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• Commented on Replacing a switch on an electric shaver
  is that a SPDT toggle with a center position? I think it's just an illusion. It seems to be a two position switch installed in the horizontal orientation, and in the right position. I used to have that exact razor....
• Commented on Cellphone contracts getting even better!
  The catch, of course, is that customers need to pay $30 or so extra each month for Internet access. For those who just want to talk and text without a fancy phone [...] This person writes from the position of...
• Commented on Super Mario fingernails
  Those aren't fingernails. They're finger-nail shaped acrylic chips. This person's actual fingernails are currently being destroyed by fungus that is living between the nails and the glue. Acrylic nails are the most disgusting thing people do to normally-exposed parts of...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  Setting aside the weakness of the 'I wouldn't be surprised' argument, how many times have hazardous material shipments been attacked? Compare to how many hazardous material spills have resulted from accidents. Fantasy versus reality. I see your point entirely,...
• Commented on Nuclear transport trucks in US look surprisingly like regular old trucks
  it would make them targets for those who are interested in attacking or stealing the contents. Because nuclear terrorist incidents vastly outnumber radioactive leaks, right? Or were we talking about the real world? I didn't see the word "terrorist"...
• Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
  The recycled paper that your organic product is packaged in may contain fibers from the packaging of a previous product which was not organic.... The air circulating around this organic product is also circulating around non-organic products... How far can...
• Commented on HOWTO make a vacuum fluorescent display clock
  Wow! Nice clock! I bought a box of those tubes about a year ago to make one myself, and after completely over-engineering it (32-bit microcontroller, PC RTC), I got about 70% done and never finished it.... Like all my other...
• Commented on Clock that knocks the time out on a water-filled vase
  Finally a clock on BoingBoing that is pure unadulterated awesome. Only one flaw: You can't buy one. :(...
• Commented on How many minutes do people in your city have to work to buy a Big Mac?
  Last week I got 8 pounds of summer squash and zucchini alone Isn't that like one zucchini?...
• Commented on Contrafactual history of Jimmy Carter's green space-race
  Now, vehicles are equipped with magnets. As they exit the freeway at high-speed, the cars are gradually slowed down employing the Lorentz force as they pass through a series of induction-coils. The coils are typically operated by a franchise like...
• Commented on Slate's Dear Prudence: "Should I score pot for my diabetic sister-in-law?"
  I have to wonder what sort of overlap there is between the people who comment here about how anti-obesity drugs are a crutch - that people should "simply" change their lifestyle and stop being fat, and the people who would...
• Commented on EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
  A quick survey of the (admittedly few) people I know who go to Burning Man on occasion indicates two things: - They primarily attend for the boobs and the drugs. - This policy is bad (to them) 'cause it may...
• Commented on When is it OK to eat moldy food?
  Comparing eating de-molded food to playing with dynamite is like comparing a paper cut to a chainsaw wound....
• Commented on Musical kettle that whistles your favorite tune
  Boo! It's electronic! And the headline was so enticing. It needs to be entirely steam powered. This was a perfect excuse to put a fly-ball governor on the top of a teapot!...
• Commented on Chief energy economist says oil reserves are drying up more quickly than previously thought
  I'd also point out that a conversion for Coal to Nuclear is extremely unlikely, because the most recent election, and likely the next election, won't be won without the votes of coal workers in Pennsylvania. Given the choice between seriously...
• Commented on Chief energy economist says oil reserves are drying up more quickly than previously thought
  You do realize that nuclear power is of ZERO help when it comes to reducing dependence on oil, don't you? To the contrary, converting to nuclear power would cause a significant reduction in oil consumption. Nuclear power reduces the upwards...
• Commented on Woman and dead husband live together
  The Copenhagen Post reports that the "woman will be charged with failing to ensure medical assistance for her husband." Why do cops feel that since they're involved charges have to be filed?...
• Commented on Is this the first D-pad?
  There is plenty of machine equipment from the '40s and '50s that have joysticks and D-pads, so something from the '70s definitely doesn't qualify as "the first". Unless you want to limit yourself to D-pads that control something electronic? (As...
• Commented on What Worked Then
  @Dragonfrog: No matter what we chose, we'd also have to get rid of the dining table [...] the fact that all the furniture is arranged like cinema seating You're letting the TV define the sapce, even though it doesn't have...
• Commented on Land mine "donated" to Good Will
  I've seen thse sold as novelties in Army/Navy Surplus style stores. (Without any C4 in them of course). At my last job, a co-worker had one stationed at the entrance to his office. I'm sure that this is yet another...
• Commented on What Worked Then
  @Dragonfrog: If you can't enjoy a room because there's a 40" flat panel against the wall, powered off, then you've got bigger issues than the television... Maybe 10 years ago you had a point, but televisions aren't furniture anymore. They...
• Commented on Lunar rocks are a controlled substance
  Has anyone tried snorting or smoking or shooting this stuff? Perhaps it gives the ultimate high hence it being on the controlled substance list.. Given the description of the particles as being rather jagged, you would probably be more likely...
• Commented on Tell Congress to Support Low Power FM Bill
  For you commies who support low-power community radio I don't understand. Why does she only want support from communists? Is she hoping to suppress the influence of people with different political views, or is she under the mistaken impression that...
• Commented on HOWTO bake dashboard cookies while you're working
  Never eat raw dough. *Do* eat raw dough. *Do* let your kids lick the spoon. Use fresh ingredients. Wash your utensils and dishes. Store raw meat on the bottom shelf. Never spend your whole life worried half to death that...
• Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
  @PATO PAL UR: I still stand by my assertion that the methodology is flawed. He merely demonstrated correlation. We don't know that the money was the cause of the change. It could very easily be that what was needed to...
• Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
  @WIL9000: I won't accuse you of being an eat-the-rich liberal. But I will accuse you of beating a strawman. Your "Rules for the Rich" are complete bull. Of course it's easy for you to view the hypothetical people who live...
• Commented on Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
  • Wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but not thereafter (Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness.) Simply because somebody wrote it in a book does not make it true. If...
• Commented on Rifle-mounted cup-holder
  I have to believe (for my own sanity?) that this came to be out of a conversation like this: "We've tricked this baby out! It's got every accessory there is! The only thing it doesn't have is a cup holder!...
• Commented on Live feed of images being posted to Twitpic
  #22: It wasn't your typical pic of a naked 8 year old on the beach. It was disturbingly seemingly intentionally sexualized....
• Commented on Live feed of images being posted to Twitpic
  Hmm... After seeing what looked like a naked 8-year-old, I think I'll stop looking at that now before the men in the black vans come and take away my computer. This story needs a "Warning: Contains Kiddie Porn" on it....