectual tripe. Inventing new jargon and then not bothering to define the terms is not even remotely clever!...
• Commented on Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth
  Those who lecture about the dangers these pose to airliners clearly have little concept of volume. The chance of an airliner hitting one of these projects is astronomically low. However, as these kids were using cameras and electronics, and using...
• Commented on GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on" alternative for the econopocalypse
  Brilliant. I will print it out and stick it on the wall of my work. A new business, out of the ashes of a closed-down-by-big-fat-stupid-parent-company one. It's definitely time to be starting new things....
• Commented on Own an English village
  I wanna buy it and turn it into a giant pikey quad bike track. Yeah!...
• Commented on Canada's science minister is a creationist
  Ok, so he came clean and admitted he believes in evolution. Not sure if "believe" is the right word here, but hey. What pisses me off is his original bleat: "I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking...
• Commented on Weird-looking dust storm in Australia
  Did she say "Looks like a little Ayers Rock". LITTLE?...
• Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
  It's obviously a fake. Bad CGI - you can tell because the shadows look wrong and - er - there's a mismatch of pixels or something....
• Commented on Free antho of scientifically accurate, physics-oriented sf
  Nice, but the author list is, I hate to say it, a little obscure? I don't recognize a single name, and I read quite a bit of SF. Put in Robert L Forward at least?!...
• Commented on Comedian smashes audience member's mobile phone, blames YouTube
  Totally obvious this but - has he not considered that anyone who would record his show, and post to YouTube is likely to be a fan? And that people who view the clips on YouTube are going to be that...
• Commented on Beautiful and clever student animation
  Really nicely done. Great lighting and a super camera style (where lots of student CG shorts fail). WIN!...
• Commented on Magenta isn't a real color?
  @ #1 Brown is just dark, possibly desaturated (= mixed with grey) orange or yellow. Plus, the test referred to "spectrum" colours. I don't think anyone would consider brown to be on any spectrum/colourwheel/rainbow, huh? The main point of this...
• Commented on Anti-terror laws are creating "police-state" -- former head of MI5
  I like the fact that such a well known, establishment figure is saying these things, but then again, I can't help thinking that never before has the phrase "No shit, Sherlock" been more apposite....
• Commented on People are pouring out of Dubai
  Where's J G Ballard when we need him? He'd have LOVED this shit....
• Commented on London police demand that new pub owner installs a CCTV as a licensing condition
  Pair this with the attempt to make it an imprisonable offense to take photos of the police ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’ (= could be any situation they fancy) and you...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  "Nothing substantial has been added" That's just daft. One is a good, but fairly unremarkable press-style photo. The other is a snappy, iconic piece of graphic design. I smell sour grapes....
• Commented on Warner Music Group artist has her own videos taken off YouTube by WMG
  Sign up with a record company, sign a pact with the devil. A very stupid devil, with a short time to live....
• Commented on Galbraith and Keiser discuss beheading bankers
  Sending 'em to salt mines in Siberia sounds like a good option....
• Commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  OFCOM complaint form: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/progs/specific/?itemid=286480...
• Commented on Scientist who criticised DJ for vaccination scare talk gets copyright threat
  I know someone whose very young child (pre innoculation age) was nearly blinded through catching measles from some idiot parents' older child (not innoculated through anti-MMR yuppie stupidity). There is no excuse. I have donated to the Bad Science cause,...
• Commented on High school teacher recounts being dosed
  Nicely written, and perfectly credible. A few people here need to get down off their high horses! As to the person who opines that LSD would be instantly destroyed by tap water - get a grip! If it can survive...
• Commented on Creepy public service comic book about bike safety (1972)
  Yep - the proto fixie dick....