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• Commented on "Where Are Your Keys?" a language fluency game
  The idea of the muscle cpomponent is pretty siolid. In learning theory, a case can be made that little if any learning takes place without muscle movement (and it does not really seem to be a requirement that the movement...
• Commented on Hiney Virus Update
  You are right, Thalia, the vaccine may not, but actually that is the point. The reason to understand that the virus is evolving is why the precautions against transmission must be taken seriously -because it could mutate and then it...
• Commented on Hiney Virus Update
  The big deal with H1N1 ("hamthrax"?) is not just that it's a flu that kills -many flus do- but that H1N1, being very similar to the 1918 flu, has more potential than the seasonal flu to evolve into a form...
• Commented on 10 Million Bats, and David Attenborough
  Sir David Attenborough is the very best nature documentary film maker, period. If you liked this you'll like every minute of footage from every documentary he has produced. I've always found myself gasping at the amazing footage and the truly...
• Commented on Mechanical Tumor
  Why, exactly?...
• Commented on Animated short about the plague of "smooth jazz" in offices: "Distraxion."
  Back to Jazz now - "smooth" jazz is what I call a thin style, like big hair music -just how many bands do we need doing it? Real Jazz, of course is probably the broadest category of music, with astonishing...
• Commented on Animated short about the plague of "smooth jazz" in offices: "Distraxion."
  Yes, he does, doesn't he. I did think about whether I needed to take my great respect for Metheney down a notch, but then it is Kenny G so I gave him a pass. BTW, classic CD: "Like Minds" Metheney,...
• Commented on Animated short about the plague of "smooth jazz" in offices: "Distraxion."
  The perfect companion piece: Pat Metheney's rant on Kenny G - http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm...
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  More video of his MN State Fair conversation on Health care and also campaign reform: http://www.dustytrice.com/?p=6474 People who have not seen much of Al outside of SNL will be pleasantly surprised that he is whip smart and one of the...
• Commented on Al Franken draws map of the US
  Al did this at his Victory Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLen2TrqCAw...
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  I can understand how so many seem surprised that Al Franken is so well spoken and thoughtful. I volunteered on his campaign and have known him now for three years. If you like what you see today then you are...
• Commented on Lightning fast robot hand
  Do NOT show this to Dick Cheney....
• Commented on HOWTO make an 8-track cassette walkman
  Before Walkmans we would adapt compact cassette car stereos for skiing. It was bulky and hurt either the skier or the contraption when we wiped out but skiing -with tunes! There were small portable cassette recorders but they were mostly...
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  And #27 -all this tech talk should not diminish the real magic -people on the MOON!...
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  #24 You would see , say, another astronaut passing in front of the first one and still see an image (like an afterimage) of the first guy because the lag would, in effect, keep the phosphor energized long enough that...
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  OK, it is Fox, but here's talk http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532508,00.html of the original high res moon landing tapes supposedly being found -to be released Thursday. However the link to Nasa's release http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_M09-125_Newseum_Apollo_tapes.html seems to be for the newly restored video by a...
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  The We Choose The Moon site would be way cooler if you could choose to watch the network's coverage. It was a cavalcade of scientists, engineers, and reporters covering every angle of the story with animations of the various maneuvers....
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  I'm guessing only a little here but it is likely the tube used in the video camera. This smearing effect was not uncommon in tube cameras, especially when the contrast was extremely high as it had to be on the...
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  http://wechoosethemoon.org/# Live broadcast recreation. Seems to be mission audio only at this point....
• Commented on Video of the first moon landing, 40 years ago today
  I always chalked up the missing "a" to the voice activated mics just not being fast enough, or maybe the "a" was not loud enough to trigger it, so I always thought he did say it-but I could be crazy....
• Commented on The Devil's Kettle
  Funny, My money works just like that hole. And #13, We're not that nice -we lie on the license plate -we really have over 12000 lakes. Plenty of weird here too in the former home of former Governor and former...
• Commented on Lenovo expanding Del and Esc keys, nuking Caps Lock
  I also hit Caps Lock 70 times an hour but that's because I fatfinger the blame thing, so first thing I do when I get a new kybd is pry the bastard off. There's still a little nubular unit cowering...
• Commented on Tick Removers: Which Do You Use?
  I've heard this patch: http://www.rid-a-tick.com/details.htm works really well, though I'd bet a patch of duct or gaffers tape would work as well. It suffocates the little buggers and they let go. Fold it up when he goes tits up and...
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  Interesting about musicians having a hand in Kodachrome. The media almost adds it's own desirable flavor to a work of art -i.e. the goal is not a perfect reproduction of reality but one filtered through the particularly pleasing "distortions" of...
• Commented on GM's 'Tomorrow-Land' at the 1964 World's Fair
  You may not need a time machine -at least for part of it. The Unisphere from the fair is still in NYC as well as some towers (I forget what they were for). Both were featured in Men In Black....
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  #55 Citryphus, "Adam Smith wrote about self-interest. That's different from selfishness and greed. Self interest and the profit motive is not the same thing as greed." That's it! Incentive builds business; greed destroys -and takes everyone down with it. This...
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  POI, chimps and bonobos and other apes are actually picking salt from sweat (not bugs) off each other (and then they eat it)....
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  Touche' SKR, but my overall point is that both selfishness and collaboration are, and always will be operating in tandem on the market. In fact the Space Race is a great example of how competition and collaboration can work together....
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  Conservatives' proclivity for black and white thinking forces them to choose between cooperation and competition. In the real world, of course, each has great value. A corporation is collaborative within but competitive in the market. A belief in savage competition...
• Commented on The Economist Gets Something Right
  "Pro-market advocates often forget that the corporations whose interests they're championing are actually the beneficiaries of government policies and rule sets developed to favor the activities of giant, centralized, conglomerates" They also benefit from many other government provided incentives that...