I've been considering the fashion implications of wearing protective masks since I learned that dust storms will "certainly" become a regular occurence in wake of the impending climate change apocolypse ( Read more... )

I'm breaking hiatus to write about something I heard about listening to Hack on the way home from work today. One of the segments was about a product soon to be released in Australia which lets parents monitor what their kids are doing on their mobiles.

The company providing this "service" is called My Mobile Watchdog. Their Australian website is ( Read more... )

Watching CNN, take a sip every time particular inauguration-related keywords are mentioned. The list of keywords should be mostly pretty low traffic, with the exception of "Barack Obama" which is a three-second scull. "Leader of the free world is a full-glass scull, and "President Barack Hussein Obama" clears the table. Beware sentences such as " ( Read more... )

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I thought this was pretty amazing - water ice on Mars (via /., of course ( Read more... )

Found while reading (ok, I'll admit, re-reading) a somewhat depressing interview with the creator of the Space Quest series:"I don't believe there is a job out there that won't prove to be a disappointment to me since I've already had the best one in the world, regardless of how bad and how hard it was at times, and how many personal sacrifices I ( Read more... )

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... here are some instructions on the use of a tea bag:


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Some rather disturbing images I found whilst searching for clipart of towels this morning:


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