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• Commented on Beatles Complete on Ukulele
  Now that I've looked at the blog, I see you were quoting. So I see that it's me who needs to lighten up. And Messrs Greenawalt and Barrett. Apologies....
• Commented on Beatles Complete on Ukulele
  Just wanted to add my old fart phooey to all the other phooeys up above...Mr Frauenfelder, you need to lighten up and stop being so goddam prim. It's a great pop song that encapsulates perfectly Lennon's ironic take on what...
• Commented on Dramatic photos of convenience store robbery suspect
  West of Normal is where this took place, according to the captions. If that's not a title for a Western I don't know what is......
• Commented on The Mighty Quince
  A couple of years ago I made quince marmalade (Wikipedia: The term "marmalade", originally meaning a quince jam, derives from "marmelo," the Portuguese word for this fruit.) My cousin had a glut, so he sent me a box in the...
• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  @92 Grisly: you're right, I might not be as serious about making things as you. On the other hand, I might be more serious about other things than you. Anyway, who's complaining about tools? And it's news to me that...
• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  @#80 LeavingHalfway All air transport security regulations are by definition illogical (if not always stupid) because they cater for the vanishingly unlikely, but for all I know the FBI have already uncovered a snow globe bomb-making factory. Agreed, the TSA...
• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  I've been reading all this with a mounting sense of disbelief - you're beginning to sound like NRA members, an American's right to bear knives, blah blah. If you really need to take a knife, multitool, whatever with you, put...
• Commented on Old video of talking electric guitar
  The folks at SoundScavengers were wondering why 40 people have signed up today...I think we know why, don't we?...
• Commented on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea pop-up book -- the paper kraken wakes
  Don't want to rain on Mr Ita's parade, but my late wife (that's the disclosure bit), Kate Petty, produced a series of pop-ups - THE GREAT GRAMMAR BOOK, THE WONDERFUL WORLD BOOK, THE MAGNIFICENT I CAN READ MUSIC BOOK and...
• Commented on HOWTO Make an upside-down bookshelf
  I see some really ugly brackets and a LOT of extra work......
• Commented on Bad judgment in choice of kids' book cover
  Never mind all that, what about the cow? She's going to be hurting when she sits on her udder......
• Commented on Random House asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally
  If I was a paedophile children's author, I'd just go ahead and sign......
• Commented on Bill Gates' 2003 flame email about Moviemaker
  @16, 21 That which belongs to Bill Gates is Bill Gates's. You may wish it wasn't so, but that's the way it is....
• Commented on Impromptu bookmarks found in used books
  Found a strip of bacon in a library book once. What could I do but leave it there?...
• Commented on Collection of funny items clipped from newspapers
  Clippings are funny, guy who put them together isn't. Would be good if he let us work the joke out for ourselves once in a while......
• Commented on UK man hassled by cop for not having a "camera license"
  This may or may not be relevant: 'You can't trust a Special like an old-time copper/When you can't find your way home', from old music-hall song 'My Old Man (Said Follow the Band) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Dilly_Dally_on_the_Way...
• Commented on HOWTO make a desktop biosphere
  Going to make one right away. Is it juvenile to point out that Andrea Kissack is an anagram of Andrea Kickass?...
• Commented on Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics
  'Amazon UK should have a boxed set for not a lot - I think it cost me £19 three or four years ago.' (#2) Down to £9.98 at the moment (just under $20) - best bargain ever, I'd say. Haven't...
• Commented on Technology lessons from the Cuban Special Period
  'Sat TV is illegal, but is principal alternative media'...Maybe so, but in typically pragmatic Cuban fashion TV in all the tourist Havana hotels comes from from one monster dish, which steals its feed from who knows where. Or so I...
• Commented on DVD Jon launches doubleTwist -- move music without DRM hassles
  Kid, as it turns out, you might want to add: 5. The group that does all this on a PC rather than a Mac....
• Commented on Dublin city council cancels free citywide WiFi: "Illegal under Euro law"
  I hope DJS won't think me too pedantic (Brits, huh?) if I point out that Dublin isn't part of Great Britain....