It's great that the modules can be split apart and reordered physically. Kids can each take one, run off and find a sound, come back, and then figure out the best order to arrange them in - you never know which fart is going to come out soprano until after it's recorded. There's just something dead-simple about each module having its own record button. Grab it, take it out, hold it up to something, record.

Perhaps these Casio keyboards allowed you to reorder the sounds you'd recorded after the fact. But this flute strikes me as more of a UI innovation than a functionality innovation. I mean, how out-there is recording and playing back sounds, anyway? The point here is that it's dead easy and all the UI is in hardware.

Dear BoingBoing,

Please do as you see fit and don't feel compelled to excuse yourselves. Really. No editorial call you could make with this site would register on my radar as a "free speech abuse." I hardly think that being an uncensored public tablet is any kind of mission at play here. It's an editorial publication, not the public commons. And nothing can take away the many wonderful things I've found and learned here. Shit happens. Sometimes a minor edit to the archives can make a real difference for someone's present and future. We're human.

Having seen enough attention-whoring trolls wage their attention-grabbing campaigns against good sites, I can safely say I am not at all curious about the details of what happened here. Don't need to know 'em. Not even a little. Plenty of tawdry internet drama out there. Seen it, done that.

You are far, far too good to us, your audience, for even making mention of this.

scarabic

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Randomly superimposing a crackling duraflame over his chest is pure genius. Nice attention to detail!

Actually, I wanted it. I like to waste time browsing through YouTube, and it's occurred to me more than once that you should be able to assemble several videos someone can play all together. It's not exactly a "pain" to click one video after another, but I have wished sometimes that I could just turn YouTube on and leave it on and watch it like TV - hands off. The ability to string YouTube videos together creates the ability to apply your editorial sense and create a "channel" of sorts. I'd love to find people whose taste I trust and subscribe to their "picks of the day," or something like that, instead of always hunting and pecking through the videos myself.

Having seen Amy Tan speak/read a few times I knew it would be the dog. I saw her read as part of a panel once. She sat with the other writers on a barstool at the rear of the stage while one by one the authors read to the audience. She had her toy dog in her purse the whole time and I swear she gave it sips from her longneck beer bottle.

I missed the "explaining rejuvenation research" part.

Bah. This is hardly posture critique.

A nice fitted sheet with plenty of slack in the middle could still allow this to work well. I think fewer gaps could also work as well and keep things simpler.

For a long time I've wanted a mattress with a gap down by my feet so I can point my toes down while sleeping on my belly. Pointing my toes in sleep makes my hamstrings shorter for a full 8 hours, which makes them tight the next day, which can throw my back out eventually...

Great idea! I hope Ikea steals it (DOH!)

>>some of my favorite films have been ones to successfully combine blistering satire, light-hearted comic relief and wrenching tragedy into one piece

Which films are these, curiously? Sounds like a pretty tall order, especially to be done well.