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• Commented on Behold! A styrofoam coffee cup power inverter
  Similar to my cup-shaped MP3 player concept: http://www.seanmichaelragan.com/html/%5B2008-09-25%5D_MP3_player_shaped_to_fit_cupholder.shtml...
• Commented on Nontoxic metal alloy that is liquid at room temperature
  Gallinstan is great, but it's pricey compared to mercury and (and this is its biggest failing): it wets glass. Mercury does not. So you can't have a gallinstan thermometer, for example, because surface tension will cause the metal to spread...
• Commented on Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
  "confirms that when an honest person tries to do something legal" Where did they find one? Let alone enough for a whole study? Diogenes Personnel Services?...
• Commented on Boody Rogers: vintage comic is first-brewed weirdtea, Mark was right!
  "This kind of comic makes me wish I was a time-traveller and could visit the era of its birth and read it every week." Dissemble no more, Cory. Everyone's already figured out that you are a time-traveler. Just come out...
• Commented on Father, High on PCP, Eats Son's Eyeballs Out
  I have tried PCP, on two occasions, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. In moderate doses PCP produces a delightful dissociative state wherein one comes to a deep intuition (or just "strong belief") that one's consciousness exists quite apart from one's...
• Commented on London cop's Facebook: "Can't wait to bash" G20 protestors
  This is just black humor, which is a classic coping mechanism amongst soldiers, cops, emergency personnel, and others who have to deal with horrible things as routine job duties. Cops do not look forward to riot control duty, as it...
• Commented on When It All Falls Apart
  #4: And enough food in the countryside for zero days, unless you happen to have the tools, talent, and opportunity to hunt or harvest your own. You think the game population will survive a sudden shift back to a hunter-gatherer...
• Commented on Stabbing pen
  #9: Hell, yeah. "The Joe Pesci Special."...
• Commented on Virtual worlds increasingly generated by software, not made by artists
  I've long contemplated making an MMORPG out of Borges' Library of Babel. The game would consist of a virtual "universe - that others call the Library - [which] is made up of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number, of hexagonal galleries."...
• Commented on Denver police union T-shirt: "We get up early to beat the crowds"
  Oh, come on. The shirt is hilarious. And as for being a "police brutality apologist," I say guilty, as charged: They're cops. They deal with a lot of nasty people for shitty pay. Brutal gets it done, and joking about...
• Commented on Cookie Monster Slayer
  OMG who is that girl?...
• Commented on Seth Roberts' fascinating self-experiments
  Really interesting idea. Really awful science. I think this notion of self-improvement-as-research-project has some merit, though, from the motivational psychology blueprint. Setting out to exercise 30 minutes a day 3 days a week is a vague, indefinite goal. But setting...
• Commented on Wikihistory: sf story about the revert-wars among time-travellers -- "everybody kills Hitler on their first trip"
  Awesome and brilliant. Kudos....
• Commented on Map of choose your own adventure book
  Thanks to everyone for your interest and your comments and your e-mails. Lots of people have been asking how I made the graph. In point of fact, it did not take very long using AT&T's freely distributed Graphviz package, http://www.graphviz.org...
• Commented on Amazon Box Robot Figure on Sale in Japan
  Um. It's a little guy made rather crudely out of cardboard boxes. What exactly is so cool about this, again?...
• Commented on HOWTO force a padlock with a tin-can shim
  So I tried this with the blue-dial combination Master Lock padlock I used to keep my organic chemistry glassware locked away when I was an undergraduate chemist, and I can't make it work. I have made no fewer than 5...
• Commented on Plants and animals occupy tiny twig on tree of life
  Does this really come as a surprise to anyone? If there's news here at all, it's just the empirical verification of what any worker with sound statistical instincts would have hypothesized in the first place, namely that as organisms become...