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• Commented on Silent film re-edit of so-called "drunkest guy ever" surveillance video
  @Alan, it's not always the case that diabetics are even partially at fault. My FIL got adult onset diabetes at 40, never having been overweight, nor a sugar junkie. Family predisposition, so not his fault. (There were diabetics even fifty...
• Commented on Make video about visible sound and vibration
  The coolest trip of my life was just like that, except in technicolor, slow motion, and accompanied by an original symphonic composition my brain wrote just for that occasion. (I can't play any instrument and have no musical talent that...
• Commented on Frog eats Christmas light, gets illuminated
  Hey, if I were ectothermic, swallowing an illuminated light bulb would probably seem like a good idea to me too. Reminds me of a trick for keeping citrus trees in zones technically too cold for them. Plant them in big...
• Commented on Automatic chicken coop door
  Pretty awesome, Mark. I'm struggling right now with a redesign of my chicken coop doors. I had thought of the guillotine-style door, but I don't have time to implement that this year, not even in a manual configuration, far less...
• Commented on Video of shell-less egg one of my chickens laid
  I got one like that once. I called it the soft shell egg. I thought that when people said they got eggs with no shell, they meant really NO shell. As in a blob of egg white and yolk sitting...
• Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
  Agree with #8. I wonder if a similar looking dog killed this goose's mate. Nonetheless, had that been my dog, it would have been goose for tea after the first catch and release....
• Commented on Time-lapse of a 9-month-old at play
  His day looks infinitely more interesting than mine. Kid knows how to work a room that's for sure. Was "dinning room" deliberate, I wonder? Just how noisy was it in there?...
• Commented on Early 20th Century London street life video
  You'd probably have to look for it in a university library, but anyone interested in this period of London history should look for a delightful and very detailed memoir published around 1970 by a woman who grew up on the...
• Commented on Photo gallery of female body builders
  I agree that the lighting is doing these athletes absolutely no favors. Why is it that every single one of these women has significantly lighter skin tone on their faces than they do on their bodies? It contributes quite a...
• Commented on Chicken tractor design
  I second the recommendation to avoid chicken wire and go with hardware "cloth." Raccoons can pull a chicken through chicken wire one bite at a time. They're also strong enough to life a tractor that is insufficiently heavy. Also, Mark,...
• Commented on How I dehydrated my vegetables
  Personally, it's the food that does come in a box from Kraft that I find scary. Homegrown is the way to go. Mark, another option for the tomato glut is smoking. My husband figured out that tomatoes smoked with apple...
• Commented on Wade Davis: an Inuit elder and his shit knife
  *applauds Robert #10* Nicely done. I can't believe how fast Davis talks. He sounds absolutely breathless, and yet he's incredibly articulate. Was he deliberately cramming in every word he could? Was this a case of nerves that made him overclock?...
• Commented on Deciphering the myriad of claims on a carton of eggs
  I too keep a small flock of hens for eggs. Even though I no longer buy eggs, it's been a quandary for me to know how to describe my eggs to the few people who have approached me wanting to...
• Commented on Homegrown Evolution blog on the ethics of raising chickens
  @ #12: As Joel Salatin rightly and succinctly states, "if you visit a farm and smell manure, you're smelling mismanagement." I have a tiny backyard flock of four laying hens, and you'd never know it by smell, even if you...
• Commented on Black q-tips
  I worked for a pediatric ENT for quite some time. I recall him mentioning at one point that the chemical composition of earwax varied between a very large portion of the Asian population, and the rest of humankind. This was...
• Commented on Leopard attacks crocodile
  Holy shit. That is freakin' AMAZING! Check out the other photos. The photographer calls it his best day ever. I'd call that the best five minutes of my entire life if I'd been there. Great shots. I probably would've just...
• Commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  Sad to hear they've finally closed down completely. I worked at the Telegraph location for about a year ('05-'06) when they were trying to make a go of three locations, including downtown SF. Cody's Telegraph was always a kooky place,...
• Commented on Mennonites in downtown LA
  I live in an area with many Mennonites, and some Amish. I've never known any of them to proselytize AT ALL. This is the first instance of Mennonite missionaries I've ever heard of. I have to admit, I'm skeptical. I...
• Commented on Chile photos from Bob Harris: Pudu, Dibs, and odd Jeopardy questions
  I'd put my money on some Minoan era Cycladic (Cretans, perhaps?) girls. They went around in cutaways that left their ta-tas out in the open air....
• Commented on Getting baked before shooting AKs at the Taliban: a bad idea.
  Not sure about Pashto, but in Persian (very closely related to Dari), the word for smoke (the noun) sounds exactly like the English word "dude." Freaky, huh?...
• Commented on Genetically distinct, deadly virus discovered in Bolivia
  "It is quite a unique virus..." Unique is an absolute term that takes no modifiers. If something is unique, it's unique, not quite unique, very unique, absolutely unique, or somewhat unique. One unique thing cannot be more or less unique...
• Commented on TED 2008: Paul Stamets on how mushrooms can help the world
  If I'm not mistaken, it was Stamets who did much of the work breeding that oyster mushroom that could clean up oil. The mushroom wasn't genetically engineered. He just started breeding them by gradually adding more and more petrol to...
• Commented on TED 2008: Paul Stamets on how mushrooms can help the world
  Yes, Stamets rocks. And I agree there's no way he called them plants. Reporter error. His book Mycelium Running with blow your mind. Repeatedly. Every few pages in fact....
• Commented on Filial piety: letting your father-in-law nurse at your breast
  I'm pretty sure I saw something similar to what #21 describes in a French film years ago. A peasant is put in jail without food, and his wife keeps him alive by breast feeding him. Can't remember the name of...
• Commented on HOWTO Bake a gorgeous vegan herb bread
  I've more frequently encountered vegans who were offended by meat and meat-eaters than the other way around. I'll take your word for it that vegans and vegetarians get bashed. If so, you might consider that some of that could be...
• Commented on HOWTO Bake a gorgeous vegan herb bread
  @Jeff: Fresh sage is not bitter. You may not like the taste of the herb, but it has plenty of fans. It's definitely my personal favorite. I eat whole leaves of sage quite frequently. I'm a little non-plussed by the...
• Commented on Is this the end of cheap food?
  A couple of points: Victory gardens. They're going to be necessary, including in *your* backyard. I agree that the Farm Bill deserves close attention in the near future. Unfortunately, like so many other government creations, farm policy is pretty much...