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• Commented on Review: Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers
  Happy to have the kickbacks theory thoroughly debunked. Rob, more gadget reviews, plz! I miss BBG. Re. plywood - I have one of those chairs with the curved plywood and it looks great - and I think the reason it...
• Commented on Review: Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers
  I have to agree with the poster above, i'm sick of seeing these speakers being hawked all over the place. For the last several months it seems. Of course BB can post about them, but I hope I can also...
• Commented on Photographer beaten, detained in London for being "cocky" to policeman who implies she is a terrorist
  The state is fighting back for its right to harass photographers/videographers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8414254.stm "A suspected al-Qaeda gang was caught after a man was spotted filming potential targets on a mobile phone, police have said. Police believe the Algerian gang was planning...
• Commented on Change blindness experiment
  I didn't notice the change in colour of the professor's shirt until pointed out here. But then I didn't notice that it was red to begin with. That's not change blindness - that's selective (maybe narrow) focus. How can I...
• Commented on Reformed British alien appears in Raisin Bran ad
  >the accent is great. - pffft. Really? It bugs the hell out of me. I'm pretty sure it's an American doing a 'passable', but slightly wobbly southern English accent rather than a native Brit. And "trash"? Are Americans incabable of...
• Commented on Disney English
  Let me guess. Under definitions of words, copyright = theft?...
• Commented on Photographers win British war on photography?
  "The last thing in the world we want to do is give photographers a hard time or alienate the public." Clearly that's not the case. This has been going on for, what, a couple of years or more, now? And...
• Commented on Salvation Army: we check ID to prevent fraud, not to catch illegal immigrants
  Um, yeah. To echo a couple of the comments above, I think there needs to be an appology along with the correction. C'mon, Cory, dude....
• Commented on How Britain's Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy's expense
  All must be sacrificed to appease the Copyright Cartels! A citizen's right to association (over long distances), a right to their family life (eg. free Skype phone calls to Australia), the ability of people and students to educate themselves, people's...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Awesome photo, benher? Until you imagine Ballmer is holding apart his giant ham-sized butt-cheeks....
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Well, Murdoch's other internet adventures have worked out so well for him, let's hope this one works out in a similar fashion!...
• Commented on BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
  Piers W #22: "Peter Mandelson is a very clever bloke. It's just possible he's deliberately introduced all this crap now when it stands a very good chance of being talked out in the House of Lords [...] and be in...
• Commented on The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation
  This is indeed a wonderful thing (apart from the phlegm) but it's not a drug with side effects or hazards in any way, as far as I can see. It's only a medical instrument in the sense that it can...
• Commented on Tibetan Tantric Masters: video
  Multifarious #7: " What was the whole purpose again of mediation? Oh, yes, I remember: to think of absolutely nothing and thus gain a higher understanding of life the universe and our place in it. While thinking of nothing. Rright.....
• Commented on Anatomical vegetarian ad
  "I was told I needed more iron. Does this mean I should eat more "kick ass" broccoli?", cwclifford. Try peas instead - they have more iron than broccoli. Who knew!...
• Commented on Glittergeddon!
  I watched most of this and didn't really see the point. I didn't learn anything that couldn't have been summed up in a few paragraphs and it just felt like a rather grubby, sordid excuse for sensationalism, maybe even mob...
• Commented on Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
  Seeya then Rupert! Don't let the door hit you on your bony arse on your way out!...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  Yet another vote for a Sansa. I love my Fuze - the resume function is good. Cheap micro SDHC expansion. And cheap in itself. Why splash out on the iPod's expensive over-priced non-expandable memory? And when the battery on whatever...
• Commented on Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
  It makes perfect sense if you think about it. The internet threatens the Copyright Cartel's stranglehold on distribution. The threat it represents to them is twofold: music fans downloading and cutting them out of the loop (even if it isn't...
• Commented on Props of Mad Men
  >Furniture is not a prop. What if you hit someone with it?...
• Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
  "Before there was *actually* a recession, I read an interview with him where he said what we needed was a good hard recession to sort the economy out. Tool." O'Tool, surely....
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  I agree with the two posts above. Zero Tolerance = Zero Judgement. Matters in life aren't black and white. The people who instigate and propose Zero-Tolerance policies want a world where thought is unnecessary, where a set of rules (and...
• Commented on In future America, car stops you.
  Apparently it comes with a soothing voice. "Please remain calm while the hood-wearing thugs car-jack you. Offering resistance can result in physical injury or loss of life. Thank you for driving Mercedes-Benz."...
• Commented on Iain Banks's new thriller TRANSITION as a free podcast
  I was listening to Iain on the radio talking about the book. He says it's roughly 50% SF and 50% regular Bank's fiction. In the US it get's the 'M' treatment and in the UK (and everywhere else) it's non-M....
• Commented on Teacher asks YA author if virtual visit can take place "with us being able to see you, but you not being able to see us"
  #31, Jack Daniel: Easy! Have all the kids wear masks. I'll be happy to help with the design. Better yet, dismiss all child-related 'OMG Pedos be stealin' my childrens' faces!' hysteria with child-sized Niqābs; all of the time outside...
• Commented on Lynchian version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  Skeeztastic....
• Commented on A dozen Warhol paintings worth millions stolen from Los Angeles home
  Just make some more....
• Commented on Possible solution for Derren Brown's lottery trick
  Prediction: the solution will not be as dull and everyday as this....
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Running .01 of a second faster than someone else and making a big deal about it is stupid anyway....
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  You're still going to be able to get the normal Vegemite though, yeah? Please tell me that's the case....