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• Commented on WWI images from Library and Archives Canada
  The panoramic shots are wonderful, in their way. Also quite sad. Thanks, ambroisebachot, for the painters name....
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  population pressure will force some change http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/35571/icode/...
• Commented on Photos of science fiction writers' nests
  chip delaney is doing zero-g output too: he's still writing? sf, that is....
• Commented on Video: RX-7 loses all four wheels
  one in storage, a 3rd gen; dark green/blue. no place for child seat....
• Commented on This is the Present
  an excellent machine, the hand....
• Commented on 9.7-inch Kindle DX brings big screen to e-book reader
  put firefox on it and I'm sold....
• Commented on 5 tools firefighters use in extremely hot conditions
  My 'scram kit' should have something like the Scott bottle....
• Commented on RIP, JG Ballard
  sniff. FWIW over the years I became more impressed with Ballard than Dick. Crash was the only fiction I recall which actually made me queasy. oh perhaps some of the surgery in Gravity's Brainbow....
• Commented on Black Swan author's rules for living
  @#21 - true, there was a bit of this in the session....
• Commented on Putin slaps down Michael Dell at Davos
  Talking to a fellow ski-er yesterday she, a Russian speaker, faulted the English -> Russian translator of Dell's comment. Apparently the translator dropped all mention of IT from Dell's question, making it sound more dismissive than it was intended. Funny...
• Commented on Black Swan author's rules for living
  I attended a WEF session yesterday entitled "Can you trust your Model" where Taleb gadfiled forth with panelists from Wharton, SAS, the National Defense University, the institute for emerging infections, etc. His point about "don't disrupt complicated systems" was presented...
• Commented on Putin slaps down Michael Dell at Davos
  I happen to be in Davos, and attended this session. From the tone of voice I'll give a small percentage to the chance that Dell was trying to ask "your techies are very good, how can we help them get...
• Commented on Tank collector Jacques Littlefield, RIP
  I was told he wrangled a deal to keep the de-militarized Scuds. All he had to do was drive them around his vast acreage in Portola Valley and hide them, when requested. Someone/thing/overlord would then test detection mechanisms....
• Commented on Reporting from Banff for BoingBoing
  Hey Dale, Head on down to Canmore, just south, and find a nice restaurant called "The Quarry." It's on main street. http://www.quarrybistro.com/ Find Naomi. She's great. You have a professional acquaintance from Mozilla in common. If her husband, Simonticus, is...
• Commented on Electric bullet train coming to California
  we have to build these things while we can - so my kid can drive oxen-hauled carts of avocados down to LA in the future....
• Commented on Stick entered into Toy Hall of Fame
  In the years before I moved to CA and searched for the Kappa I lived in Rochester. I worked at this museum during its earlier incarnation - the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum. My original job, which was really quite lowly...
• Commented on Change.gov
  this has been in the works for months....
• Commented on BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
  ( hey, those are good papers in #5. The flash is pesky, but worth it )...
• Commented on BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
  The guidebooks did mention a Kappa Temple. One hot Saturday I started walking. I loved walking in Tokyo; I walked for miles every night watching the steam condense on the wildly lit towers. The Hawkwind in my Walkman guided me....
• Commented on BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
  FLOAT CONTROL (scanning old pictos)...
• Commented on BBtv: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
  Mata-Nui! In the early 90's I was working at Intellicorp, an old AI company. They were famous for something called KEE. A newer, non-LISP machiney offering was created called ProKEE. With some marketing magic it was renamed ProKAPPA. K -...
• Commented on Jimmy Wales meets with China's 'net censors about Wikipedia-blocking
  This must of been part of the summer WEF - the China "Davos."...
• Commented on Babylon 5 Jamaican vacation promo
  excellent oddness. I'm finding that I can de-brainwash my 10year old's krew by loaning out B5 DVDs. The parents find them much easier to watch and there's something to talk about after a fair number of the episodes....
• Commented on Resurrecting <i>Star Trek</i>, the 1969 Text Adventure game for the Sigma 7
  geez, I used to hitch-hike from nowhere to Geneseo NY to sneak into the computer labs and play the APL version of this. (APL! on Selectrics!) I decided that I had to learn APL to hack this up, and before...
• Commented on Rocket stoves use twigs to cook food quickly, efficiently
  I wonder if the sierra stove's fan could be powered by one of those squeezy / shakey flashlights....
• Commented on LunaBlocks: giant LEGO-like furniture bricks
  I have made the mistake of showing these to my 9 year old. Time for a shipping container and a trip to france!...
• Commented on Little Fuzzy as an award-winning audiobook
  Any other recommendations for kids audio? We've enjoyed "Citizen of the Galaxy" and the Tiffany stories......
• Commented on HOWTO encrypt your Gmail
  > I lay the blame squarely on the "conspiracy" that > OpenPGP was excluded from implementation in > > Netscape Mail and Microsoft Outlook† in the > 1990s. (People don't miss something they never > had.) Netscape Messenger had...
• Commented on Bad Old Days: Kodak Disc 4000 Camera
  ACB is onto something. The Kodak Disk camera was an attempt to recapture an earlier era of profits for the company. By locking in the media format to their hardware Kodak hoped to get extravagant $$$ for a new generation...
• Commented on Air New Zealand plane passengers "fumigated alive"
  They were doing this spritzing and spraying 10 years ago when I was bopping back and forth to NZ. hell, we even had to bug-bomb our tents while kayaking in the fjords. Serial bug-bombing! bug bomb the big screen tent...