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• Commented on Shackleton's Antarctic whisky found
  The bottles were buried very deep, apoxia. Veeeery deep....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Thanks for pointing out conservapedia, jfrancis - I'd never seen it before. That was good for a laugh....
• Commented on Video of Tiny Tim performance mentioned in Pynchon's Inherent Vice
  Yess! Count Orlok, in the new wiggly model!...
• Commented on Video of Tiny Tim performance mentioned in Pynchon's Inherent Vice
  That is some seriously apocalyptic children's entertainment! Children's shows now should give kids even half that much credit, eh?...
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  Maybe I'd be more jaded to this if I watched more music videos, but Oh my Gawd! That is amazingly designed. Costumes, lights, set, camerawork - Wow! The song itself is completely uninteresting to me, sure, but hey, at least...
• Commented on Glowing bacteria that finds landmines
  Frig, that's vicious! I guess these sorts of schemes could be useful in come cases though, when you know pretty well what types of mines are in an area. I suppose another angle is - if people are being forced...
• Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
  I don't fucking care if you as a waiter have to work your socks off to serve a big party. That is not my problem. Neither it is if you get paid a pittance. It is not your problem, only...
• Commented on College students arrested for not tipping
  "the establishment tacked what it called a mandatory 18 percent gratuity onto the bill" Gratuities are of necessity gratuitous, unnecessary, optional. If it's mandatory, it's a charge, not a gratuity. And if it's a charge, then it's for a good...
• Commented on Glowing bacteria that finds landmines
  There was a project with a similar idea a while ago - GM plants whose leaves grow a different colour when their soil has TNT breakdown products in it. I think the idea was similar - the seeds are scattered...
• Commented on "Don't Poke Scalia"
  Not so much, if you read the article - in the cited cases, he said something slightly goofy, and a lawyer said something really rude, unnecessarily pissing him off, and prejudicing their clients' cases. Anyway, that's not really the point...
• Commented on Ancient cold-blooded goat had tiny brain and eyes
  They also saved energy by having a brain half the size of hoofed mammals its own size, and its eyes were only a third of the size. Interestingly, many modern holiday-makers on Majorca have adopted the same energy saving strategy....
• Commented on Chip Sounds
  There can be rich polyphonic chiptunes - it's just not authentic NES-style. For example, the MB-6582 is a synth with eight (!) 6582 SID chips in it. Can't be cheap to source the parts for that, I'm thinking......
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Good mint chocolate-chip icecream - easy: Make a custard of: - cream without all the gloop that goes in standard whipping cream these days (where I am that that means getting organic cream, which is extra delicious; organic eggs and...
• Commented on NASA: water on the moon
  I don't get it. Why can't they use sane units, like volkswagen beetles, or football fields?...
• Commented on NASA: water on the moon
  By my reading of the article, it sounds like they found about 24 gallons of water. Not enough to keep a lunar Las Vegas lush and green, perhaps, but enough to qualify as "significant" I should think....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Note that it is not a universal requirement that coffee yogourt be bad. Laliberte coffee yogourt is amazingly delicious. This is in part because it's about 8% fat, none of your semi-skim nonsense. Actually, pretty much all Laliberte yogourt is...
• Commented on Some Christians mad at R. Crumb
  Not exactly related, but this discussion put me in mind of an elderly lady I know. She was looking for a good, scholarly old testament study group, and a Jewish group was the best one she could find in the...
• Commented on Type design experts, browser makers, take another crack at webfonts
  I've chosen the font settings in my browser for a reason. They are readable. I can easily tell the difference between a zero and a capital o; between a one and a lowercase l. I don't need a web designer...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Arikol - I wasn't accusing you of bashing anything - I just meant that your post was lost in a sea of other posts that contributed nothing but bashing. But it was a good one, so I thought it was...
• Commented on 500 Pound Planet: the final chapter
  Wow did I ever have to uninstall and reinstall a lot of stuff to get that working. But it does work! Thanks everyone, I wouldn't have beleived it could work otherwise......
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Arikol's question @43 is buried in a predictable deluge of hijab-bashing, Islam-bashing, and general modesty-bashing (and interestingly enough, a certain amount of women-bashing - how dare women who don't have supermodel bodies go nude or near-nude in public? Don't they...
• Commented on 500 Pound Planet: the final chapter
  Is this available in other formats, like BB Video? Mpeg, DivX, even Youtube? I'd love to see this, but Flash for Linux is teh suxors, and won't handle Vimeo (or most Flash games, or anything much - it barely stutters...
• Commented on 500 Pound Planet: Chapter Three
  Argh, curse Adobe and their lame-ass Linux version of flash player! I want to see these too!...
• Commented on Church converted into magnificent bookstore
  I got to the last picture in the set and my jaw literally dropped - the reading tables in the apse are amazing, beautiful, possibly sacreligious. Wow!...
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  Yeah, when I was a student, my university library was in the process of replacing their search terminals (actual terminals - DEC VT terminals with orange screens), with Windows boxes that automatically opened up IE on the library's search page....
• Commented on The Boing Boing / Insane Clown Posse / Juggalo Singularity
  Can you say "brag rap track" five times quickly? I can't even say it once....
• Commented on Magnificent photos from space probes
  A higher resolution version of the picture above, from NASA's (freaking fantastic) astronomy picture of the day site: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html...
• Commented on 3D movies are doomed to gimmickhood
  like seeing a giant-robots-throwing-buildings-at-each-other blockbuster as a flipbook while a hyperactive eight-year-old supplied the sound effects by shouting "BANG!" and "CRASH!" in your ear. That's brilliant! A complete immersive experience! Feel the awesome force as Andrew kicks your chair during...
• Commented on How to make chai tea syrup
  HisDivineShadow @41 I think a DSL modem does actually encode binary data by modulating analog signals with it, and decode it by demodulating it out of those same frequencies. It just handles frequencies above the human hearing range, as opposed...
• Commented on How to make chai tea syrup
  @23, Gloria That's a good question - by what route did "chai tea" evolve? My guess would be: "Chai masala" -> shortened to "chai" -> expanded to "chai tea" because many people then wouldn't know it was tea based. Certainly...