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• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  The spear laceration of the hand implies that there was not intent to kill the attacker/intruder/lunger. Consider the situation: You are in a room holding a sword and the intruder lunges and tries to grab your weapon. You do nothing,...
• Favorited Time lapse video of slime mold and mushrooms on Boing Boing
• Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
  The original image is much worse: http://antfarmjournal.com/bushcrap/bushbirds.html...
• Commented on Desulfator resurrects dead lead acid batteries?
  I have a newer car battery charger that has some digital readouts and automatic controls. It has a mode for testing alternators and another for reconditioning batteries. Do you think the battery charger's 'reconditioner' is basically doing the same thing,...
• Commented on Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads - made on a Mac
  I work remotely for a company very far away. I have a pc and a mac on my desk. I use the PC for one application required by my job that does not run on the mac. I do all...
• Commented on Does the US military have some super new capability?
  BLT sandwiches. Once the populace gets addicted to them, terrorists will no longer get recruits....
• Commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
  Has-been overpaid semi-retired comic blows verbal diarrhea with has-been overpaid programmer who never had an original idea but just sucked off the innovations of others. Two people I don't connect with or care about spouting uninteresting insignificant banter in a...
• Commented on Interactive map of "history's greatest journeys"
  How odd that this graphic notes wimpy little jaunts like that of deSoto or Pizarro but ignores\ major undertakings like those of Nikolai Przhevalsky, who explored China, the Tien Shan mountains, much of Central Asia and Turkestan, during 5 expeditions....
• Commented on Cities making red-light cameras more profitable by making them less safe
  The story was wrongly attributed to leftlanenews.com when in fact LLN was just referencing the National Motorists Association research at http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/ The NMA is located in Waunakee Wisconsin, and for those who want to know more about the original research,...
• Commented on Rat kings
  I was an animal caretaker in a research lab for a few years, and I took care of rats in cages. I have good reason to dismiss this as a hoax or at least, the result of human intervention. 1)...
• Commented on Tag Cloud for American State of the Union Address 2008
  State of the Union response: http://www.antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/BushStateoftheUnion1-28-8/index.html...
• Commented on Thought balloon in the real world
  Great for high school reunions as well: http://www.antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/BFHS77Reunion8-18-7/bigfootfunnies/Comic.html...
• Commented on Collaborative art car build at Maker Faire Austin
  Here is a funny art car I photographed in Spring Green Wisconsin in August 2007: http://www.antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/ArtCarSpringGreen8-16-7/index.html...
• Commented on ArtCars in the Bay Area and Austin
  Here is an art car I saw in Spring Green Wisconsin on August 16, 2007: http://antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/ArtCarSpringGreen8-16-7/index.html...