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• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  This is all double plus ungood....
• Commented on Whistle of Death and other pre-Columbian noisemakers
  I'm unclear exactly as to how ancient noise-makers will help us know more about how sound affects physiology. Doesn't modern science know much more about measuring physical responses and details of the physics behind sound than an ancient civilization? The...
• Commented on Free papercraft game-terrain
  Portal was just one long variant on the crate-moving puzzle game....
• Commented on Dumb-ass anti-terrorism ideas -- patented!
  How about sharks with frikkin' lazers in a pool beneath the trapdoor? That would be really cool ......
• Commented on Canadian Parliament shoutfest over the Canadian DMCA
  ht cnsrvtvs. Bt rlly ffng ht lbrls....
• Commented on Comics about China earthquake
  The first strip brought tears to my eyes....
• Commented on MSN backs off on plans to nuke DRM-locked MSN Music collections
  It's probably preaching to the converted here, but don't buy content that is infested with DRM. if you do, you've just coupled your ability to access that content to that company, and the technology and platforms they choose to support....
• Commented on Bounty offered to anyone who can prove homeopathy outperforms placebos
  In a homeopathy trial, how do you tell the difference between the placebo and the remedy? ;-)...
• Commented on Smithsonian copyright-free images on Flickr
  Lovely photos, Marie Curie looks like my grand-mother....
• Commented on Broadcasters fight hard against public use of blank spectrum
  Seems to me like the entertainment industry should be using standards, rather than simply grabbing the whitespaces. If they chose to use these with any regulation or controls, then they're going to have to suck it in. Why don't they...
• Commented on Virgin Media UK working with record industry to spy on and threaten downloaders
  When the free (i.e. pirated) version of something is better value than the one you pay for (i.e. no DRM) then basic economics dictate that the free version will succeed and the paid-for version will fail. Did no-one in the...
• Commented on What did I plant in my vegetable garden?
  Audrey III?...
• Commented on Lovely aluminum furniture that will last hundreds of years
  Sustainable. How can a piece of furniture be "sustainable"? "Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital...
• Commented on Sequoia voting machines debacle in New Jersey: unguarded machines and broken tildes
  It's disgraceful. Here in the UK an increased focus on postal voting has caused (surprise, surprise) an increase in electoral fraud. The UK government is also investigating using voting machines, and if I remember correctly, Diebold came up as being...