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If woowoos ran the emergency room

“Homeopathic A&E,” a sketch from the British comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look invites us to imagine an emergency room (A&E is British for Accidents and Emergencies, the UK…
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Jul
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If woowoos ran the emergency room

“Homeopathic A&E,” a sketch from the British comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look invites us to imagine an emergency room (A&E is British for Accidents and Emergencies, the UK…
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Jul
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'Asteroids' heading towards the big screen?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal has won an all-out “bidding war” over the film rights to Atari’s classic Asteroids video game. We’re not entirely sure who all was involved…
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Jun
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Fake receipt printing service FalseExpense will mail you an envelope full of fake receipts, suitable for submitting for reimbursement or deducting from your taxes, “FOR NOVELTY USE ONLY”. Bruce Schneier notes, “I’ve heard of…
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Maglev toy train

Fun video of a toy train that floats about the track using a liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductor. (Via Evil Mad Scientists)
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Jun
27th
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Double Fail


fail owned pwned pictures

Picture by: Breven52. Submitted by: Breven52 via Fail Uploader
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Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four MicroSDs In RAID The new CompactFlash adaptor from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD…
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Jun
20th
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Nobody understands Emo Bun

Emo Bun is going to put on his skinny jeans and play guitar in the garage.

Emo Bun doesn’t expect you fascists to understand his art.

Emo Bun is destined to travel through the misty and cold fog…
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Jun
19th
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Video Of NVidia Tegra Powering Augmented Reality Game Is Awesome

How many of you brushed off NVidia’s Tegra platform announcement a few weeks ago as just another boring processor development? Yeah, thats what I thought. Well, watch this video and you…
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Jun
18th
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Andrew W.K. Hosts <i>Destroy Build Destroy</i>, Where Kids Blow Crap Up

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Jun
17th
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2,000 People All Silently Take Instructions From The Same MP3

The wonderful Improv Everywhere just posted the report from its 6th MP3 Experiment, where 2,000 people all got together and listened to the same instructional MP3. It looked like a crazy…
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Jun
16th
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PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Video Game Violence Book

For gamers well-versed in the antics of former attorney Jack Thompson, this PS2 casemod found over at Kotaku has to be all sorts of Schadenfreude. [Kotaku] (more…)
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Jun
13th
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British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a “sensitive” area, but they won’t tell you which areas are “sensitive,” because they’re so “sensitive.”

The British Journal…
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Jun
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Terrorism is auto-immune war; war-on-terror does the terrorists' job The Yorkshire Ranter recasts terrorism as an “auto-immune war” — a war intended to inflict maximum damage by getting the host’s defense mechanisms to overfire, damaging the host well beyond than the…
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Jun
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Terrorism is auto-immune war; war-on-terror does the terrorists' job The Yorkshire Ranter recasts terrorism as an “auto-immune war” — a war intended to inflict maximum damage by getting the host’s defense mechanisms to overfire, damaging the host well beyond than the…
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