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England Turning Into Brazil
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| Sounding more like a scene from Terry Gilliam's movie, the British government is running a commercial on one of England's most popular radio stations which encourages Londoners to report their... (More) |
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Classic Videogames Mutate in Game Over Art Show
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| With this gallery, Wired.com brings to attention the Game Over 3 Exhibition, featuring artworks inspired by classic videogames like Street Fighter and Ms. Pac-Man from dozens of illustrators,... (More) |
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Laptops Evicted from Lecture Halls
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| David Cole of Georgetown Law was among the first professors in the Washington region to ban laptops for most of his students, compelling them to take notes the way their parents did: on paper. A... (More) |
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5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
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| Cracked.com asks: are some games intentionally designed to keep you compulsively playing, even when you're not enjoying it? Oh, hell yes, it answers, and their methods are downright creepy. (via... (More) |
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The Secret Origin of Microsoft Windows
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| A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there. In this article, Trower recounts the inside story of his... (More) |
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The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts
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| If music executives sold bottled water, they'd be calling for a ban on tapwater downloads at home as unfair competition. Yet the bottled water industry should have been their model. It got away... (More) |
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The Prime Minister is on YouTube, and He Takes Questions
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| In turning to YouTube to get his message out to Canadians "unfiltered" by the national media, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has opened up a YouTube can of worms. More than 170 questions have poured... (More) |
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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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