roryrhorerton

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• Commented on Zeitoun Book Giveaway Haiku Contest
  I don't know this book But I'm broke and in grad school Help me to look smart...
• Commented on 1945 patent for a one-legged hopping tank
  Yet another object of the invention is to fill the interior with the vomit of its passengers, thereby rendering it a difficult target to enter....
• Commented on Dancing manias
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijanaika Ee ja nai ka (translating roughly to "isn't life great?" or "meh, what the hell?") is pretty badass. Pretty much the year Japan decided it would rather just go nuts and party....
• Commented on The "super-villain transparencies" brain-teaser
  @ Nosehat If it's transparencies, you don't even need to use letters on each, really. Just a random sampling of the black parts; each transparency will look like just random noise, if not just slightly dirty. How is this a...
• Commented on BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen
  Tiniest amount toxic? What about all the people who used to chug the stuff as medicine? What timescale of toxic are we using?...
• Commented on Microwaving a cellphone is surprisingly cool
  Brownlee beat you to it by a year, Doctorow. (Also, I just learned that only using last names has a distinct super-villain vibe to it.) http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/27/microwaved-cell-phon.html...
• Commented on Freak group photo
  Truman State has one of the best eugenics archives in the country. I'm guessing this image is still part of that collection (especially since Truman State has only been named so since 1996, I'd imagine if it left the archives...
• Commented on Animation: "Bars & Tones" by André F. Chocron
  Whoa. I got a BSOD at the end of that video. Which is actually a pretty awesome way for that video to end. Yup, pretty sure that's the only time I got a BSOD and thought "neat"....
• Commented on Kevin Smith's movie poster censored by MPAA, replaced with stick figures
  The Onion's AV Club has one of the best articles I've seen about this, the comparison shots of Dane Cook posters are worth looking at, at the very least. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/86032...
• Commented on Help the tech industry pick an interesting new letter for marketing gadgets and stuff
  Do we need to add a letter? I vote for unnecessary umlauts. It works for Motörhead......
• Commented on The Kool Dogz Ice Treat Maker, or "how to market a bucket to dog-lovers"
  You're all missing the most impressive part: the company has obviously mastered the emerging anti-gravity pie tin market....
• Commented on Test reveals: highest IQs use Firefox on MacPPC, lowest use Firefox on Win98
  Woo!! Smartest user of Firefox on UNIX! Second smartest person in Missouri! Let's see how long that holds up once people start filtering in from BB....
• Commented on Zippo Blu: The World's Swankiest Crack Lighter
  Thanks for the correction #9, it was indeed Marlboro. The flint is a smart idea in that it is exchangeable, but the combined action of pressing down on the sparker, lighting it, then pressing the gas button reminds me too...
• Commented on Zippo Blu: The World's Swankiest Crack Lighter
  I received one of these a few months ago as a freebie from Camel. It's terrible. I never use it. They tried to keep it all Zippo-y with the flint, but it's way harder to light than it would be...
• Commented on What Should I Do In Berlin?
  If you like zoos, the Zoologischer Garten is HUGE and pretty cool. Plus some of the boring animals they stick in the corners are almost like forlorn ruins. I was lost for a good 15 minutes without seeing another (human)...