If they are made in Switerland then why is the price surprising? $50, ok, but you get EIGHT wrenches. at under $7 each (remembering where they are made) is sounds reasonable. Bargain, no, but take your ass to Sears (or Harbor Freight) if you don't get it.

Oh that wacky industrial prison complex and its delicious profit opportunities!!

They just just liquefy people sentenced over 10 years and use the drippings for fertilizer - AT A TIDY MARKUP I MIGHT ADD!

What? A homebrew gadget with a gauge stuck on it gets a post on BB and no mention whatsoever about "water vapor" or "pre-new-wave kids with mohawks".

Thank you!

I bought the same refurb MPB17 you did. Look at this this way, we got the most refined unit of the form factor, the new one will only begin another debug phase where the early adopters get hit hardest.

"Won't get sick, won't get any older and you won't ever MEOW"

I was riffing on #17, and I actually agree with your comment #19 but if you'd like to go out of your way to get your feelings hurt then that's out of MY robotic pincers.

Is Boingboing becoming another shitty website that passes disgusting OMG_KITTENS? If so please let me know so I can delete you from my bookmarks.

No, I'm serious and I'd really like a reply. Is this the kind of OMG_KITTENS I can expect from Boingboing Now? I'd like an answer please.

#17: yes

DISGUSTING!!!

Rabbit, with NO SKIN?! Throw the best part away and call it a meal? Preposterous.

Lemon Curry?

ooops, sorry, wrong thread! #blush#

motherfucker!

shite!

asshole!

dookie!

Ahhhh, Sharper Image and Theremin music: Two shitty tastes that go together.

Honestly if your name isn't Clara Rockmore, buy a trombone.

"mid morning bacon blowout"

Who did what now???

From CNN

"In a tearful and furious YouTube video with close to 150,000 hits to date, former actress and playwright ("Bonkers") Tricia Walsh-Smith lashes out against her husband, Philip Smith, president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway."

BONKERS?? It's the eyes...

Anything that hurts Monster is good, but who wins when one overpriced cable pusher is 'slapped' down by a company whose products are slightly less overpriced?

http://www.svideo.com/

Is where you need to go. Best prices on Mogami stuff too.

(not affiliated, its just the go-to site for all the DIY-HT people in the know)

Everyone jumps on her case cuz she can pinch an inch, but no one wants to point out that these fascist candy stores extort us all and until heroes like this get the recognition they deserve Big Sugar will continue to run its jackboots over us.

I remember from some war porn documentary that the Bofors 40mm gun they still use on AC-130s in Iraq have so much surplus ammo from WWII that they still shoot 60+ year old rounds to this day.

Stefan,
Too late:
http://www.korg.com/gear/prod_info.asp?A_PROD_NO=ESX1

The best line: Its made from an old smoker (duh) so "It smells like chicken but it'll still git ya!"

Its easy to sit so smug at your little computer in your comfy papasan chair and laugh at heroes like this, but if we had had a few more mall_ninjas during the 80's we would all now be kicking back enjoying an Orange Julius right now.

I wish they could take Bose with them.

Man, break out the Mondo 2000s and bOING bOING!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Toke_Over_the_Line
Brewer & Shipley
"They left California in 1969, returning to the Midwest, this time to Kansas City, where they would make a meager living through playing in college towns. They derived the name of their next album, Tarkio, from a regular gig they played in Tarkio, Missouri. This was their most commercially successful work, featuring their hit "One Toke Over the Line", which they wrote as a joke while preparing backstage for a performance."

It still looks like a pain in the ass though, with a SEPERATE section for the chicken, and a SEPERATE section for the soda.. too confusing.

They should take a clue from the KFC Famous Bowl and heap the lot into the cup, maybe then, IF I HAVE TIME, I'll consider it.

The problem is that if we let the shops slide on innocent purple vibrators today, tomorrow the place will fill up with cock rings and life-like jelly dongs. How do cock rings and jelly dongs help you relax when your arm hurts? Explain that to me.

EXPLAIN!

When I worked the phone as an order taker at a mail order catalog company, we would come up with lists of similarly odd words (or phrases) and offered prizes to whomever could work them into a customer call without losing the sale.

Impressive, but... no Technics? wow.

DRYER LINT.
next...

#7, Yeah, but

"For months, it turned out, an agent was assigned to steal her baby stroller and covertly let the air out of her bicycle tires when she went grocery shopping with her two toddlers."

This is on a different level entirely.

I think the far forward mirrors may not be allowed by US DOT or something, because I've never seen that here in the US, even on period Celicas.

Begun this clone war has.

can we accept that placebo works in some cases for some people?

he changed that dead cat layer to "Overlay" mode instead of "Normal".

What I like is the Mad Magazine style chopped off neck with the big shoulder/hambone sticking out of the middle (which is funny) instead of realistic arteries and such detail (which is gross).

Here is the Steorn thread:
http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=60132

I almost bought it until I realized that magneto-kinetic Judson dampers are incorrectly polarized for that gauge of stator!!!!

How embarrasing.

This is really lame. My powers have only just begun to blossom and by, oh February or so I should be ready to go public.

Worst Tool video ever.

To be clear, these tracks weren't extracted from the final "store bought" copy, but taken from alternate but orginal studio recording tracks that may or may not have been used to mix the final album we all know.

http://www.google.com/search?q=trash+can+smoker+zinc

*sigh* There should be a Snopes.

http://www.amazon.com/Tek-Pal-Large-Button-RemoteBW2007/dp/B000UKQR8E/

Ok this one is better (and link works).

http://thealzheimersstore.com/Alzheimers/senior-friendly-tv-remote-control.htm

They have something similar (and pre-made) at the Alzheimer's store. I'd post the link but I forgot it.

Each half of the aircraft is designed to resemble and old tennis shoe. The fuselage pieces are joined by an advanced nano-morphic electro-vampiric inducto-tether. The cost to make it appear like an ordinary urine soaked shoelace? $3 billion.

#6 Mark, you can say the same for North Korea really, I'm sure KJI has a ghetto version of this vessel for his own use, just more raggedy and full of Hennessy.

Much of the trauma I've suffered in my life was caused by a lack of "Zaky Infact Pillow"

This will be the "test print" page of desktop 3d fabbers in 10 years.

I spent year searching for this as a kid, then I found out it was Phillip Glass, and even sunk $80 into the Einstein Box, figuring it was one of the Knee Play pieces. This is the first time I have seen this video in over 20 years and I am stunned that while it clearly was recorded around the same time, these are not from the huge 4 - disc box.

Now to track down the original music!

Just to re-iterate, Carson Daly is a SCAB.

That is all.

"All the people reading this blog are digging coal with their spacebars."

I don't agree with Cory on everything, but he dismantles specious arguments like nobody's business.

David277,

DUH, the soil in Fresno serves the needs of mole living PERFECTLY because of the duripan, you see..

Dangit, Dylan (#11) stole my thunder. Just too slow I guess.

(BTW the screenshot, and post title were so beautifully perfect together in my RSS reader I wept.)

Gee, you know who else wore a crown? JUGHEAD!

11. Leave the Gun. Take the Canoli

I went there about 3 months ago because I'd heard he was getting ill. He was in good spirits and for the few hours I was there a steady stream of the local radio club guys would come in and check on him.

Nortex was unreal, and it did have the 'smell' of electronics history. I've got crates of odd hardware I picked up for future circuitbending and hacking from there.

RIP Lewis!

They reproduce by latching into the face of a suitable host and depositing their embryo in the digestive tract.

While there are lots of bank vaults on Flickr, I like this sort with the intricate engraving and machine-turned finishes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostalgicglass/1218496145/in/photostream/

I wonder what they look like under those smocks.

I am in ur brain hailing ur mary

+7 for the Rick Astley

RE Home Depot cables: It wasn't lamp cord, it was the plain-jane 14 gauge orange extension cord.

Google "Home Depot HD-14 speaker cable" and follow the hilarity.

(Paul Seydor and Neil Gader took a two-part speaker cable survey in The Absolute Sound magazine, issues 146 and 147. The HD-14s were slipped in and the emperor's clothes were much admired)

Umm no. at 3:20 we are presented with "downstairs".

Pranking this by recording it backwards, like Michael Gondry, would result in an even MORE impressive stunt, being that he would quickly have built each stack by dropping the dice, one armsweep at a time perfectly depositing the die squarely on the die below.

I would sign up for the Army if they would only give more credit to beautiful people like me.

Aww Flying Squid, FUN facts need not be TRUE facts, right?

www.colbertnation.com

#7 posted by David Adam Edelstein for the win.

Wait, why is this page not blue?

TOO BULKY! The public won't be snapping these up until they are iPod sized.

What kind of packaging does this toy come in?

These are great! They are the perfect size for a seal snout or bird neck, and when you are done partying you can fling them in the ocean!

Anything that is brass colored bolted to wood is steampunk?

Ok, on3 mor3:
"This is not your father's NASA (his was better)"

"NASA: Every shuttle launch costs $1 Billion"

You can relive those days of tacky pages and stay fully compliant with Bruce Lawson's "Geocities 1996" stylesheet here:

http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/zen/sample.css

Actually I was digging at the guy in the video (he said it) but this is a nerd website after all.

[rcgeek]It's RADIO control, toys that operated REMOTELY from a wire tether existed before this.[/rcgeek]

Totally an act, and a clever one that works!

Whoa where is Eli and Stephan and Craniac?