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Within 24 hours, pirates have produced an e-book of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince link via

Making ham and cheese sandwiches link via

Death star subwoofer link via

Tech companies are compared to nations link via

Pee Goal link via

Dual view LCD link via

Clock that only display the time if it is prime (7661 times a day) link via

We describe an experiment in which a Giant African Snail, acting as a data transfer agent, exceeded all known “lastmile” communications technologies in terms of bit-per-second performance link via

Chess960, a game variant invented by fugitive chess genius Bobby Fischer link via

Toby Emmerich, head of production at New Line Cinema, had a choice between seeing a film in a theater or watching it in a screening room at Jim Carrey’s house, with a private chef handling the culinary options. Despite this seemingly loaded deck, Emmerich opted for a real theater and was shocked link via

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor link via

How to poach an egg link via

Can a Bayesian Spam filter play chess? link via

Condensing personal finance books link via

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Dear lazy web link via

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Mario teaches physics link via

Hollywood denies request to use short clips to make a personal home movie link via

Jet powered Toyota MR2 link via

OS/2 R.I.P. age 20 link via

Each key on the keyboard is a screen showing chararcter (or action) it activates link via

A programmer outsources his own job to India link via

Early bomb detection can backfire because of the grisly fact that human beings act as human shields link via

Better looking signs than baseball link

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GMap of London with traffic camera overlays link via

How to heat a swimming pool with a BBQ grill link via

Build your own computerized smoker link via

Funeral viewing held how he liked to live life, sitting and watching football link via

Radar assisted braking in new Mercedes link via

Performance art piece that uses construction equipment and 20-foot long knitting needles to construct large-scale objects link via

“My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die.” link via

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Senor suicide link via

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Google News stories of Paul’s life link via

Quit your safe job and follow your own path link via

“This illustrates the extraordinary imagination of nature – or of males – to counteract the female strategy,” link via

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Anarchist Cookbook author loses control over work thanks to copyrights link via

Dear music industry, what I have stolen from you and why link via

A trip from Florida to Florida link via

Summertime Moon illusion link via

A benefit of being a zoo keeper is that you get to eat the animals link via

“Why don’t they stop fighting? We’re never going to join a Federation of Planets if this continues. Don’t they know that? Why don’t they want to help end starvation instead? I wish we lived in the future.” link via

Custom printed on our 3D printer, each trophy represents the traffic to the site over the course of the contest. link via

Advitisers now replacing real sports link via

She said, Nerd said link via

New bullet train with cat-eared air brakes link via

How to cast silver bullets link via

Moveable keys for a keyboard link via

A counterpoint to Super Size Me link via

Scientists have created zombie dogs link via

Van Gogh – Starry Night as a mosaic of 210,000 tiny photographs link via

Talking to the Star Wars Nerds who are in a line for the wrong theatre link via

Build a working Enigma machine with paper link via

Proposal to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road (home of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter) link via

Extracting video from cat brains link via

Michael Jackson in old video games link via

Buy a WTF sticker link via

“For the love of humanity, can’t you people just jaywalk?” link via

Akira Haraguchi recites PI to 83,431 decimal places link via

Japanese Star Trek art link via

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Battlestar Galactica was a famous, all-transvestite, punk rock group from Siberia, Russia who rose to enormous, worldwide popularity in the 1960s. link via

40 Reasons Why you shouldn’t post your picture on the internet link via

World’s fastest inkjet printer link via

For me, the pillows have been my source of unconditional love link via

What if children’s art were painted by a real artist? link via

Cracking WEP in 10 minutes link via

What icons on your desktop do when you are away link via

Preservatives in McDonnald’s food link via

How to Make a Million Dollars link via

Paying for a startup with poker winnings link via

Trailers lie, deceive, and spoil the plot link via

Play with me link via

Honeybees detect quantum particles? link via

Trains on fire should not stop on wooden bridges link via

Two-Cylinder V-Twin Gas Powered Engine link via

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Human flavored tofu link via

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WWII for dummies link via

WWII pictures in color link via

Line drawing of a woman from a skeleton to the flesh link via

The Nevada shoe tree link via

Why women live longer than men link via

Bowling ball mortar link via

Estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow link via

Dinosaurs try to stop Noah’s Ark link via

Beer swimming pool link via

Mickey Mouse Goatse link via

DUIs thrown out because manufacturers refuse to show source code to breathalyzer link via

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Writing words on humain hair with polymer blobs link via

The real Deadwood link via

Moving with bicycles link via

Researchers have finally decided how late is late – 10 minutes, 17 seconds link via

11 steps to a better brain link via

Another reason to get Ed, I mean red link

Parents can’t teach pagan beliefs link via

Paris Hilton and Paris Latsis are engaged. She should change her last name to Latsis and name her first kid Paris! link

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Primate programmers for hire link via

Although it’s fine at sucking up dirt, finding its way around the room and returning to its charging station, its real achievement is in not only getting the children to clean up their toys first but also tiring them out before bed link via

Country’s flags represent other information link via

The first programming riddle on the net link via

Joseph Campbell/Star Wars/The Matrix link via

The history of PDAs link via

Cheap gas powered by Google Maps and Gas Buddy link via

Case Study: Accidental Leakage of Cesium-137 in Goiania, Brazil, in 1987 link via

Subject: Re: Gaaah! Back in the job market…
From: John Schmidt
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology

Mark Edwards wrote:
> Lost my perl programming job

<snip>

> I will miss the people, I will miss the work and mostly, I will miss
> the %&*\@%!& paycheck. At least until I find another job.
        ^^^^^^^^

No wonder you lost the gig – that’s the worst data construct I’ve ever
seen. A hash of subroutines of fileglobs of array references to hashes
of bang line subroutines? That’s just WRONG!!!

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Astrologer can sue Nasa over comet project link via

Print your own graph paper link via

There is a greater than 50 percent probability of a nuclear strike on U.S. targets within a decade link via

Morse code still beats SMS link via

Giving a $2 tip will get you in trouble with the Secret Service link via

The Swiss are protecting shrinking glaciers with blankets link via

Photos of a 28 course meal at Alinea link via

Testing the limits of human endurance link via

Google Map UFO link via

Why Hungarian notation is a good thing link via

Fastest plant uses trebuchet to launch pollen link via

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A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths of a watt of energy, mostly in the form of heat, so that, in effect, we have covered the earth with tiny bulbs, six for every square metre. These bulbs are burning twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, year in and year out. link via

E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’ link

How the customer expained it link via

Hubble’s top 10 discoveries link via

Orson Scott Card is glad Trek is dead link via

Combining Yahoo Traffic and Google Maps link via

Pixel art link via

The Oh-My-God [Magnum] particle link via

Real estate agents do not have your best interests at heart link via

Bush’s mail link via