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• Commented on Britain moves online, leaves behind accused infringers
  According to the "Financial Times Guide to Personal Tax" book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Financial-Times-Guide-Personal-Tax/dp/product-description/027370656X) nine million people receive a self assessment tax return. From Mr Brown's speech (http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21633), it's clear it will affect more than that: "So during the next year we will...
• Commented on Lasik: is it worth $6000?
  Three is a (more expensive) alternative to LASIK and PRK, particularly if you have thin corneas and want monovision. That's intraocular eye surgery. It's essentially the same as a cataract operation, but with a corrective lens put in. Cataract operations...
• Commented on Lasik: is it worth $6000?
  You've highlighted the key points - some surgeries use more up to date machines. However, for $6,000, you could fly to London, have the surgery done here (using the latest wavefront machines) and have a week's holiday with the spare...
• Commented on Fangst
  One is slightly flimsy, full of holes, cheap and throw-away. For most of the time, it's the bathroom. The other is a plastic storage bag....
• Commented on Color film of 1927 London
  I remember the BBC series on these films, back in 2006, "The Lost World of Friese-Greene". According to Wikipedia, Claude Friese-Greene filmed his 1924-1926 road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats, using the Biocolour process. The original print...
• Commented on Submit your toddler's science questions!
  5 yr old Son: "What is ablative amour?" (I blame Deep Space 9)...
• Commented on Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
  For the fist time ever, it makes Donny and Marie seem like the Rolling Stones....
• Commented on Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
  Left hand side riding is more natural - if you have a whip in your hand, you don't hit pedestrians walking along the pavement. English motorways are designed, apparently, for left and right and driving - it's to do with...
• Commented on Entertainment Weekly ad with a video-screen glued to the pages
  If they could get the price right, then it might be useful in school books or instruction manuals. It might make building an Ikea wardrobe easier to do....
• Commented on Review: Two Weeks W/Spotify [Verdict: It Just Works]
  >Not sure why, but I get tonnes of ads? About every 3-4 songs, and often 2 ads in a row. Stop listening to prog rock ;) RIAA cant touch it outside of the USA It doesn't seem to have the...
• Commented on US Health Care debate: scary Republican infographic countered by dreamy sherbet-hued Democrat infographic
  UK NHS charts for you: http://www.nhsleadtheway.co.uk/gateway/aboutthenhs/organisation_structure.aspx http://www.direct2communications.com/downloads/how_nhs_works.pdf http://www.ohe.org/page/knowledge/schools/hc_in_uk/nhs_structure.cfm...
• Commented on Torchwood, reviewed (Metzger likes it)
  Series 1 was poor, but Series 2 was actually quote good in places (I really liked "A Day in the Death") Children of Earth was good, albeit not totally original. The pseudo "final solution" discussions around the Cabinet were very...
• Commented on Barometer store in England features reproduction of a "Tempest Prognosticator," a.k.a "Leech Barometer"
  It's Okehampton not Okephampton...
• Commented on Myths about Canadian healthcare
  Like #55 said, in Britain in matters of life and death, we believe in universal access. Police, Defence and Healthcare: none of these should be available only to those who can afford to pay....
• Commented on Germans protest new Internet Berlin Wall
  The Deutsche Bunestag should be The Deutsche Bundestag...
• Commented on Goths in Hot Weather
  Reminds me of the IT Crowd: Jen: How come you never see goths driving cars? Richmond: Oh we drive cars. We're just like you really, except we listen to Cradle of Filth....
• Commented on Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek?
  Having your birthday on July 17 means you could have seen the Skylab-Soyuz Test Project link up on your birthday (1975). You also share your birthday with J Michael Straczynski (Bab 5) and The Hoff....
• Commented on Three strikes proposal for print
  I did suggest this for photocopying on Boing Boing yesterday, but this suggestion is even better....
• Commented on We may or may not have refreshed <em>BBG</em>
  There's this thing called usability testing, and I don't think this redesign has gone anywhere near that. The big white blocks on a black background make it look weird The stars are meaningless and give no clue as to...
• Commented on French "three-strikes" copyright law passes -- but may be dead anyway
  Can you imagine in if they extended this to Xerox machines - three illegal photcopies and you'd have your machine confiscated....
• Commented on Ad: Honeywell's Electronic Mail
  So what would the ad be like if it was promoting Twitter, I wonder?...
• Commented on Subivor subway emergency kit for terrorist attacks
  A bottle of water is probably the most important thing you'd need....
• Commented on Muji USA webstore - simple, clean design from Japan
  The Muji aluminium pens, propelling pencils and rulers make great companions for a Moleskine notebook. The ally card holders are great too. Muji is "no label" in Japanese? An non-brand brand....
• Commented on Shanty houses of Manila
  Do I see a Burberry check on one of the sheets? I know the homeowner doesn't give a damn, and shanty towns aren't something we should laugh over, but there's an irony in the idea of designer plastic sheeting....
• Commented on Is that an Exidy Sorcerer or are you just pleased to see me?
  His shoes need polishing....
• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
  Your headline is disingenuous when BBC TV News was yesterday showing footage of protesters "helmeting up", smashing in a bank window (and reportedly trying to set it alight) and trying to break through the police lines. There are, what, 21...
• Commented on German retro-futuristic group-dancing
  Definitely normal dancing by German standards, judging by this previous Boing Boing post: http://boingboing.net/2008/12/18/strange-soccer-fashi.html...
• Commented on German retro-futuristic group-dancing
  More dancing on Raumschiff Orion here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPVpg0HY6qw I seem to remember seeing clips of them fighting some not-so-scary lametta or glittery curtains. And didn't the flight controls include an iron stuck onto the table?...
• Commented on India releases $2,200 car
  Tata showed a European version of the Nano at the Geneva motor, which had been modified to meet European crash regulations and to provide a higher level of luxury. The "Nano Europa" will cost around £4500/$6600 when it is released...
• Commented on Slate's readers submit photos about the recession
  As a non-American I guess I'll never understand the lack of safety net in the States....