We need a new word for a phobia to describe fear of being left trapped, when people in control go home for the weekend. Think of the elevator guy, and now this.

"59 Better still she should have (if possible) done South Chicago, Boston, and true Midwestern (which I am close to believing is the closest to non-accented Enlgish to be found in the states, and possibly the world."

I have a hard time believing anyone truly thinks this way. One time I was told in all seriousness `Where I come from, the people are virtually accentless', in a deep, down south USA accent.

You don't hear your own accent, unless you are surrounded by other accents.

Non accented english. Sheesh.

I really want one of these for my front door. It would be much better than the tiny little spy hole - when someone rings the doorbell I can just cram my face into it and stare at them.

Meant to add :

This is the pre `Rock Me Tonight' Squier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wGwM6qEJk&feature=related

Aw yeah, he rocked pretty hard then!

Who can forget Billy Squier's `Rock Me Tonight', the film clip that took him from rock star to prancing weirdo of uncertain sexuality in the eyes of many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI

More gems here
http://www.whiterose.org/pete/blog/archives/004681.html

Heh, once again in the linked sciam forums I see the following technique.

"Evolution says a rock gave birth to a dog that gave birth to a cat!"
"No it doesn't"
"Yes it does, therefore evolution is rubbish! Show me a cow that gave birth to a bird"
"We can't."
"Well evolution says you should!"
"What? No it doesn't".

Repeat ad nauseum, as per Kent Hovind.

Fundies? In MY boingboing?

#158 "Darwin dreamed a fire world with nothing but death."

Wow! Where did Darwin write about this fire world? Sources, please.

"I left my email addr there. If you read all my posts and can answer even ONE of my million questions then I will happily reply to your comments."

We'd answer your `millions' of questions, but you'd never believe them, because they go against your firmly held faith.

Why do people believe teenagers are the only ones who can hear it? I'm in my 30s and the sound is clear and annoying. I played it and my partner, who is pretty deaf in one ear, asked `What the hell is that? It hurts!'. She's 30.

What happens to babies? What happens when someone who can't hear it ties their dog to a pole outside the building?

Omigod - how odd to come to boingboing and see things my friends have done. Good work, Kate!

I have both a mac and a PC. They're both computers. They both crash about the same amount (rarely). The biggest problem I had learning how to use the mac was familiarity, a problem I have now overcome.

What is funny is when I read people raving about how simple mac is, one guy in a forum was talking about how logical the mac was, you pressed f9 and this happened, you pressed apple + some key, and that happened! He couldn't see that because he was intimately familiar with it, it seemed logical, whereas to someone who had never used that, it would seem weird and obscure.

You know that scene in 12 Monkeys, where the baggage check guy sees a bag with a series of clear and apparently empty tubes that are in fact full of plague? He looks at them, then opens one and sniffs it, to see what it might contain, thus sparking the release of a pandemic.

I used to think that was really stupid. It just seems kind of likely now.

Wonderful! I still have my copy, I loved that book so much as a kid.

I now find the spoon bending and kirlian photography bit hilarious, though at the time Uri Geller was taken seriously. Ooo, automatic navigators for cars by 1990!

I thought it was compression, not friction that caused the build up of heat.

I don't think flying for 20 years makes him particularly noteworthy as a witness. I've been driving for 15 and I don't know what make most cars are on sight, or think I'm better than a non driver at identifying objects on the ground.

Also, if you can only see lights, you can judge neither distance nor speed. People see a light in the sky fade out and conclude it travelled away at tremendous speed. They see two lights travelling and assume it's massive and far away, when it might be close and small. The human brain is good at filling in detail, even when the detail is not there to be filled.

There is a modern version of the aircraft above at http://www.fanwing.com/

So, it's not a dead concept!

I have a lot of things keyed alike, so if I'm not driving I only need two keys for work, my home, padlocks etc.

At one point I cut all of the extra metal off my keys, drilled some holes and used a small bolt to join. The result was a tiny pair of fold out keys only a little larger than the actual required section of a key.

Everyone said `You're going to lose those!' but I didn't, because I never needed to take them out of my pocket like a big keyring.

Okay, eventually I lost them, but they lasted a LOT longer than any of my previous keyrings.

Ah, wonderful! My father has a full B&O system which he bought new when it came out. The tape player no longer works (and there's no real justification to fix it). The turntable however is a thing of beauty, and fascinated me as a kid, watching the head move across and automatically drop down.