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• Commented on Pizza made from a whole pig
  I'll have one with veggie toppings and not so much cheese. I'm on a diet....
• Commented on Another Global Disease Bites the Dust?
  If there were any diseases that infected only passenger pigeons, then they became extinct a long time ago. But more seriously, in the 1890's, rinderpest hit Africa, killing 30%-90% of the various types of cattle and other such animals. This...
• Commented on Apple Tablet delayed, analysts cast haruspex over chinese shipping manifests
  Nowadays, haruspication can be done surgically under general anesthetic, laparoscopically (keyhole prognostication), or non-invasively via MRI or CAT scan. And it is still twice as accurate as horoscopes or Piper Jaffray....
• Commented on Holy water dispensers to combat swine flu
  Ordinary ultrasonic detectors aren't very useful for vampire-targeting system. Unless you can get them above bat frequencies, they'll hear them. The discussion does bring up the question of whether Eastern Orthodox or Catholic water is more effective. The Catholic version...
• Commented on The OpenOffice Mouse
  It only has 512k of flash in it. That's k as in milliMeg. Why didn't they just stick a GB of flash in it, preloaded with a Linux live distro including Open Office? Walk up to any computer, plug in...
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  It's cheap crap anyway. Maybe if you are recharging your Zune or listening to Top-40 AM on your boombox you won't be able to tell the difference between this and a good power system. But any serious audiophile will have...
• Commented on Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?
  83% based on the assumption that the stuff that wasn't good utile furniture was probably art. Both my errors were calling the Walmart stuff art. I hadn't heard of Donald Judd either....
• Commented on Urban surveillance as a game?
  CCTV cameras that show crimes being committed? In the US, we call it C-SPAN....
• Commented on Roman Polanski on To Catch a Predator
  @scifijazznik: if both were on fire, who would I pee on? R. Kelly, obviously....
• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  Require that beer be sold in gallons. Those are too unwieldy to make good weapons. Besides, nobody is going to hit someone with a partially-full glass--that wastes beer--and anyone with an empty glass is unlikely to be in much of...
• Commented on Indiana prosecutor says she's duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought cold medicine
  Do we really want a country where only the poor are forbidden to steal bread, sleep under bridges, and buy two bottles of cold medicine in the same week?...
• Commented on Coincidence?
  Original is here...
• Commented on Humans will hand render any image like a digital printer
  Do they add the little yellow fingerprinting dots?...
• Commented on Essential maker skills
  Find, read, and understand a Materials Safety Data Sheet: MSDS. If you don't know what an MSDS is, learn. Knowing that it is called an 'MSDS' makes it dead-easy to Google. (And if you don't, you'll be dead, easy.) Sort...
• Commented on Man, our president is cool.
  Change will come, Or so it seems, Eventually, Defer your dreams...
• Commented on Time-lapse of 1990 LA mall
  @11 JFrancis, Hilarious. @12 JFrancis, Oh....
• Commented on Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists
  They should give a trip to some atheist hotspot (Las Vegas? Galapagos Islands?) for contestants who maintain their atheism. That way, you won't have people lying about a conversion just to get a trip....
• Commented on RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp
  Yes, but Hollywood is making a movie of the Asteroids video game, after a protracted bidding war. I think it's clear which country wins....
• Commented on The Whistling Island of La Gomera
  I know of at least one whistled language that is just a transliteration of the spoken language. If you wanted to whistle the word 'canary', there might be a whistle for 'ca' another for 'na' and another for 'ry'....
• Commented on Prairie dogs immediately escape from $500k escape-proof habitat
  Did anyone else RTFA and learn that it used to be the kodiak bear habitat? You would think that if a kodiak bear habitat wasn't escape-proof, someone would have noticed eventually....
• Commented on On Being Gizmodoed, Boing Boinged and Hydrogenated
  The WSJ link, used to support the audiophile claim, is especially enlightening. In a double blind test, the flogger of a $2800 power conditioner picked the cheap power cord once and his cash cow twice. You can't get more random...
• Commented on Boing Boing Video review: Top Chair? Herman Miller Embody and the Steelcase Leap
  @#5 A chair doesn't have to be 10x as good to be worth 10x as much. Suppose the following: sitting on a milk crate lets you work at 80% efficiency. Sitting in an $80 chair lets you work at 90%...
• Favorited EFF forces spoon-bender Geller to eat crow over bogus copyright claim on Boing Boing
• Favorited Douglas Adams's HITCHIKER'S typewriter for sale: Boing Boing Gadgets on Boing Boing
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Just to throw some facts into this discussion, the Metro Police have statistics available going back to the 2001. From 2001 to 2006, murders have ballooned from 171 to 162, Grevious Bodily Harm assaults rose from 5608 to 5102, and...
• Commented on Videos of super high speed spore release mechanisms
  And why does the pilobolus require such a high-speed spore ejection? If this is the same species I am thinking of, it is a fungus that can see (though poorly). Its spore ejector is actually a single-pixel eye that points...
• Commented on Crowdsourced science: HOWTO do agarose gel electrophoresis using nothing but a drinking straw, a 9V battery and a pair of alligator clips
  #17 Maryr, What is so difficult about garage PCR? Building a thermocycler seems like a simple job for an electronics hobbyist, unless there are some specific issues that don't get discussed often. (Do you need better than 0.1 C accuracy...
• Commented on Memorial for a cobbler of clown shoes
  A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. http://www.tv.com/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/chuckles-bites-the-dust/episode/12273/summary.html...
• Commented on Good: The return of amateur science
  Takuan, You can get all the "The Amateur Scientist" columns on a CD ROM for $27 from http://www.brightscience.com/ (scroll down to the bottom)....
• Commented on GPS Lingerie is tacky, prompts feminists into sputtering, hysterical overreaction
  I thought it was to help men find the clitoris....