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Is that Grange? Smashing | NEWS.com.au
But he’d forgotten about the 100ml liquid rule applying to carry-on luggage, and although the precious Grange slipped through Customs he came unstuck at the final security check.
While I understand that it is a completely stupid rule not to allow liquids, I think that it is mostly his fault that [...]

The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
Producers also now alter the way they mix albums to compensate for the limitations of MP3 sound. “You have to be aware of how people will hear music, and pretty much everyone is listening to MP3,” says producer Butch Vig, a member of Garbage and the producer of [...]

Merry Christmas!

Cory’s Shearwater – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
birds that can dive/swim/fly 40-50 feet underwater
Yellowfin tuna – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been reported to be up to 239 cm (94 inches) in length and 200 kg (440 lb) in weight.
Like they said, you do not want to get in between a tuna and its food, [...]

MAKE: Blog: Print-bot final project
Some students at Georgia Tech built this sweet print-bot, built on a iRobot iCreate.

I wonder if they get another roomba to follow behind it to clean it up?
Print bot @ GA Tech

Tin Foil Soldier » Favorite Pics
I posted some of my pictures from Yellowstone / Grand Canyon / Sedona on a “page” on this site.
I of course submitted much higher res versions to the printers.
I generated the thumbnails with phpThumb cause I was tired of resizing and converting images already when I decided I wanted [...]

Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort [...]

Food: Microwave Popcorn Makers Vow To Remove Diacetyl
Although there has been one consumer case of “popcorn lung,” there’s no real danger to consumers who don’t eat microwave popcorn several times a day. The real concern is for those people who work in popcorn plants. Soon, however, you’ll be able to eat your popcorn totally guilt-free. [...]

ya know how raisins come in that cardboard barrel type container.  And they clump together, because they are raisins?
If you shake the container just right, the loose raisins knock other raisins loose so you can just pour them on your cereal instead of using a spoon.  I hate scooping clumped raisins.
anyway, the cardboard tube with [...]

The Transistor’s Birthday – Forbes.com
Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world’s first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so [...]

Electricity firm breaks into house to change meter – even though homeowner is NOT a customer | the Daily Mail
Electricity giant E.ON applied for a warrant to forcibly enter Anna Tonkin’s 18th-Century cottage in Bunwell, Norfolk.They persuaded a magistrate to issue a court order which allowed them to pick her locks and let themselves into [...]

Tall guy needs name – National – smh.com.au
The male calf arrived with an unceremonious thud, falling 1.8 metres to the ground. Giraffes give birth standing up.
That kinda sucks for the baby, it comes into this world being dropped almost 6 feet.

Spluch: Pig Toy Retains Its Shape after Being Squashed
These pigs called Lokulokus are made out of a material that can retain its form even when squashed. It takes just a couple of seconds for it to recover.
The Japanese get the coolest/weirdest toys.  the video is so weird you definitely need to watch.
via BB

Silly: Thought Process Behind Listerine Label Finally Revealed
Marketing guy 1: “Cool. We’ll put both on the label. 24 Hour Protection that you use twice a day. Oh, and we’ll clarify by putting Use Every 12 Hours, just in case they get confused.”
I thought you just use it twice in a row?

It snowed a bunch today (I wrote this like 2 days ago)

click for webcams
Then it rained (yesterday)
I hope it gets cold and snows so I can ski tomorrow / Sunday.