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• Commented on Koalas may go extinct in 30 years
  Koalas are cute but not cuddly, like most Australian wildlife. They have long claws and can scratch your eyes out if threatened. They may not be the most worthwhile niche species to save, as many have claimed. It's still a...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus at least kept his wares safe, if not his coworkers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hz1GpFpXA...
• Commented on Guitar-shaped spatula
  This goes perfectly with my spatula-shaped guitar....
• Commented on Sprint executive killed when boulder drops on his car.
  Rocks hit cars all the time around here. Gravity always wins. A large rock killed 3 women in a car in Washington state a few years back: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050913&slug=rockslide13m...
• Commented on Latvia says no more British bachelor parties
  I recall that when I looked into booking a hostel in Amsterdam, one of them required a hefty deposit specifically for groups of four or more males from the UK/Ireland....
• Commented on The Devil's Kettle
  I've been to this place a few times as a kid. I was told that they once sent a guy down there to find out where it went... he did not, evidently, report his findings back to the overworld....
• Commented on Searching for "purveyors of curiosities"
  Wunderkammer in Melbourne, Australia. http://wunderkammer.com.au/...
• Commented on Shockingly violent coffee commercials starring Muppets
  @apoxia: I think I saw the same Muppets retrospective as a young 'un, mid 80s. That clip of the piano eating proto-Kermit unsettled some deep, dark memories. Mainly of wondering why the hell a piano just ate a Muppet....
• Commented on Zombie haiku contest -- best entry wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies
  sunday morning, think: chainsaw through a zombie's head as knife through jelly...
• Commented on Color e-ink on the way
  The technology sounds suspiciously like a really fancy Etch-a-Sketch... ok, those are magnetic, but this is still a real question: does the image disappear or turn into brown goo when you shake it?...
• Commented on Economy will get a lot worse -- The Economist
  I found a Nov 17 2007 Economist in a stack of old magazines. Cover story: "America's vulnerable economy". Their predictions are more or less correct but understated; the housing collapse was already underway by that point. They seem more concerned...
• Commented on Meaning of radio station call letters
  Trivia: stations west of the Mississippi start their callsign with K, those east use W (no idea why that is). My college station (KUOM) claimed to be the first licensed operators west of the Mississippi; they started broadcasting around 1915....
• Commented on Suburban gold-selling parties
  How much would a bottle of Goldschlager fetch?...
• Commented on Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials
  Say you transported a bunch of smart, determined people to a planet exactly like Earth, but gave them no tools or resources aside from what they found on that planet. Lord of the Flies / Mad Max scenarios aside, how...
• Commented on HOWTO learn to program PDP-11 assembler with a modern PC and SIMH
  ~5 years ago I took a digital systems course where we programmed PDP-ish assembly in a PC emulation app. I'm not sure if it was a VM or just interpreted the assembly language programs. The language almost made a perverse...
• Commented on Creepy public service comic book about bike safety (1972)
  One of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies has a "demon bike" death. Well, it's with a motorcycle, but I guess Wes Craven really read his safety manuals as a kid......
• Commented on Dumpster diving: the world's most recession-proof job
  In college there was a distributor of those bottled smoothies that usually made for a productive run. We usually had enough to feed a house of six for a few days at a time, the protein ones usually wound up...
• Commented on Obama's whitehouse.gov nukes 2400-line Bush robots.txt file
  Sadly, with #30. It's very well possible that after 4 years (or 8, if all goes well), the Obama White House page will have an even bigger robots.txt file, for perfectly non-sneaky reasons. Then again, having to go that far...
• Commented on Satan/Santa greeting card
  A few years back I dressed as Satan Clause for Halloween. Red sweatsuit, Santa hat with devil horns, a pitchfork, and a black cape with "HAIL SANTA" written on it in white tape. Turned out to be less funny in...
• Commented on Police blotter: baby or burrito?
  A Mexican restaurant in Seattle advertises that their burritos are the size of a baby: http://responsiblemarketing.com/blog/?p=324 I've been there. Best baby I've eaten in a long time....
• Commented on Norm Coleman tries to get Franken ballot tossed because the voter wrote, "Thank you for counting my vote."
  @32 Scott -- tangentially, I always thought Norm Coleman sounded like Mayor Quimby....
• Commented on Lawrence Lessig: the mistake in bailouts
  It's interesting that this debate, for once, doesn't fit that well into the usual partisan buckets. Makes people actually think about their arguments since you could find reasons from either side of the aisle to go one way or another....
• Commented on Beautiful 1800s toolchest: the Studley
  Studley Toolchest would make an awesome porn name. "I'm here to fix your organ..."...
• Commented on Sparechange.gov
  "Nearly all the perceived misery is imaginary so far." So far. The Great Depression took a few years to really unwind. I don't think, and I don't hope, that we'll see another one (for demographic and technological reasons, among others)....
• Commented on Dead Kennedys for Rock Band
  I saw Jello on his speaking tour a couple years ago. After 4(!) hours of the same rant cycled three times, the room of 100-200 had thinned to under 30 and I gave up. I sympathize with his ideas, but...
• Commented on The Butterfly Dance
  @2 - I think they mean "certified" in the "death certificate" sense and not the "hit man" sense. Probably they found that their copies were destroyed or missing, and weren't aware of any other extant versions. Also on this site,...
• Commented on John Lydon's butter commercial
  I caught the Sex Pistols revival in Chicago a few years back. The weird thing -- and nobody else seems to have heard of this or noticed it -- was that Johnny had a body double hiding out behind the...
• Commented on New Brad Sucks CD: "Out of It"
  There's a neat shareware (anybody remember shareware?) audio recording / MIDI sequencing program called Reaper (www.reaper.fm). The demo project included with it is a Brad Sucks song. I thought it was just the developer's alter ego... once again BB proves...
• Commented on Urinal targets and other helpful nudges
  #4 - I've seen exactly that. My college's urinals had temp-sensitive rubber pads that read "GO GOPHERS!" when you, eh, engaged them. They turned from black to the school's colors, which was a nice touch....
• Commented on Road rage filmer writes about his media experience
  A friend used to write for a small-town paper in Oregon. In one article about cell-phone tower installations near private homes (or something like that) he quoted a homeowner saying "... they'll have to take out the stinkin' stove to...