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• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  Haha. I'd like to see someone who can whip up a meringue with a hand whisk (!), but has trouble cracking an egg....
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  That'd be the 26 grams of sugar per 8 ounces. (or artificial sweeteners in the "light" kind)....
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Dairy drink is gross; fruit "punch" ("contains 5% juice!") is revolting. But I think vat-grown chicken would be great and probably sell well after initial skepticism. Just contrast the dire prediction of a future of unwashed masses eating soy food,...
• Commented on Sabotage on the Large Hadron Collider?
  apoxia: Time travel is just cosmology, which makes Physical Review D the "good" research journal. Here is a fun article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle....
• Commented on Nasal spray for memory enhancement
  @2: I think that was probably desmopressin. Never did a thing for me, although the promise and anticipation was kind of exciting. There aren't that many shortcuts for learning, except to win the genetic and/or behavioral lottery....
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  guysmiley: from your link: "I will discuss how the ... addition of user-friendly features ... contributed to the radiation accidents." It seems that unnecessary improvements in that case, made things worse (or at least didn't improve the things that were...
• Commented on Chemex coffee brewing guide
  Supposedly, many drip machines don't heat the water enough, which makes for a bland brew. Boiling your own water mostly solves this problem, although it should be at like 195F or so, so you should let it cool a little....
• Commented on Adobe: Once you license software in France, you can only use it in French
  #18: you've gotta be kidding. First, the munitions classification was killed by the Clinton administration; it's now under commerce restriction, not military. Further, the export limitation was only for keys above 40 bits, so "password-protecting" a file in the perfunctory...
• Commented on It's Questionable Video Saturday!
  Bear sodomy; never fails for a few laughs. Reminds me of one of the articles in The Onion's _Our Dumb Century_. Although this webpage doesn't give credit or citation, it is a word-for-word copy of the article: http://members.fortunecity.com/mtracey/christy.htm...
• Commented on Living things glow with visible light
  Interesting. Of course it's also been known for a while (since 1942) that, when humans are in scotopic vision-mode (="night vision"), our eyes can respond to a single photon. Maybe this light isn't totally subliminal... http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html...
• Commented on Citizen surveillance videos of litter louts
  "video's" Haha....
• Commented on Iranian media mistakes Kasper Hauser comedy group as a "virtual reality 'terrorist' group," of "cyber hackers"
  This scenario is very late-Gibson-esque, but funnier....
• Commented on Richard Feynman plays the bongos
  @10: According to his account, the reason for Challenger was an "open secret" and the people he talked to basically told him what it was. They just needed the appearance of a Nobel physicist to give it the air of...
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  I guess that the "Working" supersedes "Families" in signifying power. (and the Obama:Socialist connection is worth, of course, absolutely nothing)...
• Commented on State of the Hispanic Blogosphere report 2009
  Tilted 3D pie charts. Skewalicious... Steve Jobs would be proud....
• Commented on Couple finds $10 mil in their bank account, take it and run
  @9: Purses: OK, that's essentially the same thing as a twenty. And they're all innocent afaic; it's a moronic law. If you find something, it's yours. You can return it if you want to be nice....
• Commented on Couple finds $10 mil in their bank account, take it and run
  Technically, most jurisdictions have laws against keeping found cash too. I have heard that in NYC, there have actually been police stings on this: the cops leave a few twenties lying around and bust you if you don't turn it...
• Commented on Stinkum from fridge full of putrid cow-orker chow causes AT&T office evac
  @1: Yeah, it's kind of sad that "ammonia"+"bleach"="death" is not 100% common knowledge any more. It's not even worth it to our country to teach that; it's more efficient to sell individual "X cleaner" for 100 different X's, and bury...
• Commented on Walking Dead Compendium One
  Paperback spines hit harder; the compressed sheaves of paper are more solid than cardboard or pleather. They just don't last as long, but hopefully you'll have found a sturdier armament by then....
• Commented on Can a computer discover scientific laws?
  50K trials? Am I to conclude that Edison didn't have any intuition? It sounds like a modern computer scientist could code a replacement for him....
• Commented on ColorQube: is wax the future of color printing?
  My family had an okidata printer when I was a kid. They required special paper which (my family told me) cost a lot of money, so I couldn't use it. I'm assuming this is true. The new ColorQube supposedly uses...
• Commented on Why people think it's OK to cheat a little bit
  Yeah, even the "cause" of getting 3 extra questions right on a meaningless math test. Go humanity....
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  "Pendelum." Great, now I'm going to wonder for the next half hour about whether I missed a clever/macaroni pun or if the author is illiterate. Prendre=take? Penser=think? Argh!...
• Commented on Pig Flu: Et Tu, Pooh?
  It's an excerpt. Pooh's paragraph might follow on the next page, hence no closing quote on this sentence....
• Commented on KeepCup, which is basically a plastic cup
  At least in NYC, this use violates health regulations, or so I've been told by a bitter and ranty coffeeshop owner....
• Commented on LaidOffCamp NY, May 1&2, 2009
  @2: If it ain't broke, don't fix it....
• Commented on 4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish
  @19: I was surprised to see Santorum fighting the puppy-mills. Sort of warmed my heart. I guess everyone's good for something. Also, didn't we have this "Are the Amish regressive scumbags?" discussion here a few months ago?...
• Commented on Modern life is broken -- why?
  "Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business."...
• Commented on Props
  Leon's boxy four-barreled pistol in the beginning of Blade Runner is real. Persephone uses the same gun in the Matrix sequel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COP_357_Derringer Apparently the original purpose of it was to be simple enough to secretly manufacture in mass quantity to...
• Commented on Cannonball floating in mercury
  The one ring is intelligent and can make people invisible. Clearly the magical AI indwelling, used up all of its power reserves in a last-ditch effort to lower the local entropy and save itself. (It must err on the side...