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• Favorited Kodak's New HD Video Cam = Goodnight & Good Luck, Flip! on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on Kodak's New HD Video Cam = Goodnight & Good Luck, Flip!
  It's simply ludicrous how cheap you can get 16 and 32GB cards for now. I feel like an old geezer. I remember paying more than $100 for a 32MB SecureDigital Card to double the storage space on my Rio PMP300....
• Commented on Run a TOR node, help Iranians and others keep their privacy
  Sorry, but running a TOR node also pretty much guarantees that you will be contributing to dissemination of child pornography....
• Commented on Good lord, they still make the Flowbee
  Fuck yeah they still make the flowbee. I own a generic one and I use it all the time. And I'm not kidding. It rocks; with an electric clippers you pretty much can't disguise that you've cut your own hair...
• Commented on Wood iPod Mini
  Does it work? I assume so, but how did he get the capacitive wheel to work through wood? Beasutiful, but too bad it looks like an older B&W model (4th generation?) If the battery on those is anything like my...
• Commented on Timbaland finally sued over chiptune plagiarism
  @1, most popular songs songs with samples have licensed them, so those will remain. On the other hand you have so-called mixtapes in hip-hop, usually bare-bones albums consisting of rapping over nothing but an unauthorized loop from a popular song....
• Commented on If you'd pay $55 a month to tether your iPhone, you're just plain stupid
  I don't get this whole fuss. AT&T doesn't even bother to disable tethering on half their phones. I'm 3G tethered to AT&T at this very moment over my branded subsidy handset using the $15/mo data plan intended for phones only....
• Commented on Behold! OSX finally on Vaio P
  if you don't know what "installing a kext" means, you probably shouln't be messing with hackintoshes anyway....
• Commented on HOWTO Take A Camera Toss Snapshot
  Sounds suspiciously like it was invented by the companies waiting at the ready with new cameras to replace the ones you break doing this....
• Commented on Boing Boing apartment in Comcast Town
  In a perfect world we could do what Penny Arcade does, vetting each advertiser personally, but we don't have that luxury at the moment.This crystallizes for me why the arguments being advanced by staff are so disturbing -- it conflates...
• Commented on EFF attorney explains Obama DOJ's radical authoritarian position on wiretapping immunity to Olbermann
  @Error404: A wonderful example of username-comment synergy. and yes, MSNBC only provides their content to US users, unfortunately....
• Favorited Fox News Porn - the prurience of prigs on Boing Boing
• Commented on Apple whips America into frenzy by fixing iPhone's most glaring omissions
  Apple Strategy 101 : On first release, withhold crucial features every competing product has, lying that they are infeasible (viz. applications on iPhone 1.0). Watch as everyone screams with delight when you eventually provide them in an update....
• Commented on Nokia going Linux, but not Android
  Good for them; Nokia's been putting a lot of effort and money into Maemo, which is based almost entirely on existing technologies like debian and GTK, so that many existing linux applications can be ported with minimal changes. It's much...
• Commented on Onion parodies lame user-generated YouTube videos (updated)
  WNYC's superlative show 'On the Media' had an interview with the producers of Onion Network News three weeks ago. Highly recommended....
• Commented on Small Wonder robot girl TV show
  I loved this show, although it was deeply weird....
• Commented on Beautiful simplicity of a bottle opener
  Any disposable lighter works perfectly well as far as I'm concerned....
• Commented on WiMax Nokia Tablet finally available
  I absolutely love my n800, and I live in a town that has a functional wimax network due to be public in just a bit, but I won't be getting one of these. The hardware's just gone too long without...
• Commented on Crunch time for WiMax: 10 Mbps in downtown Baltimore
  The Chicago and DC networks are already built and active. They should go live to the public pretty soon now. Finally Chitown gets something cool nearly first. :P...
• Commented on Immortal McHorror burger is 12 years old, looks just like new
  By the way, for all you people freaking out about how she's lying to children, read the post more carefully.I teach a workshop titled Healthy Choices for Children. It's a class for parents seeking solutions to how to improve the...
• Commented on Immortal McHorror burger is 12 years old, looks just like new
  @PAM ROSENGREN: Despite the existence of mead, honey does *not* go bad. As others have pointed out, perfectly preserved honey has been found in ancient burial sites, and the honey in your cabinet would be just fine in 3,000 years,...
• Commented on CNet gets hands-on with the Inspiron Mini 9 (Verdict: Anecdotally great!)
  Why is everyone complaining about the specs? This is a freakin 2 lb laptop with SSD for $350. It's not as feature packed as the mac mini, but for 1/10th the cost, it's shockingly close. I'm less excited by this...
• Commented on New Nano-sized Walkman is small, thin and ready to rock....
  #17: Some companies allow SDHC, which turns a 8GB player to 24GB for $50. I prefer that route, because it allows consumers to benefit from flash memory price drops immediately. And prices are dropping like crazy. 32GB cards are about...
• Commented on New Nano-sized Walkman is small, thin and ready to rock....
  Why don't any of these fancy mp3 players have bluetooth stereo? It's an inexpensive yet transformative feature, but almost no DAPs have it. It has stupid crap like *noise cancellation* but you can't use wireless headphones without a clunky dongle?...
• Commented on The Space Cube: a cute but unbearably expensive fruit-sized computer, possibly alien in origin
  Pretty, but that's mad overpriced. At $150, The Beagle Board is a similarly small device with most of the same oututs, twice the CPU, 3D acceleration, with a DSP and display hardware (DVI-D and S-video) capable of outputting 720p video....
• Commented on Toaster for your PC
  Great! Now they just need a cupholder so people stop using the CD tray for that purpose....
• Commented on Robot with a biological brain
  I have to ask why post number 3 was disemvowelled. It seems to be an innocuous political joke. Are there any guidelines as to what is not acceptable, or is it all at the whim of the moderator? I don't...
• Commented on Wii gets third-party DVD playback
  @2: A standard DVD is interlaced at 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL). So just like any other progressive scan DVD player, the Wii has to deinterlace the source video....
• Commented on $1,975 audiophile maple block set
  Silly things like this notwithstanding, that site actually sells real products, albeit extremely overpriced. Does anyone remember the name of the audiophile company with the *really* stupid products, like the magic pebble you place anywhere in the room that completely...
• Commented on Batman-style beer belt doesn't look marathon-ready
  Psh, bottle opener. Unless you're totally lame, you'll just use a lighter to open your beer. Urban Outfitters knows this....