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• Commented on Chip Sounds
  I've heard too many "NES-style" renditions that assume that a square wave and uniform ADSR curve was all you needed to sound 8-bit. But what you also need are a claustrophobically finite number of voices. The SID had three. So...
• Commented on Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
  My Pac-Mario costume was somewhat well-received this Halloween, so I'm thinking of wearing it to every Rocky Horror showing this winter and claiming to be "Nintendokin", the costume being an outward manifestation of my true, 8-bit self....
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  @49: Your arguments aren't very sound, but I place the burden of proof on the sane rest-of-the-world to demonstrate the bullet points you've described. But the phrase "Supreme Master" has that hyperbolic connotation that just makes you automatically think "CULTCULTCULTCULT"....
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Remember, everyone: calling something "poison" ro "not food" is unwarranted hyperbole unless it's actually toxic enough to make you very sick very quickly, or cannot be digested by the body to use as energy. If there are nutritionists out there...
• Commented on WTF is "Dairy Drink?"
  Local supermarkets in Scottsdale are offering "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in ice-cream-like containers for 99 cents a gallon. It has a good taste and smooth texture, which surprised me because I was expecting the sort of rock-hard chocolate bricks I used...
• Commented on Early 1990s TV commercial - pay $2 a minute to hear a story that will make you cry
  When I was growing up, TV shows were rife with 1-900 number ads. I never called them; I was too young, and the time it took to decide to ask my parents was enough time to reconsider and know better....
• Commented on American health care UI: snapshot
  I think at some point, that exclusive cabal known as "everyone" decreed from their ivory tower that anything with a mouse pointer was "easier" than anything without a mouse pointer. Since then, the notorious underground counterculture known as "everyone else"...
• Commented on Upside down house
  The State presents: The Sideways House Family! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtBiuLNdLc...
• Commented on 8-bit house numbers
  I stayed at a friend's house in Hamburg, Germany, and the house numbers for her duplex were in a font styled after a 7-segment LED/LCD. I wonder if I should post that particular picture, but by the time I tracked...
• Commented on Possibly the best one-note internet joke to emerge from the Kanye VMA incident.
  And because the Internet loves meta, I've seen Patrick Swayze interrupted by Kanye interrupted by Xzibit interrupted by the squirrel....
• Commented on Pears grown in the shape of the Buddha
  For some reason this reminds me of Bonsai Kitten...
• Commented on Delightful crosswalk sign alterations
  I remember seeing a news story about a guy who got busted for modifying other street signs. He changed a "Walk/Don't Walk" sign to a "To Be/Not To Be" sign....
• Commented on Beer can collection as wall art
  I remember showing up at my first LAN party, witnessing a pile of Josta cans in the living room that used to be neatly stacked against the wall. I imagine the easiest way to do a beer can wall would...
• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  I'm just as curious about the footage as footage of prewar Europe, and buildings that may have been destroyed since then. If you can identify the neighborhoods that were filmed in, their own archivists might be interested in that footage....
• Commented on Water-fueled "jet pack"
  1. he's not wearing a helmet? 2. Hey, Super Mario Sunshine! 3. Wait a minute. Mario never wears a helmet!...
• Commented on Daily Show on the housing crisis: Why can't Geithner sell his house?
  This isn't necessarily a failure on Geithner's part unless he really does need to sell the house quickly at a fair price. It's possible that he doesn't really care how quickly the house sells, and is therefore setting a high...
• Commented on Hollow spy coin
  I can imagine that the magic shop coin and the spy coin would vary in quality, with the magic shop one being less likely to stand up to more than a little scrutiny. Also, is there enough metal in a...
• Commented on Keyboard Cat t-shirt
  @3: Actually, Keyboard Cat died long ago -- as I hear it, the video was shot in the 1980s....
• Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
  Well, I agree with @5 -- Cory could just as easily have said "Britons" instead of "Americans", right? And though we're all in this together, @6's "FISA is still in effect" reminder would be no better than Fox News's "Terror...
• Commented on New picture window for the space station
  That's the thing I didn't believe in Apollo 13, where Lovell was being urged to get a look at the moon's surface, and he says "I've seen it."...
• Commented on Iranian election uprising: Twitter tracks it real-time, Iranian bloggers evade 'Net Censorship
  I can't wait for this week's Tonight Show TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER!!!...
• Commented on Iranian election uprising: Twitter tracks it real-time, Iranian bloggers evade 'Net Censorship
  #21: Why Squid and not Tor?...
• Commented on To do in LA: Police Academy's Michael Winslow, The Human Foley, "Scores" Silent Films, Live.
  This makes me think of Rifftrax. But how could Disembaudio synchronize an audio track to a silent movie?...
• Commented on BB Exclusive: John Waters on the Origins of Teabagging.
  They still play the John Waters smoking PSA before the Rocky Horror Picture Show (a European film) at Chandler Cinemas in Arizona. They also play a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial, and shadow-cast it. And my main problem with the teabag...
• Favorited Comfort Dollars on Boing Boing
• Commented on Visualizing $1 Trillion as an endless field of bales of C-notes
  It needs another object in there, to make the scale more obvious....
• Commented on When is a free credit report not a free credit report? When it's from freecreditreport.com
  The Encyclopedia Britannica guy needs to beat up the freecreditreport.com guy....
• Commented on Because He Could: <em>Zelda II: Expiditio Linci</em>
  I used to have an Esperanto translation of Zelda 1. I'll see if I can dig it up, and get the permission of the guy who did it....
• Commented on Trough of No Value: the period when objects aren't new and aren't collectible
  I have a lot of old electronics I collected from thrift stores, taking up space in my parents' garage. And a little of it taking up space in my one-bedroom apartment, which is kind of a pain. Of course, I...
• Commented on Super Bowl broadcast interrupted with porn
  They have Comcast in Tucson? Poor Tucson. We have Cox in Phoenix. They're much less evil than Comcast, and I've never had a problem....