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If their like me, I will flirt with pretty much anything (Grin)     Charlie is the kind of girl your mom wants you to date. She’s smart, polite, low maintenance, not to mention exotically pretty (can’t quite place her ethnic background). She’s also got a great job. Why not ask her out? Well, there’s

Wanting to stray as far from any Indiana Jones imagery as possible with Tomb Raider, video game developer Core Design originally chose a strong South American female as their lead character. Lead artist Toby Gard chose the name ‘Laura Cruz’, but, seeing as Core Design had recently been acquired by another British company, upper management

Simon Pierro, a self-made German magician has published a demo of a preview version of iOS 5. We admit it, it’s not the real iOS 5, but it’s loaded with “magical” features that makes many of us wish it was real. Simon, using his iPad running “iOS 5″, begins by literally pulling out the home

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We need more of these —- Caztek Engineering has built a bike-bus that carries 14 people and moves by pedal power. As in, you sit and cycle to move the bus. The only redeeming thing? It’s a moving bar—you’re supposed to drink and drive. The bike-bus, called the CityCycle, maxes out at 6mph so it’s

This is pretty neat ! My cat loves it.   Kev _____   Friskies® Presents a Lineup of Three New Games for Cats. Friskies® is excited to feed your cats’ senses with three new games made just for cats. The colors, movement, and game-play have been researched and tested for maximum feline fun. See the

  What Is Planking? Casey Chan — Planking is blowing up the news these day. Old people would say it’s another instance of why the youth is screwed. Kids would fire back that it’s the most fun you can have being still. Who’s right? And just what the hell is planking?     It’s a

Rovio Mobile, the makers of smash hit mobile game Angry Birds announced a new browser-based version of the game at today’s Google I/O event. The new release was built using WebGL and uses local-caching so players can continue to cause mayhem even when not connected to the internet

The lunchtime fridge-raider. The stapler crook. The golden parachuter. Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out. Your guide: toy designer John Austin, who spent years miniaturizing firepower for G.I. Joe and Star Wars figurines. In MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction, he describes how to cobble together a small-scale arsenal from supply-closet

Visionary garage tenants Faber and Haberle.   CAMBRIDGE, MA—In the summer of 1980, MIT graduates Donald Faber and Peter Haberle moved into an empty two-car garage and started work building their first ever personal home computer. Almost 30 years later, what began as a humble two-man operation has since grown into an even more humble,

CANTON, OH—QT2D-7, an 11-year-old electric assembly-operations robot, was laid off Monday when the Lawn-Boy plant that has employed him relocated its manufacturing headquarters to New Delhi, India. Enlarge Image QT2D-7 in front of its former place of employment. “Query: What am I going to do now?” QT2D-7 said, panning its infrared eye across the empty

AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES Now there’s a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word. 4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. Image via Wikipedia Assert your rights without saying a word. 4thamendmentwear. Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Related articles Robert Dean Cites 4th Amendment Violation, Sues TSA Over Full-Body Scans (huffingtonpost.com)

Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration made an emergency announcement Monday to alert all U. S. citizens that “a force or forces unknown” is turning seemingly normal bananas black, soft, and virtually inedible in as little as 72 hours. “Whatever is causing the dramatic and frankly disgusting changes in these bananas is able

Here is another Sony Product. Look out consumers (Grin) Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network. Sony

BOSTON—An Internet worm that disabled networks across the U.S. Monday and Tuesday temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992. 48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity “In all my years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Price Stern Sloan system administrator Andrew Walton, whose effort to restore web

This is pretty neat using the new Google instant search. Ok, so not only is Google Instant rejiggering how we think about search, but it is also a clever way to create instant music videos. We saw this with the official Google Instant version of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (where the lyrics on the

I love my iPad so much that I hug it daily, but I don’t think it could ever replace newspapers. After all, how could I ever use my magical gadget to murder an innocent creature? Theoretically I certainly could use my iPad to commit an act of violence, but it’d be gadget homicide too. [AllThingsD

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NEW YORK—Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshiped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday. God. “Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,”

Update “Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig. I’d love to pull out some well-worn meta-media analysis about how memes are increasingly where we get our culture and we need to be more circumspect when filtering information yada

Futuristic ? I do this every day Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace August 9, 2010 | ISSUE 46•32 Royce rips across the digital plane on a never-ending quest for info and data-chips. Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method 06.05.06 Date Of Apple Backlash Set For March

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This was from yesterday, when Twitter was down for about an hour. You would think the world stopped rotating or something Kevin It’s funny — I know Twitter is down. I know it has been down for about an hour now. And yet, I can’t stop visiting the site to see if just maybe it’s

Captain Planet and the Gulf Oil Disaster Art by Jesse E., who puts the “ill” in “illustrator.” CH Mobile – Articles

Okay, after our last post on Darth Vader and the iPhone 4, we’re getting pinged way too fast with all the videos we left out but should have included. So behold: the best of the iPhone 4 videos

Proof That The World Is Nuts In Lebanon , men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In Bahrain , a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is prohibited

People are coming up with new fixes for the iPhone 4 with the antenna problems Having the infamous reception issues on your new iPhone 4? well you are not alone on this. Apart from the upcoming firmware update iOS 4.0.1 / 4.1 which is due in the “next few weeks”, there are two other ways

By now, you might have come across many different iPad and iPhone mods but none of them can come close to this one! Kazu Terasaki has designed a pair of robotic legs for his iPad and iPhone that enables the two said devices to do some walking! amazing isn’t it? Check out the video after

Have you priced a monster USB cable at Best Buy? This one would be worth millions I bet its still rated at 500ma though. This is not a photo of a USB cable mess over a dirty carpet. It’s a real and completely un-retouched image capture from Google Maps. A satellite view of a small