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• Commented on Tiny Lego guitars
  Those are not hands. They are the little one stud squares with clippy bits....
• Commented on Comcast eats NBC: every media mega-merger needs a cautionary infographic
  NBC owns part of Hulu. With Fox owing another part of it you can say goodbye to watching it for free....
• Commented on Comcast eats NBC: every media mega-merger needs a cautionary infographic
  What does the Sheinhardt Wig Company have to say about this?...
• Commented on Mechanical flapping steampunk leather zeppelin
  I don't know, looks more like a Submarine than an Airship to me....
• Commented on Trompe l'oeil back-garden sink-hole
  That tree isn't going to get much bigger. Japanese Maple just doesn't get very large....
• Commented on Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live
  Not really. IPv6 doesn't provide any sort of real solution for this....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  The first thing you should do when a Dell computer arrives that you are not satisfied with is call the number for returns and exchanges. Close to two years ago I ordered a refurbished laptop from Dell. Everything was great...
• Commented on Space Mountain queue gets short-play video-games
  And since it's indoors they can't rely on the Flying Pig, or rather Son of Flying Pig....
• Commented on Mash-up video culled from 99 classic albums
  I think I'll stick with Girl Talk....
• Commented on A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport
  Funny thing is I think I'm more curious about the packets of ketchup to go with the coffee than I am about the car. Might be the more than my house price tag. Still I totally understand what they are...
• Commented on 15 Dots Enough: Alaskan Military School's low-res game demake videos
  I think they screwed up on the Gitaroo Man section. Looks too much like a minimalist Guitar Hero....
• Commented on Map of threatened or arrested bloggers around the world
  He isn't under arrest for blogging. He's under arrest for aiding and abetting. The fact that he's a blogger is largely irrelevant. That being said, most people misunderstand freedom of speech. You are free to say what you want. You...
• Commented on TV admits it was wrong about PVRs
  Product placement for one. But much in the same way they hope you don't leave the room for every commercial, they hope that you don't fastforward through all of the commercials....
• Commented on The Secret of Liquid Smoke
  Liquid Smoke is smoke. It's no less real simply because it has been condensed. You can argue that the resulting flavor is not the same, but you cannot arge that Liquid Smoke is not real smoke....
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Borderlands</em> and <em>Bomberlands</em>, <em>Hook Champ</em> and <em>Earth Dragon</em>s
  Haven't played it yet, but Borderlands is more of a shooter with RPG elements than an RPG with shooter elements. As far as I can tell the stats of your weapon determine how much damage you do, while your skill...
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Borderlands</em> and <em>Bomberlands</em>, <em>Hook Champ</em> and <em>Earth Dragon</em>s
  In the same vein of Borderlands but closer to the Diablo/Rogue roots is Torchlight. It's a Diablo clone with the pedigree to back it up (it was developed by the co-designers of Diablo and Diablo II). One particularly neat thing...
• Commented on Civil War buff fires cannonball into neighbor's home
  Cannonballs do not, by design, explode. They are simply a large ball of metal without any kind explosive charge. The word you are looking for is shell. I see that the article (and the ATF agent) got it wrong, but...
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  Wonder if they could clear out Japanese Knotweed....
• Commented on Sega Zippos
  That's where you are wrong. Those are genuine Zippo lighters. If you look at the alternate views of the Saturn lighter you can clearly see the mark on the bottom....
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  That depends on the state. Here in Pennsylvania the title doesn't go to the lender, it automatically goes to the buyer....
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  The best part is that his nickname is Hellboy....
• Commented on Keeping Point-and-Click Adventures Alive
  That would be Full Throttle. While I'm at it I'd be sorely remiss if I didn't mention AGD Interactive's remakes of old Sierra games. They've taken the old AGI developed games and given them a treatment similar to the VGA...
• Commented on Please release me: <em>Brutal Legend, A Boy and his Blob, Machinarium, Gridrunner Revolution</em>
  Brutal Legend's pedigree alone trumps Uncharted 2. I'm not saying it's better than Uncharted 2, but it's certainly more quirky and unique. In general Brutal Legend fits in more with the Boing Boing/Offworld mission than Uncharted 2....
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  I picture a man in a dark suit standing outside his cell: "Kid, you can spend the rest of your life behind those bars, or you can work for us. What's it gonna be?"...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  Reminds me of the city council in the first couple of seasons of Weeds. I hope this guy gets vilified. On the other hand this has got to be one of the most elegant ways to get get across what...
• Commented on Boing Boing: The World's Greatest Neurozine!
  Sigh. Goodbye Boing Boing Gadgets, I'll miss you....
• Commented on Sidekick servers "impacted" by outage.
  And this is one of the major reasons I don't buy into the whole cloud computing replacing desktop applications idea. Sure, it's nice to be able to put some data online and work on it from anywhere but there's no...
• Commented on In future America, car stops you.
  @17 But it's not really stopping itself. Because it relies on an external signal from the stop light to work it's possible for the mechanism to be engaged by a stray or engineered signal. In my opinion this makes the...
• Commented on Movie posters for minimalists
  I much prefer Olly Moss' Eight Films in Black and Red....
• Commented on Purported PS3 ad sports Nazi imagery
  Hell, the more I look at it the more Nazi iconography I find. Altough I'm not buying that it's a totenkopf on the belt buckle (which isn't exclusive to the Nazis anyway). But man-oh-man I can't understand why they would...