muteboy

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• Commented on Biofeedback bracelet for stressed daytraders
  Didn't Sheriff Buford T Justice have one of these in 'Smokey and the Bandit'?...
• Commented on Buzz Aldrin: Honorary Consul General to the Moon
  Does that mean he gets to lie around getting drunk until he's kidnapped by the natives? /Graham Greene...
• Commented on 1962 fallout shelter design booklet
  "It's just a dugout that my Dad built, in case the Reds decide to push the button down" 'New Frontier' - Donald Fagen http://blip.fm/~fx0ch...
• Commented on The real HAL 9000
  Techno-dub group Dreadzone sampled this on their album Biological Radio: http://blip.fm/~frghg...
• Commented on Wearable hummingbird feeder: they'll think your eyes are juicy, delicious flowers!
  I read a book where the main character was terrified of hummingbirds because his friend had the blue bits pecked out. Was it a Murakami?...
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  That's some audio grade horseshit right there....
• Commented on Fake car key is a spy video camera
  Modern Audis have a key that looks just like that, which slots into the dashboard. But I agree, it's not a common shape....
• Commented on Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan
  That last one looks horrifyingly like the old 'Mars Attacks' cards showing alien experimentation... http://www.marsattacksfan.com/60.htm What is the red thing on a pole in the top two illustrations? LINC from Beneath a Steel Sky?...
• Commented on A drink that sounds even more unappetizing than "Dairy Drink"
  "Gi's a Dairylea triangle!" "Wossit worf then?"...
• Commented on David Hockney's iPhone paintings
  I remember seeing a docu about David Hockney using an early "electronic paintbox". I don't know the details of the system, but he was squinting at a screen, using a pen and tablet, and commenting that the colours didn't mix...
• Commented on Illustration of Makezine Man
  "In any case, the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination (up to combinations of a million and a half sub-bits) during the course of each hour. Hence, any description of him - or her -...
• Commented on Zero gravity spice rack for crowded kitchens
  IKEA has these: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80102919...
• Commented on My generation: How Indie Game Makers are Embracing Controlled Chaos
  Elite used procedural generation, but the galaxy was the same every time. It wasn't random. The PG was used to cram the locations and descriptions into a small space. Excellent game though!...
• Commented on What actual Mayans are saying about 2012
  I worry when people say "traditional knowledge" when they mean "traditional beliefs"...
• Commented on Farms as skyscrapers
  One advantage would be using gravity to process the produce. Growing at the top, washing etc on the way down, then distribution from the bottom. The same way that modern multistorey grain mills work....
• Commented on Stop Making Sense turns 25
  Why a movie? Why tour?...
• Commented on The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
  Good for you! I now boycott Ralph Lauren, and will not buy their suits. Can't afford them....
• Commented on US gov't drops price of journals from $17k to $0, adds XML to Federal Register!
  This is great. I'm hoping they make the Code of Federal Regulations easier to parse as well. Using 'wget' and then doing some crazy text manipulation worked OK, but I'd rather not go through that again....
• Commented on In future America, car stops you.
  I wonder if they're taking some ideas from the ERTMS Level 2 rail control system?...
• Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
  #56, magnetic flour....
• Commented on Industrial robotic pancake production video
  I was in the industrial controls industry, and they had some way cool shit that you never see. A helter-skelter that vibrates so that stuff goes up, buckets on wheels with RFID tags so you know where the batch is,...
• Commented on Trailer for movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
  I just hope they don't drop the cabaret dream sequence. Although I bet Viggo can tap with the best of them....
• Commented on Wingnut extreme: Glenn Beck says "Story of Stuff" is Commie propaganda
  Buy. Buy more now. Buy... and be happy. Political propaganda in school when I was a kid was limited to the teacher leading us in the chant, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher"...
• Commented on Afghan girl killed by Royal Air Force leaflet drop
  Whatever happened to the stealth banana?...
• Commented on Scientific study on subliminals
  Blipverts can be harmful to inactive people. But only Channel 23 has them....
• Commented on Wisconsin Tourism Federation loses to WTF, changes name
  They are The Fucking Win...
• Commented on Make your own $1 million vomit-inducing flashlight for $250
  But does it fill you with inertia? /Peter Cook...
• Commented on Glow in the dark keyboard stickers
  You're not referring to that old "NASA Space Pen / Russian Space Pencil" trope, are you? I thought NASA went with the pen because they didn't want graphite fragments floating around in the electronics......
• Commented on Retro Remakes: 25 years of <em>Elite</em>
  Big old legal battle back in the day. Ian Bell's site has loads of great info, including the text of the novella that came with it, and links to remakes. http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm...
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  #77, someone with an Oz bias talking about inferior beers?...