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• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Pachyderm Dental Care
  And as long as you avoid spilling the 30% peroxide solution on anything you value, such as your skin. "Corrosive - can cause serious burns. Eye contact can cause serious injury and possibly blindness. Harmful by inhalation, ingestion, and skin...
• Commented on New book on conspiracies and Shermer's skeptical take on the topic
  Another bias that leads people to believe in conspiracies is that it's comforting to believe that SOMEONE is in control, even if it's a malicious, evil someone, rather than accept the alternative, that NO ONE is in control....
• Commented on Swarm Bots: Now W/Solar Power, Complex Behaviors!
  My paraphrase of the lead paragraph of the Physorg article: "Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, surveillance, medicine, surveillance,...
• Commented on Radiohead Song in memory of Harry Patch, WWI survivor and pacifist.
  @#28: War is an ugly thing -- But not the ugliest of things.... That's John Stuart Mill's opinion, and he was, and still is, dead wrong on the matter....
• Commented on Land mine "donated" to Good Will
  Back in the 80s inert Claymore mine trainers came in both blue and olive drab. I had the impression that the olive drab ones were older....
• Commented on Tinker toys: Former FASA devs reviving <em>MechWarrior</em> for PC, Xbox 360
  The bit at 1:42 where the muzzle of the PPC glows red hot after firing is a nice touch. I'm looking forward to this!...
• Commented on Awesome, infringing music video made from 80s brat pack flicks is band's "best video"
  Upon viewing this again, i just have to wonder: where did we go so wrong?...
• Commented on Untitled 1
  Is it just me, or do the Boingboing archives seem kind of broken right now? http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/21-week/ is linked to as "June 21, 2009 - June 27, 2009" but only displays posts from June 24th. (It's also rendering tweets inline, which...
• Commented on USB-powered baked-bean microwave
  This is a hoax....
• Commented on Guatemala: Protests for Assassinated Lawyer Streamed Live from Laptops in the Streets
  Is there any significance to the "bird" hand gesture being displayed in the photo on the banner in the last photo?...
• Commented on BB Video - $5 Cover: Craig Brewer's New MTV Series on Local Indie Music Life
  Some of these musicians are quite talented, but why does the dialog sound about as real as an episode of some Disney Channel tweener sitcom?...
• Commented on RFIDs on the Brain
  Correction: he is not a salesman for RFID systems, he is a self-titled "futurist" with a 30-year-old medical degree: http://www.globalchange.com/cv.htm...
• Commented on RFIDs on the Brain
  This is fabulously misinformed babbling by a salesman who paged thru an issue of Nature that somebody left on the airliner. [RFID] tags are powered by the electromagnetic radiation in the air that we breathe Uh, no. RFID tags are...
• Commented on Heinlein's house for sale
  Looks like it's had a second floor added. The original appearance & layout were depicted in a 1952 Popular Mechanics article about the house, available at http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/pm652-art-hi.html That article contains a floor plan with a room marked "Nursery"... apparently the...
• Commented on Charles Hugh Smith: "Survival+" e-book serialized at Of Two Minds
  Another hyperventilating opinioneer. Why do some people seem to be so eager to see a decline of human civilization?...
• Commented on Anatomical models for artist's reference
  Somebody needs to send a gross of these to Epic Games....
• Commented on YouTube clips as instruments
  The first time I watched Funk Chords I couldn't stop grinning. This is great stuff. And the coda on I'm New is absolutely amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4#t=4m36s...
• Commented on Third Eye video camera
  @MDGreen #7: Indeed, if you combine this with Evernote and an Eye-Fi card, then Bush's Memex is actually and truly available now. (That is, if you can get past the creep factor of trusting your documentstream to a company whose...
• Commented on Kevin Kelly: "The Unabomber Was Right"
  Mark, you could and should have included Kelly's final graf in your post, because I think people get the wrong impression otherwise: "The Unabomber is right that technology is a holistic, self-perpetuating machine. He is wrong to bomb it for...
• Commented on Wacko Jacko's wunderkammer for sale
  "The Villa Straylight," said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, "is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space in Straylight is in some way secret, this endless series of chambers linked...
• Commented on Goose doesn't like sweet natured doggy
  With soundtrack: http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/v/e7zh1O5WkfI&video2=http://www.youtube.com/v/6OStX_wrWGg...
• Commented on A peek into the TSA's records of an average traveler
  Out of curiosity, why would a journalist (who seems to primarily associated with travel writing) be making airline reservations from the offices of a Washington law/lobbying firm? (The 151.173.12.253 address is in a network registered to Arnold & Porter LLP)...
• Commented on Who will mind the App Store when we're gone?
  It's even better in full context, where that comment comes at the bottom of a wall-full of internet-rage-style grafitti where a whole bunch of commenters are vigorously disputing someone's scrawled assertion that the zombie plague is mankind's punishment for its...
• Commented on Saturn's Children: Stross's robopervy tribute to the late late Heinlein
  Bought this one on sight, loved it. It riffs extensively on Heinlein's Friday, starting off with the protagonist's name. Stross inverts many of Heinlein's tropes in an entertaining fashion; probably the most eye-crossing one for me is the depiction of...
• Commented on A timely Photoshop (source unknown).
  Why is her coat covered in fish paste slices?...
• Commented on Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
  @#32 posted by Marcelo Funny, on that website for the town, the Farmers Market is being advertised. I wonder if the kids even -could- sell there. Sure, if they pay a $75 fee and take out $500,000 in insurance. I...
• Commented on Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary bust
  It appears that the censored photo is still on their servers: http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-07/41360065.jpg (BTW, the pistol he's carrying is a Glock, most likely chambered in 9mm. Not really a "giant pistol". It just looks big because of the holster.)...
• Commented on HOWTO trick McDonald's into serving you "breakfast" at lunchtime and vice-versa
  Hy Cry Dctrw: Hnstly, why dd y pst ths? t's dsgstng, n mny lvls....
• Commented on That Violet Blue thing
  "Unpublishing" previous blog posts is, among other things, a attempt to rewrite history. It stinks....
• Commented on Science fiction inspired tees from Atomic Tarantula
  The Ono-Sendai pictured is missing its MAX REVERSE button....