LightningRose

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• Commented on Oligarch's yacht has a laser anti-photo screen
  $1.2 billion sure doesn't buy much these days....
• Commented on Library in necklace form
  For the DIYers who want to make their own, with or without text/illustrations, try this place: http://www.bopressminiaturebooks.com/ Or Google. :) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=miniature+blank-books&btnG=Google+Search...
• Commented on Tweet (#3914288252)
  Soylent Green is people! Yes, this is the same video game that briefly appeared in the film....
• Commented on The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper: "sound control" gadget hallucinations.
  Controlling sound with one's mind is no big deal. Bio-feedback devices have been available since about the time this creature started dropping acid....
• Commented on Profile of skeptical guru James Randi
  A Libertarian is just a Republican who wants to smoke pot and get laid....
• Commented on What would you do with a Class C IP block?
  Offer them as tribute to our Skynet Overlords....
• Commented on Hammer as "cure" for constipation?
  Don't forget the mathematician who worked it out with a pencil....
• Commented on Touch Book, a convertible netbook/all-in-one PC
  I just can't get thrilled over any computer with less flash memory than my mp3 player. :\...
• Commented on The Devil's Kettle
  On the opposite end of the scale is California's Burney Falls. A 100 million US gallons per day (4 m³/s) waterfall fed by a collapsed lava tube. If you hike the 1/2 mile (0.8 Km) trail upstream to the source,...
• Commented on Volcanic eruption seen from space
  If you happen to have a pair of red/green 3D glasses, you may want to checkout today's APOD. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090625.html...
• Commented on Illegal e-waste dumped in Ghana includes unencrypted hard drives full of US security secrets
  Thermite is a cost effective solution for a variety of problems....
• Commented on Exploit code for China's "Green Dam" censorship app permits remote control of any Chinese PC
  I wonder if it will block the download of Linux live CD ISO files? If the authorities ever came around to inspect your computer they may frown on a non-windows o/s installed on the hard drive....
• Commented on Exploit code for China's "Green Dam" censorship app permits remote control of any Chinese PC
  I wonder if it will block the download of Linux live CD ISO files?...
• Commented on World's Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire
  Google Earth doesn't show anything interesting, but Google Maps clearly shows the remains of the undersea mountain. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ball%27s+Pyramid&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.307813,59.150391&ie=UTF8&ll=-31.75751,159.248199&spn=1.459586,1.84845&t=h&z=9...
• Commented on Contest: Win a Set of BuckyBalls
  When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller...
• Commented on Jo Walton on Heinlein's STARMAN JONES
  Tom @#2, "Rendezvous With Rama" was written by Arthur C. Clarke....
• Commented on Led Zeppelin: "Kashmir" animation used as live performance backdrop
  Rathergood.com did much better with LZ's "Immigrant Song". :) http://users.wolfcrews.com/toys/vikings/...
• Commented on Death Metal Cockatoo (Video)
  If death metal is a bit rough on your ears, check out Snowball, the dancing Cockatoo. http://www.youtube.com/user/BirdLoversOnly...
• Commented on Frank Zappa plays a bicycle on the Steve Allen show
  Ned613 @#4, "The World's Greatest Sinner" shows up on the cable channel, TCM, every once in a great while. And a certain well known search engine tells me it's available as a torrent download....
• Commented on Music video: Les Ballets Jackson "Fiesta Hippie"
  The music from the first third of the video is an excerpt from King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King"....
• Commented on Photo: NASA Snack Mobile
  Roach Coach in space....
• Commented on 3 questions for Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED
  Green LEDs were readily available by 1985....
• Commented on ACLU offers to represent politician who wants an ACLUSUX vanity license plate
  I'm endlessly amused by Repuglicans who are too frightened or ashamed to list their party affiliation on their websites....
• Commented on VFX engineer on why <em>Star Trek</em> ain't IMAX
  I wants me Cinerama back! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama...
• Commented on Nifty gaming gadget administers nitrous oxide to kids
  Reminds me of the "Kidstoned Chewable Valium" ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxIuyF0nso...
• Commented on Review: a day with slotRadio
  I love my 16GB Sansa View, and my 8GB e280 before it, but this looks like a load of dreck....
• Commented on Haminal: Plush tinned meat
  You'll find similar canned plushies containing local fauna in finer tourist shops nearly everywhere. I've seen wombats and kangaroos from Australia, bears from Yellowstone, etc....
• Commented on Raquel Welch (On Cross)
  Reminiscent of Australian artist Norman Lindsay's, "The Crucified Venus", a central theme in the 1994 film, "Sirens". http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/lindsay.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111201/...
• Commented on Homemade 3D printer goop made from maltodextrin costs 1/50 of the real stuff
  Thank you so much for writing "costs 1/50" instead the far more common, but erroneous, "50 times less". That's one of my pet peeves....
• Commented on Spies Penetrated USA's Electrical Grid, say NatSec Officials
  Skynet will protect us!...