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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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Weaponizing Mozart: Classical Music for Social Control
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| West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was "subjecting" (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In "special detentions," the children are forced to endure two hours... (More) |
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KitKats of the World
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| In this flickr photo set, the author has taken photographs of strangely flavoured Kit Kat bars from all over the world, featuring such unusual findings like pineapple, grilled potato and soy sauce... (More) |
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The Goodbye Girl
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| I sat down and joined eHarmony. Why eHarmony? It's ads are good, although "Just a fuck" isn't an option when you're asked what kind of relationship you're looking for. (More) |
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Twitter and the Void
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| What kind of sound does a single tweet make? In this article on The Morning News, Elizabeth Kiem considers the reasons she left Twitter, and what it would take to bring other lapsed Tweeters back... (More) |
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You Should Have Seen This Dot Com
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| In no particular order, Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something. (More) |
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Seven Theories to Understand the Universe
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| The "theory of everything" is one of the most cherished dreams of science. If it is ever discovered, it will describe the workings of the universe at the most fundamental level and thus encompass... (More) |
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The 10 Billionth Tweet (Or So)
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| According to the site Gigatweet, we are about an hour away from the 10 billionth tweet sent since the dawn of Twitter. More incredible, this milestone comes less than 5 months after the 5 billionth... (More) |
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