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• Commented on Eigenharp, crazy sci-fi instrument
  No no gouldina, I was cool first! I sent the link seven weeks ago! Like Ratdog, I was thinking of the cantina scene. Really, when I try to imagine sitting in a jazz club 75 years from now and watching...
• Commented on Notes from a news-site paywall attempt
  I don't know where you got your statistics training, but this tiny set of data certainly doesn't indicate a failure at all. Actually it looks pretty good from a business perspective. I'd rather have 70% of my original customer base...
• Commented on Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors
  I'm pretty sure the irony would be lost on the Metropolitan Police if you pointed out to them that "Crimint" is a Newspeak word....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Lyd: Can a website jump the shark? You hit the nail on the head, lyd. Nice call....
• Commented on Soldiers as patriotic pixelboards
  Wow. What's really cool about these is the perspective control. They organized the soldiers so that when viewed from the camera position the image appears like a 2-D image viewed straight on. But if you viewed the soldiers from directly...
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  It'd be awesome if she stood up at the end and gave the Johnny Cash "live at Folsom" middle-finger salute: http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Cash/+images/9711731...
• Commented on As expected, Ninja Assassin trailer looks awesome
  Not that it needs repeating, but I'd have to agree with the crowd's general leanings of "what are you smoking, Xeni?" Movies like this are why Hollywood sucks. Formulaic schlock designed with a single purpose... to pull in as much...
• Commented on We may or may not have refreshed <em>BBG</em>
  I agree that all caps headlines are less than friendly. If you're going to do all caps, at least use a seriffed font. But I'd prefer mixed case by far. And the black background is pretty harsh, but I'll probably...
• Commented on How to Capture a Giant Squid
  Hey, you know what BB? It'd be really nice to have a guest blogger once in a while who wasn't bent on endless self-promotion. Maybe we shouldn't have been so quick to run Charles Platt out of town on a...
• Commented on Art Deco keyboard
  Most excellent. Not only in that it's a great piece of work, but also in that it may signal an end to that ridiculous "steampunk" fad. Let's just hope it doesn't start an equally foolish "decopunk" fad....
• Commented on Panoramic photo of a ghosts street in Detroit
  Looks like they build houses in Detroit about as well as they build cars. I wonder why there are so many burned-out ones? Judging by the looks of the tarp on the roof of number 490, these houses have been...
• Favorited Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips on Boing Boing
• Favorited Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips on Boing Boing
• Commented on Violating Terms of Use by Default
  You do not need permission (at least in the U.S.) to state a fact. Incorrect. Ever heard of classified information? There are plenty of facts that, if you state them in public, will get you 20 years in Leavenworth. Arkizzle@12,...
• Commented on Violating Terms of Use by Default
  What seems to be the problem? Note that there is no verbiage whatsoever explicitly prohibiting web linking to any newssift.com content. All it states is that "You may be granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink..." I know...
• Commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  What? With all your crazy steampunk fetish madness, you didn't choose this picture for the main post???!?! http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/3304269005/ Some cool images here, that's true....
• Commented on Best Buy staff open and use camera, sell it as new, blame customer for damage
  Wait, it's not quite as bad as it looks. Seems like the camera was used, but the photo of the Geek Squad member posted above was probably not taken over a year ago, as Mike asserts. He took the EXIF...
• Commented on American Institute of Physics' history of the science of climate change
  Yeah yeah! I would like to request a live webcast of a Doctrow VS Platt Rock'em-Sock'em Robot match to settle this debate once and for all! One of you may have to take a plane trip to participate, but it'll...
• Commented on A human lifetime in Rolex Time Sand
  No dude, that's the art! Rolex Time Sand only exists in this installation. They don't package it and they don't sell it to superheros....
• Commented on Table made out of levels
  Awesome! I know, I know, sorry for the rant, I just had to vent. That being Cory's 6.02x10^23 Flash bash, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. My apologies. But glass tables are cool nevertheless, even if they...
• Commented on Table made out of levels
  Cool table. But what is your freakin' problem with Flash sites, Cory? There's nothing wrong with adding a little design flair, and Flash enables a lot of that. Who cares if you can't directly link to the item in question?...
• Commented on "Citizen videos" spread online showing BART police officer shooting unarmed man to death
  Tragic. My prayers are with the family of the victim, and, if it was an accident, the officer involved. That said, I can't help but notice an interesting contrast between the comments in this post and the comments regarding the...
• Commented on Magnepan 3.6/R: $5,400 buys you Speakers of the Year
  No, the Adam Audio Olympus Sound System falls into the "you paid what?!" category, at $325,000. These Magnepans fall into the "probably pretty good" category. http://www.adam-audio.com/hifi/english/oss/oss_data.htm And after seeing that picture of you with Bill Gates, it doesn't surprise me...
• Commented on Nikon D700 cake
  best episode ever!...
• Commented on Interviewing Bill Gates
  First, great story! And that picture of you with Gates is awesome. Now that I've delivered a compliment, let me chastise you for a moment. You had a once-in-a-lifetime interview with the richest man in the world (and arguably one...
• Commented on Fasionable pins made from <strike>real</strike> fake arcade buttons
  Ummm, not real arcade buttons. They'd be much cooler if they were, but these are just regular old buttons with an image of an arcade button printed on them. Read the fine print! Neat idea, though....
• Commented on Video of happy man vigorously swinging baby around room
  Those of you who think this is fake have obviously never been to the Cirque du Soleil. There are performers in that troupe barely past walking age that do things you or I could only dream of, and this is...
• Commented on Long profile of Dean Kamen, discusses his Stirling engine
  Wait, wait, wait!! Did y'all read the full interview? Check this out: Today, work on new medical technology for such companies as Johnson & Johnson remains the chief source of revenue for Deka - what Kamen refers to as his...
• Commented on Jakks combines Pac-Man & Namco TV game sets into one big yellow blob
  Clarification may be in order here. These apparently are not the original, emulated games. Judging by the picture on the TV screen and the description at Amazon, it is a home system conversion. Note the fine wording in the Amazon...
• Commented on Why "dial 9 for outside line" may go away
  If you're a phone system admin and happen to be reading this, there's an easy fix. There's no need to go to the extent of changing the outside access digit. (Sorry to bore the rest of you.) Simply build a...