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• Commented on N.A.S.A. feat. Tom Waits + Kool Keith: "Spacious Thoughts"
  It's like watching someone play de Blob while listening to a radio as someone keeps changing stations between a Tom Waits song and a song I don't like....
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  Prototype for the next gen fleshlight?...
• Commented on Video: Unboxing The Fleshlight
  "To be continued..." Will we be seeing a post title Two Weeks with a Fleshlight?...
• Commented on Tweet (#2539604872)
  Let's call this what it is: Beer Power!...
• Commented on "I'm Fat and Nobody Likes Me"
  Finally, someone's written better lyrcis for U2's With Or Without You....
• Commented on 8 iPhone Apps For Camping
  The best iPhone accessory for camping is a hammer. If weight is a concern, put the iPhone in your hip pocket, and hope for the same results....
• Commented on Video Exclusive: Schematic's multi-meter, multi-touch, multi-user Touchwall
  @1 one of the product planners references the ubiquitous and obnoxious personalized advertising from 'Minority Report' -- and he thinks it's a GOOD THING to be emulating. I know satire is hard to catch sometimes, so let me spell it...
• Commented on Introducing the Atlas Obscura
  @12,20,22 Finally was able to click through! All just so I could say that I saw synchronized fireflies when I was in Cameroon, near the town of Widikum. And they weren't the throbbing kind of fireflies I've seen in the...
• Commented on Dead Plants: kick-ass shoutin' hillbilly blues busker music from the streets of London
  I really had to work hard to buy their CD. Does their lack of any apparent marketing strategy make them more authentic?...
• Commented on Father, High on PCP, Eats Son's Eyeballs Out
  No reflection on Xeni's judgment, but I'm swearing off BB for a couple of days until this story is either deleted or pushed far down in the chronological history....
• Commented on New age holy water
  @19 I've patented Bottled Sight. It's like binoculars without the annoying magnification and lenses. "Everything looks better though Ted's Bottled Sight®"....
• Commented on David Pickett's amazing chess set
  Think how mechanically awesome it would be if this set only allowed you to turn the key if the move you're making were legal. Like this, only prettier....
• Commented on Elvis jams with Jimmy Page, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Keith Moon
  @4 wolfiesma I'll say when I figured it out: too late; after I'd told several friends about it while still believing it. I'm officially a laughing stock for the next week....
• Commented on Hotelicopter is not real, sadly
  Dark Roasted Blend has this collection of real humongous helicopters....
• Commented on Old video of talking electric guitar
  Drakes fabulous version of Waylon Jennings' Abilene is well worth finding and hearing. Sadly, I didn't get to see this video before it was taken down....
• Commented on Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner -- HOWTOs for modern living from the past
  For 20 years my only regret in life has been selling my near-complete collection of Plop! comics--with their Wolverton cover art--to a dealer in Denver. Recently, however, I found a torrent with a complete collection of Plop! Not that I...
• Commented on Video: <em>Star Wars</em> guests on Spanish <em>Muppet Show</em>
  @4 Brownlee gone? I hadn't noticed. At the same time I'm saddened to learn of his departure from BB. He is the Andy Kaufman of gadget blogging. I'd like to continue to read him at his new frontier, wherever it...
• Commented on Samsung NC310 netbook claims 11-hour battery life; NC110 proves 7 hours.
  @1 If there's such a thing as smile porn--and there probably is--she'd be star....
• Commented on The Sidewinder and the Snow-Motor
  I'd pay $50 to be able to play with either one of these for half an hour....
• Commented on YouTube clips as instruments
  I passed right over this when Joel posted this in Gadgets. Mark, you get points for a better subject....
• Commented on YouTube clips as instruments
  I'm going to send this to several musician friends forewarning them that they might want to take precautions against shitting themselves....
• Commented on Misanthrope Jackalope plays "The Maker" on ukulele
  Pineapple Pete and Linus need to make friends with Marvin the Metronome. And yes, she's adorable....
• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  This is new technology in Indiana. All radio stations do this when a driver either lingers in the left lane when not using it to pass, or plays with hand-held electronics while driving....
• Commented on Power On Self Test: Playground Rockets
  See the style of rocket in "Blue Sky, Recline," "Yellow Rocket," and "Los Angeles, Night, July 3rd?" Here's a tip. Use at your own risk: Climb up the slide. Spit on your hands and bare feet if necessary for better...
• Commented on Photo: Moto Major 350 by Salvatore Majorca
  Gorgeous. But can it turn? Looks like that big foreskin over the front wheel would restrict the degrees of motion....
• Commented on Anatomical model arm and bird sculpture
  I saw this laying in the street near my house yesterday. Never mind. That was a dead squirrel and some crows....
• Commented on Best Buy staff open and use camera, sell it as new, blame customer for damage
  Rob, you buried the lead. It should read Werewolf Photographed at BestBuy....
• Commented on Britain's vast cement "listening ears" designated a national landmark
  @25 This dude could totally skate that (but perhaps not on the first attempt)....
• Commented on Slicer sled makes its own snow
  @#16 That's disgusting... that you would write what I was thinking....
• Commented on Tourists reenacting the cover of Abbey Road -- timelapse video
  @10 "Really like that song. Anyone know who it is?" Thanks to this post, I just happily spent half an hour on the Blame Ringo Web site. Blame Ringo is a band that used to be called Goodnight Vienna, until...