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• Commented on It's Scutigera Coleoptrata Season!
  Yes, it's a freaky looking critter. But nothing beats getting a 17-year locust (cicada) down your shirt. Those things are LOUD....
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• Commented on UPSO's recording of a broken radio station
  I miss KOME... They had the coolest stickers. I was watching an obscure Bay Area UHF TV channel one afternoon when the tape apparently broke and they went to tone-and-bars. Then, I heard somebody say, "Please adjust your set, this...
• Commented on Lockheed airship video with epic music
  Ah, they just swiped the soundtrack stuff from Airbus. This Airbus A380 in 7 minutes video has one of the coolest soundtracks ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbEiHGZtCFA I'd like to know who did it- especially the wings and wheels sequence. And this Boeing...
• Commented on Trader Joe's fan commercial not to be missed
  No TJs within 6 hours of my home- not even Memphis has one. Heck, no TJs in Arkansas. I'm glad we finally got a Whole (paycheck) Foods, but that was because our Wild Oats got bought out....
• Commented on Top 500 worst passwords
  My firewall warned me that this site tried to access 'illmob.com', which is apparently a malware site. Fortunately, the firewall blocked it. :pats firewall software:...
• Commented on The breakup of the United States
  I find it amusing that Arkansas is lumped in with Texas- I think we'd rather revert our Louisiana Purchase back to France than ever be tacked to Texas. They'd probably even take us, too- after we apologize for the 'cheese-eating...
• Commented on Will Sleep for Food
  I lost my lovable ol' Gurney in March, when he was almost 17. He was a wonderful orange and white sweetie. I got him and his late brother when I was stationed in England. I still feel him jump on...
• Commented on Yellow is the new black
  It would work as an accent color, but not a wearing color for me. Whatever happened to that hot color for 2008- deep sapphire blue? I hardly saw it anywhere. I'll take real black instead, please....
• Commented on Tumbleweed vortex video
  looks like the Aussie version of this Vermont Hay Devil: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/blog/weather/2008/11/hay-devil.html...
• Commented on Bizarre absence of acorns in parts of the United States
  Tons of acorns in Little Rock- the parking-lot squashed acorn season was huge this year. The squirrels were huge, too....
• Commented on Ah, Horseradish!
  I third the Mama Stamberg recipe. I'm making that one, plus a sweet cranberry relish for the wimps. I like to eat horseradish out of the jar....
• Commented on Selectable Output Control in Make
  It's stuff like this- along with the HDCP thing that Cory mentioned a few days ago (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/19/apple-to-mac-owners.html) that keeps me clinging to my old simple analog gear. The picture might not be as pretty, but at least it works. I...
• Commented on Making of the Jumping Brain resin toy sculpture
  This is your brain on caffeine... I want one....
• Commented on XKCD's log-scale map of the observable universe
  I liked the "Contact" reference!...
• Commented on Taibbi: Scariest thing about Palin isn't how unqualified... it's what candidacy says about America.
  I think this post needs a YouTube unicorn chaser. Rep. Kaptur calls the bailout bill a 'tar baby': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAADyc6t4nY I figured people might appreciate hearing a politician who can speak her own mind!...
• Commented on Concrete washbasin shaped like a fossil ammonite
  I just have one question: How many cats would it accomodate?...
• Commented on New book about Wacky Packages
  A blast from the past! I have a small collection of the '73 stickers. I should dig them out and frame them....
• Commented on Rosicrucian MENTAL POISONING ad from 1939
  Dang- that hooded guy looks like the Emperor from Star Wars. The later AMORC ads were more benign- 'Do Thoughts Have Wings?' and suchlike. Like poster #4, I went through the 'literal' (read: zealot) stage of practice, but fortunately outgrew...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  I like your moderation style- even handed, but also in service to the overall community. It's not easy to find that particular even keel, but you've come close. I've built and run some pretty large and sometimes contentious communities myself,...
• Commented on Comparing food products with their package photos
  @Dragonfrog (#12) Now I'm going to have to find some Sarotti Marzipan. Maybe Fresh Market will have them next Christmas- they had all sorts of European candies and holiday goodies- it was like being in a Kristkindlmarkt. I used to...
• Commented on Comparing food products with their package photos
  I suppose I should be comforted to know that Europeans (or at least, Germans) have as much processed crap-food as Americans do. Even so, I wouldn't mind trying some of it, and I know from experience that the Ritter-Sport chocolates...
• Commented on Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness
  I noticed that the chart skipped the Holy Trinity of Geekdom: fandom, computers, and Paganism. They got the Renfaire/SCA part right, but they left out the Pagans! (Yeah, some of us wanted to know more about the spells in the...
• Commented on Music producers mixing for MP3
  I've noticed a big difference in the way the more recent CDs sound compared to how they sounded when they first came out in the early 80s. Heck, I still have the first CD I bought back in '84. I...
• Commented on How Circuit City Committed Suicide
  I worked for CC between '95 and '99- back when the sales people were commissioned. The computer department where I worked did about half the business in the store, and we did have a good reputation as knowledgable sales people....
• Commented on Documentary: Crazy Rulers of the World
  I recall having a rather strange interview with a fellow in civilian clothes in the early eighties while I was serving in the USAF. Apparently word had gotten out about my deep interest in metaphysics, and I think he was...
• Commented on Guy uploads pix of self from stolen iMac
  I see that he's ready for his "Cops" appearance: No shirt, dumb tats, and an even dumber expression on his face!...
• Commented on You look mahvelous in that red-eyed rat stole - UPDATE
  Yikes! Rat cotoure?!? What's next- tick body art? Sheesh....
• Commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
  Nice redesign. And I am glad that the minor bugs are being worked out, and there's a good moderator at the helm- her rules for running communities are a lot like my own. I agree that the rating system is...