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• Commented on Under the spreading cellphone tower, I bought you and you sold me
  before everyone has palpatations the reason they are protecting the identity is so that it doesn't preduce a trial, the identuty of the carrier will of course be public knowledge when the trial happens...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  In the UK the disabled discrimination act basically sets out that you should provide your services available to all regardless of disability and if you can make this better by making 'reasonable' alterations you should do so. it's basically a...
• Commented on Gag order blocks Guardian from reporting on Parliament
  I heard it was number 61 on this list...
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  vapourware...
• Commented on Successful marriage proposal via 3D-printed ring
  shapeways let you print in stainless steel now.. which is pretty cool http://www.shapeways.com/materials/...
• Commented on Mutton Busting: children riding terrified sheep.
  I'm just annoyed that i grew up in an area with loads of sheep farming and no-one ever thought of this....
• Commented on How to receive thousands of satellite channels
  bet there is still nothing on...
• Commented on Video: Clever woman designs a better British power plug
  very interesting though i suspect more difficult that this makes it look , is it subject to cable wear? or is it on a brush and contact system which will make it vulnerable to knocks and short outages. either way...
• Commented on T-Mobile myTouch 3G
  my mistake, it seems it's just being renamed for T mobile with some different colour options....
• Commented on T-Mobile myTouch 3G
  So I read this precisely 30 minutes after signing up for an HTC magic bugger...
• Commented on Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change
  if no carbon is sequestered then where did all the oil gas and coal come from? now it's obviously not really going to make a huge difference but an increasign use of timber and it's by products is going to...
• Commented on Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change
  I was about to say that chestnut makes excellent cladding timber, that can be left untreated in temperate climates (like the UK) it's very stable. but then i read about the proscuttio and realised that far more important. in spain...
• Commented on Search algorithms are editorial decisions
  whether 'public' means 'government' is a moot point. Isn't a more fundamental problem that any open algorithm will be open to spammers and scammers and so be gamed constantly. Google keep their algorithms top secret for this very reason (and...
• Commented on The Bridge-Building Centipede Truck
  John I think it's china judging by these other shots http://izismile.com/2009/05/26/bridge_construction_3_pics.html...
• Commented on Krämerbrücke is a bridge surrounded by houses
  edinburgh has 3 bridges kinda like this.. this is one of them http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=edinburgh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=uk&ei=gmwcSs_vKNKZjAe74ID6DA&ll=55.948143,-3.191893&spn=0.002163,0.008004&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=55.948229,-3.191943&panoid=56_ZgpHJDX9QVy96ZKP6ow&cbp=12,75.47,,1,9.12 ons of the others confus the hell out of google maps there is nothing like the bemused look on a tourists face looking at the map anbd...
• Commented on Is Crohn's disease on the rise because we've eliminated hookworm infections?
  this is a very interesting article from a few years ago about someone infecting themselves with hookwork to treat asthma http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971 he went to cameroon and wandered around barefoot for a while. also, the causation (not correlation) implied in the...
• Commented on Insulation and packing material made from rice hulls and fungus
  In terms of building insulation i'm going to call vapourware on this. They don't seem to say it's thermal conductivity so for all we know it's 1/10 as efficient as polystyene or PIR. plus in terms of building insulation, biodegradability...
• Commented on Why isn't Home Depot aping Ponoko?
  similarly i'd like a pay-as-you use workshop get a reasonably well kittec out workshop, the kind we had in woordwork and metalwork at school. with a few added laser cutters perhaps. then charge people an hourly or subscription rate like...
• Commented on Power company plans first orbital solar power satellite
  surely it would be subject to the same reduction in efficiency as it passed into the earths atmosphere as the suns rays when they come individually. this read to me like an april fools joke. a 10 times increase in...
• Commented on Wikileaks.de domain-owner's house raided over publication of secret government censorship lists
  i'm no expert but i'd say he was being arrested for running a domain that distributed lists of child porn sites. he doesn't run it but he did register the domain. I'd say that whilst there are free speech issues...
• Commented on Merino wool makes a black T-shirt cost $75
  $75 .... That's a bargain http://laist.com/2009/01/21/mostexpensivetshirt.php...
• Commented on Own an English village
  #21 someone already did that.. just don't tell the fecking american's or no-one will buy it. i can only assume that at least one of the blacksmiths is selling dope to fund the horseshoe buisness...
• Commented on Will third-party gear fix the new iPod Shuffle?
  there is also the iflea spoof http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/ipod-flea-p1.php...
• Commented on Searching for an Honest Bank
  someone pointed out to me that the spanish banks were not allowed to trade in derivatives and therefor the abbey and santander are actually pretty good. in terms of service i've always found first direct to be very good. it's...
• Commented on Please take the Boing Boing Survey (It works now!)
  1. income is listed as 50K I'm assuming you mean us$ 2. Have you ever received content from this site by way of a news aggregator or RSS reader? NEVER DAILY WEEKLY MONTHLY what about HOURLY!...
• Commented on Britain's vast cement "listening ears" designated a national landmark
  concrete not cement cement is a powder you make concrete with /pedant but they are rather nice....
• Commented on Electrolyzed water, aka <em>el liquido milagroso</em>
  this is often used to clean windows in the UK. I'm not sure why particularly but it tends to be done where the washing is by a long pole and it would be difficult to effectively wash off any soap...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  you should do what dave gorman did and try to do the whole trip, only shopping, eating, sleeping and (most tricky) pumping gas, from independently run buisnesses http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=188 he just managed it, it's a fascinating show...
• Commented on Japan 2008 Smoking Statistics
  The really bizzarre thing is that it is illegal to smoke on the street in some areas of tokyo. in shibuya there is a shop that you go into to smoke (they sell cigarettes) and there are little designated smoking...
• Commented on An excellent Kindle 2.5 mockup
  The bezel i guess is more about having something to hold onto, it's a little too large to hold like an iphone...