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Stuffed with turkey, pie, and all sorts of yummy holiday foodstuffs, I’ve been a little delinquent with my posting lately. Some good friends are in from overseas, so I haven’t had much time to write, and I likely won’t be posting regularly until next week, when I finally collapse in a festive heap of […]

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I’m a little pressed for time, and I didn’t have the foresight to set up a delayed post last night, so just a little one today:
Hardware giant Logitech has just announced the sale of its one billionth mouse, meaning it has made one mouse for every 6.7 people on the planet.
If a mouse cable is […]

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Knowing that this story combines three of my favourite things — beer, Eastern philosophy and neat-o whatnot — a buddy of mine sent me some info about this most postworthy endeavour.

Lloyd Alter at Treehugger reports:

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It […]

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The last 10 search terms that led to this fine site were:

Who exactly needs to know whether insects poop at 12:34 in the morning? Why would someone seek out “weird creepy asian flash games”? And who’s pondering the pros and cons of keeping Italian lizards as pets?
Sadly, I’ll likely never know. You […]

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Titled “Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way,” the one-day non-credit £23 course will take place in November at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and aims to teach “communication skills and personal development.”
From the university’s press release:

“Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way, teaches the real-life psychological techniques […]

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Here’s a crazy story that I missed entirely last fall.
From the BBC:

The key, with the tag “Crows Nest Telephone Titanic” opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton.
It was in the pocket of an officer transferred off the vessel days before its maiden voyage. He forgot to hand […]

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Contrary to popular belief, there’s an excellent chance that buckling up your airline seatbelt will save your life. The International Herald Tribune tells us why:

What’s the point of listening to the safety instructions given by flight attendants? If there’s a crash, everybody dies, right?
Most airline passengers apparently feel this way. More than half of […]

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Artist Brad Emerson has turned some of his old home movies into moving, living, breathing impressionist paintings, using some funky software that I’m not quite geeky enough to understand, though I almost wish I were. Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff.
Story and photo via Boing Boing.

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UPDATE: The scanner has been claimed, but the printer is still up for grabs.
I’ve got an old Canon printer and scanner that are just gathering dust, and I’m looking to give them away. You can have them for free if you’re in the Montreal area and can pick them up. E-mail me if […]

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