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Wacky and Creative iPhone Cases
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| With nearly 50 million iPhones sold to date, there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of iPhone cases that have been created. This article compiles some of the most creative ones, but also a few... (More) |
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You Can Now Buy Your Own Jetpack
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| Although we are all disappointed that the 21st Century didn't deliver on those flying cars, the Martin Jetpack now comes to the rescue. Conveniently priced at only $86,000, this jetpack will... (More) |
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Car-puccino: 56 Espressos per Mile
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| A team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes the Theory has unveiled a car that runs on coffee. Christened as Car-puccino, the car is actually a modified version of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco.... (More) |
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Toyota Simulator
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| If you don't own a Toyota and want to know what it is like to be trapped in a car with a stuck accelerator, travelling at speeds in the vicinity of 150 kilometres per hour, wait no longer and try... (More) |
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The Devil is in the Vatican
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| According to Father Gabriele Amorth, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, the sex abuse scandals in the Roman... (More) |
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The Average Twitter User
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| Mashable reports on a new study from security firm Barracuda Labs, which provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the... (More) |
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Steve Job's Radical Trust Fail Whale
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| Steve Job doesn't need to remind us how many time's we've bought new iPods over the last nine years. We know. I've personally replaced my iPod four times due to crappy batteries, busted connections... (More) |
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Enhanced Hearing with the Earshell
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| The Earshell, by kawamura-ganjavian studios, is a simple and efficient sound enhancing device. While the device's profile is designed to improve the wearer's ability to listen, the designers also... (More) |
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Safety Issues Loom as Humanoid Invasion Approaches
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| As robots emerging from research labs get smarter, there are moves to put them in increasingly close contact with humans. "We want robots to operate in our human world but they need to be safe,"... (More) |
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When Canadians All Pee At The Same Time
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| The water utility in Edmonton, EPCOR, published the most incredible graph of water consumption last week. By now you've probably heard that up to 80% of Canadians were watching the gold medal... (More) |
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WiFi for the Passive Aggressive
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| When even leaving a note is too direct...you folks with wireless networks still named "linksys" or "trendnet" are clearly missing out on a priceless opportunity to piss off your neighbors. (More) |
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The Fun that Furries Have
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| If the furry fandom truly is friendly and imaginative role-play, not a fetish, why do so many people see it that way? Lisa Katayama, in this BoingBoing special, explains what makes the fandom so... (More) |
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The PeePoo Bag
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| A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market and sell a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world. Once used, the bag can be knotted and... (More) |
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.xxx Internet Domain Comeback
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| A plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult websites will be resurrected three years after it was rejected by internet regulators. Originally conceived in 2005, the idea to create... (More) |
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Trading Bibles for Porn
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| A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio is trying to tempt college kids into trading their Bibles for pornography. Their goal is to prove that "Bronze Aged tribal nonsense... (More) |
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How to Put On a Sports Bra
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| Step 1. Approach the sports bra with confidence, secure in the belief that you will wear it. (More) |
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How They Wash Pets in Japan
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| Japanese pet owners are trying to save money in today's recession by having their dogs and cats washed in a specially designed machine instead of using groomers. (More) |
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A Look at a Chinese Toy Factory
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| Toys being recalled after considerable amounts of lead have been found in the paint is no longer unusual. It's no surprise, then, that all these recalled toys are being manufactured in China, a... (More) |
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The Etymology of 'Cunt'
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| When I taught History of the English Language, I had a lecture on the etymology of the "worst" words in English that I would use to illustrate how historical linguists reason about word histories.... (More) |
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TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
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| TROLOLOLOOOOO LOLOLOOOO OOHOHOOOO HOHOHOHOHOHO!!!! (More) |
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GåågleBot: The Home Crawler
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| GåågleBot (pronounced /google-bot/) is a "home crawler" consisting of a vacuum roomba with an on board webserver and camera. While the vacuum goes about its business, it extracts text... (More) |
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Avoiding a Digital Dark Age
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| The Dead Sea scrolls, made out of still-readable parchment and papyrus, are believed to have been created more than 2,000 years ago. Yet my barely 10-year-old digital floppy disks were essentially... (More) |
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Lawyers for Animals
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| A nationwide referendum is taking place in Switzerland on a proposal to give animals, considered one of the weakest parts in society that needs to be better protected, the constitutional right to... (More) |
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Why AdBlock is Bad
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| Blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love. Imagine running a restaurant where 40% of the people who came and ate didn't pay. In a way, that's what ad blocking is doing to us. Just like... (More) |
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The Secret McMenu Item: The Mc10:35
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| The Consumerist reports about a McDonald's secret menu item that can only be ordered during the changeover from breakfast to the standard menu. The Mc10:35 is the unholy but oh-so-hot union between... (More) |
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