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• Commented on IBM computer brain simulation as complex as a cat's
  I suppose this is all in preparation of doing a computer simulation of Schrodinger's experiment...
• Commented on UK stamps to feature famous album covers
  I wonder how many of the ten albums were actually recorded in Los Angeles?...
• Commented on Jobs micromanaging Tablet marketing
  That's a bit like saying the problem with having a billion dollars is once you have spent it it is all gone....
• Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
  The culture has always been awash in irony, snark and camp....
• Commented on bOING bOING advertisement in Factsheet Five #33 (1989)
  Hey Mark! You lived over on Redacted? I was on Elided Street, couple blocks over. Man those were the days, eh?...
• Commented on R. Crumb unsuccessfully attempts to flatten a 78 record in the oven
  Licorice Pizza !...
• Commented on Now you too can have a small impractical saw in your pen.
  My gast is thoroughly flabbered. !...
• Commented on Bike seat sports a beard of bees
  This is an easy one. Mix equal parts salt and baking soda in a grape juice bottle. Shake thoroughly. Place in the freezer overnight. Next day boil for three hours and decant into as many hot water bottles as you...
• Commented on Download Stay Free issue #21 (psychology)
  That Szondi was a wack job. They all are....
• Commented on US border station scraps sign that says "United States" because terrorists might attack it
  This seems to me like a subconscious expression of shame....
• Commented on Guinea pig hair comb and other taxidermied accessories
  "sounds pretty legit to me..." Ah, no, what it shows is that, despite the beliefs of a couple generations of MFAs, you can't specify the significance of your art....
• Commented on Giant Burning Holes of the World
  Please name our new baby Joe, So he'll grow up like big Joe. He'll work and he'll fight and he'll fix up the mines, So fire can't kill daddy no more. Dear sisters and brothers goodbye, Dear mother and father...
• Commented on Preternaturally Verbose Infant Instigates Spontaneous Outbreak of Lulz (video)
  Someone needs to do an auto-tune version of this...
• Commented on Wails and Mumbles
  Scrotum to glans surgery is all the rage among the jet-set this year. Didn't you know?...
• Commented on Kiwis who took the money and ran located through Facebook update
  "Ms Hurring foolishly updated her status to say she was drinking the local Asian beer and enjoying the heat." Asia is more than China and its 1.3 billion. There is also India with more than 1 billion and Russia (mostly...
• Commented on Kiwis who took the money and ran located through Facebook update
  Ah, so now they only need to locate them among 3 billion people. Easy peasy....
• Commented on Gnarly Videos
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzgRy9dvWn8...
• Commented on Marketing the Minimal
  In five years we will all be amazed at what some kids can do with one of these. The marketing is pretty dull though....
• Commented on Moist, and other words people dislike
  Moist brownie, good Moist handshake . . ....
• Commented on Long-exposure photo of Roomba coverage
  Yeah, that's really not ecological. Uh, 'scuse me. I gotta jump in my SUV and run to the store for some cigs....
• Commented on Tiny little phonograph from an old Datsun
  When I read the headline I thought this was a maker project about constructing a record player from an old compact car....
• Commented on Sparks cover of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
  Proving that at least half the Beatles talent was in the performance. I could go on . . ....
• Commented on George Will: Steve Jobs is an infantile poser
  The point of the way Jobs dresses is that he has accomplishments he can point to. He doesn't have to play the game. George Will is a pimple on the ass of the republican party. Hence the need for the...
• Commented on South African Makita billboard is drilled pointillism
  That's a self-portrait then, innit?...
• Commented on Some Practical Advice for Your Weekend
  It's quick in the sense of alive or living like in 'cut to the quick' or quicksilver. FWIW...
• Commented on iSupply: iPod Shuffle's components costs only 28% of its retail price
  OK, now tell us what a dell laptop costs to make, or a Ford Taurus, or a box of Wheaties. This ratio seems quite reasonable to me. Why the "only" ?...
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  You have to make some guesses to see the 120%. There is a maximum length on the loan of one month. You pay 10% to borrow the money for a maximum of one month. That means it is 120% APR,...
• Commented on The Big Takeover: A Must-Read from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
  As that Cheetos dude would say, "Blah, Blah, Blah"...
• Commented on Rare footage of Krautrock group "Faust" from 1971
  you missed NEU! One of the coolest bands of all time, Krautrock or not. Faust is up there though, and Can. Kraftwerk fades by comparison. NEU!, Can and Faust. Wow. Thanks for this post....
• Commented on Ten-Minute Raccoon Butt Shelf
  Looks like a Paul Doty project from Popular Science....