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• Commented on Afghanistan: Poppy Palaces and "Narcotecture"
  Hm, in medical terms the 'o' is used for joining, so narc-o-tecture seems more correct, 'narc' revering to numbing drugs, 'o' joining the terms, and 'tecture' a form of tech, from 'tektōn', meaning builder or craftsman. So, a building related...
• Commented on Can a computer discover scientific laws?
  I once started a book about something he theorized, but I never completed it....
• Commented on Another stupid fear-mongering cover from Time magazine (1972)
  I blame this on all the atheists. They're all devil worshipers don'tcha know....
• Commented on What's going on in Bush's mind here?
  Bush "Oh my god, what is that awful singing? Is that Aretha?"...
• Commented on Fox News "sexpert": Obamas Do A Lot of "Fisting."
  The included picture almost couldn't be better. Crop it a bit higher and where's his right hand?...
• Commented on Moon, the Duncan Jones "space miner" movie unveiled at Sundance this week.
  I said 'too' Oh, I thought... That's weird....
• Commented on Moon, the Duncan Jones "space miner" movie unveiled at Sundance this week.
  [as he free tumbles through space] Well, here I am. (to obscure?)...
• Commented on Man finds lizard taped to his car door
  Poor critter. At least the guy had a camera along to get a picture of the.. um. Installation? From the article it sounds like someone's screwing with the cars fairly regularly. Sounds like a good chance to get on with...
• Commented on Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
  Interesting. Histor like that should be taught as a part of high school civics classes here in the US. I never learned any of the interesting things about how governments fail in school....
• Commented on Problem of saggy-pants "much bigger" than Constitution, says Mayor
  This guy could be mayor of pre-batman Gotham City....
• Commented on Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
  I'm profoundly ignorant of the recent history of Zimbabwe, anyone have a link to resource that can give a balanced overview of how it was and how it came to be what it is today?...
• Commented on Folk Theories Of Guru-Based Spirituality
  @Jody Very well said, and insightful....
• Commented on Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
  Subhan @22 That's a great idea! Playing Monopoly with real trillion dollar bills would be fun. I wonder how much it would cost to get someone to pack up a few boxes of them and ship them to the US....
• Commented on How Homemade Rockets Are Made in Gaza?
  Whatever happened to that guy that was developing a pulse-jet cruise missile a few years back?...
• Commented on Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
  You would think they'd save some effort by printing a bill where the value is a function of the current date....
• Commented on Rep. Eric Massa's excellent fuel cell road trip
  I think we all need to stop being so critical and take a lesson from his determination If he'd start by thinking a little more he wouldn't have to be so determined. (thanks Tesla)...
• Commented on Terrible apartment ad -- probably not real, funny nevertheless
  The temperature settings are a bit whack. I keep my place 52F/11C at night and 59F/15C during the day. In the summer it stays around ambient outdoor temp until it starts to go over 85F/30C. The family is used to...
• Commented on Man has spent 14 years in jail for contempt without being charged for a crime
  It does seem that there should be some recourse in cases like this. Perhaps there should simply be a hard limit on the power of a judge unilaterally keep someone in prison for such purposes. If they think you've got...
• Commented on Sears catalogs appreciated
  Yes, because while the peritoneal lavage worked, it was much too slow (they wouldn't always have two weeks to provide round-the-clock intensive care to one patient). They had to get the sausage casing from Packo's in Toledo though (Klinger was...
• Commented on Space-saving triple trashcan
  Hm. We just set the recycling on the counter. If it starts to get in the way I have a child carry it out to the big bin in the garage. It's nice having a single-stream system. The bin has...
• Commented on Whistling orangutan
  It never ceases to amaze me how the accepted scientific wisdom is always that animals do everything uncontrollably I imagine that comes from scientists having dealt extensively with common people and subsequently projecting the lack of ability for rational behavior...
• Commented on Mysterious "roar" from outer space
  Am I a lion? I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well though, I have a mighty roar....
• Commented on Naughty speed camera prank
  Beyond the lulz, I think the value here is the same as what we see in many security fields. Where the holes are obvious and easily exploitable, it can be considered one's civic duty to cause them to be closed...
• Commented on SmartBolts change color when they're tight enough
  Neat system Phil. I wonder about the keyway in the bolt. Does that have to be cut into the bolt as a step in manufacturing?...
• Commented on Getting Started with Arduino
  @Cavalaxis Depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to make something really fancy you need to know more about electronics, if you want to make an LED blink you just connect it to your computers...
• Commented on Video mashup screen demo
  That guy's cheating, he's got a real microphone....
• Commented on Where money comes from: fractional reserve and debts
  Boingers who are skeptical of 'Debt as Money' may also want to review the 'Modern Money Mechanics' from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. It says pretty much the same thing, though without the entertaining monster on a treadmill. For...
• Commented on Studying the emotion of "elevation"
  Interesting, I didn't know this was a common feeling. I've only regularly experienced it after smoking a bowl, so I figured it was just a particularly good kind of drug-induced body buzz. It's probably just God's way of letting me...
• Commented on Downwind faster than the wind, part 2
  ThinAirDesigns @365 I'm sorry Code, but that was NOT the question to be answered. Following is the question taken verbatim from that post #351 Well, that was the question that was asked, but as a software developer I've learned clients...
• Commented on Downwind faster than the wind, part 2
  ThinAirDesigns: LOL, nice. True, the tests cannot easily determine whether the town is on a stack of treadmills (or, perhaps, if it is turtles all the way down), but the question to be answered was whether the air was still...