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• Commented on Stacking 117 objects on a Lego block, then knocking it over.
  Great concept, but he gives up after three wind-up toys and just chucks a ball at it? Wha? I was expecting, no, HOPING for a procession or more spectacularly a phalanx of wind-up toys... Here I thought Gen Y had...
• Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
  Just in time for the upcoming War on Black Squares. (if you like me, lase a hole in the box from an airplane.)...
• Commented on Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen
  well.. whatever. I laughed. Good one, Lord!...
• Commented on Delightful crosswalk sign alterations
  neat, funny! but i think the word 'hack' is starting to get a little overused. ....
• Commented on Steampunk science museum show at Oxford UK
  if satire is the art of becoming your enemy, Trippcook is steampunk as f$$k....
• Commented on Lamp hacked out of Ikea fiber-optics and watering can
  I agree, Thad. Also, that's how I feel about most parents....
• Commented on Graffiti: "I Love Cops!"
  I don't want to offend anyone, but for some reason this reminds me of an old Don Martin cartoon where there's a fella with a brush and a bucket of paint writing on a wall, "my wife is an immense,...
• Commented on Star Wars trash compactor bookends
  #3 - that's just it - I've seen sock monkeys with more dynamic posing. On the Han side, both figures are leaning away from the wall! Diggin Luke's honker, though....
• Commented on Retractable fifth wheel for tight parking spots
  pfft. Amateur. He had at least two feet of space in front of him. I am against this device only because it would rob me of the joy of watching inept people attempt to parallel park. ...all about life's simple...
• Commented on Gap founder's amazing art collection may leave San Francisco
  Hmm. SO much to respond to. I like art. I also bowl. In the Presidio. I walk there, and I bike there. At times I've even worked there. I would love a chance to have this museum in the...
• Commented on Some Final Images of Mild Interest
  I don't understand all the squirrel hate. Watching them gambol across the lawn makes me feel happy. they are merry little creatures. MERRY!!!!!...
• Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
  #95 - "Where did you get this from? Nowhere in the article does it imply embedded. " The answer is that the bullet very briefly embedded itself in the helmet before going along, slightly deformed, on its merry way, as...
• Commented on Building a mystery box
  After checking the link, it seems to me that this could very easily be opened by sliding those little tension bars out. All it requires is the will to do so - no need for destruction. -big fan of the...
• Commented on Wired presents the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs
  Packed with peanut butter? Oh that's marvelous. You'd have bread and jelly vendors beating the crap out of each other to be the first at every Wall Street suicide. Horrible plan....
• Commented on Fireworks hammers
  It's ok everybody... it's "traditional". But seriously folks, I might have to try that on some iPhones....
• Commented on Michael Jackson to be buried brainless, coroners say brain must "harden" so tests can be completed.
  So, his cranium is just lying there empty? That's really creepy. Did they leave a note or a receipt in there at least? Something? I know I'd be tempted to put a little radio inside him so I could scare...
• Commented on The Choppers (1961)
  Interested fans should also check out "The Sadist", my favorite Arch Hall Jr. movie. .....
• Commented on Cool projects on Make: Online
  Ah.. OGRE... I still bust that one out from time to time. What a great game! Wish I still had Car Wars... I'll never be convinced that any of the 'cars with machine guns' video games come anywhere close to...
• Commented on Terrific review of the execrable Transformers movie
  ah.. so -thats- what it feels like to be brain raped....
• Commented on Maglev toy train
  "And still people say that a Maglev connection from LA to SF is unfeasible." Ha ha.. yeah.. a frictionless douche exchange system. I live in SF, so I can say that. .. :)...
• Commented on Poop on the moon, and how to protect it
  Bay of Tranquility?...
• Commented on Pirate theater automata built from Legos*
  I once made a statue of a pedant out of LEGO. It was sold to a man from Pokastahn....
• Commented on Tween boy-band rocks out about Oscar Mayer wieners
  Oh come on. He's not a weiner. The haircut though, that gets him halfway there....
• Commented on Trailer Park Boys: Big Plans, Little Brains
  All I know is that over the course of the series I slowly fell head over heels for Sarah. Oh Sarah, I'll be your Corey-Trevor! So sad. . ....
• Commented on Ram's Skull Lamp
  Hoppychris - At home there is a dremel and a moose skull. Had it not been for your post, I may have gone my entire life without entering into the fraternity of which you speak. Now I can't see any...
• Commented on Solution to AIG bonuses: a 90% tax on people who receive them
  That's pretty much what I was going to say, technogeek. I can cheer for this, but only because it doesn't apply to me. Give our elected corpulent clowns enough time though, and I'm sure they'll find some behavior of mine...
• Commented on Stupid light switch can't be opened
  #63 Raz.. ha ha! as a 17 year old I nearly started a machine shop on fire when I put a drill press through a lithium battery. Ah.. learning is fun! (my job was to destroy obsolete scuba depth gauges...
• Commented on Stupid light switch can't be opened
  I seem to be batting 1000 around here lately, so I can't help but chime in. I'm not sure I totally agree with the Maker's Bill of Rights. Mark, I dig your magazine and all but something occurs to me....
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  And Scott -I agree with a lot of what you are saying. Times change, and attitudes with them. Maybe someday appropriation will mature into its own respected art field just as photography did. With any luck I'll be dead by...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  Scott- I know what registration is. I've done a few serigraph series myself. I never found it to be that much of a problem when you use some trace and some registration pins. I have done up to 15 or...