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• Commented on Virtuoso cocktail shaker does his thing
  Am I the only one who finds silly show-offy bartending tricks offputting? The best bartender delivers tasty libations, a soothing attitude, and a friendly vibe. As soon as they become the center of attention and do stupid parlor tricks it's...
• Commented on Slow loris: possibly cutest animal ever
  FTW...
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  An accidental criticality could ruin your whole day... To Maggie Koerth-Baker might I interest you in a small farm in the town of Chernobyl. Very, very reasonable price....
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  Okay, after looking at the video he does have a bizarro arm....
• Commented on German arm wrestler Matthias Schlitte has a gigantic right arm
  Not even slightly surprising. If you ever saw Bjorn Borg back in the day, his tennis arm was 2 - 3 times as big as his other. I used to play Ultimate Frisbee competitively and my right arm was noticeably...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  Meant to say "everyone everywhere" above....
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  To danlalan and others above. I have a buddy who bought a house 3 miles off the grid. The local utility said it would cost $200,000 to extend the power line to his house and there was no other way...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  Gosh to think a big important moderator like Antinous would make such an eloquent point. No more all caps, fine. Parroting a meme, what meme? Life exists with, or without broadband. Folks who disagree with that statement live in the...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  Reason folks are annoyed is that the gov't should not MANDATE broadband. The market should sort that out. That way the average citizen is not paying $1Billion so Bob in Lapland can have his broadband. As someone who live with...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  Jst t clrfy lttl frthr, fr ppl wh hv nvr ctlly hd t d nythng prctcl n thr lvs... With the exception of satellite web access, if you are trying to get internet access up in Northern Finland / Lapland...
• Commented on Finland makes broadband a right
  So if I live in the Finnish semi-artic, 50 miles from any place on the grid, society should pay the multiple billions of dollars to guarantee me, just me, all by myself in the artic, broadband to my door. Internet...
• Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy from Derren Brown Blog
  Awesome!...
• Commented on TED Talk: Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes
  Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster... aquatic apes. Just plain dumb. Can't believe so much intellectual effort has been expended on such an idiotic and unscientific concept....
• Commented on Don't Copy That Floppy sequel promises prison beatings for copying
  Nevermind the sampling (stealing?) of the Samwell What What in the Butt meme which is a strange reference for the anti-copying crowd... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU...
• Commented on Proposal to raise book royalties, lower advances
  To #8 Yeah but a bricklayer only sells a house once. An author can sell millions of books and won't know how many til it hits the market. A fundamentally different market. Also, a bird in the hand (big advance)...
• Commented on Gallery of caution signs at Parc
  There are WAY more interesting warning signs around MIT. I am particularly a fan of the ones near the "High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory."...
• Commented on Sichuan peppercorns: "There's a war in my mouth."
  There is an excellent Chinese Restaurant nearby in Medford, MA called Fuloon that does several authentic Sichuan dishes including a beef dish in a cauldron of hot oily broth packed with poached beef, fistfulls of sichuan peppercorns, and little red...
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  To #2 above, love the image of a gutted PETA member sailing overhead. My trouble-making younger brother used to approach PETA members who had huge gorey images of skinned fur animals, and ask if they were having a barbecue ;-)....
• Commented on BB on GOOD: "Fast People, Slow Food - Better Living Through Homemade Yogurt"
  I'm a real food nut myself and do lot's of homemade stuff: Did sauerkraut for the first time this year, it was awesome: http://www.wildfermentation.com/resources.php?page=sauerkraut Of course baking bread is dirt cheap and really easy. I usually make 2-4 loaves slice...
• Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
  That picture really is darn near as old as the www; Think I first saw it in 1996 or so. Just realized noone even says world wide web any more. Wow....
• Commented on Kids on boneshaker bikes -- photoset
  To #26 comment on #25: yes, precisely. Without gears a bike with small wheels would more or less suck. The key with the penny-farthing larger wheel in front bike is that for every turn of your legs you go forward...
• Commented on Barnaby Ward uses Twitter to show his sketching process
  Sure, all art is derivative, but that drawing, comes so close to 1,000 other Manga illustrations as to be essentially indistinguisable....
• Commented on Barnaby Ward uses Twitter to show his sketching process
  To #2, yah, not exactly a particularly original or creative meme. In fact utterly beaten to death....
• Commented on Bamboo bike by Ross Lovegrove and Biomega
  I'm not a bike gearhead, but seriously though, aren't hydraulic brakes way more prone to failure and much harder to install, fix, maintain then a cable or rod-based system? Why add such a complicated system, hydraulics, to a bike? Hefty...
• Commented on Bamboo bike by Ross Lovegrove and Biomega
  Let's get real this is a metal, or perhaps carbon fiber bike with decorative bamboo tubing. Can anyone seriously pretend you are saving the planet by riding a way overpriced bike that happens to have some pretty bamboo thrown in....
• Commented on Christian salt, a wingnut alternative to Kosher salt
  Oy, this whole thread is just salt in my wounds... A few further points of clarification: - Kosher salt is (almost literally) dirt cheap. Peapod has it for $1.99 for a three pound box. - Kosher salt is NOT rock...
• Commented on Office chair explodes, kills boy
  Can you say Urban Legend? The physics of it are just not possible. Sure if you released the gas cylinder it would go flying. Dent the concrete, not so possible. Just not enough energy in that cylinder. If you were...
• Commented on Concert for deaf people in Toronto
  Close friend is a deaf educator. She had some friends who are jazz musician's play a concert for a school for the dear here in Massachusetts. The kids all just came up close and put their hands on the instruments...
• Commented on Space-saving triple trashcan
  That contraption looks like the type of thing that will break 3 weeks after you buy it. Never mind that as Takuan implies above most recycling is currently not profitable so your local government is probably just throwing all the...
• Commented on Making sauerkraut is easy
  I made my own in a 5 gallon glass pickle jar that my local deli gave me. Held the kraut down with a glass that fit in the mouth of the jar and kept it weighted. Needed to top up...