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GEF robot stomps even the most prolific air hockey players

12th July 2008

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Designed by General Electric Fanuc (GEF) and programmed by Nuvation Research, this thing has been able to crush any human opponent that dared step up to its 32-bit automated ways. In fact, it can typically score around three times as many goals as even the mightiest Earthling, and while folks have been smart enough to find loopholes in the 8-bit software, this guy is pretty much invincible when running the real deal.

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking “air defense control system”.

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Will It Blend? iPhone 3G edition

12th July 2008

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“What is your target market for the iPhone 3G?”

“Journalists who have to write about it, and white people with more money than sense. We work the same demographic as posh restaurants with rude waiters.”

“So you anticipate brisk sales?”

“Certainly. There’s a lot of affluent insecurity out there, and we hope to tap into that.”

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Organic-friendly Americans buy farm shares

11th July 2008

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ST-2 shooting simulator keeps your aim sharp

8th July 2008

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I’ll take one with a street scene from Nablus.

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The South Shall Snack Again

6th July 2008

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Mississippi is the fattest state in the Union, with 30.1% of Mississippians being obese. That’s almost one in every three inhabitants. Not that the Magnolia State (in red on this map) should be singled out for its massiveness. It is surrounded by four of the eight other fattest US states (in brown on this map): Tennessee (29.0%), Arkansas (29.3%), Louisiana (29.5%) and Alabama (30.1%). Being overweight clearly is a Southern thing – even if the second-fattest state, West-Virginia (30.6%), broke away from the rebellious South in 1863 to join the North.

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Polygamist sect launches online clothes store

3rd July 2008

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It’s the American way.

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Klimatic Base 1 AirWater Machine pulls drinking water from the air

2nd July 2008

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Late-Period Limbaugh

2nd July 2008

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Probably both the Democrats and Limbaugh overstated his actual impact. But Operation Chaos was a triumph of interactive political performance art. Limbaugh appointed himself Supreme Commander, deputized his listeners and turned them into merry pranksters. “Rush is a master at framing an issue and creating a community around it,” says Susan Estrich, who ran Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign and has since become a talk-show host herself. Operation Chaos drew a crowd, which is what Limbaugh does for a living. It got people laughing at the Democrats, which is what he lives for. And, ever the devout capitalist, he turned an extra buck by peddling Operation Chaos gear. The stuff flew off the cybershelves of the E.I.B. store, the biggest seller since his Club Gitmo collection (“my mullah went to Club Gitmo and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”).

Apparently Rush has renewed his contract for another eight years and will receive on the close order of $400 million dollars therefor.

Whoever said that talk is cheap?

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Obama unveils new campaign bus.

30th June 2008

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And he’s going to need it.

(Twelve wheels! No waiting!)

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Florida biologist saves drowning bear

29th June 2008

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Not something I’d care to do.

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Bucket-based hydroelectric generator powers up small gadgets

28th June 2008

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Prostitutes offer petrol discounts

26th June 2008

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Free markets work every time they’re tried.

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Solar Jar

20th June 2008

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Be the first on your block.

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Print on Demand for Magazines

18th June 2008

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This could be huge.

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Be Still My Fake, Beating Heart

17th June 2008

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Icon’s foldable, 2-seater plane unveiled, available now

16th June 2008

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Me want.

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Supercomputer built with Sony PlayStation parts smashes previous speed record

10th June 2008

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You can make a mainframe from the things you have at home.

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American gun owners call for cowboy holsters to be worn in public

9th June 2008

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Los Angeles to sue Time Warner Cable over shoddy service

7th June 2008

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Breakfast Cake

2nd June 2008

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Doesn’t seem like something that I’d care to eat, but that’s just me.

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The firebreathing wheelchair

1st June 2008

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Berkeley Bionics’ HULC exoskeleton lets you effortlessly carry 200lbs

31st May 2008

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Starship troopers, here we come.

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Rich tribe restoring prairie

30th May 2008

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Avcen Jetpod T-100 City Flying Taxi says “naught” to highways

27th May 2008

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Oh, I SO want one of these.

Now, if they only have hard points for missiles….

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Georgia Tech researchers developing tricorder-like medical scanner

22nd May 2008

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CSI: Target

16th May 2008

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Apparently Target has its own crime lab.

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EXO-Wing is world’s smallest jet — worn like a backpack

14th May 2008

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There’s a Darwin Award waiting to happen….

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Let’s Don’t and Say We Did

14th May 2008

Slate magazine is doing a series of articles on procrastination.

I wish I’d gotten around to doing something like that….

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Superpowerful small wind turbines light up the night

13th May 2008

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Lumeta’s “peel & stick” solar panels can blanket a roof in under 35 minutes

12th May 2008

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And about time, too.

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Electricity-powered Datastorm data transfer device is retrolutionary

12th May 2008

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Information is power. Who could doubt it?

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Nanohealing substance stops bleeding in seconds, vampires protest

12th May 2008

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Soldier In Afghanistan Accidentally Calls Parents In The Middle Of A Battle

7th May 2008

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Well, we have the technology….

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DIYer crafts Victorian-style all-in-one PC

25th April 2008

Steampunk Alert.

This is a beautiful piece of work. Not the best I’ve ever seen, but far from the worst.

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Scott Adams To Try Crowdsourcing Dilbert’s Jokes?

22nd April 2008

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Having persuaded his users to relieve him of the trouble of coming up with ideas for his cartoons, Scott has figured out a way to have them relieve him of the trouble of writing them.

Wally would be right on top of this one.

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Marine Vets Give Code Pink a Taste of Their Own Medicine

20th April 2008

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The Body-laptop interface is knitted from Thneed which nobody, Nobody, NOBODY needs

16th April 2008

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US troops to receive handheld lie detectors

9th April 2008

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Better keep them away from Washington; they’d probably blow up.

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Old Cruisers Kept To Kill Missiles

7th April 2008

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Amazing how old stuff just keeps being useful.

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Teeth Dentin Restoration Coming In A Few Years

6th April 2008

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We have the technology.

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Chasing the American Dream with $25

3rd April 2008

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Rock and Roll May Never Die, but Sometimes It Gets Sick

26th March 2008

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Ah, but do they get Dental?

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Raining McCain

24th March 2008

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This is just wrong. And it’s all Jonah’s fault.

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UCLA researchers create self-healing, power-generating artificial muscle

23rd March 2008

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Wounded Vet Again Tackles Basic Training

21st March 2008

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Where in the world do we find such people?

The quilt dotted with American flags that covered her bed and the massive flag on her wall during her childhood years in Georgia and Minnesota help explain why the daughter of Dave and Marlene Hoffman voluntarily joined the Army ROTC program as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado.

Oh, yeah. Not New York or Boston or San Francisco or L.A.

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‘Kristen’ Cleans Up

14th March 2008

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Next: Her cover of “Material Girl”.

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Microsoft’s Other Founder Is Mapping Genes in the Brain

13th March 2008

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You see? This is the sort of fun and useful stuff Bill Gates could be doing if he weren’t such a fargin geek.

…building museums of rock ‘n’ roll and sci-fi, buying up sports teams, and funding commercial space flight.

I’ve always thought Allen was the smarter of the two. This confirms it.

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The Wii crossbow: for fanatics only

12th March 2008

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Senior Coupon-Cutting Brigade Comes to Military’s Aid

12th March 2008

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Clinton ad’s teen supports Obama

9th March 2008

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Hillary just can’t win for losing.

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