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• Commented on Bicycle defense kit fits in Altoids tin
  Whatever happened to the DIY ethos at Boingboing? It's ridicoulous that anyone would gather up $2 worth of items and sell them for $20. Not to mention the fact that this is a horribly misguided idea. As a gag, maybe....
• Commented on Police veteran critiques TSA procedure
  It has long been my opinion that the goal of the TSA is to make air travel so intolerable that the only people who will attempt it are fanatic terrorists, which will allow them to have a 100% conviction rate....
• Commented on Kindle deletions pave way for digital book banning
  Better yet, delete the original and replace it with a more palatable version. For instance, where Winston and Julia live happily ever after in the worker's paradise. More subtle that way....
• Commented on Goodbye
  Can it be just a coincidence that this resignation is coming just a few days after Sarah Palin's? I think not....
• Commented on Video: <em>Tech Vi</em> on the HTC Hero
  Wait…are you saying you went out of your way to make your hair look like that? On purpose?...
• Commented on Monetizing Emma: a play that marries dumb securities with Jane Austen
  As is so often the case, reality outstrips fiction in weirdness. Lumni is a company that will finance your college education in return for taking a percentage of your income after you graduate....
• Commented on Pointless nanny state knife about to hit stores
  What about the anti-slice knife? Clearly, UK subjects should only be allowed to buy pabulum. Nothing to poke or cut, no knives needed....
• Commented on Palm Pre could masquerade as iPod to work with iTunes
  ANONYMOUS^2 has it. As Gruber also alluded, Palm is making itself dependent on Apple's goodwill. I don't have any moral objections to a Pre masquerading as an iPhone to iTunes, but it is an extremely brittle solution. Pre owners who...
• Commented on Color Picker
  Just to pick a nit, this would hypothetically need to be filled with CMYK ink tanks, since inks need to be subtractive colors, not additive....
• Commented on Tweet (#1819979597)
  It's astonishing. Every single one of those ideas is bad....
• Commented on Quote: Sony Pictures CEO on the value of the internet
  #38. I don't think so. From the article: "Lynton wasn’t just trying for a laugh" I think there's something apt about this remark being reported through Women's Wear Daily, of all places. Not that there's anything wrong with them, it's...
• Commented on Send us your best mommy tech stories
  I bought one of the very first 128K Macs as a college student back in 1984, and not long after, my family came to visit me at school. I excitedly showed my mom the computer. She grabbed the mouse and...
• Commented on Legway, the steampunk Segway
  Shouldn't this really be, I don't know…steam powered? They don't call it Legpunk after all....
• Commented on I know this is old news, but don't buy the Logitech VX Nano if you like middle clicking
  They also don't know how to write driver software for the Mac that doesn't generate kernel panics....
• Commented on How To: Build Your Own Letterpress
  My wife and I actually inherited a letterpress with our house. And my wife, who has a background in graphic design, has indeed been cranking out projects on it. Tabletop letterpresses (like the Chandler & Price "Pilot") are in extremely...
• Commented on Rapid prototyping maid figurine wows nanotech conference attendees
  What's really odd here is that the figurine that the woman is holding clearly was not produced from a direct scan of her—I mean, they're both in French main outfits, but they're different. Not that I inspected them very closely...
• Commented on iPhone 4G: will it slice bread?
  accessatl: hahahaha. I am literally laughing out loud. 4G, when it comes, will probably peak out at 240 Mbps of shared bandwidth in the most forward-looking, lowest-traffic case. I expect that here in the USA we'll see something much slower...
• Commented on Ballmer: 'Tide has really turned' against Apple
  I think Ballmer is unintentionally implying "Windows is the generic option. You want the no-name product, right?"...
• Commented on Limited edition iPig iPod dock $130 at Amazon
  Seeing this makes me think that there needs to be a bondage hello kitty dock....
• Commented on Big Tent Atheism
  #14: But as someone who is a theist, I already see atheists in religious organizations and I can't help but wonder why? Why not just join habitat for humanity or the red cross? Why keep the trappings of religion if...
• Commented on Shocker: we aren't buying as many expensive Macs
  Any comparable figures on declining sales for Dell or HP are conspicuous by their absence. I'll accept that Apple's sales are off 6%—no big surprise. What about the other guys? Is Apple at a comparative disadvantage right now? ISTR that...
• Commented on Tesla coils sing the Doctor Who theme in orgy of electric awesomesauce
  I would like to imagine that Delia Derbyshire is gazing down from heaven, and smiling....
• Commented on Shimano's new electric bicycle derailleur feted on professional circuit
  Let us not forget that Mavic took two passes at an electronic shifting system (Zap & Mechtronic) over ten years ago. It was ingenious, and required very little battery power to use, as it mostly worked by scavenging a tiny...
• Commented on UNITX, a mail courier bot from an unlikely future
  In the future, only living flesh will make it through the teleporters. Roads will be redundant for human transport, so we'll need an alternative system. Seriously, what about pneumatic tubes? Paris had a pneumatic network that they only decommissioned in...
• Commented on Blast shadows and baby carriages: How GM killed the electric car
  Electric cars don't have a transmission because they don't need one. Internal-combustion engines only develop adequate torque over a relatively limited RPM range. You need to keep the car in that range in order to get reasonable performance, so you...
• Commented on Headset Hotties
  At least a decade ago, I ran across Headphet. I thought it was a delicate and absurd fetish. Who would have thought these sites would not only endure but multiply?...
• Commented on How to get rid of Vimax ads
  According to the linked Apple support forum, these ads were being substituted by a user's ISP; changing DNSs fixed it. Linux users (who were seeing ads) would be just as vulnerable. I'm surprised that an ISP would do this. Perhaps...
• Commented on App Store, I love you but you're bringing me down
  What makes the Peeps incident doubly awful is the fact that Google has publicly admitted using an unpublished API (and to good effect) in its voice-recognition app. So you've got the double-standard (or inconsistently applied standard) and the misunderstanding of...
• Commented on A splash of paint for Dell's netbook
  Back in the day (late 90s), Apple's Powerbook 1400 came with a detachable transparent panel on the back that you could slide art underneath; it came with several sample art pieces on cardstock. I always liked that idea. Nowadays, I...
• Commented on The Future of Mobile Phones according to Ericsson
  At 100 Mbps, we'll be able to burn through our monthly bandwidth caps in seconds! Ain't technology great?...