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• Commented on Video game wedding: a letter and photos from the bride and groom
  If he feels that she's getting old, will he ask for a firmware update?...
• Commented on Home made Russian water purifier
  @trr: Osprey101 is not saying that you can magnetize water, only that Starbucks would try to sell such a thing if it could make them some money (i.e., that Starbucks' patrons would buy it). At least that's what I'm sayin'......
• Commented on Afghanistan: Karzai's drug-dealing bro has been on CIA payroll for 8 years, says NYT
  Caption: I don't know how much I'm paying per month on this phone. My 'dad' pays for it....
• Commented on Quiz: Donald Judd, Or Cheap Furniture?
  I also used the principle "ugly OR uncomfortable = artist's" and scored... 100%. Also, I scouted some of those things (um, the cheap stuff) when we were furnishing our apartment. Some decent-looking stuff at Wal... Target....
• Commented on JUSTICE Act: a bill to restore the Bill of Rights to America
  @#18: Let me try to compute this. Dems voted for PATRIOT because of the fear-mongering of the Reps. Dem weakness buckles to Rep lies. Checksum...OK....
• Commented on KFC as pot dispensary
  No coke... Pepsi products only!...
• Commented on High school student suing Amazon over book-deletions which rendered his study-notes useless
  My cousin attended my high school about 15 years after I did. Some of the books I read in h.s. were still on the reading list, and I still had them in my bookshelf. I saved him the cost and...
• Commented on Lego Microtome biological specimen slicer
  Lego for purposes such as this beat Star Wars (or any other) sets, any day. Think it, build it, use it. Does it get any better?...
• Commented on Soldier won't go to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe Obama is the president of the United States
  This guy's a major! No, that's it, he's a major. Not a "major so-and-so". Not being "military", I thought that becoming a major would require a certain amount of competency and clear thinking. I must be naive....
• Commented on Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA
  In the script, the artist asked for a bottle of water while in custody. While in custody, Mark Sable asked for water! Whoa....
• Commented on Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco
  And after all this: OS 3 to include cut/copy/paste. Awesome. Meanwhile: HTC Hero to run Flash 9. (Free games? Videos at non-YouTube sites?) Apple sez: no fun for you at our expense. Apple, what else aren't you telling us?...
• Commented on Hot chili grenades
  The defense against this weapon is a mild masala mask, you know, to take up the spice. Or maybe yoghurt....
• Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
  nut -> but...
• Commented on British cops stop and hassle thousands to "balance racial statistics"
  I accept that racial profiling in the airports is against non-white races, but this is not to say that the anti-govt 'militia' in the US is not under surveillance by the FBI in some manner (likewise the IRA in the...
• Commented on Radio chip inspired by human ear
  "'Somebody who works in radio would never think of this, and somebody who works in hearing would never think of it, but when you put the two together, each one provides insight into the other,' he says." When I was...
• Commented on Linnaeus invented the index card
  Because Mendeleev foresaw that the boxes on the table would be approximately square, he cut the paper so. Then he applied a glue that would still stick if the paper were removed and relocated. He Posted It on a wall...
• Commented on US corporations fighting to keep poor countries from getting patent-free access to green tech
  This goes to show you that technology alone will not save us (humanity) or our world. It takes more: an ethic akin to Love. (There, I said it.) Instead we have minimalist "business ethics". ("Don't rip off people. Much.")...
• Commented on Marketing the Minimal
  Most toys do not "do almost nothing". My son's construction vehicle toys act much like their real-world counterparts. Toy cars can be pushed to simulate real car action. Superman can made to act in super ways. And so on. This...
• Commented on Rampant boobies to reign at Disneyland!
  I expect a lash-back. A flash lash-back....
• Commented on Gallery: chair designs from the future
  Those are chairs only in name and only because the artists so categorized them. Seriously, how are they better than La-Z-Boys? My wife says that her naps in the La-Z-Boy are more restful than in bed, and I concur. As...
• Commented on Dolphins blowing rings
  It gets better: the dolphins know the math, but they won't tell us, because, frankly, they think that we won't get it. I really like the trick where the dolphin breaks a big ring and gets a small ring to...
• Commented on Secret message hidden in Lincoln's pocketwatch
  The Lincoln Estate should sue the Dillon Estate for defacing its property. The watch shall be restored to its original state or replaced with a watch of equal or greater value. Yes, 1861 dollars plus appreciation....
• Commented on NuRide for mobile devices?
  Americans will have none of this 'sharing'. Velomobiles!...
• Commented on Mr. George the SuperMagnetMan
  I have a 2y/o son and this (post) makes me hinky, what with the warning about the danger of (multiple) magnet ingestion by children. "Blood blisters"? "Bone crushing"? CDC case reports http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5548a3.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041027143806.htm...
• Commented on More unsold inventory piling up: Toyota stores unsold cars aboard ship
  emergency ~ crisis emergent ~ urgent http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emergency Canuck, while I find your argument to be cogent, I'll go with these respected references for the meaning of the word in action. Now, I'd pay $14k for a fully loaded Corolla, out...
• Commented on Nurses fired for taking photos of patient's x-rays (of his rectum, complete with lodged object)
  At minimum, this is an ethical violation. Where is the compassion for the patient, no matter what the injury and how it occurred? Termination from their jobs would be easily justified. A hospital would have an interest as well: who...
• Commented on The Pen Which Shall Never Be Lost
  The Pen That/Which Shall Never Be Lost is the pen at our pediatrician. It's a novelty pen as big as an enchilada. No one would willingly or accidentally walk away with that pen. We often forget about psycho/social methods....
• Commented on Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned
  iPhone is not a fancy phone that you own. iPhone is a Point Of Sale in your pocket, through which you may shop for and buy things. The phone, PIM, apps, and browser are amenities, such as you would find...
• Commented on Boing Boing on GOOD: Why I Like the Amazon Kindle 2 (or will once I get one)
  I'd pay $360 for a Kindle, if: - it had an SD card slot. - it had PIM functions. - it had wifi and web-browsing. - it allowed unrestricted uploads of my own files (yes, free ebooks a la Proj....
• Commented on Scrabble-tile keyboard
  You could probably score yourself as you type. Anyways, sweet ride....