Exploding Aardvark

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BULBLIGHT

Great for those nights when the grid collapses and you still need to get things done:

Lamp from Lightbulb (Street Use)

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

East Prawle, population 200, has never had network coverage and the nearest mobile phone mast is 2.5 miles north of the village at Scoble Point near South Pool. It was a holiday maker who eventually discovered that if you stood on the bench and faced west you could make a call. Soon afterwards, queues began […]

I AM SOOO TIRED OF THIS STUPID EMAIL

Don’t pump gas on May 15 and they will lower gas prices!!! Agh! Not another one!
Look, here is why no one should ever send me stuff like this:

I have taken a course in logic, my brain is fully fairly functional, and I can spot an argument as incredibly flawed as this one from miles and […]

NEW JAPANESE INVENTIONS

Japanese developers find way to create hot rice with cold water
Company develops underwear designed to block infrared see-through snapshots

VIRTUAL IMMORTALITY

The project’s test subject will be a senior [National Science Foundation] program manager known for his wealth of institutional knowledge. A UIC graduate student will shadow this official for several months making video and voice recordings. His presence will be digitally reconstructed and interviews used to glean his institutional insights will be stored in the […]

DOUBLEPLUSSAFE

George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house
Previously ‘varked:

Big Brother Loves You
You Are Being Watched
Armchair Minutemen Rejoice
Big Brother Is Watching You

EXPLODING PIGS ALWAYS WIN

The clash started on a January morning when protesters attacked the cyberspace headquarters of extremist French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the popular 3-D Internet fantasy world Second Life.
Le Pen security forces responded with push guns, whimsical digital weapons that tossed bodies through the air “like rag dolls,” according to one witness. Protesters fought […]

SAD MR. BUSH

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla, spotted in the Washington Post)
I think he needs some cheering up. He used to enjoy blowing up frogs, right? Maybe we could send him a few frogs.

VEGGIE CAR

Researchers based at a university have created an environmentally-friendly race car with tyres made from potatoes and brake pads from cashew nut shells.
[…]
“My aim is to end up with a race car that’s 95 per cent biodegradable or recyclable.
“If we can build a high-performance car that can virtually be grown from seed, just imagine what’s […]

EXXON RIDICULE POLE

An Alaska Native ceremony to publicly shame Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil company and perpetrator of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2007, at the Masonic Hall in Cordova, Alaska. Mike Webber, an Alaska Native wood carver of Aleut and Tlingit descent, will unveil the […]