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• Commented on Alphabet made of glands
  The "B" doesn't really look like a "B". It looks like the face of the baby Jesus though....
• Commented on Kangaroo attacks man and attempts to drown his dog
  Tie me kangaroo down, sport....
• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  I'm adding the staph joke to my personal collection of bad jokes to tell to other geeks....
• Commented on Demi claims missing hipflesh is for real. But $5,000 says it's Moore photoshopping.
  Her pelvis is angled significantly sideways (see how far her butt protrudes to her left) and slightly forward. The sash is simply misleading in how it hangs. It's not a photochop....
• Commented on Cigar box ukulele kit
  Yeah, I thought one of the key points of cigar box ukes was that you could make one for like $40 from stuff you have lying around....
• Commented on How do iPhone's location sensors work together to determine orientation?
  I think the really short take is: you need to know which way is "down" (accelerometers) in order to figure out how to interpret the magnetometer readings....
• Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
  "Invasive Slugs Slither Amok."?...
• Commented on Guy mounts coffee cup on car roof, tweets about peoples' reactions
  I once left my fiddler on the roof by accident....
• Commented on Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi
  Any woman who writes about the greatness of conservative values ought to consider that it wasn't that long ago that any political declaration by a woman was thought to be "radical" and "liberal". And that most (yes, most) conservative men...
• Commented on Graph compares rock music quality with US oil production 1949-2007
  "What's Love Got To Do With It" by Tina Turner is one best songs of all times? Seriously?...
• Commented on Space Mountain queue gets short-play video-games
  I know of one sure-fire way to avoid lines at Disneyworld....
• Commented on Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's
  Newt Gingrich knows a little something about that....
• Commented on Try the beef in "Wikipedia flavor"
  This story is so October 2009....
• Commented on Car Finder app for iPhone
  I once parked my car in a lot in Boston and couldn't find it later because I went looking for it in the wrong lot. Hey, I was young....
• Commented on 15 Dots Enough: Alaskan Military School's low-res game demake videos
  Don't get cocky. It's gonna get rocky....
• Commented on Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way
  And the article didn't mention light, just microwave radiation. Light and microwave radiation are both forms of electromagnetic radiation. The only difference is the wavelength, and corresponding frequency, of the wave....
• Commented on Book: Rules for my Unborn Son
  Stand up to bullies. You'll only have to win once. FTFY...
• Commented on The White House switch to open source: Tim O'Reilly's thoughts
  The huffpo bit reads like it was written by someone who has never seen a computer....
• Commented on Collecting Solar Power, the Black Hole Way
  I'm failing to understand how this significantly differs from a piece of black felt that absorbs light in the visible spectrum and emits it as heat. Is it just that no known materials exist that do this in the 18GHz...
• Commented on Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg
  I like the fact that it comes with an electronic toilet paper dispenser. With the right kind of chair, you never have to leave your desk....
• Commented on The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket
  In case anyone doesn't know, a standard outlet costs about a buck or two at Home Depot. Even the $14 Levitons are a joke....
• Commented on LEDs: Throwing Some Light on the Hype
  Simplistically, if the odds of 1 diode failing is 1/10000 per hour, the odds of one of the 100 diodes failing is... 100/10000 per hour, or an MTBF of only 100 hours. I just have to nitpick here : the...
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: Australian Teen Crafts "Sneaky" Games
  Give the gift of bacon!...
• Commented on A drink that sounds even more unappetizing than "Dairy Drink"
  Maybe it's just us dyslexic folk who see diarrhea and dairylea as similar. I've always thought that was kind of a weird brand name....
• Commented on US military data-mines America's kids for war recruiting
  Use this aginst them. Browse for gay porn. They will stop calling you....
• Commented on Ralph Lauren, at it again
  Talk about sharp knees!...
• Commented on Yahoo hires lap-dancers to entertain at its open, inclusive Hack Day event
  Despite my support of yahoo on the specific matter of having fully-clothed exotic dancers at their events, I will continue to passively boycott their search engine....
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  Your mother is so hot, she's like an overclocked umm.. processor, with like, no cooling fan, or even a heatsink....
• Commented on Digital Open Winner: A Living Diorama, to Change the World.
  I had dioractive once, but I took some Pepto and it cleared up. Nah. This is a cool idea. Move it from the back yard into the public view and you'd open a lot of eyes. I'm picturing a scene...
• Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
  Your mother is so nice, she baked me a pie. Am I doing this right?...