CCTV decals for your toilet (5)
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These Etsy-sold CCTV decals make a handsome addition to your white goods, porcelain fittings, and other smooth surfaces. SECURITY CAMERAS vinyl toilet fridge wall or window decal (Thanks, Iain!)
Acclaimed animated movie can't be shown because of licensing costs for 80+ year-old music (29)
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Animator Nina Paley's brilliant film, "Sita Sings The Blues," has been wowing the festival circuit but you're probably not going to see it anytime soon. That's because the company that controls the synch rights to the 80+ year old music in the film want so much money for licensing that Paley can't afford to distribute her movie, despite all the critical acclaim. Question Copyright has a 42-minute interview with Paley on the heartbreak of having ...
Mmm! Scientist Explains “Umami,” the Mysterious “Fifth Taste” (4)
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By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] Ask serious gourmets or gourmands what humans can taste, and they’ll tell you: “Salt, Sweet, Sour and Bitter… oh, yeah, and then there’s ‘Umami,’ but it’s a mystery, no one really knows what it is…” “Umami” is Japanese for “delicious savory,” and until recently, it was a mysterious food “taste” or maybe sensation, that was largely unqualifiable, and certainly unquantifiable. The great French chef Escoffier first postulated this “fifth ...
Car Sales in 2008 Were Horrific (4)
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Wow, these numbers are simply awful: • General Motors U.S. sales plunged to a 49-year low in 2008. December was another poor month, down 31%; • Toyota U.S. deliveries plummeted 37% percent; • Honda fell 35%; • Ford Motor fell 32% • Nissan was down 31% percent; • Chrysler dived 53%; • Mercedes-Benz was off 24; •Audi sales fell 9.3% • BMW sales fell 36% • Subaru sales were down 7.7%; • Volkswagen AG said ...
Split tongue video (15)
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Pierced and be-fanged woman demonstrates how she can wiggle her split tongue. Previously:Long-tongued people - Boing Boing Novelty tongues for dogs - Boing Boing Tongue-mounted vibrators - Boing Boing A tongue piercing gone horribly - Boing Boing Sensor-dentures reveal the secret life of tongues - Boing Boing
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Illegal in the state of Illinois...
Helpless: A New Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Video by Keith Loutit (4)
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Remember Keith Loutit, that talented Australian photographer we featured a few times here on [GAS] for his amazing work with time-lapse videos? To our greatest joy, Keith released yet another masterpiece a few weeks ago, and as usual, we had to share it with you. This one is named “Helpless” and features the daily activity of everything happening at a nameless beach somewhere in Australia. [Via TechEblog]
