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• Commented on Chickens terrified of dried sunflower head
  I personally think it is because chickens have brains about the size of sunflower seeds....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  My Dell Mini 9 fits in my (not very big) purse. I weep for the day when it dies and I must upgrade to the 10, and risk it not fitting. The 10 6-cell definitely wouldn't, and given that I...
• Commented on Eleven myths of de-cluttering
  Likewise, lego storage is VITAL. Between the delicate bottoms of my feet and the evil stomach of the vaccuum cleaner, much grief and pain and loss was caused by those tiny colorful blocks....
• Commented on Harper's Weekly for September 29, 2009
  My summer camp had calves that we fed by bottle. When calves think they should be getting milk faster than they actually are, they headbutt against the bottle. You learn not to hold the bottle directly in front of your...
• Commented on Anniversary of <em>Le Voyage dans la lune</em>
  And there's a very nice kid's book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret that references it beautifully....
• Commented on Charlie Stross and Paul Krugman talk science fiction and economics at the WorldCon
  It looks like Charlie is about to pick up the water bottle and smack someone upside the head with it....
• Commented on Are red-headed people more sensitive to pain?
  I really wish they'd done a little more research when they found brown-haired mutants--given my family experience (one of two red heads born to dark-haired parents, both my dad and my brown-haired brother have red beards), I would not be...
• Commented on Gimme Indie Game: the destructive/constructive calamity of Flashbang's <em>Crane Wars</em>
  I think it's scab as in non-union, not as in strikebreaking. (Definition 5a: A worker who refuses membership in a labor union. )...
• Commented on If Advertisers Were Supervillains, or Vice Versa
  There's an Eliot Fintushel story--Kukla Boogie Moon ( http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?101880 )-- which has a cola logo on the moon--I can't remember if it was projected on to it or lasered on, though. And it really wasn't the scariest part of the...
• Commented on Amazon Kindle contract sucks
  Stephen@9--the piece Cory quoted was not specifically what I was referring to. That was his own choice of quotes. That said, given your interpretation of the quote, it should be mentioned that amazon isn't actually *buying* anything. I mean, the...
• Commented on Review: Three sleeping bags for cold-ish nights
  What makes it a women-specific sleeping bag? Other than being pink, I mean....
• Commented on The Kindle Boondoggle
  @Bugs--this might be true if its an ebook-only edition. But as someone who works with electronic versions of textbooks, i can tell you that we start with the printer-ready files (ie, there's no typesetting or editing, and only minimal proofreading...
• Commented on End of the road for Dell's Mini 9
  I'm confused. It was useful, it worked well, everyone liked it, and it clearly sold well since it is gone already. So...why did they kill it? (Yes, this is all about me, because I love mine and it's the perfect...
• Commented on From <em>GoldenEye</em> to gardening: the fantastic foliage of <em>Bonsai Barber</em>
  I was explaining this to a friend in chat as "Sally's Salon meets Animal Crossing." But I spelled Salon Saloon, so I had to go back and say "It's not like a bar game where you have to make complicated...
• Commented on Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists
  I still really love the idea that the people who threaten the well being of the country (and/or planes) are going to cause a fuss/dress distinctively/draw any attention at all to themselves. I'm not an expert, but it seems to...
• Commented on Win a copy of demented RIAA comic <em>"The Case of Internet Piracy"</em>
  I kept waiting for Peter Parker to show up and save his poor Auntie there. Also, that's a very nice house for $120K. How old is this comic?...
• Commented on His & Hers flashy, LED wedding gear
  I'm more concerned as to why there is not a shirt worn with that suit....
• Commented on Pinkwater's Neddiad: awesome YA novel with ghosts, fat alien cops, shamans, circus animals, triplanes, swordfighting, etc
  Even a bad Daniel Pinkwater beats no Daniel Pinkwater, but it was a little overly DP formulaic: strange boy makes strange friends, has a quest, helped by strange adults who may or may not be what they seem. I'd rather...
• Commented on Edison's prefab, permutable fireproof concrete houses
  There's a town in PA, a former coal patch company town, that's built of concrete. (With the total lack of imagination common in coal patches, the town is called Concrete City.) http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=632 My favorite bit is the fact that when...
• Commented on T-Mobile to charge fee when you upgrade phones
  My unholy need for a new cool phone every so often will clearly get me past the whole indignation over the fee. On the plus side, they did just give me an unlimited loyalty plan, which makes me pretty happy....
• Commented on 4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish
  I grew up in an area with Old Order Mennonite and Church (vs House) Amish, which means that in my area, the horse-and-buggies were usually Mennonite, and the Amish drove cars. I grew up Quaker, and am accustomed to having...
• Commented on Happy 50th Birthday, Fisher-Price Little People
  Chris S--Was that a parking garage with an elevator in it? I seem to remember taking Matchboxes up the elevator and then down the ramp. We got all our best toys from yard sales, so I remember most of that...
• Commented on Searching for an Honest Bank
  Most of my hippie friends use Wainwright Bank because they find it non evil. I think it's local to Boston, though. The problem with local banks, though, for me at least, is that they get bought by bigger banks. I'm...
• Commented on Update: What was in the Bag? Win! (And Star Trek Pez doods)
  One wouldn't even need to post it to flickr--you had the photo hosted there already. Clearly my stalker skills are better than my geocaching skills, as it never occurred to me that I was supposed to do anything to the...
• Commented on Kittens, Inspired by Kittens: Best Internet Video Evar?
  I don't think John Hodgman can get quite the piercing shriek that some of the images call for. The "bow chicka" bit, on the other hand should be less disturbing....
• Commented on Spot the difference: NZXT Avatar gaming mouse redesigned
  "Extruded Teflon mouse feet" I'm deeply disturbed by that phrase....
• Commented on The gadget tribes of technology
  I thought simplicity has a beard, so I was assuming another guy. I also suggest a size does(n't) matter collection: Dell Mini, Acer EEetc box, and the phone from Zoolander....
• Commented on The gadget tribes of technology
  Your simplicity "basic" laptop is a netbook. Cheaters!...
• Commented on Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman&#8217;s Co-Creator Joe Shuster
  God knows I've never been angrily cracking a whip at a bound man with no nipples, so perhaps I shouldn't judge, but I'm pretty sure my body doesn't have that...extra bit around the chest/shoulder area. It looks as though her...
• Commented on UK newspaper headlines of Sept 12, 2001
  I was in London on vacation, at the British Museum. I remember half-hearing a news broadcast while in a souvenir shop as we wandered up the street and thinking it was a joke between DJs. We came out of the...