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• Favorited Motor attached to series of reduction gears - final gear fixed in concrete on Boing Boing
• Commented on Schneier: Fix US airport security by making TSA more transparent
  I'm not American, I've only ever visited the United States once in my life, and that was in mid 2001. I fell in love with New York City and would dearly love to visit again, possibly with a side visit...
• Favorited Aimee Mullins: How my legs give me super-powers on Boing Boing
• Favorited Trader Joe's fan commercial not to be missed on Boing Boing
• Favorited World crisis charts fed into Songsmith on Boing Boing
• Favorited EFF forces spoon-bender Geller to eat crow over bogus copyright claim on Boing Boing
• Favorited EFF forces spoon-bender Geller to eat crow over bogus copyright claim on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBtv - exclusive interview with George Lucas on "The Boba Fett Mystique" on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBtv - exclusive interview with George Lucas on "The Boba Fett Mystique" on Boing Boing
• Commented on Zapping model planes with high voltage
  Both the Mad Scientist and the Nervous Flyer in me wet themselves when they saw this, but for very different reasons....
• Commented on Trisaksri Ghost Repellent
  Hmm... I think I'll stick with lightbulbs to deal with my pesky Thai ghosts, thank you very much....
• Commented on Please take the Boing Boing Survey (It works now!)
  'Tentacles' in question #36 is a typo, right? If it isn't, then my answer should read '3', not '2'....
• Commented on Beach Boys vs. Murry Wilson
  Wow. They're like scenes from a Berkoff play with vocal harmony interludes, which I think would make for an awesome musical. Mark, you should check out Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds if you haven't already come across it. Sacrilege to some...
• Commented on Oldest-ever British surveillance footage
  Interesting to note that this was an instance of the British police documenting the activities of previously identified 'persons of interest' for a specific reason, rather than the wholesale surveillance of London's populace, 24/7. Had the technology been available in...
• Commented on Official "SCRABBLE Word of the Day": Dildo
  Aww, look at that happy little word, all cute wooden tiles at jaunty angles! Even if the SexIsEvil™ and OMGThinkOfTheChildren™ Brigades come down on Hasbro like a ton of brimstone bricks and get it removed, I'm glad that some people...
• Commented on Box of Clouds -- neat work of art
  It reminds me of Yoko Ono's Box of Smile, in that it captures the same childlike sense of discovery and delight, not unlike looking through a kaleidoscope for the first time....
• Commented on Rotting ancient shipyard in Sydney Harbour: photos
  His interior shots are definitely my favourites, and I'm not even particularly a fan of HDR imaging. For the record, the actual shipyards of Cockatoo Island are indeed abandoned, even if leisure activity elsewhere on the island somehow ruins the...
• Commented on LIFE and Google bring us 10 million historic images
  Ooh... I can see myself losing hours in this, and the 1280 x 1280 maximum resolution is pretty decent considering the (growing) size of the archive. It's as thrilling as when I found Shorpy: History in HD, another great collection...
• Commented on IT Crowd third season starts on Friday!
  Awesomesauce! Hopefully we won't have to wait too long before it screens here in Australia on the ABC. On a side note, I've always loved the opening titles for The IT Crowd designed by the design collective Shynola, who also...
• Commented on Feijoa fruits are ripe
  The Cook and the Chef had a great cooking segment on feijoas that you can read about here, subscribe to the podcast to watch the episode, or go straight to the recipe for feijoa tart with pear schnapps here. BTW,...
• Commented on The TSA Does Not Like Your Luggage
  "...must design colonic mouse trap with picture of Kip." Ahh Takuan, your ability to both horrify and delight in one short sentence is much appreciated....
• Commented on Pig with monkey face
  To Mappo at #8: It appears the 3 photos on Xenophilius are of two different piglets. The first appears to be the piglet from Fengzhang village in China, but the people in the two subsequent pictures don't look like Chinese...
• Commented on USDA reports 406,000 pounds of "cattle heads containing prohibited materials recalled"
  I'm reminded of that episode of The Simpsons where Lunch Lady Doris complains about the quality of the cafeteria supplies, pointing to a box labelled: GRADE F MEAT Ingredients: Mostly circus animals, some filler...
• Commented on Marriage proposal as patent application
  At first I thought, "Odd, but kinda sweet and at least original." But then I started to think of mail-order brides as having an EULA and I made myself sad. I'm going to go play with something shiny now to...
• Commented on Steampunk comedy monologue
  "...the Leonardo of jerking off." If I can't find a way to work that line into a conversation in the next 24 hours then I have failed as a human being. Thanks, Cory :)...
• Commented on Craiglist stoner thanks pizza guy for best pizza ever
  In my fantasies this would be scenario for the best 20 minute play ever written by Harold Pinter....
• Commented on Flintstones-style pedal car gets its day in court
  If there's ever a funeral procession held for the eventual death of the petrol-powered vehicle, I vote this to lead the procession. The hulking shell of a classic gas-guzzler slowly and solemnly drifting past, silent save for the squeaking noise...
• Commented on 19th century Japanese flip-over drawings
  The two heads in the bottom left corner remind me of Kashira, the three bouncing green heads in Miyazaki's Spirited Away. As a side note, I've always thought that they'd be an awesome idea for a set of three upholstered...
• Commented on Unusual retro craft project -- dolls in a dead tree
  Hmm... I think this one scores low on the craft factor but more than makes up for it in creepiness. Imagine the poor child walking into this room only to find their favourite dolls re-enacting a scene from 'Hurricane Disaster...
• Commented on 1972 Ideal "Bing Bang Boing" commercial
  It reminds me of a game from my childhood called Cascade by Matchbox. You can find some YouTube clips of Cascade in action here. Big Bang Boing does look a lot more flexible in its setup though, and a helluva...