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• Commented on Intimidatingly awesome science fair projects
  Oh yeah? Well, I built a mouse maze and got three mice to learn it. Then I timed them three times each. Then I got one drunk, one buzzed, and left the third sober. Then I timed them again. The...
• Commented on Intimidatingly awesome science fair projects
  Oh yeah? Well, I built a mouse maze and got three mice to learn it. Then I timed them three times each. Then I got one drunk, one buzzed, and left the third sober. Then I timed them again. The...
• Commented on Intimidatingly awesome science fair projects
  Oh yeah? Well, I built a mouse maze and got three mice to learn it. Then I timed them three times each. Then I got one drunk, one buzzed, and left the third sober. Then I timed them again. The...
• Commented on Man coughs up 30-year-old nail
  I had a friend who was shot with a BB gun by his brother when we were kids. The BB wasn't found until 15 years later... after an MRI. Yes, it was in his nose....
• Commented on Bank pushing 120% APR loans
  I'm still not seeing that as 120%. If they "loan" you $100, you pay them back $110, right? $2 for every $20. That would be 110%, wouldn't it? Where is this extra 10% coming from? I see it as a...
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  My earliest arcade memory is of "playing" a game called time pilot. I would go in with my big brother and just continually hit the fire button for him while he moved the plane around and aimed. I was about...
• Commented on Video version of the Thatcher Effect
  McGurk effect == fail I never heard daa from that guy, either. I head thaa, baa, gaa, aaa, but never daa the first round. The second round I mostly heard aaa, but heard baa a couple of times. He just...
• Commented on Steampunk Frankenstein casemod
  I know I'm being a little nitpicky here, but the valves on those pressure gauges are shut off. It's causing cognitive dissonance in my engineer mind....
• Commented on Hey, this mobile 3G stuff really works
  I've been tethering my phone to my laptop via bluetooth for nearly a year now. AT&T unlimited data for $20/month on PickYourPlan. It's only 600 down / 160 up, but it's good enough when other options are unavailable....
• Commented on Ugandan housewife's DIY cell phone charger
  I've been to Africa. Ghana, Benin, South Africa, Egypt (some people don't count this as really Africa?), and Madagascar. They have some great hardware hackers doing stuff like this all the time. Out of necessity, not just for fun like...
• Commented on Ice Melting in Antarctica
  @17 How do you know it's bad for human life? There will be change, surely. But I don't think anyone can confidently predict how it will affect us on a grand scale as a species....
• Commented on Kid on Drugs
  WHOOOSH, Trhummer... WHOOOSH...
• Commented on My Wallet Just Got Raptured
  After using the same wallet for the past 13 years, I finally found myself a new one! Not this one, but this one. Looked up the instructions, and made it myself for the cost of the gas to get to...
• Commented on Unintentionally funny video challenging Barack Obama's citizenship
  To all the people thinking that because he was born to an American citizen, that automatically makes him one: The law at the time of his birth was that, if born abroad, at least one parent had to have been...
• Commented on The breakup of the United States
  If it ever came to a vote, I don't think Texans would join with ANY other states. Mexico is right out the window. Boys, it's about time we dust off the Republic of Texas! Seriously, growing up in Texas, we...
• Commented on A visit to the coldest town on Earth
  Jeez, here in south Texas it never snowed in the 20th century. Just once in the 1880's and once on Christmas 2004. When it gets down into the low 30's F (maybe once or twice a year), people get excited....
• Commented on Ukrainian Teen Serial Killer Gang Document Their Crimes on Cellphone Video
  I've found a news report on the Russia Today website: http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/23537 The news story itself is real. If the video's a hoax, it's based on an actual event from the summer of '07. I watched as much as I could;...
• Commented on Doctor finds foot growing in brain of infant
  Anyone else think of Nurse Gollum right away? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_Fetus_Lady...
• Commented on Susie Bright: My Little Chat with Playboy Today
  Papeirmeister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating Look at section 4: Anti-pornography crusading....
• Commented on Susie Bright: My Little Chat with Playboy Today
  I don't see John Waters on the list. I'm not a big fan of his work, but he's certainly been influential in bringing sexual sub-cultures onto the big screen....
• Commented on Photo of world's oldest living animal?
  What? No love for the Quahog clam? 405 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctica_islandica Granted it died during the "assessment". But still, 176? That's only middle age for this clam!...
• Commented on The Cartoon Cabinet
  Captain Planet should head up the EPA. Foghorn Leghorn. He deserves a post, but where? Agriculture is natural, but he's such a great orator his skills would go to waste. I don't think press secretary is a good fit. I...
• Commented on Leatherman Skeletool: Lightest Full-Sized Multi-Tool
  I have one of these, and I am NOT very impressed. BAD: 1) It's not that much lighter for the tools you get. 2) You don't get much, compared to other multi-tools: Pliers, knife, couple of screwdriver heads, and carabiner...