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• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating Heart
  The shunt is to keep the blood flowing through the artery, rather than squirting all over the place like in an episode of Dexter....
• Commented on How To: build the ultimate, cheap home pizza oven
  Build this in your grill for lovely 700°F pizza baking. And go buy a couple of $2 16" square ceramic floor tiles, they don't need the support that refractory bricks do and you can get them just about anywhere....
• Favorited Boing Boing tv - Leslie Hall: Dear Diary. on Boing Boing
• Favorited Making chemical snakes on Boing Boing
• Favorited Making chemical snakes on Boing Boing
• Commented on Cellphone-themed Olympic pin said to be most popular in China
  Pin traders scare me. I mean, what do they do with all those pins? Shouldn't they be watching the games?...
• Commented on Top X: 10 Perfectly Pure Gadgets
  Damn, five mice in one trap! My personal best (worst?) is three......
• Commented on Buick Reatta had a touchscreen interface in the '80s
  I recall a demo with "high tech" (for the 80's) graphics running on my Mac SE back in college......
• Commented on What did I plant in my vegetable garden?
  People! They're peeeoooppllleee!...
• Commented on Winners of the Seagate Billionth Drive 1K Competition
  Desperately wanted to vote for robot generator...glad that the powers that be agreed!...
• Commented on Blackberry's Kickstart clamshell is coming later this year
  As @ALAN said, this is an easy one: "Is that a flip phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"...
• Commented on Neocube needs no mechanisms
  Is it just me or is the web page down?...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  This post fills me with ennui....
• Commented on Bell Canada: We have to screw up other ISPs' connections or our retail customers will suffer by comparison
  Of course they don't want to provide better service for someone else's customer, why is this odd? They been hamstringing US Bells since the breakup of AT&T, why doesn't COMCAST have to provide the same sort of access to their...
• Commented on Tear-free onion engineered
  Actually all you have to do to make tearless onions is grow them in sulfur free soil--aka Vidalia onions. Although they haven't done a great job mapping sulfur content of soil in Vidalia and, consequently, you can get some with...
• Commented on Unboxing an Apple IIc
  Timeless graphic design--you could put that box on a shelf today and it would look better than most......
• Commented on Screen Sifter Sunday
  "Fuck" that was something....
• Commented on Painter's Pyramids Let You Paint Both Sides at Once
  Oh, yes, as with many things in life, rubbing is the only way to go....
• Commented on Photo of extension cord in swimming pool
  You gotta love the "make it work" engineering going on here. It's got everything from tape to flip-flops to door-stops. If I were stuck in a real-life Poseiden Adventure, I'd want these guys with me. Not to mention that they...
• Commented on Credit card fraudsters use custom domain
  Come on, have you looked at the site? They can keep you from "loosing" your money! I, for one, know that my money is already too loose, I need to tighten it up. It's Interpol and FBI approved, what could...
• Commented on Road Pro In-Car Sandwich Maker
  Yeah, but didn't Homer have a deep fryer too?...
• Commented on First/Worst: Online Nickname?
  Oh yeah, it was "The Dungeon" on my Atari 1200XL in the early 80's. I was, of course, "Dungeon Lord." I guess there was too much D&D in there somewhere. I have such fond memories of x-modem uploads to my...
• Commented on Ancient Greek potty training pottery device
  Hmmm, I thought squatting was all the rage back then....
• Commented on Coal/Tuberculosis link explored
  I thought same as Keneke, brief scan of paper restored confidence in peer-review process. Paper goes beyond just proposing correlation......
• Commented on Stiletto TiBone Solid Titanium Hammer
  I used to have this great ad for a titanium hammer that claimed, because it was half the weight of a steel hammer, you could drive nails twice as fast! Really, how is titanium better than steel for a hammer?...
• Commented on Matchbox car catalog from 1969
  I hope this setup isn't in Boston, that looks like an improvised hoax device there with that button and wire and whatnot...and there clearly appears to be an explosion occurring in the background......