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• Commented on Unintentional Humor of the Day
  Install Microsoft Silverlight Um, no thanks....
• Commented on Falling space junk
  Actually, objects from space, whether natural (meteorites) or man-made would be COLD. Space is very cold, and the very brief passage through the air only heats a thin layer on the outside. Fresh meteorites are too cold to handle....
• Commented on Iron Melies Moon fence yields teachable moment
  ...the classic image of a rocket crashing into the Man in the Moon... It's not a rocket. It's a projectile fired from a cannon and has no propulsion. This movie precedes modern experimental rocket science (Goddard) by 20 years. http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/rocketry/index.html...
• Commented on List of books read by backpackers
  I just read Tao Te Ching earlier this week. It's almost entirely nonsense....
• Commented on Many shower heads filled with nasty bacteria
  M. avium is minimally pathogenic. I've got one patient with it now, but before him I hadn't seen or heard of a case for 15 years. I've only seen it affect people with emphysema, but supposedly those with advanced AIDS...
• Commented on Louis Rosen, physicist who worked on the first atomic bomb, dies.
  Thanks for posting this. I wasn't familiar with Rosen, although I had done some research at LAMPF when in college, back in the early 80s. I must also point out what a treat it is to type a comment, then...
• Commented on Child-safety software sells your kids' IM conversations to market-research companies
  Reprehensible. Nevertheless, it would be a shame if someone subjected them to a DDOS attack....
• Commented on Alan Graham's automatic chicken door
  Flo Control...
• Commented on The Los Angeles fires, as seen from space.
  Texas dust storm seen from space...
• Commented on Dick Cheney, proud torturer.
  Remember when Cheney got drunk and shot that guy in the face? Good times....
• Commented on Bees swarm under bike seat: the thrilling conclusion
  Sue Hubbell's A Book of Bees is great....
• Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
  Next....
• Commented on Fluorescent microscopy using a cellphone and lenses
  Did they put a microscope on a cell phone or did they put a cell phone on a microscope?...
• Commented on Living things glow with visible light
  All objects, including human beans, emit EMR across the electromagnetic spectrum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body Radio emission at a wavelengths of a few centimeters is particularly easy to detect....
• Commented on GOOD infographic: largest bankruptcies in history
  Justin is entirely correct. http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information-2nd/dp/0961392142...
• Commented on Federated Media launches ExecTweets
  I think it's awesome that somebody went to the trouble to compile a bunch of tweets by "executives" without telling me who these people are....
• Commented on Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth
  FAA regulations PART 101—MOORED BALLOONS, KITES, UNMANNED ROCKETS AND UNMANNED FREE BALLOONS...
• Commented on Ketchup bottle as pancake batter dispenser, plastic bottles as coin purse
  I haven't made pancakes in years, but I would always buy this (national?) brand of mix that came in a plastic bottle. You add water, shake, and pour. Do they not make it anymore?...
• Commented on Traffic linked to heart attacks
  One study looked at many, many factors and found that the best predictor of heart attacks was job stress. ("Don't look into it but I'm a respected internist." -- Dr. John Zoidberg)...
• Commented on Misanthrope Jackalope plays "The Maker" on ukulele
  These ukelele videos are insipid....
• Commented on Hand-tooled aluminum hard hat
  I have my dad's old (plain) aluminum helmet. It has no webbing. Anyone know where I can get new webbing?...
• Commented on Video explains what a capacitor is and how to make one
  "Duct tape is a rip-off. I make my own duct tape." -- Joe on Newsradio...
• Commented on Paul Harvey (RIP)
  "... and that little boy that no one liked grew up to be ... Roy Cohn!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701121/quotes...
• Commented on Beautiful steampunk lamps
  Stefan, it's not about steam, it's about brass. Brass is what makes it steampunk. /TRA 9003...
• Commented on Merlin Mann gives us a tour of his Mac desktop
  I keep telling him he needs to get back on the lithium but he doesn't listen....
• Commented on Charts: 1
  I've practiced geriatric medicine for almost 15 years. I use these figures for average life expectancy: 8 years at 80, 4 years at 90, 2 years at 100, 1 year at 110. "Average" means that half of 80 year olds...
• Commented on Today at <i>Boing Boing Gadgets</i>
  thr thn ths thr, ll th lnks r fin....
• Commented on Best Astronomy Images of 2008 Talk in NYC
  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html...
• Commented on Make your own Alka Seltzer for a fraction of the cost
  "Duct tape is a rip-off. I make my own duct tape." -- Joe on Newsradio...
• Commented on SeeqPod Mobile for Windows Mobile free until 12/21/2008
  [looking at a giant stone head Mr. Burns has had delivered to the Simpson house] Homer: Marge, what does it do? Marge: It doesn't do anything. Homer: Marge, really, what does it do? Marge: Whatever it does, it's doing it...