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• Commented on Little Red Riding Hood animation inspired by Röyksopp video
  Good, except the Hundred Acre Wood is from Winnie the Pooh, not Red Riding Hood! @ #9: haha yeah, that confused me too...
• Commented on Newspaper box graveyard and other images of the econopocalypse
  in fact, newspaper machines are generally on the way out - some of the more expensive papers such as the Financial Times have stopped using them entirely, just because not many people carry around the number of quarters you need...
• Commented on Neil Gaiman on Colbert Report
  brilliant!...
• Commented on When Do We Start Calling Years 'Twenty-Somethings'?
  @ #16 Damn straight! Everyone knows you need an "and" in there. Those pesky Americans dropping letters left right and centre, who do they think they are?... And yes, I know I punctured that argument by using a massive Americanism...
• Commented on Obama's Elf (18 second video pun fun)
  worryingly, i worked out what the pun was going to be before watching it......
• Commented on Typographic conventions in comic-book lettering
  In a (non-comic) book, Doctor Manhattan would simply say "Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. What is your earliest memory?",...
• Commented on Typographic conventions in comic-book lettering
  I haven't read many comic books, but what's always puzzled me is the strange convention of printing at least two words per sentence in bold to show where the stresses are. Taking a page from Watchmen at random (i bought...
• Commented on World crisis charts fed into Songsmith
  and again!...
• Commented on Brutal damage to football players' brains
  @4 MDH No, I think you'll find American football (full, armoured contact) is the cissy relative of British Rugby (full, non-armoured contact). And anyway, it shouldn't be called football at all, cos that's what soccer's meant to be called. Trust...
• Commented on Henchman's Helper -- page filled with webcams
  Definitely not live - the fact that some of the cams flicker between daytime and night-time shots is a clue! And of the cams which are constantly either day or night, some are wrong - it's definitely not dark in...
• Commented on Taimane plays Eleanor Rigby on ukulele
  Nice, even if she did overuse those triplets a bit....
• Commented on IT Crowd third season DVD up for pre-order
  Friendface, rather than friendster, was it not?...
• Commented on UK MPs to hide their expenses from Freedom of Information requests
  @ #3: too late for that! http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/05/houseofcommons.tonyblair i think they're just trying to stop it from happening again!...
• Commented on "Look Around You" comes to US cable this week
  "We're passing an alternating direct current through some iron. We're using ACDC because iron is a heavy metal." "The scientist cracks open the egg. Watch out for the new albumen... it's out now!" "What is water? That's a very tricky...
• Commented on UK newspaper headlines of Sept 12, 2001
  Just for the Americans: Tabloids = Mirror, Star, Mail, Sun, Express Broadsheets = FT, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, Times (although that's pushing it a bit nowadays...)...
• Commented on Memory tips from autistic savant
  I've read Born on a Blue Day, and would recommend it to pretty much everyone - it's interesting, funny and heart-warming....
• Commented on Sandwich boxes that open into trompe l'oeil place settings
  @#11 yes, ASDA is a supermarket, owned by Walmart since the mid-90s I think maybe the fact that it's in england means that quaint words like "grocer" have to be used to describe it though...
• Commented on Fake-piss-dispenser inventors busted
  Withnail: At some point or another I want to stop and get hold of a child. I: What do you want a child for? Withnail: To tutor it in the ways of righteousness and procure some uncontaminated urine. [He takes...
• Commented on The Sound of Two Smokestacks Falling
  or *chimney*stacks as i've suddenly realised they should be called...
• Commented on The Sound of Two Smokestacks Falling
  @ #3 and #20 just think of all the americans here who have never had the pleasure of seeing fred dibnah bring down a smokestack! i'm appalled...
• Commented on Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008
  the Natural History *Museum* of London...
• Commented on Android
  (that was addressed at #14)...
• Commented on Android
  i think it's more up to t-mobile than google to promote the G1 i also think that t-mobile are taking a wise move in their promotion of the G1, stressing its features and customizability, but not sticking the android name...
• Commented on Android
  Advertising-driven phone plans already exist! I am on the UK network "Blyk" (www.blyk.co.uk) which offers a certain number of free texts and minutes for 16-24 year-olds in exchange for advertising being delivered to their phones via SMS and MMS. As...
• Commented on McDonald's can award A-levels in UK
  I go to a snobby, middle-class, white british grammar school in the south-east, where pretty much everyone gets at least 3 "C"s at A-Level, and we're all having a wonderful time scoffing at this, I can tell you. I do...
• Commented on London Evening Standard headline generator
  here's another great one: turn any picture into a sensationalist "daily mail" front page http://www.greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/dailymail/dailymail...
• Commented on You Suck at Photoshop, Episode 3
  sorry, that was @ #5...
• Commented on You Suck at Photoshop, Episode 3
  @ #6 "It's too perfect" What, you thought for one second that it was actually real? Comic genius it may be, but autobiographical it is not....
• Commented on Deep-fried things that ought not be deep-fried
  @13 chippie near me used to do deep fried mars bars, snickers and twixes delicious!...
• Commented on Vegetable orchestra
  @2 ha! i immediately thought of that too :)...