SynPet Newton on KFDX Broadcast News clip ~1980s

My uncle, Steve Hodges, is a very successful electrical engineer and inventor who’s made a fair number of useful devices such as the fisherman’s Depth Finder and now builds cellular-based utility status-monitoring devices (M2MCommM). A while back he owned and headed a company called SynPet, that manufactured household robots by the name of Newton. [...]

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Very Tall Bicycle + Giant Cowboy Hat

The description says “giant” bike, but to me that means something with giant wheels akin to one of those funky old “penny-farthing” things. Instead, I dub it the Tall Blue Ladder Bicycle, as driven by a dude with a very large Top Hat (as I don’t know any cowboy hat with a black top-hat / [...]

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Random Images: Silly Charts

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Don’t want to be treated like a criminal? Newsflash!

1. Stop acting like a criminal.
2. Profit.
Home Depot Customer Detained by PD, and as noted by BoingBoing.
Here we go again with yet another anusclown complaining to the world at large who could frankly give a nonzero’s worth of big-freakin-deal, who refuses to show his receipt at the exit to a store, gets detained, and then [...]

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Help! Tearing Out Magazine Pages

If anyone could link me up with a guide on how to tear out magazine pages so that I can always get clean edges and such, please let me know. I’ve considered using this idea, but I may just go with a ruler-and-exacto method instead. I’d like to get as much of the page as [...]

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Peculiar Blog Alert: Stuff White People Like

I’m just going to have to say, this goes without saying. And that may be saying too much.
Stuff White People Like
I’m not white (a blend of too-many-to-count) but I do like the number “71″. Hmm. And the design scheme of the blog looks all too familiar.

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Commentary: Creationist-Diorama-Rama

The link here, of a non-Creationist going on about a science fair he recently visited of Creationist-taught kids and their projects, irked me a skosh. I am a former atheist, but still tend to look at most everything with a very skeptical eye — particularly those who are overly assumptive and tend to make [...]

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Beat My Score: SHIFT (344 sec)

It’s been a while since I posted a game to beat me at (lovely English I know). I just came across this interesting black-and-white platformer that you use space to jump, left and right arrows to run, and shift to.. well, you’ll see. I was able to finish the game in 344 seconds.. How [...]

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DiVX’s Stage6.com is shutting down on Feb 28, 2008

I hate to say it, but it appears that one of my favorite video sites is closing its high-quality doors on Feb 28 of this year. Their blog post here delivers the bad news, mainly on the excuse of becoming too expensive and too attention-hogging to maintain. To me it seemed like a [...]

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I always liked that itty bitty SimCity traffic

I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite things about SimCity (well, I started with SimCity 2000 since there was that tr/billion dollar cheat) was just getting to the point where I could make a bunh of inchy squinchy cars start making traffic jams in my city. That ever-spifferous MAKE blog has [...]

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Scientists Attempt to Measure Laughter

Scientist have developed a method for measuring genuine laughter by measuring certain muscles that move when genuine laughter is created (as opposed to that nervous laughter whenever your boss tells a joke). But that’s the lame version. Get the full scoop over at the Pink Tentacle. Interestingly enough, they are measured in “aH” [...]

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Random Image: Wing.. thingies.

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Kit Enables Houseplants to Twitter when Thirsty

Engadget has a nifty article about a new do-it-yourself project that will enable your houseplants to post an update to Twitter when they need more water. Now only if they would make a Facebook app for that..

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Jpop Video Review: C-ute’s “LALALA Shiawase no Uta”

I’ve been a fan of C-ute for a while now, but I can’t say their latest PV offering much followed along in the same quality as most the others have (except the Masara Blue Jeans video, not a fan). This particular tune was good but the video just never seemed to match up in [...]

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New Hooked-On-itude: LonelyGirl15 Nonsense

I’m somewhat new to the lonelygirl15 drama, which I presume to have first been a YouTube video blog about a girl with just such a username, but was later discovered to be an actress and the blog itself to be scripted. I was scampering about the Internets as usual and came across this episode [...]

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Possible Upcoming Lull – Nigeria Trip

As some of you know, I’ve got an upcoming trip to Nigeria in March, which may result in some lull in posts for a week or so in exchange for a few thousand tribals getting a few new water wells drilled. During that week, I’ll have set a number of forward-dated posts to be, [...]

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Random Image: Uh.. Somethings Dining

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