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Improbable Research » Blog Archive » Question marks on unlicensed cheese
We commend them for their work with local task forces throughout the state and with federal authorities at the U.S./Mexico border, where they work to stop unlicensed cheeses from entering our state and country.?
apparently they aren’t even sure if they really do commend them for [...]

Hacking the Hot Wheels Radar Gun
The Hot Wheels Radar Gun is a real radar gun currently (Feb 2007) available from Walmart and other retailers for about $30 (USD). It is a real radar gun, operating at 10.525 GHz capable of clocking cars, people, pets, and toys.
Hot Wheels Radar Gun - Wal-Mart
Now you can read the [...]

Cities cracking down on saggy pants - Yahoo! News
Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end, wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 fine. A crackdown also is being pushed [...]

Power of 10: Ignorance Lives On — Towleroad for modern gay men,
Even after 26 years of effort by experts to dispel myths about HIV, 47% of Americans (or at least the 1,000 Americans polled by the show for this question) still say they would not swim in a pool with someone with the virus.

Well at [...]

ipodminusitunes: Apple cuts us off
So, it’s finally happened. Unhappy with other media players being better than iTunes, Apple have apparently decided to stop them from working with the new range of iPods.
I hate iTunes, so I only use it to initialize a formatted ipod (for some reason winamp can’t do it).  Apparently they are trying [...]

Talking Bug Identifier — magnifying glass/expert system - Boing Boing
The Spark Talking Bug Identifier is a magnifying glass with a bug-identifying expert system built into the handle. Find a bug and answer a series of directed yes/no questions and the glass will tell you what bug you’re looking at
totally awesome implementation of what is probably [...]

The Not-So-Fine Print: Popular Drugs, Ominous Labels
When it comes to medication, what you don’t know could kill you. Or cause eyelid droop, amnesia and decreased sweating. Match the drug to the safety information taken from its warning label.
I got 5 out of 10 and haven’t even the foggiest what some of the meds do.
via BB [...]

Obesity Epidemic: Burger King To Offer Healthier Menu Options For Kids - Consumerist
The fast-food chain is also developing what it calls BK Fresh Apple Fries. The red apples are cut to resemble french fries and are served in the same containers as fries, but they are not fried and are served skinless and cold.
I like [...]

Decent Amp for my Office
I have always loved analog audio projects, and have made several amps in the past, including some vacuum tube amps and a handful of solid-state amps based on chips from Apex Microtech.

I have always loved analog audio projects but haven’t actually made anything other than a crystal radio from a kit [...]

StoryCorps® - About
StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record one another’s stories in sound.
Our Vision
StoryCorps is modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews with everyday Americans across the country were recorded. These recordings remain the single [...]

The continuing adventures of caffeine @ www.dosenation.com
If you’re not getting enough caffeine delivered to your nervous system via your daily grande quad espresso bombs or your twelve-pack of Cocaine energy drink, there’s hope for you yet: someone’s decided to start manufacturing caffeine-soaked potato chips.

via BB Gadgets
So if you bath with caffeine soap, drink coffee, then [...]

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » SmartStyle Sucks
Well I went back during my lunch break and the manager was working. She apologized and redid my haircut from the beginning. She was awesome, and she shampooed my hair at the end as well (apparently its included in the price(I didn’t get it on [...]

SmartStyle :::: Welcome.
I needed a haircut, but it was getting late on Saturday. We called SuperCuts, my normal salon since moving away from home (and Heidi) but they were closed. We were at walmart for um, windshield wiper fluid (turns out they stopped carrying RainX brand) and crap. Anyway, they were cutting [...]

How to Cure a Hangover
In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover is to bury the ailing person up to the neck in moist river sand.
I don’t know about you but that sounds pretty friggin stupid to me.  They were probably drunk when they came up with it.  I take two [...]

What Is COSPAS-SARSAT? A COSPAS-SARSAT System Overview - EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE ™
also
Cospas-Sarsat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cospas-Sarsat is an international satellite-based search and rescue (SAR) alert detection and information distribution system, established by Canada, France, the United States, and the former Soviet Union in 1979. Since 1982, the Cospas-Sarsat system has tracked distress signals [...]