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Archive for January, 2008

5 Retro Commercials Companies Would Like You to Forget

from http://digg.com/comedy/5_Retro_Commercials_Companies_Would_Like_You_to_Forget
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Though social attitudes may change with time, videotape never does. Come with us on a magical adventure of sexism, racism and fun!

12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22

from http://digg.com/people/12_Things_I_Learned_By_42_That_I_Wish_I_Knew_At_22
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

By the time I was 22, I knew who I wanted to marry, was in the process of quitting college, going into debt, and thought that I would be a millionaire by the time I was 30 because I was so smart. If I could go back in time, here are a few items I […]

PSPs will be Buzzing this Spring

from http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185453.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6185453
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Popular quiz game for the PS2 will be coming to Sony’s portable, too, with both single- and multiplayer modes.

Watch How to Pull Off a Cool Water Trick

from http://digg.com/educational/Watch_How_to_Pull_Off_a_Cool_Water_Trick
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Check out this nifty trick you can perform with water!

[audio] Report: Netflix Has Received Red Dwarf Series Three: Disc Two

from http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/theonion/weekly/~3/227046228/report_netflix_has_received
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland

Starbucks Closing Stores

from http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/theonion/weekly/~3/227046230/starbucks_closing_stores
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

After posting the weakest sales period in the company’s history, Starbucks announced that it would be closing 100 stores. What do you think?

Mattress Store Experiments With Non-Blowout Sale

from http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/theonion/weekly/~3/227046231/mattress_store_experiments_with
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

RICHMOND, VA—Customers were assured they would get a pretty good deal on a brand-name mattress. Not an out-of-this-world, unheard-of deal. But pretty good.

Control Of Anecdote Wrested From Boyfriend

from http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/theonion/weekly/~3/227046232/control_of_anecdote_wrested
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

NASHVILLE—In what onlookers described as an epic war for conversational dominance, girlfriend Amy Soisson, 28, clawed, battled, and interrupted…

Carbon Nanotubes Can Exist Safely Inside the Body, Help Treat Cancer

from http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/227027989/article.pl
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

iandoh writes “A team of scientists at Stanford University has tracked the movement of carbon nanotubes through the digestive systems of mice. They’ve determined that the nanotubes do not exhibit any toxicity in the mice, and are safely expelled after delivering their payload. As a result, the study paves the way toward future applications of […]

Kirby Piñata! [PICS]

from http://digg.com/nintendo/Kirby_Pinata_PICS
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Gotta love sucking power.

Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster

from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/227029299/shepard-faireys-obam.html
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind “Andre The Giant Has A Posse,” created this poster to show his support of Barack Obama. Apparently, the limited edition prints sold out in moments. It appears that Obama has a posse too. Link…

DIY tractor culture in Poland

from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/227026235/diy-tractor-culture.html
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

We Make Money Not Art has a post up about DIY tractors in rural Poland, photographed by Łukasz Skąpski. Żak Gallery in Berlin is currently showing prints of Skąpski’s photos, and there’s video of interviews with the farmer-tinkerers circulating somewhere, too. Snip: In the ’60s Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor in […]

Top 10 Hardest NES Games

from http://digg.com/nintendo/Top_10_Hardest_NES_Games
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The following is a list of the Top 10 games on the NES that I believe are the hardest games in the NES library.

Boing Boing tv: RoBo goes to a sex expo.

from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/227327351/boing-boing-tv-robo.html
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

“RoBo,” an ordinary nerd dude who likes to tinker with wearable computing in his free time, goes to a sex products expo in Hollywood. Hijinks ensue. Link to BBtv post with video and discussion. RoBo previously appeared, mit wearable gizmos, in the BBtv episode “Wearable Computing / Sensors and Sensibility.”…

Nintendo DS feeling blue

from http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185450.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6185450
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

New cobalt/black handheld colour will be joining the roster in the US this month.

Build a Cheap Linux Home Media Server in Thre Easy Steps

from http://digg.com/linux_unix/Build_a_Cheap_Linux_Home_Media_Server_in_Thre_Easy_Steps
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A Windows Home Server didn’t take long to build, but Ubuntu was rewarding for the geeky hobbyist willing to experiment with the creations of the open-source community. Either way, we got a powerful, low-cost Home Theater PC.

Males irrelevant to the survival of the human race

from http://digg.com/general_sciences/Males_irrelevant_to_the_survival_of_the_human_race
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Scientists at the University of Newcastle successfully created human sperm cells using a female embryonic stem cell.

Pillow Design Looks Like Rock Avalanche

from http://digg.com/design/Pillow_Design_Looks_Like_Rock_Avalanche
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

These pillows had me fooled for a minute.

We have a broadband strategy? Bush administration says "yes" in cheerleading report

from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/226997725/20080131-we-have-a-broadband-strategy-bush-administration-says-yes.html
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A new report from the NTIA talks in glowing terms about the success of our national broadband strategy. Wait, we have one? That’s news to the FCC.
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REALLY Bad News Day for Hillary Clinton

from http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/REALLY_Bad_News_Day_for_Hillary_Clinton
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Start with Hillary Clinton’s inaction during her tenure with Wal-Mart, throw in her willingness to behave no differently than her Whitewater accusers if she can gain politically, a dash of Bill Clinton’s quid pro quo favors and top it all off with Barack Obama raising a stunning $32 million in January.