iJoy Ride: The Future Of Effortless Excercise Today!
01/09/2008
"Obese." We've all heard the term. It's as ubiquitous a word these days as "fat" or "overweight." But what does "obese" really mean? According to the dictionary, "obese" means really fat or really overweight, like more than five pounds, and according to the N.I.H. it's becoming a real problem in this country. Fortunately, a grand little company called Human Touch has ... Read More
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Lightning vs Grandpa
01/08/2008
Hmmmm. We can think of about a million things that would be more useful for a retired high school physics teacher to do than build a Faraday cage in his driveway and then test it with a leaf blower and one item from each aisle in Home Depot. What the fudge ever happened to shuffle board and Cub Rummy? Read More
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Grease Fires Beware Of The Jet Engine Fire Extinguisher
01/04/2008
There are fires and then there are fires, and this guy is designed to deal with the latter of the two. The ultimate behemoth of fire suppression was built by Hungarian engineers to tackle oil well fires and was cobbled together from two jet engines and some type of surplus tracked vehicle from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Read More
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Yugo Ditches Gas For Wood, Doc Brown Says "Nice Try."
01/04/2008
This is kind of like Doc Brown's Mr. Fusion DeLorean mod in Back to the Future II except way more Eastern European and way less cool. Rather than pimping out his '85 Yugo to run on banana peels and High Life, Anton Peterka tweaked his whip to run on burning wood in an attempt to combat rising petrol costs. You can read up on the deets on Osko Jozsef's Yugo Page if you ... Read More
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This Letter Is Full Of Shit
01/02/2008
Literally. The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company Limited makes paper out of, you guessed it, elephant feces. Take a pit stop at their online Poo-tique for a variety of elephant byproduct products that are especially good for the environment. Gotta love that Pachyderm poo. Read More
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HIV Beats Invertebrates For Final Four Berth
12/18/2007
The 2007 Science Spring Showdown is drawing to a close in 2007's final few weeks. This year's tournament has seen its share of surprises, including Darwin's four-quarter shutout of Particle for a convincing 142 to 0 victory in Tuesday's semi-final match. The win advances Darwin to the finals for the first time since On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859 ... Read More
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Japanese Scientists Create Feline-Fearless Mice/Reporter With Speech Impediment Other Than Barbara Walters Discovered
12/12/2007
Cats all over the world rejoiced today as Tokyo University announced it has created genetically engineered mice that are unafraid of one of their biggest natural predators, cats. The project was funded largely in part by a grant from UNIFAF, the United Nations Feline Appropriations Fund, which finances numerous programs around the globe combating a variety of feline p ... Read More
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Let's Go Fly A Kite Matey
12/11/2007
Our first mates over at snarfd are all afloat about an old/new propulsion technology for vessels of the sea faring variety from marine logistics corp Beluga Group. Basically it's like parasailing your container ship hither, thither, and yon. SupercalifragilisticEXPEDITIOUS! Read More
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Wally Wallington Solves Stonehenge
12/07/2007
Wally Wallington is not an alien or a giant. He's just some retired contractor dude from Michigan who likes moving heavy shit all by himself and he's pretty certain he's figured out how the ancients built ole Stonehenge. Read More
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Robot Wars Heat Up
12/06/2007
As 2007 winds down to its last few weeks, we can't help but look towards the future. And when it comes to the future, one word comes to mind, robots. Unless you opened up a strip-mall home-robot store called Robot World in 1989 like Jean Du Teau, you probably haven't been paying much attention to the robot scene; let us fill you in. Basically, there are two big pla ... Read More
