Monthly Archives: November 2007

Need a Restroom? Text Message for It

How many of you have suddenly felt the “call of nature” in a big city, with no way of knowing where the nearest public restroom is? Note the emphasis is on public, right, as “Restrooms are for customers only” signs are a downer.
Londoners have a cell phone-centric way of fixing what ails you.
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Tiny fridge thinks it’s a "Brownian motor"

Physicists have unveiled plans for a tiny machine that uses the random thermal motion of molecules in a gas to turn an axle.
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Kid builds a computer … from his Legos

Obviously the chipset is not a Lego but a huge chunk of this thing is. I like total wastes of time like this.
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Scientists create self-healing material

U.S. scientists have developed a new catalyst-free, self-healing material that is said to offer an inexpensive way to repair structural composites.
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3G iPhone Coming in ‘08: AT&T CEO

I’m sure this makes Steve Jobs just love AT&T even more, as AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson probably just stole some of his Macworld thunder. After all, we all know how Steve Jobs feels about wireless carriers.
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For the first time in more than 25 years, Americans aren’t getting any fatter

The percentage of overweight adults has stayed the same recently, but it’s still at an all-time high.
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Five people killed, 12 injured in bus blast in southern Russia

A passenger bus caught fire and exploded today in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 12.
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Bomb Explodes At Catalan Separatist Party Offices In Spain-AFP

A homemade bomb exploded Thursday outside the offices of a Catalan separatist party in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, damaging the building but causing no casualties, the party said.
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War on Terror Board Game

Here’s one from TerrorBull Games for all you tongue-in-cheek cynics out there . War on Terror [ Amazon , Funagain ] is a strategy board game that fits together many games we love, and themes it with modern day …
Here’s the company line:
Enter a world of political kidnappings, suicide bombers, filthy propaganda, and intercontinental […]

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Why (the hell) are we in Iraq?

This is a question that has never been answered. Or rather the answers, all the answers, do not make logical sense:

Stop weapons of mass destruction - They were never there as has been shown since long before the invasion.
Get the oil- More oil was piped in the oil for food program.
Kill Saddam - Makes a […]

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