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• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  Just watch Sabrina Fair instead. In this, Audrey fails to learn how to crack eggs efficiently, but after watching this I've never had a problem. Plus you get to watch Audrey at her cutest....
• Commented on Strange sightings of futuristic rocketmen and flying platforms
  A few years ago I had to go on a trip to photograph a drawing that this old lady owned. Her address was something Hall in Cumbria. I was surprised when it turned out to be a real Hall, with...
• Commented on Submit your toddler's science questions!
  From my 5 yr old boy: Why do I have nipples if I'm not going to get boobies? Why has Daddy got an arm beard? Where's Mummy's willy? Did she lose it?...
• Commented on My generation: How Indie Game Makers are Embracing Controlled Chaos
  I finally got around to installing Spelunky a couple of weeks ago and have played a couple of hundred games (it keeps count). It really is fantastically challenging, punishing you with instadeath for an ill considered move. Randomly generated environments...
• Commented on Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley
  Reminds me of a poem by a friend: Flesh and curves are warm and sexy, much more fun than being anorexic. Here's my little fashion tip - the magazines are full of shit....
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  By continuing to to use the incorrect form you are being deliberatly antagonistic. If usage trumps then googlefight has Lego at 40.6 mil vs .7mil for 'legos' The Lego site states "Never say a model made out of Legos" Avoid...
• Commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
  I had some comment to make here but #2 Has thrown me. I've only ever seen the name Simon Bradshaw as a misspelling of my own name - Simeon Bradshaw. Usually it's annoying as invariably it means someone has taken...
• Commented on Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
  So to clear it up, the files removed were illegal copies published by a company (Mobi) that didn't have the right to do so. Anyone who has purchased it from the actual publisher (Penguin) still has it. The real crime...
• Commented on Baby pictures in lost wallets increase the chance they will be returned
  Side note: Derren Brown for Guest blogger pleeze?...
• Commented on UK cop: 'War on terror means no pictures of police vans in disabled parking spots'
  She's not even in the bay! She was probably embarrassed about her parking. I make no allusion to the spatial awareness skills of the genders. Oh wait......
• Commented on Econo-Keys, the reversible keyboard
  When I bought a netbook I did wish for a trackpad on the bottom. The idea makes sense, but not this implementation....
• Commented on Documentary about hardware hackers
  At the weekend my kids (4 1/2 and 3) came home from a charity shop with a couple of cars they wanted me to put batteries in - 'sure' I say 'where are the controllers?' O f course they didn't...
• Commented on Beautiful Clouds
  There was a remarkable picture of clouds in the shape of the British isles in the press this week: http://www.care2.com/news/member/951765832/1149806...
• Commented on Damien Hirst's giant replica of a kid's anatomy model
  Has there been a time slip? Hymn was exhibited in 1996. This settlement was in 2000....
• Commented on Weird hums in the UK
  I can do the rumbly ear thing too - never realised that not everyone can. It's neither useful or entertaining. I've wondered if it's the same mechanism that lets some people blow smoke out of their ears - after 5...
• Commented on Great OS for babies?
  My boys (3&5) were enertained by the stuff in edubuntu which although simple has real developmental value. They quickly became more interested in the stuff on Cbeebies/CBBC site which is more appealing. There's a lot of great stuff there. It's...
• Commented on Scavenger's Manifesto: HOWTO be an urban scavenger
  Standing chatting to a neighbour the other day I was eyeing up some black sacks in his garden, it was stuff thrown out by a tenant at his flat and was heading to the dump. I could see there were...
• Commented on Samsung NC310 netbook claims 11-hour battery life; NC110 proves 7 hours.
  This is the first netbook review I've allowed myself to read since I bit the bullet and got a NC10 a couple of weeks ago. Although I'm happy with it the grumbles are: - That trackpad is tiny. I'd like...
• Commented on Scared to death
  Reminds me of: Harry Meadows was a pensioner and accidental killer. In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of...
• Commented on California measure to legalize and tax pot
  In the UK it looked like we were heading for de-criminalization when the Gov downgraded it from class B to C. It was a move opposed by moral stalwarts, but largely supported by the police as it cut down on...
• Commented on LendAround: a service that helps you figure out which of your friends wants to borrow your stuff
  Thanks for the reply Tim, but just how serious was your legal advice? It seems as if you are OK in the States, but in the EU the whole proposition hangs on it "maybe" being legal. The "maybe" hangs on...
• Commented on LendAround: a service that helps you figure out which of your friends wants to borrow your stuff
  Isn't this in contravention of the beloved copyright agreement? "no unauthorised lending..." etc. The result is that artists and owners aren't being compensated when their product is consumed. Isn't this just like Bittorrent with padded envelopes?...
• Commented on Chromochrome, clock of colors
  Shameless rip: http://www.jamesclar.com/product/2004/line/index.html...
• Commented on UltraPin: The revenge of the revenge of pinball
  As I understand it this uses Visual Pinball and Pinmame as it's basis so if you can make do without the cabinet you can save yourself $5k right there......
• Commented on ABC3D: the best pop-up book in the world
  Boswell Sisters - Roll on Mississippi, roll on....
• Commented on PJ Proby: Three Week Hero
  PJ Proby has always been a legendary figure to me, always mentioned in histories of rock. I hadn't ever seen video of him before now. It's been great to see what the fuss was about. #8 - there's a clip...
• Commented on UK to install clusters of cameras to catch speeders
  It would be a start and should be the bare minimum - all of that to be public record and produceable on demand. It may go some way to avoiding situations whereby the police could turn a blind eye to...
• Commented on Sega announces re-entry into hardware with the Vision
  Not quarters. Ten bob bits or Quids. Which arcade is this in? I haven't really frequented the arcades since Williams pinball died. Must be Namco or the Troc? As an aside if anyone knows of any pins in London other...
• Commented on Bank Robber Uses Craigslist To Hire Unsuspecting Accomplices
  All this discussion about bank security and no-one points out that he robbed an armoured car?...
• Commented on Security guards beat man in soccer arena, then get beat up by players, fans
  I was hoping in the 4 years that have followed there might be more info about this. This was all I could find: http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500002&bcid=320780 The guard doing the jabbing at least lost his job in addition to the boot he...