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• Commented on Anatomical model exhibition at the Wellcome
  My school chemistry teacher, Alan Clarke (who very sadly died a few years ago) worked at the Wellcome Collection as a young man after leaving university. He became a friend of my family, and took my brother and me to...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a purse out of a stack of old books
  Those Reader's Digest objects aren't books - and anyone who has encountered one should agree with me. They're *notbooks* to the extent that I'd be deeply ashamed to carry a similar purse, just in case casual passers by might mistake...
• Commented on Scary British public information films from the 1970s
  I still have occasional nightmares about JIMMMIEEEEE! and his exploding trousers - that ad was a real low-point of my early childhood, when my family lived next door to a small electricity sub-station. There were some other awesomely terrifying Public...
• Commented on Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
  It's a good day when I'm completely distracted from looking at an oddly hairless naked Spaniard just by the expressions on the faces of the amassed ranks of the Japanese police. That is *so* not a sentence I ever imagined...
• Commented on Photos of figeater beetles
  S'funny, but I'd always considered the inside of a fig to be *fig*-flavoured, and nothing at all like a raspberry....
• Commented on British LibDem party wants to stop hedge-funds from shorting banks
  Yeah - but at the same conference, they've announced that they'd cut taxes by £20bn without being able to explain how they'd do it; that they'd make all the UK's power supply green; and, presumably, give out free cakes and...
• Commented on Bluetooth, Steampunk-style
  A little leather squid, bristling with brass knobs and gears, surely?...
• Commented on Even bacon-themed pap cannot besmirch real bacon's reputation
  Nah - it's awesome. Pork is the Internet protein of choice. Although I take exception to your idea that bacon somehow wins the porkwars - I'm a committed Chinese crispy pork enthusiast....
• Commented on Even bacon-themed pap cannot besmirch real bacon's reputation
  Whiteops - neat! That's my blog you just linked to. The Internet is a very small place....
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  Mdhatter at 1384 - if this were Wikipedia, I would be coming after you with a tag about now. Where are these posters you think are sockpuppets? It's probable that first-time commenters will be coming here angry - after all,...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  @GregLondon - ah, I see. This sort of situation is what Godwin's for. ;) (Oo - look. I seem to be engaging again.)...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  @ #1084 - How would you know what's "normal" for BB if this is the first thread you've ever posted on? Are you claiming to be a lurker for years and this is your first post? I didn't want to...
• Commented on Danny Kaye's Outfox The Fox
  Brilliant! I love this film - the song Danny Kaye sings during the opening credits is brilliant (and has been an earworm since I saw you'd put this post up), and Angela Lansbury makes a lovely princess. It's a very,...
• Commented on Video of creepy eyelid-poking beauty tip
  I'm half-Chinese, half-English, and I don't have an epicanthic fold. (Nor does my Chinese Dad.) I'm heartily glad not to have one *not* because it makes me look Caucasian (nothing could do that given the shape of my face, nose...
• Commented on Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips
  Another heavy typist with fingernails, and I love my Model M. Given the abuse this thing has had, it might as well be made out of gorgeously clickety granite. I believe the keys on the Model M have lettering which...
• Commented on Giant squid sex: violent, tangled and deeply weird
  Best opening sentence *ever*. I can die happy now....
• Commented on Remixable German documentary about me and Internet freedom
  That has to be the Platonic Boing Boing headline....
• Commented on White Rabbit video with Star Trek crew
  Brilliant! It's interesting to notice that Leonard Nimoy emerges to be far and away the best at 'doing shitfaced' in this....
• Commented on Disconcerting: The Sharper Image Is Kaput
  Aw crap. I'm actually a bit disappointed - I've been using their excellent memory foam eyemasks for years. (That said, I've never bought anything *else* there.)...
• Commented on Request: The Incredibly Bad Art of Motherboard Companies
  http://www.maxitmag.com/images/stories/reviews/asus/asus-x1900-box.jpg...
• Commented on TSA at LAX still requiring air travelers to remove all electronics?
  Ari - SFO (the international terminal) was fine on Sunday. Better than fine, in fact - while they're still demanding that laptops be removed from cases, there was no cabling nonsense; and when they found a bottle of water my...
• Commented on Graceful curved scissor bracelet
  Indeed. I'm amazed we're all still alive....
• Commented on Graceful curved scissor bracelet
  I'm not sure they'd notice it. I accidentally got on a plane at LAX a couple of weeks ago with a bottle of Tabasco sauce in my handbag. (Don't ask.) The TSA conspicuously failed to detect it (as did I...
• Commented on Laser-cut steel "flat" shelving you bend to suit
  It might be environmentally friendly, but it's massively overpriced and looks like crap....
• Commented on Belt Buckle Knives
  *Contemplates motorcycling Village People on horses and sighs.*...
• Commented on Belt Buckle Knives
  I have a question, Dug: are you wearing chaps?...
• Commented on Digital Buddhist Jukebox Plays Tibetan Chants
  That was meant to say 'in Chinese', not 'in [[closing bracket]]'. Oops....
• Commented on Digital Buddhist Jukebox Plays Tibetan Chants
  Ooh - I have one of those (mine's from Hong Kong and chants in ) and isn't quite as pretty. I find it very relaxing, but my husband has threatened to throw it out of the window. Shining Path Buddhists...
• Commented on Belt Buckle Knives
  I'm hypnotised by the gif too. Ka-ching! My mind is also inexorably drawn to what horrible accidents might occur if a clumsy man were wearing chaps and nothing else when drawing the knife, but this probably says more about me...
• Commented on Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind: book explains magic, hypnosis and the rationale for rationalism
  I've seen Derren Brown live a couple of times now - he's a fantastic showman, and I get a real kick out of rational magicians. There's something far more impressive about someone who can outfox you while he's telling you...