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• Commented on Fancy thermochromic swine flu masks
  I do so love these inks. I made a moving Rorschach mask for Halloween which was a big hit. The only problem was that once the party crowded up, it was so hot inside, the mask went pure white. Still...
• Commented on Brain wave specs made from kit
  All I can think is that I already have the goggles...they were part of my Dr. Horrible costume last Halloween. Still, seems like a nice idea, been looking for a cheaper alternative to lucid dreaming LED devices which cost way...
• Commented on Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe
  @Trent - It has one, the Golan Arms FC-1 Flachette Weapon. Go play Jedi Knight 2 to atone for your sin of not knowing this. And Cortosis, the sabre resistant metal/crystal in the EU stories as being highly resistant to...
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  It's good to know that the theories me and my friend considered when we were introduced to the concept of the multiverse all those years ago are pretty much consistent with the basics of how string theorists think. Mind you,...
• Commented on Maybe These Massive Wheel Spikes Shouldn't be Legal
  Two vehicles enter, one vehicle leaves! Two vehicles enter, one vehicle leaves! Wonder if we can get Mythbusters to prove these could shred a child into tiny little pieces after going through a car....
• Commented on Virginia, the Blind Dog
  @23 Read that the other day. Made me smile a lot. Animals do survive pretty well with any infirmity, because they've got much more highly tuned senses than humans. Also they don't think: Oh my god! I'm blind. They think:...
• Commented on Doll, haunted, $22.49
  I remember the old ones of these from way back in the day, like the Ghost in the Jar, the Haunted Painting and that terribly creepy doll that looked like it had been rescued from a fire/nuclear holocaust. I also...
• Commented on Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
  Given the fact that I can pop down to my university's labs and actually make evolution happen with bacteria (or if no one's watching, I'm sure we've got some mice/rats that I can make a longer running project out of)...
• Commented on Same-gender sex no longer a crime in India's capital city
  Gratz to the dudes and ladies who love dudes and ladies respectively of India. Of course, as long as they're still the major proponents behind good curry, they can make out with table lamps for all I care. Love comes...
• Commented on French cops use racial profiling for stop and search
  The implication of racial profiling is that statistically, terrorists operating against "Western Governments" and similar are of Middle Eastern or African descent. Since statistical analysis is now such an important part of every day life, it's impossible to ignore statistics...
• Commented on Bloody tongue from Tootsie Pop
  Great, another food to keep away from my flatmate. A man who routinely works with sharpened scalpels, a Dremel tool and a sewing machine without injury but I've watched him cut his mouth open on a fucking sandwich. It wasn't...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  As a recently ex-British Teen, I think I had my first drink probably around a New Year when I was 13 and my parents let me have a gin and tonic. It was AWFUL and for two further years, booze...
• Commented on Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
  @7 If I'm remembering right, it's not so much that eye-contact is a predatory thing, but a challenge for dominance, particularly if you bare your teeth while you do it. Say perhaps you look at a gorilla and smile. Here's...
• Commented on Wanted: Wolfman to holler at tourists on a New Hampshire steam train
  Hehe, what an excellent job. Outdoor work, good excersise and the chance to dress up like a horror movie star. I'm not sure how far the 2300 a month bounces in the US these days but certainly sounds like fun....
• Commented on Videos of "stick figure aliens"
  Ahh, brings back memories of my youth, reading "True UFO Stories" and whatnot....
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  @53: No, I'm a Highland lad, currently in Edinburgh. But yeah, getting your mates home is the right course. No man left behind. It also stems from the fact that I was always the biggest of my mates. If I...
• Commented on Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops
  Wow...just seriously, wow. I'm currently 20 years old. When I was probably just 5 years old, I was playing happily in the street outside my house with my mum glancing out the window as she wandered around doing chores and...
• Commented on 15-year-old girl beaten by sheriff's deputy
  There is one upside to this video: There's obviously a good honest cop watching the security monitors for the cells who put this out for viewing. I've seen police in Britain go after crazed drunk guys and youths wielding knives...
• Commented on How to Get Free Electronic Goods In Japan
  A few nights ago I was walking to a bar across Edinburgh and saw at least 5 nearly new looking sofas, not to mention a bed in kit form (someone seemed to have smashed it up but it was the...
• Commented on Worst Food in America 2009 edition
  I'm a solid 110kg of fat dude and the thought of even drinking that makes my stomach turn. And I'm the guy who invented Mars Bar cheesecake in my first year of university :/ That said, I know two people...
• Commented on Big Kitchen With Food: a five-year-old's cooking show
  Ahhh that's just made my day. I'm gonna have to start making these cookies now along with the new system for measuring the amount of butter in any dish of approximately "1 butters". Possibly a worrying example of pushy parents...
• Commented on Webcam border stake-out
  Seems like a wonderful way to perpetrate continuing racism. I agree that this system could easily be quite nastily owned by an enterprising forum group with enough free liquid hate sloshing around. Sort've like the SA Goons. Tis just a...
• Commented on Metal detectorist's mysterious find
  Sundial...
• Commented on New York Times on Salvia Divinorum
  As a chemist, the activity of hallucinogens in biological systems is fascinating to me. However, LSD and mushrooms are ridiculously hard to find and carry the whole imprisonment thing so salvia seemed like a nice legal alternative to achieve the...
• Commented on HOWTO dispose of murdered bodies
  A lot of folks remember the acid bath murderer, who famously tried to dissolve his victims in sulfuric acid to get rid of the evidence. One of my lecturers openly mocked this, then proceeded to share with us the REAL...
• Commented on How to watch videos while driving
  The worst I've ever seen my father do while driving that could be considered dangerous (at least more dangerous than when he has both hands on the wheel and something to prove) was eat an ice cream cone. Dudes been...
• Commented on McCain staffer slams Dungeons and Dragons players
  Amazed that no one has quipped "I'm a tenth level Vice-President!" yet... What other ones can I pull out? Nah I've run out for now. Anyone feel up to making up a set of character sheets for the candidates? Anyway,...
• Commented on <i>World of Warcraft</i> gets hardware account authenticator
  I'm currently awaiting the GMs to restore not only my gear, but in fact an entirely deleted character or three. Apparently my account was compromised by the Adobe Flash Player bug that appeared for a version. Thank God the thieving...
• Commented on London cops declare war on photography
  @Krylon - You're quite right. I remember several hours after the attacks, a site sprang up dubbed wearenotafraid.co.uk (which is now gone, but it was along those lines) showing thousand pictures of resolved, laughing, happy Britons who were indeed not...
• Commented on Toxic waste gets birds laid
  I wonder if this chemical atttraction has more levels than we know. Might explain why some people are inexplicably attracted to terrible fake tans....