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[31 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
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The Best Easy & Cheap DIY Home Tech Hacks
Love these DIY posts from Re-Nest.  Repurposing and general ingenuity is what they’re all about!
I’ll use the iPhone stand and EVERONE, at some point, will want to know the best way to remove a broken lightbulb.  But the phone speaker… it’s just brilliant:

via Re-Nest
Then: Fred Clark over at the Slactivist shows us how we love to get screwed.

I think maybe part of the reason you’re so angry is you keep demanding that you get screwed and then, not surprisingly, …

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Categorically Speaking

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[31 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Google Reader Clean-out January 10

The Best Easy & Cheap DIY Home Tech Hacks
Love these DIY posts from Re-Nest.  Repurposing and general ingenuity is what they’re all about!
I’ll use the iPhone stand and EVERONE, at some point, will want to know the best way to remove a broken lightbulb.  But the phone speaker… it’s just brilliant:

via Re-Nest
Then: Fred Clark over at the Slactivist shows us how we love to get screwed.

I think maybe part of the reason you’re so angry is you keep demanding that you get screwed and then, not surprisingly, …

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[18 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Aptly Named ‘YAY Scale’!

Here’s a fun new idea:

For the low price of $39.99 I could get 221 lbs worth of compliments every morning     It appears to be velvet-lined.

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[16 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
Everythings Amazing Nobodys Happy

Favorite interview from my favorite (living) comedian.

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[6 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
heh heh heh

This is pretty much the what I’ve heard from folks who’ve seen this movie.  Personally I won’t be wasting my money.
Speaking of money: Avatar is being ridiculously reported to as a possible contender for the highest grossing movie EVER… (current champion being Titanic)  Lets break that down a bit, shall we?

Average cost of a movie ticket in 1997, when Titanic was released: $4.59
Average cost of a 3D movie ticket in 2009, Avatar’s release date: $9.50
Production cost for Titanic (again in 1997): $200Million
Production cost for Avatar: $280Million

This is really a no-brainer.  …

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Google Reader Clean-out November 09

Skipped a couple months…  I hate that, too.  On to the passing on of links!
Wikileaks: “we will release over half a million 9/11 intercepts”
Starting at 3AM Eastern time on Wednesday, Wikileaks plans to publish over half a million US national text pager intercepts related to 9/11. The messages are said to come from devices used by persons operating in an official capacity (including Pentagon and NYPD), and cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
via BoingBoing
The Equation …