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Video: ‘This is our world: the acoustics of vegetables’ | Music | Guardian Unlimited
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra serves up a musical feast
actually, its pretty cool.  The carrot flute looks fun, so does the leek string banjo type thing.

Kerosene Lamp and Lantern Workshop
I bought a liquid paraffin oil lamp at the renaissance fair during the summer, and it is definitely one of my favorite things to burn, along with candles.  When we are watching TV in the living room, they provide a nice glow to the room that a fluorescent light just can’t [...]

Wider nutrition labeling systems headed to stores in U.S. | Health | Reuters.com
A new system for scoring the nutritional value of foods will find its way to grocery store shelves next year, the latest attempt to come up with a standard way to make healthier food choices.
The Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) was developed by [...]

PNC — The True Cost of the 12 Days of Christmas…
It all started 23 years ago as a way to engage clients and has since grown into one of PNC’s most popular and anticipated economic reports: The PNC Christmas Price Index.
PNC calculates the “CPI” each year as a fun, lighthearted way to look at the [...]

Google MapsNow you can make sure your home is in the correct location in Google Maps, so people can find it whenever they search.
Awesome. I have also made custom “My Maps” in the past to make sure that people ended up at my apartment, not 100 apartments in the wrong direction.
Warning: it is addictive
Google [...]

maxtor cable select – Google Image Search
So I think my 120GB hd bit the dust, time to get a new “big” one, and move the 250 and the 160 down a notch.
Either way, it means posting is a pain from my laptop, so I probably won’t do it a whole lot cause browsing is slow [...]

I am back, but unfortunately, my desktop computer @ home is acting up.
It was stuck in a blue screen -> reboot -> repeat cycle and I didn’t know what to do.  The error code meant some sort of error with css.exe.  I checked the hd for errors, then did a repair install.  Now I just [...]

Human Rights Campaign | Buying for Equality 2008 | Food & Beverages
Clorox
Hidden Valley; KC Masterpiece; Kitchen Bouquet
The 2008 Buying for Equality guide is out from the HRC.  I wish it had more information, like what exactly Exxon Mobile did to get.
Engages in corporate action that would undermine the goal of equal rights GLBT people
Y
The other [...]

Amazon’s MP3 store rips off your fair use rights – Boing Boing
The problem with DRM is that it tries to enforce a physical-world ruleset of scarcity on infinitely replicable data. One purchase, one copy, pretending to be physical goods. Which sucks, because data should be much more flexible than physical goods.
So then we get rid [...]

You Call That Health Food? – Men’s Health
Take a moment and consider this logic: 1. Fat-free foods are healthy. 2. Skittles are fat-free. 3. Therefore, Skittles are healthy. Make sense? Of course not. But it’s exactly the type of reasoning that food manufacturers want you to use.
Right off the bat they have one that [...]

HOWTO force a padlock with a tin-can shim – Boing Boing
This short video illustrates a simple procedure for forcing open standard padlocks with a shim snipped out of a tin can.
First of all, its so easy its not even like forcing the padlock, its more like “asking it nicely to open and it does.”  Second [...]

Ratchet Corkscrew – Boing Boing Gadgets
Each ratcheted corkscrew is $100, the equivalent of 100 bottles of the finest ripple.
Is it REALLY that hard to use a normal corkscrew that $100 gadgets need to be invented?  I can maybe undertand if you are opening a high volume of bottles, but then you should just get really [...]

Your Bandicoot Sucks
The sheep is devalued, having been the only animal successfully counterfeited.
Geese are basically big, angry ducks. The last thing the world needs is big, angry versions of benign animals.
They say that being tall predisposes one to success, but I’ve never seen a giraffe with a corner office.
I’ll turn vegetarian as soon as someone [...]

This Torture Issue Isn’t Very Complicated
On a scale of importance from one to ten I think it’s fair to say that breathing rates about a 9.7 or 9.8. Maybe even a little higher. It’s up there with “having a beating heart” and “not being on fire.” When someone tries to get you to stop breathing, [...]

Fleeing Robbery Suspect Eaten By Alligator – Orlando News Story – WKMG Orlando
“Anytime an alligator digests or even kills a person, it is a state law through the Florida Fish and Game that the gator be destroyed,” Woods said.
Poor alligator, it was helping the community by eating a robber and now it is going to [...]