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• Commented on Time for obscure Finnish acid house performed with hacked synths!
  That's a TR-707. It will send out DIN SYNC. Don't know if you can sync 11 machines with that though....
• Commented on Video made using Google SketchUp for $12
  Anon at #11 You beat me, exactly what I was going to post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot...
• Commented on Goodbye
  We'll miss you here, but sure we'll see you around. Have a good one mate....
• Commented on The imaginary musical instruments of Yanko
  Ha @Strider, I just watched that episode. Thought it was unfortunate the ambassador's son used such a boringly ordinary drum, he should have had one of these for sure. Looks like the drum table ca actually be bought. http://www.musicalfurnishings.com/...
• Commented on Econo-Keys, the reversible keyboard
  Looks like it's waterproof to a meter, could be perfect to use in the bath!...
• Commented on Colossus
  That punch tape is really beautiful....
• Favorited Papercraft heart of rotating gears on Boing Boing
• Commented on Obama turned the Queen of England into a copyright crook!
  Chris @16 That's how I read it too. So the real question is will the Queen's staff be able to pull this data off the iPod and archive it properly?...
• Commented on Unboxing Next Gen: Advair Asthma Inhaler
  Breathtaking??...
• Commented on Space invaders extreme: Hexstatic/Kris Menace arcade mashup video
  Sampology mixed this in his VJ/turntablist set at the GameOn exhibition here. Gotta check out his Pong beat juggle at the start. (1:15 for the impatient) http://vimeo.com/2548910...
• Commented on Jared's Cube: a beautiful and strange thing
  Damn that's gonna get dusty....
• Commented on Japan 2008 Smoking Statistics
  Pretty strict here in Queensland Australia, bars can only have a small designated outdoor smoking area, no food is allowed there. Some places you just have to go out and smoke on the street. Oh and you're not allowed to...
• Commented on Random Acts of Poetic Bookmarking
  I once found a handwritten note inside a library copy of Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen instructing me to search for a second coded note hidden in another library. Who knows what fantastic journey I might have embarked...
• Commented on London police demand that new pub owner installs a CCTV as a licensing condition
  #34 #42 Jeff & Suspect, I think the Gargoyles were from Stephenson's Snow Crash...
• Commented on Video: Tron + Depeche Mode
  Tron x Dom & Roland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEQGddavb0 End of line...
• Commented on Weird rumble in Oklahoma
  Giant Worms!...
• Commented on Fun with the Yoshimoto cube
  I want furniture made of these....
• Commented on Jetdaisuke conducts the gadget orchestra
  Neat, I was wondering about that connector and nicely he tags everything at the end....
• Commented on Man carves carrot and plays it as a clarinet
  This guy also plays a pretty mean bicycle....
• Commented on Marvin says... UNPLUG.
  whiners leaving! mutants rejoice! byebye normals, go buy buy. QFT! This is the stuff that makes BBG worth reading. Mutants rejoice indeed!...
• Commented on Humbert demands chiptunes!
  Exodus ska-dub by Dubmood. first track on this EP http://www.jahtari.org/music/JTR%20EP05.htm hella fun. Also quarta330's nintendostep stuff is awesome, though maybe not quite what you're after. http://www.myspace.com/q330...
• Commented on Girls warned playing didgeridoo could cause infertility
  Apparently HarperCollins will remove the chapter from future reprints. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24292872-2702,00.html...
• Commented on Dumbest salvo yet in the war on terror, courtesy of the London police
  @W000T TERRORISTS NEED TO BLEND IN: Be sure to alert authorities if nothing suspicious is going on. Pay special attention to people you don't notice. That's just brilliant....
• Commented on Comic Reader Apps on iPhone? Suck.
  Ah, it stripped my link out at #10. Guess I should have previewed. I was trying to Link to this video on Murderdrome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CecFio3gIOA That has been designed for the iPhone. Unfortunately it looks like Apple has banned it. http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/27/apple-bans-a-comic-book-firestorm-ensues/...
• Commented on Comic Reader Apps on iPhone? Suck.
  Here is a comic designed for the iPhone. I'm impressed by the pencils/inks layers, something you can't do on paper....
• Commented on Design fantasy: If Sony Ericsson made an ultra-mobile PC...
  But it's missing it's MAX REVERSE button. What are you going to do if you hit the black ice?...
• Commented on The Spotnicks - The Rocket Man (1962)
  Sweet, I was looking that clip since the one on youtube was taken down. Here's The Leningrad Cowboys doing the same song. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fuv4_leningrad-cowboys-cossack-song-poly_music...
• Commented on Green Machine: Jack Nicholson's hydrogen Chevy from 1978
  I'd hazard a guess it was Nicholson who was writing the cheques here for this solar hydrogen startup....
• Commented on Iain Banks interviewed by the Internet
  As far as I'm concerned 'The Business' is a Culture novel with the serial numbers painted out. I always thought the same thing and for some reason found that disappointing. My favourite would have to be Inversions, which is a...
• Commented on BIC Phone is branding coup de grâce
  So its a phone from the makers of the two things (pens and lighters)that are most likely to end up going home in someone else's pocket....