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- Christmas tree made out of Heineken bottles
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This giant artificial Christmas tree can be found on Nanjing Road in Shanghai. It's made out of 1,000 empty full(?) Heineken bottles. [via Inhabitat ] --> ...
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- Hunters kill man in animal disguise
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A group in the Greek town of Nemea, Chalkidiki were out hunting wild boar for their holiday supper. The hunters saw an animal moving in the brush, took aim, and fired away. Unfortunately, their target was actually another hunter camouflaged in goat ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 11:13 - 0 comments
- Toaster looks and acts like a printer
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Here's a neat kitchen gadget — a toaster that "prints out" toast. It allows you to feed multiple slices at once from the feeder at top, and spits out finished products from the bottom. It's a concept by Othmar Muehlebach, and it won second ...
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- Slate asks readers to vote on favorite unanswered Explainer question
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One of my favorite Slate features is the Explainer , which answers reader-submitted questions about topical subjects ( Are pigs dying of swine flu? , Why Is Microsoft Fighting So Hard Over Internet Explorer? , Why Do Rappers Hold Their Guns ...
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- Psych professor wants to ban "nerd" and "geek"
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A psychology professor at Bennington College thinks terms like "nerd" and "geek" are damaging , like racial epithets, and need to be banned. Ironically, Dr. David Anderegg is also the author of a book called Nerds: who they are and why we need ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 10:21 - 0 comments
- Suicide Shower (Guatemala snapshot)
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( Click for super grande ). I'm traveling in Central America. I took this snapshot in a K'iche' Maya village in Guatemala where people bathe using a traditional tuj (Maya sweat bath of hot rocks and steam and herbs). I think the ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 08:15 - 0 comments
- 100-word fiction winners
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Reader femaletrouble3 wins an HP MediaSmart EX495 for this entry in our 100-word fiction contest. Runner-up acrocker wins a Peek Pronto. Runner-up Toryhoke wins a mystery prize. Winners, email Rob at Boing Boing dot net for your loot! ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 07:01 - 0 comments
- Technical explanation of Predator drone hack published
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Wikileaks has published what is identified as detail and a demonstration of " how to read out video and mission control data from US Predator drones, which are in operation around the world, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan." ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 06:15 - 0 comments
- Are America's ground-based war robots leaking video to the enemy, too?
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America's battlefield robots may be leaking military secrets . The same security hole that allowed Iraqi insurgents to capture video from unmanned aerial surveillance drones may also have let them spy on ground 'bots. ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 06:12 - 0 comments
- Happy Chanuko!
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Glenn Fleishman says, "My aunt saved this from her childhood, a book that was allegedly attempting to inform children about Hannukah. It's a little odd." Glenn adds that the book was published in 1943. Chanuko Book (Flickr photo set) ...
feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 06:12 - 0 comments
