The guys on BBC's Top Gear had a race like this across London. One by car, one on bicycle, one on public transport and one on the Thames.
YT has it in three entertaining bits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlCwvrzsRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKgzv_Cm-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROXzn5sEyuE

Normally, one would expect to see that on the driver's side of a BMW.

#7, those wood speaker cones look fascinating. I wish I could hear them though.

Here's a headphone set that's made from wood in Cambridge, MA. They retail for about $1000.00
http://www.gradolabs.com/frameset_main.htm

#50: "Here is how you get sensitive info past them. Create a new partition on your HD and move your private info to it. Delete the partition. At the border crossing co-operate with the border guard. If he does take a look there will be nothing suspicious to see. At home or in your hotel room use any standard disk utility to recover the deleted partition. Since you haven't saved any additional info on your machine it's very unlikely that you'll lose any data."

You're still putting your data at risk with this method. Why not use an ecrypted partition, created in some Program Files folder. Before you travel, rename it to something like whatever.dll, then remove the encrytion software from your machine (including registry entries). Safely at your destination, reinstall your encryption app, then rename back the partition file.
But I don't think most of these folks are very tech savy. You could probably get away with putting everything in a .zip file and then moving it to the system32 folder, renamed to something like winboing.dll.

You must love cheese! My first thought was white chocolate. Mmmmmm, white chocolate.

More ways to reduce spam:

Sign up for a free yahoo or gmail account and use it specifically for web sites that require a valid email address to say, download a video driver, etc. Just check in once a week to keep it active.

If you maintain a firewall or spam filter and don't receive any legitimate mail from foreign domains, blacklist all foreign TLDs (.ru, .kr, etc.)

More clues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjnfzgWUqE&feature=related

#70, "Oh, almost I almost forgot(git) the most crucial thing.... the transcription missed one of the margin notes. On the second page, as far as I can tell it says: "The book warrom Turns - code3"

The Bookworm Turns (1940)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032272/

Problem solved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqf1yKxb9hI

Time to buy a motorcycle?

Also, prepare for increasing pressure to drill in Alaska, etc.

Wanna bet all the best stoner tunes are 4:20?

Somebody has to teach the childrens that all pleasurable things are wrong! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!

The photo also apparently captures the first know version of Guitar Hero(beta).

Congratulations!
My grandfather lived to 103. I remember he got a letter from President Nixon on his 100th birthday.
He came to America from Corfinio, Italy and made wine in a big barrel in his basement every year. He also smoked a pipe and had a bottle of Wild Turkey at his knee. I hope to follow in his, er, wisdom.

I love the basic business model of separating stupid rich people from their money, whether it's water or Hummers.
Note to self: Get the bottled air business started asap!
Additional note to self: Trip to Norweigen fjords to collect pure air stock, Business Expense?

Lol! The irony of it all.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1696842

Cute, but this also affects the accuracy of the bar code reader. Bar codes scanners need "quiet space" on either side of the code. The pizza example could cause some issues there. And the house example has reduced the readable height by about 25%. An annoyance for point-of-sale, but could cause big problems on coveyor systems where the read rate is determined by the bar code height and conveyor speed.

"Price check on register six!"

and FWIW, a "Joy Buzzer" is not an elctrical device. It uses a spring to create a vibration that would startle your victim.

"Are we going to get a map like that for the 2008 elections in the USA? We're going to need it."

Maybe the Global Incidents Map will cover that.
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

Brilliant. I wish every tech tutorial was so entertaining. Is there a "You Suck at Lotus Domino Administration" series out there?

Why have I never seen a MENSA tattoo?
/strokes chin/

How about another column for:
Aliens have all the same senses as Earthlings

It all depends on whether they can make it stand up in court.

Holding my breath for 30 seconds to 1 minute works for me every time.

#49 - The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.

Sad and depressing. Worst post ever.

"I want to be young and wild, and then I want to be middle-aged and rich, and then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf." -Edmund Blackadder III

#4 "a) transducer... you mean a SPEAKER?"

Not for nuttin', but a speaker *is* a transducer, as is a microphone, as is a guitar pickup, etc.

Just sayin'

Enough with the "this was posted on blah blah blah last week" already. It's new to me, and a "wonderful thing", just like it says on the box.

I hate it when people use their kids to make their political statements.

#8, not to mention that nobody seems to want to put themselves in the place of the Bomb Squad guys.
What are they supposed to do when some old lady, who for some reason doesn't watch Cartoon Network, phones in a suspicious object? They have no choice but to investigate, and they must do so using best practices. It's easy to sit behind a computer and say they overreacted, but thier only concern when they go out on a call is they get home safely to their families (or cats) that night.
I agree with you that the "hoax device" label was pure stupidity.

At least this year it's actually art, and not just SPAM.

#72 "will it be eventually possible to genetically engineer a virus that is wildly contagious, infects only humans and causes skin cells to accumulate large quantities of melanin?"

and then we can all start hateing based on religion. Then sexual preference. Then weight. Then height. then...?

#75 Antinous, you'd be surprised how much has changed. I was down near the D Street projects recently and there was about a 50-50 mix of blacks and whites in the area. My sister lives in Southie. My niece was telling me over the holidays about how all of the asian immigrants that used to live across the street are gone, and have mostly been replaced by same sex couples. Apparently, two income, childless couples are about the only ones who can afford the high real estate prices. The old Southie lives on in the movies and maybe in the pubs, but I think the city you once knew has changed a lot. People love to cling to the old reputation of Boston as a racist city, but let's face it, racisim exists everywhere, and I don't recently reacall any nooses being hung from trees in Boston, or any Klan rallys either.

#61,
Do you judge every city by events from the 1970s? Bad science. Did you know that Massachusetts citizens elected a black governor?
It's 2007!!

#25, Revdoug, "As a son of Yankees raised in Georgia, I must say that racist thought and attitude is not an exclusive trait of folks from the "suh-then" states". Can you say 'Boston'?"

Why do you suggest that Boston is particularly racist?

#53, DCER, " These guys were 15-18 and picking on a 12 year old."

Sounds like you are judging an entire Province by a small group in their Beavis and Butthead stage of life.

Ah, vegan/carnivore flame war. I wondered why such an innocent looking post had 23 responses (so far).

#19, "There is no set-and-forget eating habit".

I disagree. Three sentences, three words:
Buy less food.
Eat less food.
Everything in moderation.

Thanks ACACIA, I never saw Xeni's post. (I didn't BB in 2004). The backstory doesn't make the photos any less amazing tho.

Check out the amazing web site: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
A young Ukranian woman rides through the "ghost towns" of the Chernobyl disaster on her motorcycle. The images of nature reclaiming these abandoned buildings are chilling, particularly the amusement park photos.

#17, NIL, "I also can't recall the last time someone in my country (England) was shot by the police."

Let me refresh your memory whilst helping you off of your high horse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7164054.stm

I remember as a kid thinking their hit "Lonely Days" was a Beatles song, especially the intro.

The Wikipedia page on them also indicates that their first UK single "New York Mining Disaster 1941", released with a blank label, got heavy rotation because DJs thought it was the Beatles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees

They really were remarkable song writers.

Here's one example of where the self-tuning guitar would be completely useless. Music by Nick Harper (son of Roy Harper):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzOP80_uDZ8

@ 17, I found the article in my History:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19462/page1/

@ #17 I read somewhere that the tuner "hears" the frequency of, let's say the B string" and then it calculates the direction and degree of tuning required. That information is sent through the same string (at a much higher, I assume inaudible frequency) to the servo on the tuning key in question and the correction is applied.

It's still cool. And I like the Scandanavian inspired interior. It's nicer than my place.
And if you keep movin' around, you could avoid property taxes?

Since the LEDs tell you when it's tuned, they should have made it mute when you pull out the knob. Nothing worse than listening to someone tune.

@ #5 Yeah, I'll bet that most Germans who lived there wouldn't agree, but when I went to the former East German side in 2004 and stayed in Alexanderplatz, I told friends on my return that I wished it had been more "seedy". If you like Heroes and the old East Germany perhaps you, like me, saw Christiane F as a teen?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082176/

"Ahem, $50 for a small blinking light?"

But what if we call it the iPowerseed?

@ 28, It was actually Alabama. Another slogan was Man Love Rules. But he made up for it by donating the three old derelict cars that they bought for under $1000. to victims of hurricane Katrina. What a saint. He then claimed that they were sued for misrepresentation and advised the viewers to "never go to America".
I love Top Gear, it's the best car show on TV by far, but as they say, Clarckson is a pillock.

This just made me think of the satirical Hummer ad from The Daily Show: "Look at me! I'm a dick!"

#13 "The Food Jammers (a show on Canadian Food Network) built a smoker in an office filing cabinet so they could enjoy smoked meat sandwiches on the job."

Damn, I wish we got more Canadian TV programming in the US. I'll bet Red Green made one out of an old K-car and some duct tape.

Here's an amazing story about how one record label (Victory) treated it's artists:

http://thetrc.net/victory.html

@9 "ive never understood this loudness war. if a track doesnt have compression on it, it instantly sounds unprofessional weak and lame! theres no going back now."

But now that most prefessionaly produced CDs sound the same, there is an emerging market for analog studios, and I have had clients ask for "that 70's" sound. Just like once vinyl records gave way to CDs, digital samples of vinyl scratches and pops were produced to add that "warm" sound to digitally produced music.

Another way that engineers are changing the way they mix for today's clients, is that they are adding a high-frequncy boost in the kick drums so that the kick can be heard through notebook speakers.

@ #16 Cpt Tim,

"Business practices aside, the kind of people that shop at wall mart... it reminds me of living back in michigan."

You mean poor people? Well if any get near you, you can just tase them.

...yeah I agree, 2008 must bring an end to all "tase" comments in BB discussion threads.

Yes the list may be a bit over the top, but at least they are making an effort at informing the public of the risks. I, for example, have 8 of these in my home right now, so how many of these are in my town? I doubt that every homeowner in my town knows about small amount of mercury they contain. I'd like to think that most people will dispose of these properly, but most likey they will not.

Once my bulbs begin to expire, I will keep them with my paint cans and take them to my town's hazardous waste disposal day. BTW, the same goes for data projector and projection TV bulbs.

My town has two hazardous waste days per year. You bring your harzardous waste items to the high school, and they sort them out for proper disposal.

This thread has made me think though, am I doing the wrong thing by cleaning out my brushes, rollers and pans in the sink? Maybe I should just let them dry out and then trash them? It's expensive to have to buy new brushes for every job, but I think we should all do this if it will reduce the cancer risk for future generations.

Looks like a fun little project!
Anyone interested in taking it up a notch to tube power should check out the AX84 Project web site.
http://www.ax84.com/
They have a bunch of low-wattage tube-powered amp projects with schematics, photos, mp3 samples and discussion groups. I believe that some well-tested configuartions are available in kit form as well. I plan to try one this year by retrofitting an old cathedral style radio (hoping to find a non-workng unit on Ebay).

Is anyone really naive enough to think that President Gore's entourage would be any different?

Even worse are the stories of the Shipbreakers of India:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/60minutes/main2149023.shtml

"When they finally drag them to justice part of their punishment should be freeing the iPhone."

Why? Did AT&T twist Steve Jobs arm?
Did they twist the arm of any of the iZombies that agreed to support AT&T with their $$$?

I haven't seen wallpaper like that since "Father Ted".

It seems silly that you can get a script for Oxycontin if you need it, but not a drug as mild as Marijuana. I guess the government hasn't got a piece of that business yet.

I don't own an iPhone.
BoingBoing convinced me that AT&T was evil.
Uhm, why does everyone at BoingBoing have iPhones?

Which episodes/topics have resulted in the most hate mail, and which have received the most support?

Be sure to use your iPhone to register your complaint. AT&T appreciates your support.