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• Commented on Olympic Committee Member to Chicago bid team: US Customs is "harrowing experience"
  #76 Timothy Hutton, this is admittedly a guess all around, but it is remotely possible that when the whole committee visited the 4 finalists, rather than just a representative, perhaps more than one member had a difficult time with US...
• Favorited Netgear's open hardware router on Boing Boing
• Commented on Harry Potter: Zionist Conspiracy to Promote Witchcraft and Satanism???
  If I understand the roots of this video correctly, MEMRI found this video, added English subtitles based on the original Persian, and posted the result. Is the English translation accurate? Does this video represent the opinion of the Iranian Supreme...
• Commented on Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books
  I've built many cheap bookcases for hard covers and paperbacks. I don't think I'd pay that much today for the board feet and backing panels, if I did all the cutting, routing, gluing, screw-driving and painting. That takes time, but...
• Commented on Is Obama Finally Pushing Back on the Wall Street Barons' Supreme Arrogance?
  Isn't financial sausage-making interesting? On the one hand, AIG must operate. The AIG people are better aware of how to do that, and are more likely to know how to better recover from the current debacle. On the other hand,...
• Commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  I think the Author's Guild's reasoning is something like the following, once you set aside all of the talk about copyright. The Authors Guild wants to continue the option of separately monetizing text and audio. They want Kindle 2 to...
• Commented on Tesla coils sing the Doctor Who theme in orgy of electric awesomesauce
  These folks look like they're friends of Steve West and Jeff Larson. Steve built the first zeusaphone a while ago, Youtube has a number of zeusaphone performances, usually at science fiction conventions, and usually outdoors too....
• Commented on Climatic Heresy: 1
  There is bona fide science research out there, complete with premis, data collection, summary, results, conclusion, followon research, and criticisms. The important thing is to find and read the actual research, look at the data, read the conclusions. Boing Boing...
• Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
  It sounds like your one Walmart employee experience was reasonable. I think your experiment is reasonable, but I wonder: did you collect enough data? If not, you may have gone public with the experiment too soon; now you personally can't...
• Commented on Scientist who did groundwork for Chemistry Nobel now works for $10/h at a Toyota dealership
  Basic scientific research has not been a priority for the US for the last few years, unless the funding has some military origin. Witness the wacky way we have to fund Fermilab these days. Check out the loss of the...
• Commented on Nerd library to end all nerd libraries
  4SJ with more money....
• Commented on Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time they crash or upgrade
  Digital content with DRM has a longevity problem. This is very interesting because digital content is supposed to be darn near immortal! And so content providers add this Blade Runner like life span limiter by tying the viability of content...
• Commented on Analyst: RadioShack to emulate Apple Stores
  You can't improve the decor of a typical Radio Shack store without making stock changes. A typical urban Radio Shack is a small mall shop loaded with low-cost radios, cell phones, computers, GPS receivers, RC cars, and parts. The retail...
• Commented on Eccentric dude puts lyrics to famous film scores (like Batman!)
  I've just seen the one for Batman, and I am very impressed with it, it kept my interest. The idea is excellent, this piece would seem to be at home in a Batman play or musical if that's possible. I...
• Commented on Scrubbing the atmosphere of CO2
  I have been reading that average temperature is down somewhat during the last few months, despite the apparent continuation of polar melting. I don't know if there is a correlating period of less sun energy aimed at Earth, I'd like...
• Commented on Patching ancient walls with legos
  I go by what the toy company says it is, that Lego is singular and plural. To me, Legos is in the same dictionary as nukular....
• Commented on Post-Rapture document delivery
  Br"i"ce Schneier?...
• Commented on John Hodgman reviews Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus for NY Times
  Kirby also created a title called Kamandi. It wasn't part of the New Gods thing so far as I remember....
• Commented on Fuji makes you sign bizarre EULA to buy a camera
  This is absolutely marvelous! A step in the right direction! I wrote in my blog last week that I think license agreements must be clearly disclosed before or at the time of purchase, not when you open the box well...
• Commented on ApplyYourself: in order to send a letter of reference to a university admissions committee, you have to sign our crazy EULA
  I think I would have provided your student your highly desirous letter of recommendation by way of a crypto-signed email sent directly to him. I would then send the university and the service a copy of your BB commentary regarding...