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• Favorited Food that turns from liquid to solid? on Boing Boing
• Commented on Random Cache of Wonderful '70s Images
  That was seriously amusing. Skimmed through the entire set in one run. Left several incomprehensible and unfunny comments to boot! Cheers!...
• Commented on EA's <em>Spore</em> De-Authorization Tool goes live
  Wow. Well, there goes one of my installs. I gave up and decided to reformat the drive Spore was on to install Linux. THEN they go and offer a deauth tool. Grrrrrrrrrrr......
• Commented on Brütal news is now: EA to publish <em>Brütal Legend</em>
  Yay. A console-only release. Oh. Joy....
• Commented on Gimme Indie Game: <em>Minotaur China Shop</em>, happiness in shattery
  Russtolium - Once I booted back into Windows and installed Unity, I was unable to get any of the games to work with IE (no controls). However, the controls did seem to work with Firefox. However, it would be nice...
• Commented on Teacher forced into computer-porn plea deal despite proof prosecutor, IT manager misled court
  I am amazed it even went that far. The evidence was not handled correctly, and I suspect there is no proper chain of custody established. The evidence was obviously tainted, and, it appears discovery was impaired. IANAL, but these points...
• Commented on TechCrunch slams netbooks
  I used to happily use a 12.5" laptop day in and day out. The only reason I went to a large 15" widescreen was that the 12.5"'s motherboard warped due to heat, and, although still usable, is completely useless for...
• Commented on The Right to Bear Pocket Knives
  I have a couple of SwissChamp XL's and I always keep one with me (the socketed screwdriver set has saved me more than once). If I decide to travel by air, I just overnight it to where I am going...
• Commented on Would You Like To Play A Game? Left 4 Dead Edition
  I'm, uhhhhhh, Samizdata on Steam. I try to keep things simple for friends....
• Commented on Development continues on Oddworld's most promising project
  You know, since the last two Oddworld titles have been released on Steam, the Inhabitants have committed to releasing Stranger's Wrath on the PC platform. I can only hope......
• Commented on "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
  One summer, my teacher stepfather brought one home for me to learn Pascal programming. Only one problem. Using UCSD Pascal at the time involved booting one disc, which loaded into the language card, then soft rebooting the ][c with a...
• Commented on Netflix adds a whole bunch of new movies through "Starz Play" streaming
  Actually, GabrielM, you weren't the only one. I purchased one very quickly after release, and I have been nothing but happy with it, especially as Roku has opened the firmware with the goal of providing other services. I primarily use...
• Commented on Brando SpyCam masquerades as a phone
  Well, I found at least one item via Brando that's worked quite well, and still maintains it's structural integrity - the mini USB BT adapter....
• Commented on Pacemakers can be remotely pwned
  As I understand it, the GNU Radio project is already a bit embattled. Things like this cannot be anything but bad, possibly spurring new regulations, and leaving a dark cloud over the devs....
• Commented on Food that turns from liquid to solid?
  Guar gum or psyllium husk? Or do they count as food even?...
• Commented on Vegan zombie shirt
  Voted 5 and I would buy it as a tee. Seriously. DO WANT! NOW!...