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• Commented on State Department apparat asks Clinton to let him use Firefox
  My wife was a contractor working for the State department and she wasn't even allowed to change the resolution of her screen even though she is visually impaired. They keep those computers extremely locked down....
• Commented on Electric guitar that sounds like a harmonica
  It didn't really sounds like a harp (harmonica) to me. Harps don't have vibrato although you can do some note bending based on how you blow. That thing you do with your hand to make it go wha-wha-wha changes the...
• Commented on Free Range Kids author says: Raise kids without fear!
  I recently had a discussion about this with my mother-in-law. We were discussing the safety of letting a kid play in the back yard which is fully fenced. She said it would only take a few seconds for someone to...
• Commented on Today's anniversary of the pencil eraser
  Surely the patent wasn't just for the idea of putting an eraser on a pencil, but for the ferrule and the way that it did the attaching. Also, I am glad I finally get a chance to use ferrule in...
• Commented on Christian salt, a wingnut alternative to Kosher salt
  "Salt is good, but if salt itself loses its taste, with what can its flavor be restored?" Luke 14:34. :)...
• Commented on Sudo Make Me a Sandwich: the robot edition
  That's no sort of sudo! He didn't have to enter an admin password, and it didn't even tell him to behave responsibly! I put on my robe and pedantic hat. You don't enter the admin password with sudo, you enter...
• Commented on Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy?
  If you take that route through Wyoming, carry some cash for gas. I stopped at a gas station there that didn't take plastic....
• Commented on Satellite image of inauguration
  That's a very tiny portion of the crowd. That's the seated area mostly the seated area. It doesn't show the mass of people on the mall back to the Washington monument and beyond. Here's a map of the area for...
• Commented on Sandwich boxes that open into trompe l'oeil place settings
  > Has anyone else noticed that the Children's Meal opens up to have 'sand' in the bottom of the kid's 'bowl'? I did not, and couldn't figure out where you were seeing that. Until I found the horizontal scrolling. Aaaagh!...
• Commented on Video mashup screen demo
  I think I might have everything I need to build this... but how? The projector is self explanatory. Looks like you can talk to it through a bluetooth module. I found this link. It looks like it installs a joystick...
• Commented on The Work Week Ahead
  Sorry for the horrible writing in my previous post....
• Commented on The Work Week Ahead
  I read his book and learned a lot about the various business functions that you are outsource, so you can pretty much have a web site take orders and someone else handling the billing and someone else shipping out the...
• Commented on Alberta Meteor Sighting
  > Of course, to be pedantic or accurate, if it struck the ground then it was not a meteor but a meteorite. It was a meteor (streak of light, a phenomenon in the sky) when people saw it in the...
• Commented on Metal detectorist's mysterious find
  Whatever it is, it's probably patented. So start looking through all the patents. I would be good to know more about where it was found though. Mining site? Side of a river?...
• Commented on HOWTO Make a purse out of a stack of old books
  I went to a huge Friends of the Library book sale and there was a huge pile of RD condensed books with a sign saying "Free." They are the leftovers of the leftovers of the leftovers....
• Commented on Electricity shortage of 1956 -- half-century-old precursor to the broadband shortage
  50's ads are awesome. They're all about the future. Take a trip to the library and find the old bound Time magazines and so on. I did that the other day and the first thing I opened it up to...
• Commented on True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through photoshopped covers
  Someone has stated this much better before in an article I read a long time ago, but why do these hosting sites pull your site down as soon as you hit the big time, when what they should be doing...
• Commented on "Dangerous Minds" talkshow pilot
  The aspect ratio is bad on the video, at least in my browser. Firefox 3.0.3 on XP....
• Commented on "Dangerous Minds" talkshow pilot
  Speaking of overlap, I'm pretty sure boingboing covered the step by step creation of the joystick painting on the right. Yup: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/24/coops-new-painting-s.html...
• Commented on Five years with the master of Pac-Man, by Joshua Bearman
  I found that strangely inspiring....
• Commented on Ethan Persoff's coverage of the Democratic National Convention riot cops
  I think people saying he was stupid and deserved are rationalizing because they need some kind of assurance that someday the same thing won't happen to them....
• Commented on Data-centers built out of sealed shipping containers filled with servers
  #28, servers these days have remote KVMs as well so you can interact with the boot process....
• Commented on Weight Watchers is an RPG
  Worlds are colliding! As a regular boing boing reader and WW member currently working the program (with an interest in D&D, though no time to play it) this is an amazing post to see. At the risk of sounding cultish,...
• Commented on Pro-Obama D&D tee
  #11, That was extremely silly. I just found out about Inform 7 and how awesome it is for developing interactive fiction recently. If only all IDEs could be that cool....
• Commented on Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape
  The IOC is going to have a field day when the Olympics go to Vancouver. Lots of businesses in Washington use the word Olympic due to the nearby Olympic mountains/peninsula. Businesses have already had problems in the past but I'd...
• Commented on Cops break into wrong house, leave note in magnetic fridge letters
  They could have written it with a finger on the mirror so that the message would be revealed when you get out of the shower. That is almost equally creepy....
• Commented on My Cambridge Business Lectures talk on "Life in the Information Economy"
  I found out from this that Little Brother is available free (creative commons). I just bought a copy but I'm going to try to see if it can get distributed as part of the One City One Book program the...
• Commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
  In the LA accent she is using the "creaky" voice. In Seattle she stopped using the creaky voice. Oddly enough the creaky thing is supposed to part of the Seattle accent: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225139_nwspeak20.html...