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Soviet Russian architecture from the 70s and 80s.
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Wil Wheaton’s Christmas gift guide on SuicideGirls.com. Hey, I read it for the articles, okay? I use to love those RadioShack electronic kits.
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Looks like a password manager on steroids.
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Tracks your wishlist and alerts you when an item’s price reaches your set threshold.
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Like to read books? Like to read more than one at a time? So did Thomas Jefferson. ‘The rotating stand holds five books at adjustable angles on rests that fold down to form a 12″ cube.’
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An even more ingenious design. Agostino Ramelli’s Book Wheel. I fully expect Fisher Price to have something like it out by next Christmas.
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More on Ramelli’s bookwheel.
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I’d never torture a cat, nor want to see or hear someone do so, but I find it fascinating that people used to go to great lengths to do just that.
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A way to get del.icio.us daily posting into a LiveJournal blog.
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Is that not the most adorable set of photos you’ve ever seen?
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The real Wii manual.
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The fake Wii manual.
This is the problem when people in academia get into a pissing match. Here we have a story about a new expedition to send a robot up the shafts found in the Queen’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. We see an archival photo from 2002 and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, saying this was when “the first robot was sent.” There’s no mention of Rudolf Gantenbrink or his robot, Upuat 2, that were responsible for finding the “door” at the end of the southern shaft almost ten years earlier in 1993.