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• Commented on Amazon Kindle contract sucks
  I'm all for the Copyfight, but the attitude of people like @15 really saddens me. "PROBABLY" buy all the books you really enjoyed? And how exactly do you expect the authors you are stealing from to stay solvent enough to...
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  @24, Um, gee, let's see. Maybe because most vegetarians and vegans choose to lead that lifestyle because they either a) abhorr the idea of eating animals or b) for health reasons. "Mock meat" is not healthy, and it's basically designed...
• Commented on LA's vegan restaurants are full of egg
  I'm sorry, but if you're a "Vegan" or Vegetarian, and you feel the need to eat "meat substitutes", you are a giant hypocrite....
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  I completely, wholeheartedly disagree. There is nothing wrong with making a sensitive machine network-capable (and ensuring that if in the event it is connected to a network it is as secure as possible). However, there are plenty of machines for...
• Commented on Magic Lantern: a filmmaker-friendly firmware replacement for the Canon 5D Mark II
  Hm. Or you could, like, you know, BUY A VIDEO CAMERA?...
• Commented on City of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
  So wait, let me get this straight.. Bad photoshop or not, you're all objecting to a BLACK GUY being photoshopped into a picture? You can cry "tokenism" all you like, I cry "racism"....
• Commented on Zombie jello mold
  Not that I'm here to point out Cory's predilection with all things grotesque, but this is hideous, absolutely disgusting. Am I a prude? Seriously, it's some pretty f**ked up sh*t to be putting on your dinner table....
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  @guysmiley : the only reason the resolution is so low on Google Maps is because to have higher res you need to PAY for it - google offers basic undersea features at low res at a public service. The data...
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  @guysmiley sub-sea is very different to trying to find something above land. Using the example of a plane crash on land is like comparing apples and oranges. Water is a fantastic transmission medium, and there's very little in between you...
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  @GuySmiley, not really, particularly when you consider the companies that map those formations also analyse what minerals/metals etc., they are made up of, remotely. How do you think "The Titanic" was found? Or in Australia recently the wreck of "The...
• Commented on Miles O'Brien Blogging the Air France Crash: The Search for Black Boxes
  I find the reports coming out saying "it may never be found" to be HIGHLY suspicious. Everyone in marine surveying and seismography reading that would be seriously raising their eyebrows to read something like "even with the pinging it could...
• Commented on Weird hums in the UK
  Takuan I know a guy who has been a working post sound engineer for 15 years who suffers tinnitus in a certain small band of high frequencies. He does, as you suggest, consciously "filter out" that range as often as...
• Commented on Weird hums in the UK
  I think ELF communications is a perfectly plausible explanation. Uncle Sam must be gearing up for another war again. I wonder who the lucky country is this time? :(...
• Commented on Super Mario theme played on a balalaika
  @noodle : I rather liked the Maestro stuff, it was a bit of showmanship in an otherwise kludgy but kooky performance. :)...
• Commented on Auto-Tune the news - everything sounds better
  As an audiogeek I'd like to point out that it's way more likely this was put together using "Celemony Melodyne", than "Antares Autotune". In the even that it WAS put together with Autotune, though, I bow down before whoever put...
• Commented on Unscientific poll on The Pirate Bay sentence -- UPDATED
  Hang on...... Abject failure... HOW? Please explain Cory - your attempt to spin the story is ham-fisted at best, dishonest at worst. I think your readers deserve a clearer look into your logic on this....
• Commented on Statebook: how UK gov't spooks see the Internet
  @10 - The worst thing about it, as the US Government has proven in recent years (see Messrs Bush, Cheney, et al), is that a government can freely access all that information from a PRIVATE data mining company, and use...
• Commented on Statebook: how UK gov't spooks see the Internet
  There's a real irony in their choice of name for the site. Because the -actual- facebook isn't a huge repository of personal information on individuals that could be used for data mining purposes, is it? But Facebook are a PRIVATE...
• Commented on Prom dress store changes photo of dress
  Vagina-licious....
• Commented on Pneumatic tube-based systems -- the real series of tubes
  Glad to see the short-attention-span generation has now permeated education. Great talk - horrible format. "ignite" is a supremely dumb idea - hey let's get smart people to talk about complex things, but force them to dumb it down for...
• Favorited Naked Baby Plays a Synthesizer (video) on Boing Boing
• Commented on Fantastic fan-site for Disney World's Polynesian Resort needs hosting
  Can you host my sites for free too please? I'm struggling in the economic crisis. Do I qualify for the boingboing bailout?...
• Commented on Rainbow Bread ('80s footage of radio ad singer doing multiple takes)
  The comments about her speech impediment being a "technique" : absolute rubbish. It's pretty obvious she has a mild speech impediment. She can't pronounce the R in "Kilpatrick" either (see 04:00 in the video). Still, a great singer....
• Commented on Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall of Australia
  I was most saddened to see that the list included two Adult / Porn sites that I used to subscribe to. I might add, that these are LEGITIMATE sites run by LEGITIMATE businesses that work within the law, which feature...
• Commented on New iPods have DRM on the headphone interface -- UPDATED
  @purephase, @arkizzle : Actually I -prefer- Round aspect earbuds. I've never met a pair of "moulded" earbuds that didn't hurt the bejeezus out of my ears (not the sound, just the shape). #60 @stephen, you're obviously new here. Welcome....
• Commented on New iPods have DRM on the headphone interface -- UPDATED
  @ark : fair. I am re-reading the thread, and realise yet again I fall into the "anal sound engineer" cliche. What can I say, it's my job :P...
• Commented on New iPods have DRM on the headphone interface -- UPDATED
  @Arkizzle : I rest my case. The above argument basically states "Quality is unimportant, listening experience is". people buy headphones/earbuds for the subjective experience (and looks, probably) This is NOT 'quality'! Colour IS important in sound, but it's as disrespectful...
• Commented on New iPods have DRM on the headphone interface -- UPDATED
  @45 Arkizzle : I wasn't saying they are all equal, I was saying they are all equally as crap, as far as I'm concerned. I repeat myself, but - the sheer physics of producing good sound out of "speakers" of...
• Commented on New iPods have DRM on the headphone interface -- UPDATED
  @doomstalk : ANY 'earbud' headphones are going to sound shittier than "wraparound" or other larger headphones. There's the issue of physics at hand - "earbud" headphones by the very nature of their small size are going to be inferior. Some...
• Commented on Sophie Madeleine's "Love. Life. Ukulele." album
  Hey Mark, I didn't mean that derisively. I guess I was just pointing out there seemed to be a number of uke postings recently, which is just fine by me. Makes a nice change from all the steampunk, something new,...