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• Commented on Much loved photo supply store B&H sued for job discrimination against women
  I can't say that's a huge shock, B&H does play into some pretty serious cultural stereotypes. They're spending more money now, but time was they'd show up at huge shows (NAB, etc.) with folding tables in front of pipe-and-drape with...
• Commented on Google announces Chrome Operating System, open-source Windows competitor
  Pretending that the browser is an operating system is a bad idea. It didn't even work on the iPhone for long, so I don't think it will work any better on netbooks. Seriously, an entire operating system where you cannot...
• Commented on The Second Hundred Years of SOS Begins Today
  #22 I'm too lazy to jump through the hoops to get you a link, but search the App Store for "Morse-It"...
• Commented on How <em>TechCrunch</em> turns the screw
  I realize you were attempting to give some credit to TechCrunch, but honestly, you just confirmed my low opinion of Arrington, et al. Seriously, this Last.fm thing was a brilliant stunt to come up with something that could outshine the...
• Commented on Watchclocks: an early device for controlling users
  You can still find Detex Watchclock keys on older buildings. Once you know what the little boxes look like, you'll start seeing them everywhere....
• Commented on Apple's censors remove NiN app and Anda's Game from iPhone store, citing "objectionable content"
  It's more ridiculous than you might think. I was looking at Craigslist apps for the phone today, and the personals sections aren't searchable by the app because of Apple's content standards. Of course, Safari has no such restrictions....
• Commented on Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe.
  Wow, pity they're serving Le Tourment Vert, which tastes like used Scope. Ted Breaux's Absinthes are quite good (except Lucid, which having been "Adjusted for American tastes", also tastes like used scope). My personal favorite, though, is St. George, made...
• Commented on Swine Flu Q & A
  Hmm, I like pickle juice too, but I never thought of it as a home remedy... just the treat you got when you took the last pickle. :)...
• Commented on Samsung puts DSLR sensor in chunky crossover
  @Hotpants: I'd suggest you give the Canon G series another chance, the G10 is a very different camera than the G7 and G9. But I'd really look carefully at the Panasonic LX3. Leica doesn't call their badge-engineered version "Son of...
• Commented on Samsung puts DSLR sensor in chunky crossover
  Oh, and given the G1-ish size, that door could only cover an SD slot. Also consistent with Pentax/Samsung DSLRs....
• Commented on Samsung puts DSLR sensor in chunky crossover
  This is nothing revolutionary, but it is interesting validation. Panasonic makes a camera just like this. It's called the Lumix G1. Samsung decided to play as well, and like Panasonic, kept the same sensor size as their DSLRs. (For those...
• Commented on New Mac Mini with .... O.K., now we're just getting silly
  @Dean: @Zathras: I wouldn't say that firewire is being phased out, as FW800 appeared for the first time on the iMac with the last refresh. A mini with only FW800 would be consistent, as the new MacBook Pro's have only...
• Commented on Designer Bullshit: Perimeter Oscillations and the Pepsi Ratio
  So, at least in my case, the new logo was an epic failure. The current campaign with this logo seems to already assume you know about it, just billboards with the new logo replacing the 'O' in 'delicioso' or 'oohlala'....
• Commented on HOWTO Launder precious heavy metal t-shirts
  Woolite is War?...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 3
  "giving the picture a red cast which I assume was an aesthetic judgment call by the designers ("infra red" should look "red," right?)" There's no such judgement. They've simply given you a camera that doesn't have a hot mirror (IR-cut...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 2
  I'm going to disagree that people look "pretty much like normal B&W". On the plus side, everyone has great skin in the IR, you get kind of a china-doll complexion. On the minus side, irises don't reflect much IR, so...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 1
  If you want a medium-buck maker-style IR camera, I'd highly recommend picking up a Canon G3 or G5 and converting it yourself. The best info out there is at http://kleptography.com/notes-irconvert.htm as well as the instructions at lifepixel. You can get...
• Commented on The Strange Realm of Infra-Red: 1
  @2: Yes, and this is why the IS-1 and it's big brother the IS Pro are the only cameras I've ever seen sold with a EULA. I think Fuji is afraid of the same kind of nonsense, or at least...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  @15: Yes, that's exactly what it's saying. And if you can't tell the difference, you're part of the problem. Both unions and politicians have done great things, and become corrupt. Sadly, that's reality. @49: And that's precisely the problem. The...
• Commented on Animation: "Bars & Tones" by André F. Chocron
  And that, my friends, is how you know you've seen in the edit suite (or in my case, cable head-end) too long and need to go outside....
• Commented on Breaking: Apple C&D's Wired <em>Gadget Lab</em> over OS X-on-netbook tutorial
  How very RIAA of Apple. They don't give their customers what they want, and then unleash the lawyers when their customers get creative. You'd think that the huge spike in popularity of Hackintoshes caused by the availability of netbook hardware...
• Commented on OBEY ALFRED E. NEUMAN
  Another parody not listed is this one, which I'm seeing wheatpasted around SF these days: http://frighteningprospect.com/...
• Commented on Wordpress for iPhone releases source, potentially violates iPhone NDA?
  @SNEJ: I suggest you go read the GPL before you claim that it prohibits distribution through closed channels (it doesn't) or claim that it's viral (it isn't). Actually, I'll hedge on that first point. The app store might run afoul...
• Commented on MobileMe and Gmail: Pick one or expect frustration
  BusySync also handles the gCal/iCal sync problem, for $25 once. It's licensed per-computer, not per-person, but if you have a machine on all the time, you really only need one license to maintain sync, as MobileMe handles sync between iCal...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  @Brownbat 1309: As I read it, Nina described a situation between her and VB. I don't think Nina is a pseudonym for Xeni. So while what happened between Xeni/BB and VB might be similar, it's not that....
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  @1155 Xeni: In other words, "please unpublish me, those are my words, I no longer want to be associated with them, remove them." I think there's a slight adjustment to this sentiment that needs to be considered here. Consider "Those...
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  I've now read the entirety of this thread. I'm one of those who is disappointed in BB's handling of this simply because of the double-standard it creates. BB has repeatedly railed against this kind of behavior everywhere from the mainstream...
• Commented on Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips
  I learned on a manual, and I don't know that I'm particularly hard on keyboards. Manual typewriters are kind of a momentum thing. It's not a very high force, but you are accelerating the mechanism for a long time. My...
• Commented on Purple-shaded glasses to spot garden trouble in advance
  #7: These glasses are going to give you a view of the other end of the spectrum. The high reflection in the near IR is from physical structures in the leaf, not chlorophyll. Near IR photos of a live leaf...
• Commented on Boing Boing's Moderation Policy (Archived)
  Absolutely brilliant. I run a listserv where I could use exactly this sort of policy. Am I correct that this is covered by BoingBoing's CC-BY-NC license?...