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• Commented on Props of Mad Men
  In that time period it was much more likely you'd have had either manual Royals or, if it was IBM, an IBM Executive, which was a conventional type-bar unit. Selectrics were expensive and didn't replace manual typewriters completely until well...
• Commented on Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web
  My personal major peeve: sites ABOUT Blackberry that look like ass ON a Blackberry....
• Commented on Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
  "Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist..." I am very glad the US Army archived all those head. It must be a cool job....
• Commented on Fight Club uncovered at home for mentally disabled
  Dang it, the first rule of Fight Club is... What are you, retarded or something????...
• Commented on Mysterious booms in New York
  In Baltimore a year or two ago, mysterious booms were found to be some asshat blowing up homemade fireworks....
• Commented on Android Calling Card: slash your long-distance bills without having to dial a zillion numbers
  Ow, YOU were that guy who used the 37Gb???...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part three: Gadgets and stuff
  I'm wondering what conclusions to draw from the fact that a lot of people who looked at the uranium ore ended up buying Liquid Ass fart spray....
• Commented on Conscious after decapitation?
  This was actually documented in George Bishop's 1965 book, "Executions: Legal Ways Of Death Throughout The World," now out of print. In the section dealing with this incident (in the chapter about guillotine), there's a bit more detail, including the...
• Commented on Be-bop story and dance
  Ooo-bop-she-bam, a-vout-o-roonee!...
• Commented on Ortofon 2M turntable cartridge looks great - in a Bondi Blue sorta way
  @12, yep, just as there were many 78s that didn't make it to LP in the 1950s, there were many good LPs that never made it to CD and thus aren't going to be available in digital form. I have...
• Commented on Ortofon 2M turntable cartridge looks great - in a Bondi Blue sorta way
  $669 in 2008 dollars isn't all that bad, if you think back to the glory days of vinyl. I paid $400 for a Sony PSX-55S direct-drive table in 1981, and another $200 for a great Shure cartridge for it. That...
• Commented on Oil paintings inspired by Internet memes
  Wait a minute! Where are the REAL memes? Where's nutsack squirrel? Paint huffer dude? Mustard Guy? Hyakugojyyuichi? Hamster Dance? Domo-kun? WTF does he think this is?...
• Commented on Why it's good to leave your WiFi open
  I live in a very rural area, and a surprising number of my elderly neighbors not only don't use the net, they still have old black bakelite telephones with cloth cords and stamped-steel dials. Thus, if anyone's going to borrow...
• Commented on No Console for Old Men
  How was she, man?...
• Commented on High heels: tottery killers (infographic)
  Years ago, I worked at Xerox. I was always amused by the department secretaries who, on Monday, would be all excited because "look at these great heels I got at lunch for only seven bucks!" On Thursday, they'd be bitching...