Falcon_Seven

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• Commented on Inexplicably expensive iPhone accessory (video stabilizer)
  Xeni, didn't you use this device to shoot some iPhone video earlier this year? Can't remember the date/link, but it was of some waterfall/water-related footage -possibly on one of your Central American trips....
• Commented on Father blames others for his own misinterpretation of candy wrappers as "pornographic"
  Mmm, pornographic candy, agggh....
• Commented on Man spent $7 million in bogus currency made with cheap inkjet printer
  @18 - Yes. The average criminal is no mastermind. That's why they get caught. So far, the only successful counterfeiter of US currency has been the government of N. Korea. KJI and the DPRK can afford the proper equipment and...
• Commented on What would you do with a Class C IP block?
  How much creativity do you need to sell it to the highest bidder?...
• Commented on TIME on unsustainable farming practices
  @10 - "ethical slaughter".  That's a new one....
• Commented on Report: Mercury found in every single fish tested in study of US rivers, streams
  Antinous, you're eating the wrong kind....
• Commented on Coital "model" machine used in condom study
  Articles like this are why I keep coming back to BB....
• Commented on Seder for liberated robots
  Yes, let us not forget the holiest two weeks of the robot calendar, Robanukah. Which comes a month after Robomadan and two months after Robonza....
• Commented on Retro-futuristic motorcycle
  The designs - cool, very techno, machined billet and matte finishes, all the rage. The seats - bump, ouch, bump, ouch... So, Knoxblox, you want electric. I've got your electric right here: Witness the awesome retina tearing acceleration and bone-crunching...
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  Yikes!...
• Commented on Professor Solomon's Flying Saucer Travel Tips
  Those BBers who wish to shield themselves from our mind-controlling alien overlords, should visit here for assistance....
• Commented on Baseball pitching and batting robots
  We're only a few short years way from the Robot Baseball League, Wireless Joe Jackson, and Blernsball. I can't wait....
• Commented on Living things glow with visible light
  "...thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals. So would this mean that the anti-oxidant vitamins that I've been taking are actually depleting my aura? Those Bastards!...
• Commented on What Worked Then
  "...but we shouldn't forget the joy that comes from laughing at things that now seem too small." Are you referring to the pictures on the walls?...
• Commented on John Hodgman: Seven roles in which he'd have been swell.
  Worst. Photoshopped. Pic. Ever. Funny though. Funnier if he was MaryAnn or Ginger....
• Commented on Piglet with monkey face
  "It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!" What do you think it's doing to us?...
• Commented on Know Your Mushrooms documentary
  The Matthew Lesko of 'shrooms....
• Commented on Mystery blob devouring Alaska coastline
  It's one of three possibilities: 1. The Blob. 2. Caltiki. 3. The H-Man....
• Commented on Space history auction
  If only I was a multi-millionaire... I love the NASA patch with 'F. Haise' below it. It seems to have been unceremoniously 'liberated' from his flight suit with a pair of scissors. Most of the lots seem to come from...
• Commented on Laser Portraits
  Wow! Laserium!...
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  @35 - "how about if they were tied hand and foot and greased up and left to roll around in the pen just using teeth?" They could tie them up, put them in a sausage casing, and call it 'Ultimate...
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  UFC. Rex-Kwan-do for idiots....
• Commented on Visualization of US consumer spending
  The small amount of money spent on reading, as indicated by the colorful doughnut, does not reflect on the amount of time spent reading or type of material that people people read. I don't read newspapers, largely because the newspaper...
• Commented on Zombie short film festival call for entries
  Cutest. Zombie. Ever. Now who could be afraid of that?...
• Commented on Taibbi on Goldman Sachs: "Planet-eating Death Star," "Vampire squid"
  @24 - Antinous You have forgotten the first rule of Goldman-Sachs -Do not talk about Goldman-Sachs....
• Commented on Taibbi on Goldman Sachs: "Planet-eating Death Star," "Vampire squid"
  It would be remiss of us to forget the blood-suckers at Morgan-Stanley and their manipulation of the commodity oil market: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/08/60minutes/main4707770.shtml...
• Commented on Colorado passes law to allow rainwater harvesting
  This is just ridiculous, Nineteenth-century, cattle herding, thinking. The state of Colorado receives nearly six trillion gallons of rain across the state annually, on average. That's roughly 1.2 million gallons per person, per year. Household water use in most western...
• Commented on Spheres of Influence: A Collection of Spherical Sites
  @18 Wrap your mind around this as a possible cause (sixteen (16) years ago) -your favorite morning stimulant may be needed: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0026-1394/31/1/004 This may be considered as more 'reputable' than Faux News, but lay reporting just the same -also six...
• Commented on Spheres of Influence: A Collection of Spherical Sites
  The problem is not that the kilogram doesn't have the same mass, it's that the reference kilo -housed in a chateau outside of Paris- has changed in mass with respect to the average of a dozen others just like it...
• Commented on RIP Michael Jackson
  They come in 'threes', McMahon, Fawcett, Jackson. Mostly....