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Wiretaps Are Cut Over Unpaid Bills - washingtonpost.com
The report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said that more than half of nearly 1,000 FBI telecommunications bills reviewed by investigators were not paid on time, including one invoice for $66,000 at an unidentified field office.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t give the [...]

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Googly Eyes!
After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
Rochester, NY

Temp: 66°F
Humidity: 52%
Wind: SSW at 20 mph
Clouds: overcast
Its even worse than before.  I wore a polo and no jacket to work today!  There were kids playing roller hockey in one of the parking lots.  IN THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY!

TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)
Play with fire
Have a pocketknife
Throw a spear
De construct Appliances
Break the DMCA
Drive a car
I did almost all of those things when I was a kid (we didn’t have the DMCA yet) and I think that I am much better off because [...]

Democrat & Chronicle: Local News
January 5, 2008 3:53 am — Wegmans Food Markets’ decision to stop selling cigarettes drew sharp reaction Friday, from customers angry at the loss of choice to those who applauded the grocery chain’s decision to turn down certain sales.
Wegmans, which has 71 stores in five states, will sell its remaining inventory [...]

As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads | Cracked.com
So you’re an inventor, and you’ve just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it?
Why, by creating a cornball TV ad that portrays everyday tasks as being next to impossible [...]

Undead Twist on the Food Pyramid - Slashfood
The Zombie food pyramid sets new guidelines for the undead in their insatiable pursuit of sustenance.

Slashfood has been added to my list of food blogs, helping me stay up on the world of food.
This first important update is for all the zombies out there, helping you to [...]

Women stuck in elevator for 2 days — chicagotribune.com
Two suburban Chicago women were trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, surviving on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued.
I am not quite sure, but I don’t think aspirin counts as food, or even something that would really fend off starvation.  The [...]

Demand for jellyfish aids state shrimpers — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Shrimpers trying to stay afloat during the off-season have been scooping them out of the Gulf of Mexico by the thousands since September. The gelatinous masses have turned out to be a profitable commodity on the Asian market, once they are processed into crispy protein wafers.
apparently [...]

lazlosbasement.com :: Entries :: Expanding the Concept of “Art” - A shadow of art’s former self
Specifically trash arranged to form a shadow which appeals directly to the human brain’s imagery recognition center, despite the fact that the trash itself is reminiscent of nothing more than a back alley during a waste removal company’s union strike.
See [...]

» Sign Language Matchbooks « Archive xoxo — c 7 11 23 — JK Keller

He? also made the ASL alphabet in matchbooks, making tiny little match hands.

AccuWeather.com - Rochester, NY - Weather Forecast - Local Weather Forecasts
47°F
RealFeel®
42°F
Winds: SSW
at 8mph
Ugh.
January is not supposed to be 42 degrees, the snow will melt!

Rear-view mirror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This manual tilt mirror is made of a piece of glass that is wedge-shaped in cross section—its front side and back (silvered) side are not parallel, unlike normal mirror glass.
So thats how they work!
I still don’t know how the automatic dimming ones work, some of them probably have electronics [...]

Hands-, Oatmeal-, Chili-, Pudding-, Red Bull-, and Cheetos-On with The Belkin Washable Mouse - Gearlog
It’s a stew of deliciousness–a mixture of mashed cheezy puffs and Red Bull, exactly the kind of midnight pick-me-up you need to squeeze those last few hours out of your week-long WoW marathon. Despite–or perhaps, because of–its magical Taurine-centric powers, the [...]

Japanese love their ‘lucky bags’ : US World
The popular Japanese tradition of buying bags filled with unknown items on the first shopping day of the new year played out Wednesday, The Japan Times Online reported Thursday. About 6,700 people stood in the cold outside a Matsuya department store in Tokyo, waiting for the store to [...]