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• Commented on First photo of baby coelacanth
  Bonus points to DWittSF if that was a Calvin And Hobbes reference. And it's interesting that the image includes frickin' laser beams. I for one would... never mind....
• Commented on Solar sails to take flight
  Funded by a wealthy, and anonymous, donor, the group will launch their LightSail system three times over the next few years Why build only one when you can build three for three times the price? ;] (And I second #9)...
• Commented on Police veteran critiques TSA procedure
  Great article! Once I got the "S"s on my boarding pass and got called for extra screening and asked why. They told me, correctly, that I had a one-way ticket (it was one of those occasions where flying there with...
• Commented on Fake car key is a spy video camera
  Now I wonder how long before movie theaters... Crap, Anonymous beat me to it! My question is; How long is the recording time, per gig of SDHC card? And I like this one better. As mentioned above, you can clip...
• Commented on 27" iMac rules Apple's new gear
  There's also a new plastic MacBook, for people who are allergic to aluminium. I hear Boeing is also working on a new product along these lines ;]...
• Commented on The Science of Autumn, Part the Second
  And also... http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/07/28.html...
• Commented on Pedestrian nearly drops briefcase
  I'm tired of BoingBoing's overly sensationalistic headlines. The pedestrian never comes CLOSE to dropping his briefcase....
• Commented on Map shows US marriage and divorce rates
  It might be fun to try and spot correlations between that map and this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samesex_marriage_in_USA.svg I was hoping that the places with more divorce (i.e. where the supposed sanctity of marriage is least respected) would, ironically, be the ones...
• Commented on Beauty and Brazil
  I think I'm the male version of Anonymous "October 13, 2009 9:45 AM". Well, almost. I am too American to be called Brazilian, but not quite Brazilian enough to not be called American. In any case, I have lived in...
• Commented on HD TV and the placebo effect
  I'll agree with Ulotrichous and Daemon. This experiment is more about conformity than anything else. But that doesn't change the fact that most people are pretty bad at distinguishing the quality of audio and images. Then again, when it comes...
• Commented on 1987 dating video
  I LOL'ed at the "goddess" dude. I think I may actually know the Viking guy. No joke. I'll probably end up looking at him really carefully next time I see him, wondering if he's the guy in the video, and...
• Commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
  Whatever happened to asking people to switch seats with you so that you can sit next to your friend/relative? I have seen situations on airplanes where friends/relatives were seated apart, and they always succeeded when they asked their neighbors (or,...
• Commented on Augmented iPhone app shows you crappy fast food joints
  @#3: http://www.have2p.com @#29: The Jack In The Box near where I live (Evergreen/Rt99 at Airport Rd, just south of Paine Field) is open 24 hours. Because I know those fast-food cravings are worth half-hour drives to satisfy ;]...
• Commented on Iron Melies Moon fence yields teachable moment
  I love it how Kids These Days just assume that any piece of interesting video will naturally be available on the web. The future will probably be all right after all (at least when it comes to IP issues). I,...
• Commented on Put a satellite into orbit for $8,000
  If I were to spend $8000 on a satellite, I would probably make a tiny rocket that lifts itself to a more stable orbit (sorry anti-space-junk folks) and then... and then I don't know what I'd do. Probably just a...
• Commented on Dramatic Tweets
  Nice! Reminds me of when Martin Sargent would do dramatic blog readings (shot very much like this) on Unscrewed. I loved it how he'd read things like "OMG" phonetically....
• Commented on Rocket-shaped air blower for removing dust
  I, too, love my Rocket. And @#14, even without changing lenses, SLR sensors gather a lot of dust. I never remove my 100-400 from my 1Dmk2, but I still need to clean the sensor after every few days of heavy...
• Commented on Navigation system uses crowdsourcing for route guidance
  I'll have to leave that running on my iPhone next time I go flying. Best route from Lynnwood WA to Everett WA is to drive past Everett to Arlington, loop around the airport 10 times over rivers and through hills...
• Commented on Amazing video of girl barely missing an out-of-control car
  Guardian angels do exist! They're time-traveling Nazis from World War 2. Everyone knows that. It could have been one of them!...
• Commented on 9/11 hoax fools all of Germany
  The hoax ... prompted a 1,000-word tome on the website of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s most respected newspaper And 1000 German words are, like, 9000 English words! Don't their sentences get put together like "MassiveHoaxThatFooledEveryoneInGermany perpetrated by GroupOfHoaxersWhoFakedWebsitesAndPhoneNumbersAndArticlesOnWikipediaWhichByTheWayIsUnreliable..."...
• Commented on Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them
  Let me try to explain where I'm coming from as far as how I use social networking sites. I'm having a hard time imagining how the average person is not influenced by any of the following factors (which are what...
• Commented on Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them
  I have to admit that, if ADRIANHON's numbers are correct, then a large fraction of people really don't use these networks as mindfully as I thought, in which case they'll probably benefit from this game. But still... Facebook content showing...
• Commented on Smokescreen privacy game uses fun missions to show kids how data on social services can be used against them
  Do people really NOT use privacy settings on social networks? Do they not see the difference between the kinds of things that should be posted on a public platform (like this comment) versus the kinds of things that should be...
• Commented on Interview with John Marcotte, author of bill to ban divorce
  This is like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's satire in a way, but it's being seriously proposed so as to point out the hypocrisy in people's thinking. It's like saying "Your belief system leads to this ridiculous conclusion. So let...
• Commented on Urban legends about the Smithsonian
  I was hoping that the controversy over the Langley Aerodrome would have made it on there. But I guess it's not really a "myth" in any sense... other than the "myth" that the Langley Aerodrome was the first successful flying...
• Commented on Video tour through the history of SFX
  Here's what some Googling turned up: http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects12.html SFX geeks will probably prefer this to the video, given how complete it is. Twenty pages with lots of screenshots and explanations. (And it reminded me that Total Recall did have a "first"...
• Commented on Video tour through the history of SFX
  #4, Tron did have live actors in it. And even some full live-action scenes. Every bit of every frame of Toy Story is CGI. And I'm with #5: As a fellow SFX enthusiast (Anyone else here tape dozens of episodes...
• Commented on Write an iPhone disappointment Haiku in the comments, win a Mophie Juice Pack Air
  I love tethering, Google Voice, emulators... Jailbreak is a must....
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  In the US, "Lego" means "a LEGO piece", and it tends to be a count noun, like most objects. In most of the rest of the world, "Lego" means "the stuff LEGO makes", and it tends to be a noncount...
• Commented on Ikea is owned by a "charitable foundation," pays only 3.5% tax
  #19 FRANKO; BB's relationship with Disney is similarly non-straightforward. And Apple. #12 GARMT; Interesting way to make clear the analogy to darwinian ecosystems. (And I think my lamp might be called "Garmt" ;] ). #13 QuickBrownFox and #5 JPW; How...