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09/20/07 // Link:
Head-mounted Device is the Cat’s Whiskers Get your spidy sense in realtime. A pretty remarkable project of the Japan that gives you 360 degree sensory awareness: A series of infrared sensors positioned around the device act as invisible whisker or antenna sensors. When these detect an …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Leck Mich im Arsch History is almost always far more ribald and entertaining than we give it credit for, and this is one example I personally didn’t know about. Now, yes, I am bookmarking Wikipedia, but in this case I’ve found outside sources as …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:
10 of the Best Natural Phenomena Very cool list with a number of things I was not familiar with including something called gravity waves, which are described thusly: “In a gravity wave, the upward moving region is the most favorable region for cloud development and the …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Pentagon’s Psychic Vision Revisited Great Interview with the former head of the Pentagon’s “Remote Viewing” project on Wired’s Danger Room blog. From Sharon Weinberger’s intro: “John Alexander, a former Green Beret, earned a reputation in the 1990s as a vocal advocate of nonlethal weapons …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:
Museum’s Broken Treasure Not Just Any Old Shit Somewhere in these link archives there’s story about people that collect weird things and how it’s about time they let them go. Well, this would probably qualify by that author’s yardstick, but I dunno, poop is almost always entertaining. From …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
The Bicycle-Eating Tree From the Museum of Hoaxes (which this is not): “The bicycle-eating tree is probably familiar to most residents of Washington, since it’s located on Vashon Island, Washington (and won a 1994 contest to select the most unusual places or events …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Drifting Rubber Duckies Chart Oceans Of Plastic Awesome. I really want to take some time off and go look for these things. Theirs is an epic tale of resilience and pluck, a seafarer’s yarn of high-seas adventure that has seen them brave some of the world’s wildest …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
Stilton Launch Blue Cheese Perfume This sounds so damn wrong, but the makers of the famously pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume. Oh yes, and it is apparently, “an eminently wearable perfume.” I dunno as much as I like Stilton I don’t …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
The Tunguska Incident One of the major plot points and running themes in Pynchon’s last book, I’ve developed a bit of a fascination with the Tunguska Incident. “At 7:15am on June 30, 1908, a blue-white fireball flew over the remote region of central …continue reading »
04/21/07 // Link:
The Peruvian Church of Cthulhu My fellow Wired writers over at Table of Malcontents are mildly obsessed with the Cthulhu, throw in a Church dedicated to Cthulhu and they’re pretty much smitten. Worth it for the picture alone.continue reading »
02/02/07 // Link:
Windows that become mirrors at the flip of a switch A fancy new glass has been developed in Japan, one that promises to cut down on the energy usage of buildings everywhere. It looks like a normal window regularly, but at the flip of a switch it turn to a …continue reading »
01/24/07 // Link:
Skid Mark Brief Safe The perfect travel safe - The “Brief Safe” is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you’re traveling. Items can be hidden …continue reading »
12/28/06 // Link:
Egyptian temple in GA from Nuwaubian Nation of Moors destroyed Just outside of Athens GA where I used to live was a religious group who called themselves the Nubians. The Nubians constructed a giant temple/replica of the egyptian pyramids. Alas apparently the Nubian leader was convicted of child molestation and …continue reading »
08/08/06 // Link:
Creation: The Time Fountain Absolutely brilliant little fountain that uses UV LED’s and something called Fluorescein to create a fountain where drops of water can be paused and even reversed in real time (it takes advantage of an optical illusion involving strobed motion and …continue reading »
08/04/06 // Link:
Attractive couples have girls… “Good-looking parents are 36 percent more likely to give birth to a girl than less-attractive couples, which also explains why women are, on average, better looking than men.”continue reading »

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