Lazlo Panaflex

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• Commented on Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
  i don't really watch sports, but HELL YES i would watch world champion anvil launching. this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc38hj9JQ_4 could also be included in the "Explosive Arts" competition... now imagine the EXTREME anvil launching or the combo of the two 'sports'... to...
• Commented on Repository of Read-Along Adventure book-and-records
  i think i still have the STAR WARS and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK ones around here somewhere... i remember putting these on my MICKEY MOUSE record player and being amused for hours with these 'movie stories'... i think it...
• Commented on 9/11 hoax fools all of Germany
  Black face rappers? Really? Someone must have watched this and thought that it was a hoax. If that was a NYC subway those dudes woulda been kilt fo' real!! I love me a good hoax though. The "Berlin Boys" need...
• Commented on Robocop on a unicorn
  was this a pre-emptive unicorn chaser? damn, that next thing needs a surgeon general's warning!...
• Commented on British fraud cop quits job, buys huge database of stolen identities, charges fees to people who want to know if their details are in the database
  @GRIMC: you beat me to it!...
• Commented on United Breaks Guitars, the complaint anthem
  this immediately reminds me of the song "I got fucked by Liberty Mutual" by Whitey Houston (http://www.myspace.com/whiteyhouston). Not in style, but in message. The direct corporate protest song can be good. Calling out the name in the chorus, priceless......
• Commented on Cheap facts: what happens to science fiction when knowing something can be done and doing it are nearly the same thing
  So, Cory, you ever read DOKTOR SLEEPLESS? He (Warren Ellis) speaks of this innovation technique at length. I know you must have read it, right?...
• Commented on Michael Jackson to be plastinated?
  i've missed seeing BodyWorlds everytime it has toured near me (true north strong and free) but i have clipped every newspaper (remember those?) article and done a bit of research on the plastination process. It kinda reminds me of what...
• Commented on Stabbing pen, the competition
  @Pantograph & @devophill sed mine already......
• Commented on Geek Mafia 3: Black Hat Blues; a heist novel for hackers
  I don't know the ins and outs of self publishing, but couldn't the "high typo and copyedit-problem count" be solved by a little, what's that new word that everyone was talking about last year... crowd sourcing! Encourage your first batch...
• Commented on Giant and awesome dice-rolling machine
  I really need to see this miraculous machine filmed with a high speed camera with a slow spiral pan down the corkscrew ramp. Maybe some matrix style "pause and pan" action would be good too. This device would be great...
• Commented on Untitled 2
  @#124 that's what i sed the first time... http://boingboing.net/2008/04/24/untitled-1.html #133 what to say to nothing... nothing will come of nothing? that's not right. the first one is up to #2507 and people are still commenting on it... it would be...
• Commented on Rotting WWII junk in the jungles of Peleliu
  i finished Neil Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" late last year and i think he set one of the battle scenes on this very island... i'll have to go back and check. great book, btw... these pics really brought it all back for...
• Commented on Miraculous portable computers, ca 1982
  @KAOSDEVICE you beat me to it! a few years ago a friend of mine (skinchip) purchased a portable (!) C64. The size of a large briefcase and weighed a ton. i still lust for it....
• Commented on "iSafe" app for Android keeps the fearful in fear
  "Ambition makes you look pretty ugly"...
• Commented on Quantified Self in the Washington Post
  This kind of behavior reminds me of Mr. Doctorow's story "Things that make me weak and strange get engineered away", in which members of a religious order have biofeedback monitors implanted (?) and examine all the minutia of there inner...
• Commented on Anthropomorphic cuddly lights: LightMate
  Does anyone else see the resemblance to those bioport connected game consoles from David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ"? These do look pretty kuu though. Just integrate some sort of haptic response interface, a wireless broadband connection, and a social network of agoraphobic...
• Commented on How to watch videos while driving
  ROB DENMARK, you beat me to the punch! I scroll down this whole frickin page looking for someone to mention the (now sadly discontinued) WIRED Artifacts from the Future splash page and well... always the last place you look I...
• Commented on Mark Powell's nightmarish dioramas
  Brothers Quay, Adam Jones, Clive Barker, Tim Burton, H.R. Giger. All these artists come to mind. Simultaneously disgusting and beautiful....
• Commented on Dopey the hamster, and his private LEGO elevator.
  I applaud the hamster's tenacity but the design of the elevator was quite bad. I hope that this was a prototype and that elevator 2.0 would have a larger capacity and perhaps some additional safety measures (i don't know, maybe...
• Commented on Official anti-terrorism civilian snoop program to be expanded
  more agents of big brother... great news:( how does more fear create more security? i would like to declare peace on this war on humanity... i wonder if i'll ever enter the USA ever again. i guess i won't have...
• Commented on Kick 'N Go
  my best friend when i was a kid (stephen bartlett, now a theoretical physicist in australia) had an original kick and go. i thought it was the coolest thing going cuz you didn't pedal it, you just kicked! i wanna...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Will an empty post break the record for number of comments? So much from nothing, I love the implications of this. . . Maybe we can solve the energy crisis by applying this philosophy to the laws of physics. Maybe...
• Commented on Gruesome, vegan Blue Velvet cake
  This could be easily converted to a Reservoir Dogs cake with the addition of a straight razor or perhaps a Van Gogh cake with the addition of a paintbrush. if anyone likes cool cakes they should check out my crime...
• Commented on Beautiful high-end moonphase watch
  thank you for more watchporn... if time = $$ then this is still too expensive....
• Commented on Scissor mobile
  yeah, don't go running around with that thing... or running around that thing at all. scissor mobile appeals to me in so many ways... i used to wear a pair around my neck like a pendant. i think i'll have...
• Commented on La Pequeña Prohibida
  like a trainwreck/car crash, i had to watch it to the bitter end... why do i do these things to myself?...
• Commented on Rudy Rucker's Postsingular: Wheenk!
  the nanites and Vearth of this book remind me of the wumpus and simulation in yer story "there's a great big beautiful tomorrow"... you saw that, right?...