Daft Punk designer toys (1)
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French electronica duo Daft Punk have been transformed into a pair of Medicom Be@rbricks designer toys. They come in pairs and are almost a foot tall. Daft Punk vinyl toys
Blog of funny newspaper clippings (2)
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Snake-proof baby crib from early 1900s (1)
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Fafblog brings us the real Obama facts (1)
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Fafblog -- the funniest writing on the net for my money -- tackles the question of Barack Obama's dark side: FACT! Barack Obama has been friends with Rashid Khalidi, an openly Arab Arab who is so Arab he writes about other Arabs. Is Barack Obama part of the international Arab conspiracy to trick white people into thinking about Arabs? Answer: also maybe. FACT! Barack Obama talks about his white mother and his white grandparents and ...
Video of a guy implanting an RFID chip into his hand (3)
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On his YouTube page, Quethe writes about getting an RFID chip injected into his hand: I implanted a RFID chip in my hand. I injected the chip myself from supplies bought on the internet. This tag is readable from up to 2 inches from my hand. I am currently using it to open my handgun safe for instant access. I can have a gun in hand in one second in blackness without fumbling with buttons ...
The Essence of the Rescue Plan (3)
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As explained by Mike "Mish" Shedlock one of the smartest and most iconoclastic financial analysts writing on the economy: "To stimulate lending, the bailout plan will attempt to recapitalize banks. The method of recapitalization is best described as robbing Taxpayer Pete to pay Wall Street Paul. In essence, money is taken from the poor (via taxes, printing, and weakening of the dollar) and given to the wealthy so the wealthy supposedly will have enough money ...
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets (1)
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Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, the timestream temporarily spat us all out of Infomercia, and so we did as we usually do. We ridiculed the photoshop disasters of Lexar and puked in our mouths a little about e-mail notification lamps. Beschizza considered buying a rug covered in roadkill and lusted after Nokia's WiMax tablet. We chuckled over cornflakes at XKCD's oh-so-true take on piracy, and our mouths watered when we considered a cotton candy machine ...
Brain's reaction to hand transplant (2)
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When he was 19, David Savage lost his hand in a machine accident. Thirty-five years later, he had a replacement hand installed. Amazingly, the same region that controlled his hand when he had one kicked right back into gear to deal with his new appendage. This surprised scientists because other research has shown that once a limb is gone, the associated brain region quickly picks up other duties. From Science News: When Savage had both ...
Duct tape bandages (2)
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TSA didn't keep track of ex-employees' badges and uniforms (4)
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A Homeland Security Committee investigation has found that the TSA was negligent in keeping track of former officers' uniforms and badges, so that an unknown number are now floating around, ready to be worn by anyone who wants to impersonate a TSA officer in order to bring a 3.1 ounce tube of toothpaste into a major US airport, thus causing every plane in the sky to crash simultaneously. Investigators found numerous cases in which former ...
Science of gossip (2)
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Why do we gossip? Apparently, the trait evolved as an important way to bond small groups together. In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have began studying gossip, first to define what it is (and isn't) and then to explore why it evolved. The new issue of Scientific American Mind surveys the latest science of gossip. From SciAm Mind: Why does private information about other people represent such an irresistible temptation for us? In his book Grooming, ...
HOWTO Make a spider-cake with Pocky legs (2)
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Not Martha's got the recipe for brewing up these dome-cake spiders with spindly Pocky legs -- now that's Hallowe'en fun! Little known fact: cakes in the shapes of insects have no calories. Spider Cakes (Thanks, Marilyn!)
Ridley Scott to adapt Haldeman's Forever War (3)
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Ridley Scott has acquired the film-rights to Joe Haldeman's magnificent, Hugo-award-winning classic science fiction novel, The Forever War. This is one of the great anti-war novels of all time. As I wrote about it in 2003, "I picked up a copy of Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War last night as a gift for a friend, but I'm going to keep it. I got to re-reading it last night (for the first time in ...
John Cleese on Palin: "Monty Python Could Have Written This." (11)
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The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (6)
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Feral House has published the The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is offering it as a bound book and a free PDF. Feral House offers this important and urgent publication of Dennis Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment this election season in two formats: an offset-printed paperback book available for the cost of $12 and a free downloadable PDF available below. David Swanson’s additional article ...
Photos of trash cars (1)
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Robyn Miller, a permaguest blogger at Dinosaurs and Robots, took this photo of an old station wagon stuffed to the gills with garbage. He then went looking for more of the same on Flickr and posted five other examples of trash cars. I imagine you could sift through the junk in each car and piece together an interesting, albeit sad, life story of its owner. Trash Cars
TSA screener ripped off hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of electronics from passengers, TSA itself didn't notice (7)
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MadScott sez, "TSA Screener Pythias Brown walked off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of passengers' belongings without ever being observed by the TSA, selling the items on Ebay (apparently he was good about customer service). Pythias started small, stealing cameras, laptop computers, gaming consoles and eventually moved on to the good stuff including a video camera belonging to CNN, and a $47,900 camera stored inside the bag of an HBO employee. The items were ...
UK's plan to allow for arbitrary 42-day imprisonment without charge is dead(ish) (2)
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Amnesty UK's Damian sends us Terrorism, Security and Human Rights, "a brilliant film attacking the way in which we are sleepwalking in the UK into abuses of human rights. Released on the day that the House of Lords is categorically destroying the 'argument' for extending the period people can be locked up without charge in the UK from 28 days to 42. Compare with 2 days in the US." Better yet, according to the Guardian, ...
XKCD strip explains how DRM creates piracy (8)
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Today's XKCD is a fantastic, pithy and sharp commentary on the perils of buying DRM-locked media. I love this strip. Steal This Comic (Thanks to everyone who suggested this!)
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Haltse said:
Much as I hate the ethics behind most pirates is the way Audible's system works. I've been with them for years and have masses of books.All at their whim so I record them in real time to my drive and re encode( time consuming) Amazon said they'd kill the DRM so far, they've not. Soon as a competitor that doesn't suck ( emusic's CS when I tried the service was less than impressive, e.g cancel the account type impressive) I'll be moving on. Meanwhile enjoy the new ruleS:D
