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• Commented on Distance to celestial objects chart
  I find it amusing that the concern with airplane travel in space is that "not in airplanes which would fall to pieces with age" rather than the lack of air for the propeller to push. Also cute is the space...
• Commented on Video: Tuning a pipe organ
  correction: it's been offline for three months, not three years (according to the linked article)....
• Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
  Must have. I was relieved to see the plastic letters go down, because that's the exact shape and texture of my BM's. With the occasional rook or knight mixed in....
• Commented on Suburban Japan:3
  #12 & #17 -- thanks for mentioning Hungry Planet; I hope it inspires charles to seek it out. A great and enlightening photo book documenting the weekly food intake of families around the world. Highly recommended for some perspective....
• Commented on Spark plug bug
  Just to clarify, since over at BB, this is being advertised as made from a spark plug, at Make (where you linked above) it says, "Fashioned from - pneumatic spark plug cleaner, Illinois license plate, shoe trees, lawn sprinkler, bicycle...
• Commented on Retro flip clock exposes chronological vinyl fluttering
  I had a clock that used this mechanism back in high school. Favorite clock ever. I'd be tempted, too, but for the dust issue....
• Commented on Disney's 1946 menstruation film
  Whew! I watched the video and thought to myself, "What's so horrible?" aside from it being rather dated in presentation. It was done (it seems to me) with dignity and the advice seems reasonable and common sense, by and large....
• Commented on Pig-shaped earbuds making me want bacon for breakfast
  Here's the CrunchGear link (the one in the article is a duplicate link for the GreenHouse product page) http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/23/japanese-company-sells-earphones-shaped-like-cute-and-wild-pigs/...
• Commented on Pig-shaped earbuds making me want bacon for breakfast
  Where did you see them for $12? At that price, I'd buy, but I only saw them at http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=873 for $45.15 (shipped). That's a bit too rich for a novelty, IMO. But $12? Sure! Would love to know......
• Commented on Plate offers millimeter-precise cake division
  I believe the markings are degrees. Hard to make out, but it looks like both sides are approaching 90 in the middle....
• Commented on Codex of Liliputian subnotebooks
  whoa -- are you sure my comments qualify as a "bladder-evacuating temper tantrum" and "raging?" Point is, if you want to write a colorful backstory, stick to what you know. I'm confident there are many things you know a lot...
• Commented on Codex of Liliputian subnotebooks
  Clearly. And yet, you did choose to write it....
• Commented on Codex of Liliputian subnotebooks
  Dude- I know that creating an interesting narrative is fun and profitable, but let's get some of the basic facts straight. Meconium would *not* come out of an umbilical cord, nor would it "spurt."...