Jul 05, 2009 16:13
- From the Words I Didn't Know Until Yesterday Department: Forcemeat is meat ground sufficiently fine to make it cohere with a fat base, and mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients before incorporating in pates, stuffings, and sausages.
- The Weather Channel is running saturation-level advertising for a "3D chalk" product from Crayola, which
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This fake USB drives thing has been going on for years. Here is a report (PDF Alert) I wrote about them in 2005, when a number of people I know were taken in by them
http://www.seoulcc.org/consumer-alert-sony/Report_on_Sony_Thumb_Drives.pdf
Basically, they were 32 or 64MB thumb drives pretending to be 8GB.
Never buy eletronics at the Silk Market...
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Here is a short video of Dick Van Dyke as Bert creating his chalk art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8G1JWFh5oo
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Your blog and websites are first rate!
Do you know of a site that has old Popular Electronics articles??
I'm looking for an article I read when I was a kid: "Planning to be an Electrical Engineer?" by Forest Frantz Sr. June 1955.
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http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Popular_Electronics.htm
He emphasizes articles on a particular company (SWTP, makers of computers and other early digital things) but he's got some other articles as well.
There's no single site that posts a lot of articles, but you find a few here and there. I suggest searching for that particular author's name, in quotes so the search is for the full name.
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