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• Commented on Comcast eats NBC: every media mega-merger needs a cautionary infographic
  This whole debacle makes me wish I reconsidered recently purchasing a home in a town where the only choice is Comcast, though it didn't seem like a deciding factor at the time. What can an individual do to get competition...
• Commented on The PlayStation Turns 15: What did it mean for you?
  I think it was in 1996/97 when I got the PlayStation for Christmas, so, sort of a late bloomer. Up until then we had to make do with a Nintendo and Atari 2600. Tomb Raider was what got me hooked,...
• Commented on Deadly cyanobacteria bloom takes over Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (NASA photo)
  My fiancee lived in Santiago Atitlán for summer 2006 as she was doing studies for her master's thesis on the traditional dress. Its that town just east of the San Pedro Volcano, she had a wonderful view of it from...
• Commented on Unicornfish chaser
  What the whaaat? I convinced myself it was fake before reading the comments. I'd accept the giant manta rays, but four whale sharks in the same tank?! Madness. And to think, this morning I woke up and was absolutely sure...
• Commented on Guy mounts coffee cup on car roof, tweets about peoples' reactions
  @#14 Yeah, anyone who has perused the Gawker/Lifehacker/Gizmodo comment threads is familiar with GitEmSteveDave. By Zeus, lets not encourage him with posts on BoingBoing....
• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  My mom is a respiratory therapist at a hospital. She herself has asthma and passed along the awesome genetics to my sister and I as well. I am familiar with the "Flutter" thing mentioned above, just a simple ball that...
• Commented on Orgy: the game from 1967
  Its been racking my brain but I finally figured out where I've seen these things before. When Anthony Bourdain went to Spain on No Reservations it caught my eye as an incredibly complex, innacurate, messy method of booze distribution, and...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I'm still stuck on what "counters" are supposed to be and how drawing them would help me. Should the counters I draw be granite or Formica?...
• Commented on Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?
  Was I taking the same survey as everyone else? Sheesh, the first time I took it I got 76. Then, thinking I was just being overly cynical with my answers, took it again and got 74. Finally I took it...
• Commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  Yeah, at 0:13 I was more concerned about that third-rail (thats it on the right, correct?), I have no idea how she didn't touch it. Also, it looked like the train conductor stopped for the guy in the green jacket...
• Commented on Color film of 1927 London
  "Astronomers are funny-looking men with long whiskers who sit on the roof at night trying to discover new stars." Hey! I resemble that remark!...
• Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the entirety of the Internet "user-contributed material"?...
• Commented on The Perfect Turkey Doesn't Really Exist
  @falsemoniker: Was that a quote or did you just refer to yourself in the fourth-person? I'm hoping for the latter. As for food advertising, I remember seeing something about the cereal box photography. Instead of milk, they apparently use Crisco...
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  All through art school in college I only ever had one painting class where we had nude models for about a 2 week stretch. There were only 5 students in my entire class, and I was the only guy, so...
• Commented on Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg
  Look, Daddy! A whale egg!...
• Commented on Squirrel for dinner
  I think a certain squirrel of fame previously featured on BoingBoing would feel uncomfortable with this post: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11383966@N02/4012595027/...
• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  One of the episodes of Scare Tactics actually fooled the mark into believing he was hired as the prankster on a Punk'd-like show. Then they had the fake-prank backfire when the fake-mark pulled a gun and fake-shot his accomplice. The...
• Commented on Evolution of the International Space Station
  As awesome as it is, the disappointing part is reading about all the "canceled modules" that aren't going to make it up there. The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, kind of a half space shuttle, would've been cool and have enabled...
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: The Gummi Bear Gets It
  Not to supersede whatever videos may appear in future episodes of SMSE, but if you like science, physics and chemistry I suggest you check out the following three YouTube channels that come from the University of Nottingham: http://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos http://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols http://www.youtube.com/user/nottinghamscience...
• Commented on Rocket-shaped air blower for removing dust
  I need this to replace the crappy brush/blower thing @5 reference for cleaning eyepieces I use for my telescope. And the rocket shape will make it all the more appropriate, given the astronomical subject matter....
• Commented on Magnificent photos from space probes
  Another cool thing about that Saturn photo above is that there is a tiny bright pixel just to the top left of the rings, and that pixel happens to be our Pale Blue Dot, Earth. "The earth is a very...
• Commented on Motor attached to series of reduction gears - final gear fixed in concrete
  I just heard a story from a member of my astronomy club who told us of an equatorial mount (the kind that track objects as the earth rotates) that use be in our observatories. Apparently a local handyman created the...
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  @AirPillo I have the same bizzare, irrational urge to post the same video on my blog every 2-months, despite the fact that I'm the only one who reads the damn thing. Its madness just trying to comprehend the fact that...
• Commented on Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
  I've lost entire days watching the live NASA TV feeds during EVAs of space shuttle missions. I got absolutely no work done the week of the STS-125 mission to Hubble. FYI, for those in North America, the ISS and Discovery...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  @#6 Maybe there are nuclear container trucks passing through your town, but probably there aren't. An ultimate real-world example of Schrodinger's Cat, radioactive material and all. Quantum physics tells us that any unmarked semi-truck passing through your town does indeed...
• Commented on Video: Unboxing The Fleshlight
  Well timed interjection of your mind's better judgment at 0:52, resisting the initial primordial instinct to stick your finger in it. Had you not stopped yourself you probably would have had to upload this to an entirely different streaming video...
• Commented on Space Shuttle Discovery STS-128 launch (Update: it was a real winner.)
  I had tickets for the KSC Causeway for the launch in Feb. but it got pushed back to March so I missed it. As luck would have it, this time I was on vacation in Florida but on the opposite...
• Commented on Why the Space Shuttle should always lift off at night
  I viewed it from the 6th floor balcony of our hotel on St. Pete Beach. It was breathtaking, I had no idea the view would be so nice to view from such distance! I would've taken a photo, but was...
• Commented on Astronaut Alan Bean's paintings
  @7: Actually, Alan Bean uses the NASA tools he used on the moon, like the rock hammer, to create textures in his paintings. He also embeds flecks of the foil solar shield that covered the lunar lander. I don't know...
• Commented on Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk
  After adding the lil' fuzzball to half my personal vacation photos, I finally got it out of my system with this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11383966@N02/3818838699/...