We’ve all been expecting Apple to release a 3G version of the iPhone at some point during this year. It turns out, it may be coming sooner rather than later. Ken Dulaney, analyst for Gartner, is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
On the way in from doing a CNBC spot early (early) this morning I heard a Cato Institute commentator on NPR suggest that critics shouldn't be blaming ex- Fed chair Alan Greenspan for inflating a bubble... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 4:36 pm
As consumer applications continue to migrate from the desktop to the Webtop, one of the most advanced areas where this trend is taking hold is in photo-editing software. Desktop editing apps like iPhoto,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:36 pm
The New York Times's Henry Alford prepared a gourmet meal for a dinner party using ingredients he bought at $0.99 stores:
The four friends I served dinner to included two who had shopped for food at 99-cent stores and two who had not. Guests were met with an antipasto tray — pepperoncini, olives, artichoke hearts, crackers, very greasy salami and a hockey puck of Brie that I had softened by baking.
Disparate nibbling yielded several polite, neutral comments. My guests stared off into the mid-distance as if in the throes of Art Appreciation. But the compliments started flying when I served my chilled pear soup — nothing more than a mixture of Goya and Kern’s pear nectars that I served in beautiful Chinese bowls with star anise floating on top. (Mark: “I feel like I’m at a chic restaurant.” Heather: “I’ve cleaned my bowl.”)
Our entree of penne with peas and turkey bacon in a light cream sauce gave way to much conversation about frozen peas. I explained that food luminaries like Marcella Hazan and the Silver Palate women approve of them. Heather told us how she had used bags of frozen peas to help soothe her mother after her hip replacement surgery.
The flourless pecan torte that I served for dessert met with approval, but nothing like the semiriotous adulation inspired by my subsequent offering of a 3.5-oz. Toblerone bar. (Scott: “Wow!” Heather: “Nice!” Greg: “Airport candy!”)
Ranjit Mathoda writes "Marc Andreeson, the cofounder of Netscape, met Senator Barack Obama in early 2007. Mr. Andreeson recalls, "In particular, the Senator was personally interested in the rise of social networking, Facebook, Youtube, and user-generated content, and casually but persistently grilled us on what we thought the next generation of social media would be and how social networking might affect politics — with no staff present, no prepared materials, no notes. He already knew a fair amount about the topic but was very curious to actually learn more." As a social organizer and a lover of new technologies, Mr. Obama could be expected to make good use of such tools in getting elected, and he has done so. What may not be as obvious is that Mr. Obama appears to have a keen interest in using such technologies in the act of governing. And whether Mr. Obama becomes president, or Mrs. Clinton or Mr. McCain do, these new tools have , by the People and for the People communicates and operates."
Supporters of the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change were forced by Mugabe's intelligence offers to take down their party's campaign posters and then eat them.
According to Amnesty, the officials forced the opposition supporters to chew the posters and swallow them.
"We continue to receive reports of intimidation, harassment and violence against perceived supporters of opposition candidates - with many in rural regions fearful that there will be retribution after the elections," said Amnesty's Zimbabwe researcher, Simeon Mawanza, who has recently returned from the country.
LONDON (Reuters) - Passengers on UK-registered aircraft could soon be able to use their mobile phones to make calls and send text messages, the telecommunications regulator Ofcom said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:49 pm
Tracey Ullman does a dead-on imitation of Arianna Huffington on her new show. Can’t embed it — fools — but go to this page and click the right-arrow on the videos until you see her. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:49 pm
"Going For an English" is a classic sketch from the British variety show "Goodness Gracious Me," in which an Indian family goes out "for an English" after drinking too much, patronizing the waiter and demanding the blandest thing on the menu. It's some goddamned funny stuff.
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(Thanks, Neil and Farah!)
The head of the UN intergovernment climate change body on Wednesday voiced strong concern at the accelerated melting of the polar ice caps, calling for international tariffs on carbon... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:39 pm
In a clear move to keep Motorola’s flagging mobile phone sales from pulling down its lucrative broadband and switching enterprise services the company is splitting into two publicly-traded organizations... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist has video of Nasa's new Chariot lunar rover in action on simulated moon surface in Houston. As the associated story explains, the two-ton "truck" has a top speed of 20km/hour and is currently fitted with a plough, with additional back hoe and drill attachments to come. Sure it's not glamorous — more of a lunar tractor — but sure looks handy for establishing that permanent moon base NASA wants."
Alex Iskold, founder and CEO of our portfolio company Adaptive Blue, wrote this on Read Write Web yesterday. It's a great primer on semantic web technologies and the companies that are working in the sector,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:31 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
I just typed this while writing the book: Before the public can learn to trust the powerful, the powerful must learn to trust the public. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
In a clear move to keep Motorolas flagging mobile phone sales from pulling down its lucrative broadband and switching enterprise services the company is splitting into two publicly-traded organizations... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:09 pm
In the violent tangle that is sex between giant squids, almost anything can happen, including accidentally injecting yourself with firehose-pressure blasts of sperm.
The report goes on: "Although mating has never been observed in giant squid, it is thought that what happens is that the male injects his sperm packages into the female's arms. The process is likely to be a fairly violent affair as the female is probably not that keen on being injected. This is a problem for the amorous male as females are normally a third bigger than they are.
"But males get round their inferior size by being endowed with a particularly long penis, which means they can inject the female without having to get too close to her chomping beak. The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body - excluding legs and head.
"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.
In the violent tangle that is sex between giant squids, almost anything can happen, including accidentally injecting yourself with firehose-pressure blasts of sperm. The report goes on: "Although mating... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:56 pm
Bruce Sterling's "Revenge of the Slow" in this month's Metropolis Magazine is a thought-provoking history and analysis of the Slow Food movement, a massive, moneyed global phenomenon that aims to fight globalization by creating cachet for items that can't be scaled up to global prominence.
As a nonprofit heritage organization, the Slow Food empire retains a mere 150 full-time employees with a modest budget of $37 million a year. Yet Slow Food has invented the modern Italian food-heritage industry. Today it is a thriving ganglion of local chapters, called convivia, which number about 83,000 people in more than 100 countries. It’s also a publishing house specializing in tourist guidebooks, restaurant recipes, and heritage reprints.
The group is the suave host for massive international food events in Torino. Other Slow Food emanations include a hotel, various nonprofit foundations, and—in a particularly significant development—a private college. The University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded in 2004, is the training ground for 200-plus international Slow Food myrmidons per year, who are taught to infiltrate farms, groceries, heritage tourism, restaurants, commercial consortia, hotel chains, catering companies, product promotion, journalism, and government. These areas are, of course, where Slow Food already lives...
Slow Food deploys its convivia to serve as talent scouts for food rarities (such as Polish Mead, the Istrian Giant Ox, and the Tehuacan Amaranth). Candidate discoveries are passed to Slow Food’s International Ark Commission, which decides whether the foodstuff is worthy of inclusion. Its criteria are strict: (a) Is the product nonglobalized or, better yet, inherently nonglobalizable? (b) Is it artisanally made (so there’s no possibility of any industrial economies of scale)? (c) Is it high-quality (the consumer “wow” factor)? (d) Is it sustainably produced? (Not only is this politically pleasing, but it swiftly eliminates competition from most multinationals.) (e) Is this product likely to disappear from the planet otherwise? (Biodiversity must be served!)
MojoKid writes "Eco-friendly or "green" products are becoming much more fashionable these days, especially in things like high-end electronics, where the impact on the environment and the disposal of these products is being regulated now by such things as the RoHS compliance standard. In addition, power consumption is also being looked at more closely for all the obvious reasons. Hard Drive manufacturer Western Digital recently took the initiative by being the first drive manufacture to produce and market a lower power version of their Caviar line of hard drives. The numbers here show that a green hard drive will probably only save an average end user about 10 watts in total system power consumption. However, from a data center perspective, where demand for storage is growing by the petabyte at an alarming rate, 10 watts per drive can certainly add up quick"
MIT students honored the dear departed geek hero Gary Gygax (creator of Dungeons and Dragons) by fabricating a gigantic D20 and rolling it into the notorious prank zone Killian Court. Eric Schmiedl's got a gallery of great photos of the natural 20 in all its glory.
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(via Laughing Squid)
Techeblog has a nice roundup of old game consoles modded into working guitars. The Sega Genesis axe takes the cake, especially for the look of quiet pride on the maker's face as he proffers it to the camera. Go Nigel go!
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Craftster user Kaby made this magnificent knitted Wonder Woman sweater and has graciously provided a tutorial for making your own:
It took me 14 months to make, using 4ply wool, 3mm needles, a plain jumper pattern from the seventies, a ton of graph paper and pictures of Wonder Woman, and about a million bobbins for the intarsia.
The June, 1930 issue of Modern Mechanix carried this short article on a "reducing" machine for doggies. It claims to "save wear on husbands."
The contraption, which was first exhibited at the Los Angeles Dog Show, permits the dog to run for an hour without getting anywhere, and the proud owner may be sure that Fido will not get lost. If a rabbit passes by the dog has a good run while bunny stands around nibbling clover. A flywheel supplies momentum.
exphose writes "A small, hippie-friendly town in northern California, Sebastopol, had made an agreement with Sonic.net to provide free Wi-Fi across the downtown area. However, not everyone in town was pleased with the arrangement. According to Sebastopol Mayor Craig Litwin, citizens had voiced concerns that 'create enough suspicion that there may be a health hazard' and so they canceled their contract with Sonic.net. Some more details are at the blog of Sonic.net's CEO."
Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time. If it works, the system Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:47 am
Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are discussing a plan to fund a new wireless Internet venture that would be run by Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., The Wall Street... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:39 am
Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been uncovered in Scotland. Scientists believe the meteorite struck about 1.2 billion years ago near Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
Tel Aviv-based Israel Chemicals has signed an agreement with Yam Tethys Partners defining the terms under which it will purchase approximately two billion cubic meters of natural gas to be supplied through 2015. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Phil Sutin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar. 26--FLORISSANT -- City residents should not pay a new surcharge on trash bills for recycling pickup until officials determine whether a county requirement that haulers provide the service applies to Florissant, Mayor Robert Lowery says. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Mar. 26--RALEIGH -- The water supply pool in Falls Lake was at 75.9 percent of capacity as of Tuesday, meaning the city of Raleigh isn't likely to ease its restrictions on water use anytime soon. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Text of report by Pinak Roy headlined "Dhaka sits on big hollow; groundwater level drops three metres a year; collapse in surface feared as aquifers not recharged adequately" published by Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star website on 26 March Groundwater table in the capital has dropped down to 61.18 metres below the surface, 35 metres in the last eleven years, due to lack of recharging which has put the sprawling metropolis at great risk. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Bill Graham, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Mar. 26--The Missouri River will get a two-day "spring pulse" from upstream water releases to help an endangered fish, despite opposition. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AZZ incorporated , a manufacturer of electrical products and a provider of galvanizing services, will conduct a conference call to review financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 year end at 11:00AM ET on Friday, April 4, 2008. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The Diocese of Harrisburg announced that Donna Kaylor, who has taught at St. Anne School for 44 years, has won the Golden Apple Award. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Adam Lynn, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Mar. 26--The year was 1978, and Joseph Tarricone wanted Renee Ray Curtiss for his own. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Covario, Inc. (formerly SEMDirector, Inc.), the leader in interactive marketing analytics, today announced results of a seven-month study based on data from 300 major brands, analyzed March 1, 2007 through October 15, 2007. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Stephen Williams, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Mar. 26--As a stay-at-home mom living in Garden City with two babies, Vera Sweeney needed an outlet, a place to pour her creative energy, a place to indulge her obsession with celebrity gossip. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Erin Kutz The IRS is taking a cue from aspiring comedians and Barack Obama aficionados this week, making use of YouTube to get its message out. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By David Lieberman NEW YORK -- Advertisers and marketers, struggling to keep up with changing consumer habits, are about to make massive investments in new digital and out-of-home media platforms, according to a forecast out today from research firm PQ Media. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
BEIJING, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radware , the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced today that China Mobile Group Guangdong Co., Ltd (Guangdong Mobile) has successfully deployed Radware's AppDirector in its Unified Application Platform (UAP) across 20 of its subsidiaries. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Al Gibes Anything is possible. Just ask Tom Breitling, who, along with best friend and business partner Tim Poster have already had success in the Internet travel and Las Vegas hotel-casino worlds. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore could lose its national accreditation unless the aging facility fixes a host of expensive problems stemming from years of financial struggles. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
His Majesty the King has voiced concern over the haze situation in the North as the air quality in several northern provinces is poised to reach danger levels. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
PITTSBURGH, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) CERT Program, together with the Financial Services Technology Consortium... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 9:56 am
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Signature Devices, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SDVI) is pleased to announce that the Company has finished development on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 9:51 am
Predictions Market writes "Low doses of hydrogen sulfide, the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs, can safely and reversibly depress both metabolism and aspects of cardiovascular function in mice, producing a suspended-animation-like state that does not depend on a reduction in body temperature and include a substantial decrease in heart rate without a drop in blood pressure. The researchers measured factors such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration, and physical activity in normal mice exposed to low-dose (80 ppm) hydrogen sulfide for several hours. In all the mice, metabolic measurements such as consumption of oxygen and production of carbon dioxide dropped in as little as 10 minutes after they began inhaling hydrogen sulfide, remained low as long as the gas was administered, and returned to normal within 30 minutes of the resumption of a normal air supply. 'Producing a reversible hypometabolic state could allow organ function to be preserved when oxygen supply is limited, such as after a traumatic injury,' says the lead author of the study. 'We don't know yet if these results will be transferable to humans, so our next step will be to study the use of hydrogen sulfide in larger mammals.' The full report is available online."
By Anonymous ENVIRONMENT The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) database has been updated to include information for the 2006 reporting year. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Keairns, Dale L When the chemical engineers of the Class of 2008 retire, essentially all of the current electric power generating capacity will have been replaced with new capacity. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 26 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
The panel did not react quickly to consumer complaints and broke open-meeting laws, the report says. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
An order to trim $16 million from the popular missions is withdrawn. But even bigger reductions might be called for later. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Dell Inc. said Tuesday that the computer industry was experiencing a shortage of batteries for laptop models in part because of a recent fire at a major supplier. The computer maker said it was working... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
An order to trim $16 million from the popular missions is withdrawn. But even bigger reductions might be called for later. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of the Open Document Format standard has written a letter (PDF) that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's OOXML file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. 'As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its features, urge the widest use of it as possible, none of which is accomplished by the anti-OpenXML position in ISO,' Patrick Durusau wrote. 'The bottom line is that OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses... Passage of OpenXML in ISO is going to benefit OpenDocument as much as anyone else.'"
Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are discussing a plan to fund a new wireless Internet venture that would be run by Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., The Wall Street Journal reported late... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 4:55 am
stoolpigeon writes "IBM has made a move to support open source RDBMS PostgreSQL by investing in EnterpriseDB, a company that supports PostgreSQL as well as selling their own proprietary extensions to the database product. IBM participated in a $10 million funding round, though the article doesn't say how much they invested. In the past EnterpriseDB has primarily advertised itself as an Oracle competitor, though the article says, 'Derek Rodner, EnterpriseDB's director of product strategy, explained that Postgres Plus 8.3 also adds in new application quick starts which are supposed to help with installation issues. They will also help in EnterpriseDB's battle against MySQL for open source database supremacy.'"
A second company planning to build nuclear plants has established a partnership with a reactor vendor to play a major role in building reactors around the United States. NRG Energy, based in Princeton,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:36 am
Next time youre considering whether to run for president, dont forget to weigh the value of the fast and free genealogical research that comes with candidacy, guaranteed to uncover your ancestral connection... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:36 am
tblake writes "Back in 1968, Modern Mechanix mused what life would be like in 40 years. Some things they came pretty close on: 'Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees' accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card's number is fed into the store's computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.' Some things are way off: 'The car accelerates to 150 mph in the city's suburbs, then hits 250 mph in less built-up areas, gliding over the smooth plastic road. You whiz past a string of cities, many of them covered by the new domes that keep them evenly climatized year round.' And some things are sorta right: 'TV screens cover an entire wall in most homes and show most subjects other than straight text matter in color and three dimensions. In addition to programmed TV and the multiplicity of commercial fare, you can see top Broadway shows, hit movies and current nightclub acts for a nominal charge.'"
Starved for more wireless bandwidth, a cadre of tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Dell and HP are lobbying the FCC to deregulate more of the radio spectrum.
Starved for more wireless bandwidth, a cadre of tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Dell and HP are lobbying the FCC to deregulate more of the radio spectrum.
OTDR alerts us to the latest software patent stupidity in the news as patent number 6,418,462, "methods allowing clients to perform tasks through a sideband communication channel, in addition to the main communication channel between a client and server," snubs its nose at AJAX, ftp, and decades of prior art and goes on sale next month in San Fransisco. "Singled out are AJAX mashups including Google Maps and Gmail, and Microsoft 'Live'... Also in the frame are Amazon's S3 and EC2 and clusters from Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle. eBay's Skype, Napster, and Microsoft's Groove are also listed as potentially infringing on the patent in P2P."
Most consumer-level broadband providers make it difficult to share music or run a web server out of your home. To tackle the fun stuff, you'll need a better way to be seen on the internet, and the best way to do that is with dynamic DNS.
Chapter80 writes "At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives as a way to get sleeping users to remove the ORDB query from their spam filters. The net effect: all mail is blocked on servers still configured to use the ORDB service, which was taken out of commission in December of 2006. So if you're not getting any mail, check your spam filter configuration!"
The first attempt at using new technology for the national census is creating so many problems for head-counters that officials are talking about a "statistical Katrina" and giving serious thought to returning to the reliability of pencil and paper.
The first attempt at using new technology for the national census is creating so many problems for head-counters that officials are talking about a "statistical Katrina" and giving serious thought to returning to the reliability of pencil and paper.
Axiotron has developed a MacBook tablet that should send shivers down Apple's spine. Despite a few key lackings, the Modbook is better, a little faster and stronger than its foldable progenitor.
Axiotron has developed a MacBook tablet that should send shivers down Apple's spine. Despite a few key lackings, the Modbook is better, a little faster and stronger than its foldable progenitor.
The four friends I served dinner to included two who had shopped for food at 99-cent stores and two who had not. Guests were met with an antipasto tray — pepperoncini, olives, artichoke hearts, crackers, very greasy salami and a hockey puck of Brie that I had softened by baking.
The report goes on: "Although mating has never been observed in giant squid, it is thought that what happens is that the male injects his sperm packages into the female's arms. The process is likely to be a fairly violent affair as the female is probably not that keen on being injected. This is a problem for the amorous male as females are normally a third bigger than they are.
Techeblog has a nice roundup of old game consoles modded into working guitars. The Sega Genesis axe takes the cake, especially for the look of quiet pride on the maker's face as he proffers it to the camera. Go Nigel go!
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It took me 14 months to make, using 4ply wool, 3mm needles, a plain jumper pattern from the seventies, a ton of graph paper and pictures of Wonder Woman, and about a million bobbins for the intarsia.
The contraption, which was first exhibited at the Los Angeles Dog Show, permits the dog to run for an hour without getting anywhere, and the proud owner may be sure that Fido will not get lost. If a rabbit passes by the dog has a good run while bunny stands around nibbling clover. A flywheel supplies momentum.
