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Sandisk Clip 2GB MP3 Player
via Woot : One Day, One Deal SM.
Kevin has a Sansa Clip, I have a Sansa Fuse and I love it.  The clip is nicer for running because it is so tiny but the Fuse plays video (on a tiny screen so who cares).  The battery on these units lasts a [...]

Last Wednesday we went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with our friend Steve.  There were bad reviews, but I just don’t think that the critics were taking the movie with a big enough “grain of salt.”  It was an exciting movie, sure, some parts were groan worthy, but the action sequences were exciting [...]

Enjoy filtered water at your sink with the Kenmore Elite Advanced 2-Stage Drinking Water Filter. The system reduces lead, cysts, MTBE, VOC’s, chlorine taste and odor, and sediment. The convenient ‘twist and pull’ encapsulated filter design makes filter changes easy, fast, and sanitary. Exclusive ‘no-mount’ space saving-design allows for system placement vertically or horizontally to [...]

It was a major pain in the ass to get worepress for the iPod to work. It would just sit there and spin the loading symbol.
Finally got it to work, just need to remember what I was gonna post about.

3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N (Nuclear Grade)
Strong grip and rugged cloth backing for indoor and outdoor applications…
via 3M Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N (Nuclear): Physical Properties.
Um, while I find it awesome that they make a Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Duct Tape, it is also of mild concern to me.  While duct tape does in [...]

This may well be the last holiday season for Bratz dolls, as a federal judge ordered their manufacturer to cease production and stop selling the popular dolls.
Mattel, maker of Bratz’s main rival, Barbie, sued the company, alleging that their creator came up with the concept when he was working for Mattel. Whoopsie!
via Barbie Vs Bratz: [...]

Newegg.com – Transcend 4GB Micro SDHC Flash Card Model TS4GUSDHC6 – Flash Memory
I somehow managed to break my 2GB microSD card when I dropped my phone or something. Either way apparently solid state memory stops working if you break the chip in half, whatever. I lost some pictures, but most of the cool [...]

April is a loser month that only has 30 days.  Don’t forget to move your watch ahead one day or you will be screwed up all day like I was.

Penguin’s Lab
A showcase/documentary of Penguin’s projects & experiments
All kinds of fun stuff like high voltage experiments, peltier coolers, magnetism and high speed photography.
via Make: Fun with ignition coils

MAKE: Blog: Trossen Robotics contest – Phoenix FTW
Phoenix is a six legged walking robot. Wait, we know some of you out there may be thinking that hexapod robots are old hat. Well, you’re wrong. So very wrong. Wait until you see it move.

When it moves, it is so smooth and lifelike, it is definitely creepy.  [...]

MAKE: Blog: Build a heat-driven monitor spinner
Member funnypolynomial built a very simple, heat driven motor that sits atop an LCD monitor bezel. It’s actual a revision of an earlier design for use with CRTs -
I made one, using the PDF with 20 spinner templates on it.
I tried to embed a video of it spinning on [...]

If Light bulbs were Automobiles, you’d be driving a Compact Fluorescent.
I recommend counting all of the regular (incandescent) light bulbs in your house and immediately buying new replacement CFL bulbs for all of them. Then I recommend unscrewing the old bulbs and throwing them away. I recommend doing it right now.
I agree with Rob’s recommendations. [...]

Inventgeek.com – UV Panel Project – Overview
It was only natural that I would combine the two to…
Anything that starts with that phrase is bound to be interesting.
He replaces the backlights in a LCD panel with blacklights and uses the panel to show off UV reactive rocks.

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 [...]

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch
Do not be misled. The many “atomic time” wristwatches you see on the market today are merely cheap quartz wristwatches with a built-in radio receiver. The watch sets itself from 60 kHz VLF radio time signals transmitted by NIST from station WWVB near the US atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. At least [...]