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• Commented on Collection of Curiosities auction
  I saw a mummified hand in a bell-jar at an antiquarian book store - asking price 600$. It looked a lot nicer than this one though. Lots of Roman-era mummys were floating around in the 19th century. Not that rare....
• Commented on HOWTO make a prison soldering iron
  This works...I used a Variac in place of a teakettle - you need some sort of limiter or you get fireworks rather than controlled soldering. I think the this is the principal behind those cheesy battery powered instant soldering irons...
• Commented on Hidden Booze Treasure Ad Campaign
  Anyone remember reading the book Masquerade? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book) Better prize - a jewelled gold rabbit. The world is ready for a interactive web-based ad campaign with a "prize" other than dinosaur shaped cursors, vapor-ipods and spyware....
• Commented on Lovecraft meets Atlas Obscura
  In Danvers...Judge Holtens house is on Holten Street, the Rebecca Nurse farm is down the street a bit. There is a memorial to the people killed in the hysteria near the elementary school. One of the older graveyards for Danvers...
• Commented on BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film)
  Big Yanks were the cheapo alternative to more expensive Levis when I was in Jr. High. Guaranteed harassmant/weggies if you dared wear those goofy things to class. Crazy marketing if you think about it. No kid ever had a second...
• Commented on Tiny little phonograph from an old Datsun
  The Bag of Laughs toy available at joke-shops used to have a record in it too. Is the common thread Japanese engineering or manufacturing?...
• Commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  I'd like to second that Michael Pollan is absolutely required reading. Also the watching Food Network for recipes? Wha? Like watching MTV for relationship advice - don't bother....
• Commented on "Your business card is CRAP!"
  YEAH??? Well I had my business card printed on a SHAMWOW - so there. Lets see you stuff a whole SHAMWOW into your rolodex!! freakin peasants...
• Commented on Doug Rushkoff on DIY currencies
  How many Craigsbucks did those Somali pirates want for that cargo ship? Anyone fool can print money. The trick is in the conversion....
• Favorited SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot on Boing Boing
• Commented on Weird ice balls in London?
  I thought everything over there was on CCTV? Panic!! Panic!! Need more cameras!!!...
• Commented on Real Deal bush-hats made from Brazilian truck-tarps
  I believe this magical tarp material from Brazil is called canvas in English....
• Commented on High school teacher recounts being dosed
  What a horrorshow! I did my fair share of voluntary space-exploration as a kid, but nothing prepared me for this wet oily pot that a work friend shared with me after a shift once. It tasted like burning brake fluid...
• Commented on Problem of saggy-pants "much bigger" than Constitution, says Mayor
  I think the hankie is folded in a "cagney" with the bottom point folded upward?...
• Commented on Bond traders want to float contracts based on Hollywood box-office receipts
  Cant wait for this. So then we'll need a government funded insurance program to protect hedge fund investors against future Ishtar and Heavens Gate sized bombs....
• Commented on New Rochelle school board mutilates books to protect children
  Wow... Ironic! When I was in H.S., the library was the best place to meet during school for just that type of meeting. Hooray for denial!...
• Commented on German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
  Smells fake to me - Hauptkommissar Schulze?! Obviously they have the plate number. Mail the damn tickets or threatening nasty-grams to his house. Freaking hilarious if it's real....
• Commented on Hit A Jew Day
  In my WASPy Jr High we had "beat on the Irish" day. Like most kid memes it was almost pure fantasy. No one really got beaten on, Irish or otherwise. I guess the educationally nourishing atmosphere of Jr High hasn't...
• Commented on Jeannie C. Riley: Mini-skirted minx country singer
  Bobbie Gentry is another great countrified fembot. Her stuff is on CD and there are a couple of choice nuggets on Youtube. If anyone is looking for other bent country music - make sure to search out out Pete Drake....
• Commented on Lost: condom mobile
  Could it be in the giant crawl-through colon that I saw at the NY State Fair a few years ago?? Someone else's pics here: http://www.notduck.com/03/Colon03.html...
• Commented on Bail In or Bail Out?
  Flip This House was full of the stock-tip quoting shoe-shine boys (ref. technogeek's post). New show...Flip This Investment Bank. Put in some nice sod, a nice vinyl fence, granite counters (buyers today demand granite!), paint the place Navaho White... Couple...
• Commented on Photos of a very messy house
  Years ago, I looked at a house in Maine that was similar, but most of the stuff piled up was actually pretty valuable. A footpath through the center of each room was maintained, otherwise the place was neatly stacked with...
• Commented on How to make a squirrel sandwich
  Red or white wine with squirrel?...
• Commented on Bigfoot discovery press conference on Friday (HOAX?)
  Hilarious! Real?! Real fake-fur is about the only thing real here. possibly a viral for Jack Links?...
• Commented on HOWTO Tap a phone line
  You often hear a loud POP when you clip into an active line with a butt set. The others on the line at the time can hear that POP too. Also don't forget to have the butt set on "listen"...
• Commented on HOWTO trick McDonald's into serving you "breakfast" at lunchtime and vice-versa
  I worked there when I was a kid - before all the McFood was stored in steam cabinets. I don't know how it works now, but when I worked there almost every AM shift some smartass would cruise in 10...
• Commented on Save the International Cryptozoology Museum
  I'm thinking you need to reinvent cryptozoology as a religion - turn your living room ...errr... your museum into a church, ordain yourself as a "bigfoot" and stop paying taxes altogether....
• Commented on Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager
  Aha! a checklist to bring to the next "Communications Committee" meeting. I doubt we even get throught the minutes from last meeting before everything is checked off. Come for attendance, but stay for the donuts!...