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One must admit that it is rather cute.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Sugru is a silicone, which can be used to glue things together, patch leaky boots, or create a variety of custom-made handles, hooks, and feet for wobbly chair legs.

It has the appearance of children’s modelling clay, which once out of its airtight packet, can be moulded into any shape and fixed onto leather, metal, ceramic, wood and plastic. After about 24 hours it “cures” and will adhere to any substance with the strength of ultra strong glue but it does not become rock hard. Instead, it stays slightly flexible.

Good stuff, Maynard.

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We do these things so that you don’t have to. Note that The French Laundry stands alone.

I’d kill for some onion strings right now….

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A great idea. I don’t know of any Muslim sea lions.

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A crude-bearing cache known as the Birdbear, beneath North Dakota’s already booming oil patch, can be tapped using new technology that would expand horizontal drilling to parts of the state that have never seen it, geologists believe.

That whole ‘peak oil’ thing just keeps getting closer and closer, doesn’t it? Guess we’ll have to cut back or something.

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Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

Well. There it is.

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Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century have been found again.

I’m sure that comes as a relief as much to you as it does to me.

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Not quite the flying car or jet pack we were promised, yet aspects of the future keep arriving.

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We have the technology.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Flowering plants are more interesting than you might realize.

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Next to rats, monkeys get all the good stuff.

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And take whatever action you think appropriate.

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We have the technology.

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Gotta love Australians.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees.

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Everything bad is good for you.

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Historians believe they have found the original recipe for Lea and Perrins’ Worcestershire sauce, which could be 150 years old.

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An English “Brigadoon”?

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And about fargin’ time, too.

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Well, I’m glad that’s settled.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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I guess “Nook” stands for “Not Book”.

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After nine years in development, tens of millions of dollars in funding and a delayed product launch, Plastic Logic says it’s finally ready to debut the first electronic reader made of plastic electronics.

Emphasis added.

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If she weren’t extinct, that is. Of course, so could a chimpanzee — if he cared.

According to Peter McAllister, in Manthropology: the Science of Inadequate Modern Man, so completely wussy have we become that were Usain “Lightning” Bolt to go head-to-head with an ancient Australian aboriginal, it’d be silver medal position for the Jamaican sprinter.

Hey, these books don’t sell themselves.

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Scientists using a network of ground sensors emplaced in Antarctica say that NASA satellites have overestimated the amount of ice that is melting and running off into the ocean from the polar continent.

Funny how that works.

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Perhaps they’ll find there the actual legislative text of the actual health care reform plan.

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The Mary Rose Trust unveiled the items to mark the launch of an appeal to raise the remaining £4 million needed to build a new £35 million museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire, to house the ship’s remains and artefacts.

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Well, that’s a relief.

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Hah!

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The amphitheatre was a focal point of Portus, the port through which the Romans imported everything from wheat and wine to slaves and exotic animals from their sprawling empire.

Once the gateway to the Mediterranean and twice the size of the modern-day port of Southampton, it gradually silted up and now lies two miles inland.

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Remains of the fabled dining hall have been discovered on the city’s Palatine Hill, where emperors traditionally built their most lavish palaces.

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Pretty pictures.

A treasure hunter has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, in a find archaeologists have said may be even more significant than the discovery of a burial ship at Sutton Hoo 70 years ago.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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I wouldn’t want to be the guy to tell then no….

Jeff Jarvis recently had surgery for prostate cancer. Apparently this involved a robot surgeon.

At 9a Monday, I walked into the bright operating room at Sloan Kettering and faced the robot. Pictures of it on the manufacturer’s web site make it look small, like something that might screw in radio knobs on a Cooper Mini: friendly. In person, the robot is huge, like something Sigourney Weaver would defeat in space: imposing. I saluted it and backed away.

We have the technology.

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I am not making this up.

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Execution? Is that allowed any more?

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Not sure I buy this — how are you going to grill it?

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The Cookstop is more energy efficient and heats up faster than conventional coil hot plate models. But contrary to those coil models, the Fagor Induction Cookstop doesn’t heat the air around the heating element, thereby keeping inadvertent skin burns to a minimum (not to mention dorm room fires due to forgetting to turn it off).

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No, no, pirates … not thieves, pirates….