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• Commented on How the ambient sound at Walt Disney World works
  This is simultaneously incredibly awesome and deeply eerie. I'll have to pay close attention next time I visit. On another note, this sounds like a development that operators of shopping malls should pay attention to. The competing soundscapes in a...
• Commented on Video: Connecting to the internet with a modem from 1964
  I know astonishingly little about what modems do, what a baud is, etc. But this was amazing to watch. My mind was pretty much blown when he (spoiler alert?) physically nestled the phone receiver into the box. And Joel, I...
• Commented on BB Video - Miles O'Brien Reports: An Astronaut Climbs Everest
  @#5 Um, yeah - my thoughts exactly. Is he aware of the significant things he will accomplish/accomplished in a few hundred years?...
• Commented on Crazy-ass freeway exchanges of the world
  Definitely an interesting set of photos (and their snarky commentary on a few is fun). Did have to do some annoying highlighting to get all the text to show up (using FF3)....
• Commented on Ad for air purifier shows microobes marching into gaping nostrils
  Two things - I kind of love this image. The little details are great, from the scattered articles of clothing and carry-ons to the gnarly trees. Second, just want to agree on the useless crap/fearmongering comments above....
• Commented on Super Mario theme played on a balalaika
  The balalaika lends a wonderful sproingy note to the song, and I like how he exploits it for a few moments of jumping....
• Favorited Photo gallery of Israeli girls in the army on Boing Boing
• Commented on More unsold inventory piling up: Toyota stores unsold cars aboard ship
  This really sounds like the hook for a) an only mildly interesting episode of some international crime show (a la Alias); b) an actually somewhat interesting subplot in a contemporary William Gibson-esque; or c) a pretty fun d20 Modern adventure....
• Commented on Chocolate Beer
  I'll jump in with an affirmation of what's been said so far. I've also had Young's Dbl Chocolate Stout and it's surprisingly good - with the not so much sweet, but the rich flavor. Especially good when taken with some...
• Commented on Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language and the stupid futility of linguistic pedantry
  @#22 Good fun? Ew. I'm surprised no one so far in these comments has run with Fry's suggestion of "scunt," etc. Anywho, I sat riveted to this podgram. Listening to Stephen Fry is a prime example of the pleasure of...
• Commented on Latex Vac-Bed bondage restraint
  I get this feeling that a person actually vacuumed into the bed doesn't look anywhere near as sexy as the picture would have you think. I mean, things compress, and so forth....
• Commented on Autumn leaves stuck in fresh tarmac
  Gives a new meaning to street art. I'd like to see another picture of this in a few days' time, or later, to see the effects of traffic and time on the leaves and the pavement. It's really quite beautiful....
• Commented on Fun with sine-wave speech
  The McCollough effect was really impressive. I went back ten minutes later and it was still working for me. I'll take a look in the morning. I was really fascinated by the idea that it my be a gauge of...
• Commented on Photo gallery of Israeli girls in the army
  This is a really great photo set. The ubiquity of their assault rifles is more than a little startling; the girl emerging from the shower with a towel around her waste and her gun over her shoulder, or the girl...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins reads his hate-mail aloud
  While I don't agree with everything Richard Dawkins does or says, he has made substantial contributions and I respect him a fair amount. I particularly love his sense of humour in reading these emails, especially the deep breath he takes...
• Commented on Seinfeld and celebrity computer endorsements
  Wow, that's just...special. Good job Microsoft. I'm sure this will move a whole lot of Vista boxes....
• Commented on Anyone got a good text-parser for tagged text?
  Wow. This is a pile of really great suggestions. Don't know if Cory has found what he's looking for, but I definitely just got a lot better organized in my notes....
• Commented on Compendium of "They do it with..." one-liners
  My very favorite, not on this list: Evolutionary biologists do it with increasing complexity....
• Commented on Phun: a simulated physics playground
  Anyone else seeming to have to incredible inability to run the program? I've done all the things he suggests on the website (in the first round, before "if these don't work") and I'd rather not go screwing with config files....