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• Commented on Sneaky pinball makers' tricks
  it still blows my mind to think pinball machines were illegal in New York City until 1976 until Roger Sharpe 'testified' by playing a trick shot to prove it was a game of skill....
• Commented on How to destroy the market for used gadgets
  Cool! I've wanted a cheap X360. Still snarfing up original Xbox 1s for conversion to XBMC media players. Only one dead one, but I bought it DOA for parts, it could be fixed with a chip to re-enable the serial...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  Our remote activity sensors have picked up a large energy signature from a primitive planet. Monitoring of the planet's communications indicates the life-forms there have developed a crude implosion device. Further research by our remote probes have found a circular...
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  So which part illustrates this, the 'if the new one breaks, you have to replace it' versus 'the old one was dirty, so I got a replacement?' As an owner of many obsolete technologies (where you can't go to the...
• Commented on Animation: pitcher Dock Ellis's no-hitter while on LSD
  That triggered nascent brain cells not active since July 1995. Or was it June 2009? Time moves so fluidly these days....
• Commented on 2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version
  Using my circular decorative time-keeping device, I've determined the DAY WILL END when the two clockwork devices within are aligned precisely with 12. But only at night. The sunlight keeps the day from ending in some sort of mystical fashion...
• Commented on Deer butt face taxidermy
  While I doubt I'll ever get either, I'd love to set up a deer head and a deer end appropriately spaced apart between rooms. Too many cartoons, I guess....
• Commented on Inflatable rear seat belts
  It's survival of the fittest customer. Surviving Explorer owners are a superior demographic for brand loyalty than Focus owners....
• Commented on Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood's insane "Selectable Output Control" kill-switch
  Isn't their DRM effective enough? Dumb, Recycled Movies ensures that 95% of movies have no appeal to the discriminating pirate. Of the remaining 5%, any problem playing my home-rented legitimate copy will result in its return to the store, no...
• Commented on Replica of Professor Marvel wagon art from Wizard of Oz
  When I was growing up, there was a Land Of Oz theme park nearby located at Beech Mountain, North Carolina, and had a Professor Marvel wagon set up there. I think they did puppet shows out of the wagon; all...
• Commented on US Chamber of Commerce suing the Yes Men
  The Yes men are one of my fave bits of organized chaos. We exchanged emails about my idea of EPA Superfund historical markers. Maybe 'Hidden chambers of commerce' would be a more suitable title for the series....
• Commented on BMW drives on top of other cars in parking lot (video)
  It was the perfect combination of the concrete dividers that helped launch it upwards. Quite surprised it made it that far and didn't have distorted wheel alignment afterwards. Most SUVs are barely functional as off-road, especially modern ones. There does...
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  Somewhat related trivia: Just the other day a friend who worked in home theatre installations explained why outlets get installed 'upside down' (ground socket up). Seems it reduces the chance that a wire or metal shaving would strike the two...
• Commented on Limbaugh and Beck pimp gold merchants with 35% spread
  It's all in the costs of processing and the chain of profit-taking commerce. A typical package of 2 oz. of precooked bacon @$2.99 will run you about $24 a pound; approximately a 800% markup. More expensive than the fanciest uncooked...
• Commented on Nokia sues Apple over iPhone
  Reminds me a bit of Atari's overly broad patents they filed and then tried to collect on. I think the only one they really made money off of was hologram printing technology, which every one of you with a credit...
• Commented on Props of Mad Men
  It's also a bit fun to play propmaster/time warp at home; Slowly building a mid-70s office with a vintage electric typewriter, Texas Instruments LED calculator, etc. Side benefit is that it's both cheap (thrift shop) and durable (built better). Sure,...
• Commented on Brit ISP TalkTalk shows why cutting people off because a record exec says they're file-sharers is dumb
  Of course, just as wrong, but seems like a few record execs and **AA employees being accused falsely would get that nipped in the bud. Did I say few? I meant a lot of. And that Internet Radio collective royalty...
• Commented on Another impossibly skinny Ralph Lauren model
  While it's not a perfect resizing, I made animated gif of the two pictures. Even part of the plants move. Either Liquify or distort filter, and way too much 'let's fix all the shadows'. Maybe it's a new magic mirror...
• Commented on Big Entertainment's century-long technophobic binge
  The latest scourge to steal royalties and revenue from content producers: Remakes. Instead of licensing and re-releasing a popular film, this nascent industry is taking money out of the pockets of the people involved in the originals. If only somebody...
• Commented on All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 -- US ONLY
  My theory, as it applies to much of the content out there in high-compression land, is to encourage CD sales once folks have had a listen. Plus a good way to introduce or remind people of the Rockabilly Zappa. Yes,...
• Commented on Junky Styling: a manual for thrift-shop clothes-remixers
  Cory: Really? you don't have a sewing machine? Nothing quite like the accomplishment of patching a broken seam, and/or the first time you really get that $#*&# bobbin working right. I get lots of compliments on my thrift shop clothes,...
• Commented on Everything but the Game: the Art and Motion of <em>The Beatles: Rock Band</em>
  I imagine it's a pretty nice game, but I haven't got console to play I imagine it's a pretty nice game but does it change from play to play? Want to tell you that I like the intros a lot...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  I know, lots of tweaking and consultation and prototyping, but that red and black just melts my eyes.. so I went ahead and made a userstyles.org script that calms down the happy mutant color scheme somewhat. Most colors come straight...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Another technical note: my Firefox is really bogged down with this, and clicking my 'profile' link at the top just generates a error message. So some of the old quirks are still there....
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  But, but.. it's supposed to be a directory of wonderful things! Does this indicate a redirection of editorial attitude? And yeah, the black boxes need a reduction in contrast ratio. Pining for the old logo? Archive.org has your solution. http://web.archive.org/web/20080623072724/http://www.boingboing.net//mtimages/boingboing-logo.gif...
• Commented on In future America, car stops you.
  Ferry (#6) claims the human factor is necessary to avoid computer-generated muckups, but google 'gps error +accident' and you'll find plenty of trucks and cars that ended up in the wrong place (low bridges, water) because the driver took the...
• Commented on The US Government's bizarre obsession with Janet Jackson's nipple
  It is a bit puzzling. Males can go bare chested without fear of.. well, FCC fines, anyway. So what's obscene here? the potential for milk?...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  Remember that old prison guard/prisoner psychological experiment gone wrong? Do a turnabout.. Maybe borderline abusive folks in uniform need a rotating administrative 'emasculavacation', where they lose all authority and have to be regular citizens one month out of the year.....
• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  We were warned of this years ago. Shoe Event Horizon...
• Commented on Tatzu Nishi's weirdly displaced rooms
  It's just a materials demo, but still fairly artistic: tumbled house in southern Atlanta, Georgia....