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• Commented on Home made Russian water purifier
  Osprey101, You can't magnetize water....
• Commented on Home made Russian water purifier
  There are crackpots in Russia just like in the US. Who knew?...
• Commented on Theme Park Maps through the ages
  Anon, There is a "gents" near the skating rink and also "lavatories" (presumably ladies and gents) near the main entrance. Perhaps it was expected that more facilities were needed by the ladies. Not unreasonable....
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  The numerals (not numbers strictly speaking) do GO clockwise. Do you mean that they should be ordered clockwise, and GO counterclockwise? I think so too, since you can't instantaneously see them moving....
• Commented on Instructions for building an autonomous sentry gun
  Shoot anything that moves. With what, a beam of infrared light? Yawn. Show it firing off a few rounds from a .45 ACP at a piece of cardboard on a stick or something....
• Commented on Portraits of child beauty pageant participants
  Little Miss Sunshine is a good movie, and I recommend it too, but I don't think it's hard enough on the child beauty pageant scene, as the girl in it seems fairly well adjusted, happy and like she's got a...
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  Are you suggesting eating a goat? No thanks! I was amazed to see them clear out Himalayan blackberries, the noxious invasive plant here in the Northwest....
• Commented on In praise of IBM ThinkPad warranty service
  I like my W500 too, but wish it could run XP with no problems (there are issues with the video drivers and XP causing occasional crashes) and wished I didn't have to find a software solution to its lack of...
• Commented on C graffiti
  Just as likely (if not more) on /....
• Commented on The woman who can't stop orgasming
  So then should cancer be in the DSM?...
• Commented on Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot
  Yep, "cannabis" is Latin not English. Here's another one: Did you really mean to say, "call it by it is English name"?...
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  "There is no plural of lego since it is a substance, like ice, or weed, or sulphur." You've got to be kidding! I can go along with people wanting to conform to the desires of the LEGO manufacturer that everyone...
• Commented on Museum's "moon rock" is just a rock
  Hmmm...petrified wood...SW USA...southern Nevada...Area 51...it all makes sense now....
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  they aren't just toys apparently... http://www.rdmag.com/General-Sciences-Legos-can-show-what-happen-on-the-nanoscale/...
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  Glad to see you've adopted a reasonable and pragmatic approach to this silly debate, Cory. Anyway, I'm guessing that the recipe you use for the cookie dough will affect whether or not they retain a recognizable shape. The seller would...
• Commented on iPhone copycats are a modern day cargo cult
  I'm not sure they really thought that, Brainspore. I think they thought that some people would buy the stuff due to association and they were probably right....
• Commented on Bats the size of your thumb
  He doesn't look too happy about having his picture taken during the act......
• Commented on Frank Zappa plays a bicycle on the Steve Allen show
  Oh. That was a tease! All that talking, which was interesting, but then we barely get to hear the bicycle sounds and the video cuts off.......
• Commented on Bicycle with oddly shaped wheels
  I'd like to see a video of the bike in motion....
• Commented on Wolfram|Alpha is Live
  I tried "degrees of freedom" expecting a mathematical or physical interpretation and it told me how many bachelor's and master's degrees were awarded at Fairleigh Dickinson University. A work in progress....
• Commented on Wolfram|Alpha is Live
  "Interpreting Boing as Boina" is a Mathematica computation?! OK, so I typed "Integral of sin(x) from 0 to Pi and it gave the answer as 2 and drew a pretty graph....
• Commented on Notebooks made from punchcards
  Computer note cards? Don't you mean computer punch cards? Pretty geeky though....
• Commented on Sculpted caricatures of three of the Beatles by David O’Keefe
  Lennon should be easy to caricature. George is there so it can't be not wanting to pick on the dead....
• Commented on RFIDs on the Brain
  Sounds like a contradiction to me, when he says, "there will be 10 trillion of things going into the environment every few years...total knowledge of consumer behavior watched in real time..." and then he says "the future's not about [technology...
• Commented on Pedal powered electricity generator
  For exercise, great. But, let's see, 1.8 kW-hr at $0.09/kW-hr...that comes to 16 cents. Per month....
• Commented on Zipper dress
  Brittanica.com? So that's an encyclopedia entry? wtf....
• Commented on Tiny, tiny $40 robot navigates around your desktop
  Why is it that, "The all-around control, you may never experience it!"? Engrish?...
• Commented on Exhibit about the civilization inhabiting the interior sea of an undiscovered southern continent
  Too bad there was no Art Bell show in the seventeenth century. He definitely would've been on it!...
• Commented on Downloadable Soundtrack for a Book: How to Break Bad News
  So the "Bad News" is that being a reporter is a crummy job?...
• Commented on When Do We Start Calling Years 'Twenty-Somethings'?
  In the year Twenty-Five Twenty-Five.......