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You might have seen solar-powered planes before, but few of them come with as much world-changing ambition as the Solar Impulse. Launched in 2003, the project...
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Not much of a teaser this, is it? Unless there's some obscure British pop culture icon that also says "who ya gonna call?" we're somehow not aware of, it's pret...
Kotaku, Date: Sat, Jul 4 02:30
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Hi. How are you? I'm fine, thank you. And you?Today, right now at this very moment, it's Friday. Can you feel it? That means one thing and only one thing: It's ...
Kotaku, Date: Sat, Jul 4 02:00
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Heads up, Meizu fanboys! We just got a sneak peak at the M8's new UI (said to be dropping in August when the handset gets its firmware update) and you know wha...
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Normally, hardware bundles are a spotty affair. A game you don't really want, or two games, one you kinda want, one you just do not want. But this bundle, on sa...
Kotaku, Date: Sat, Jul 4 01:00
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Electronic Gaming Monthlydied, then was risen. But when it makes its eventual return, it won't be in any form, shape or guise you're used to.Owner Steve Harris ...
Kotaku, Date: Sat, Jul 4 00:00
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Maybe it's because I don't really read newspapers anymore. Maybe it's that I just never noticed it. But I didn't realize that like the New York Times, Blockbus...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 23:30
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We haven't heard a solitary peep out of IXI Mobile in a hot minute, even though its Ogo line -- once a member of Cingular's lineup -- had found some niche popu...
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Via the Mindzeye Studios comes these three 12 inch tall Gears of Warbronze collector's statues of a Boomer, Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago.All three are limited...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 23:00
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It's been nearly a month since the launch of Palm's newest handset, the Pre. Since then, we here at Engadget have heard some vague and hard to substantiate cla...
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Getting the most out of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen requires a steady hand, a keen eye, and the ass muscles of an Olympic athlete.Transformers: Revenge...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 22:00
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Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 has been dated for Japan. Here are details about the ¥9,980 (US$104) Premium Box.It includes a soundtrack CD, an original accessory s...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 21:30
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Get out your Bill Gates commemorative calendars folks, 'cause it looks like we now have a few more dates to mark off on the road to Windows 7 availability. Whi...
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Most of my weekend will be spent playing a little real-life Tetris, as I attempt to find open slots for all the boxes, furniture and knickknacks still in boxes ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 20:30
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It was only a few months ago that we were fielding rumors about Sony's CyberShot DSC-HX1, and now we're struggling to keep our credit card at bay each time we ...
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Seriously folks, what's up with these prototype iPhones falling out of nondescript white vans and ending up on eBay in the shadiest of manners? Just months aft...
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The decision to give something a name, whether that be your struggling rock band, your first dog, your only child, or your game development studio is no simple ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 19:00
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So Dante's Inferno is "EA does God of War". Doesn't bother us. Dead Space was "EA does Resident Evil", and it was great. These are the same guys, we expect the ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 18:30
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Trying before you buy. You might not be able to do that with upcoming multi-platform shooter Borderlands.According to Gearbox's Mikey Neumann, "We talk about a ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 18:00
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We're not normally in need of celebrity endorsement of our entertainment medium of choice. But when it's Big Bird, Grover and Oscar the Grouch singing gaming's ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 17:00
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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing e...
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It's your holiday weekend America -- how are you going to spend it? We'll tell you how: by listening to Engadget Podcast 153 over, and over, and over. What bet...
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Sounds like EA are already hard at work on Skate 3. Not the most shocking thing you'll read today, since it is an EA title, but still, it's a great series, so n...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 16:00
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Never mind what's at the bottom of this barrel, here's a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer.(The following s...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 15:00
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Electronics packaging has been growing steadily smaller and less annoying over recent times, but here comes Apple adding complexity where we didn't know it was...
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. Now, we've never been to this "Hall of Presidents" at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida (our parents instead taking us to real, disused dungeons and ba...
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EA have really got behind the whole "free to play" thing of late, announcing it'll form the basis of future Tiger Woods and Need for Speed titles. The first suc...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 14:00
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Happy (uh, early) Independence Day, my fellow Americans. Happy Friday, everyone else. It's time to talk about video games like you've never talked about them be...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 13:40
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Any big city bicyclist knows that being small and silent on the street is a deadly combination. Drivers of 2-ton cages are simply immune to anything but the si...
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According to figures released by GfK-ChartTrack, there are now 24 million current-generation consoles in the UK. Let's see how those numbers break down.The numb...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 12:00
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Archaeology 101 will tell you that accurately dating an object is critical to understanding its meaning and value. When it comes to stone carvings, this typica...
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var. Be warned, this is beta stuff and we haven't been able to test it ourselves. However, a number of breathless tipsers and commenters are reporting a s...
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Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 10:30
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The GSM version of Palm's Pre looks all set for a UK announcement next week on O2. Now we get this, a Pre spotted on the support site for Dutch carrier Hi in T...
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Packard Bell recently overhauled its logo in an effort to keep up with the times, but are its offerings up to the same task? The new imedia lineup immediately ...
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If Namco Bandai didn't have an issue with splattering milk on characters for simulation role-playing-game Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos, than these promotional car...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 09:00
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Drawing faces is hard; and as children suckled at the teat of MTV we posses neither the patience nor the discipline required to learn the skill. So imagine our...
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While AT&T's still claiming MicroCell will be out before the year's up, Sprint's bringing out the big words by boasting to Unstrung it'll be beating everyo...
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We know about the EyeToy. We've seen that motion controller Sony showed at E3. But there is another motion controller Sony has been working on.This new patent f...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 07:30
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We're used to seeing nettops from the likes of Asus and Acer, but EMTEC's the newcomer in this field and let's see what we're working with. At about one inch t...
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Chatter is swirling that the newest Resident Evil film, Resident Evil: Afterlife, is aiming for a September 17, 2010 release. Last night, Milla Jovovichsaid thi...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 06:00
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JJ Hendricks, an avid games collector, recently paid $17,500 for a single video game. If you've ever wondered what it feels like to spend that much on a video g...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 05:30
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No, not Vladamir Putin, but Elena Vladimirovna Putin — think Putin if he was a girl with white hair, red eyes and a shapely figure.Her name is also a refe...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 05:00
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We've seen plenty of tiny UAVs (or NAVs -- Nano Aerial Vehicles -- as they're also known), but none quite like the robo-hummingbird that's been in development ...
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This ought to see you through the weekend. 2k have announced the release of the "2K Huge Game Pack" on Steam, which bundles BioShock, five Civ titles, five X-Co...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 04:30
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Another countdown clock, another game announcement. Sengoku BASARA 3, the third entry in the franchise known as Devil Kings in the West, is scheduled for releas...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 04:00
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Like Nintendo, Square Enix take their intellectual property ownership seriously. So seriously that the Japanese publisher is taking legal action against a singl...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 03:30
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You know the Gears of Wars look: brown, bombed out buildings and more brown. Oh, there's some gray, too. The games have really set off a visual flair.But Gears ...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 03:00
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Brutal Legend is looking awesome, but as of yet, it's only confirmed to be appearing on Xbox 360 and PS3. What about this generation's ugly stepsister, the PC?I...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 02:30
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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming ...
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The name of this game is H.A.V.E. Online. It's a PC title, and an open beta is supposed to go down sometime this year. The game looks strangely familiar.An hom...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 02:00
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PlatinumGames third title—after MadWorld and Bayonetta—is Infinite Space, the sci-fi role-playing game co-developed by Nude Maker. Long story short,...
Kotaku, Date: Fri, Jul 3 01:40
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With CableCARD enabled HDTVs being a complete bust and the crazy popular trend of mounting HDTVs on the wall, many wonder what they can do with their DVR or ca...
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Officially, Sony's PSPgo is only clocking in at 333MHz like the rest of its brothers and sisters, but as the gang at Sony Insider found out in the FCC filing, ...
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Looks like the Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet has made it out of the labs (and controlled show floor settings) and into the hands of Crave UK, where that seemingly-...
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Sitting pretty as the number three cell maker in the world would make many of the bigger names happy -- not to mention the usurped Sony Ericsson and Motorola a ...
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Lovers of pyrotechnics everywhere have always struggled with the quandary: what to do on a rainy day? Well, firebugs, get a load of this: Sega Toys Japan has h...
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS in Chemnitz led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann have unveiled tiny, printable...
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Apple's on-again, off-again deal with China Unicom to officially bring the iPhone to China may still be up in the air, but it looks like it could now also be f...
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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 entirel...
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Well, it's no secret that plenty of folks have been talking about a UMD-less PSP since day one, but it looks like that's been the case behind the scenes at Son...
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Somehow or another, D-Link managed to combine a NAS, digital photo frame, secondary display and 802.11n router into a single device, and when the Xtreme N DIR...
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If you need a flash drive or USB hub there are many useful and, more to the point, tasteful options out there. But if you want to saddle a hapless co-worker or...
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Given the hype surrounding Apple's iPhone, we're actually surprised that we haven't seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone expl...
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Few details were available when Archos announced its new lineup of PMPs last month, but today we can provide you with fuller specs and news of imminent UK avai...
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Alright, so you know the drill by now. A patent application doesn't necessarily mean an actual product is on the way -- but it's always fun to speculate, right...
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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing e...
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Remember that guy who uber-hacked his Eee PC with a GPS, Bluetooth, draft-n WiFi, FM transmitter, SDHC card reader, modem, USB hub, 2GB RAM? Well, we got one m...
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Everybody's favorite fuzzy little Apple clone maker is back from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (we're still waiting on that revelatory outing of creditors t...
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No mention was made of a Hero with 3G that'd work on Rogers or AT&T back at its announcement a few days ago, but HTC has been getting awfully good at makin...
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AMD is yet to officially launch its 790GX chipset, but Foxconn is one step ahead with the launch of its 790GX-based A7DA motherboard.
Hexus, Date: Tue, Aug 5 13:20
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The latest airflow solution for your system's RAM comes from Patriot Memory, and it promises to lower module temperatures up to 30 per cent.
Hexus, Date: Tue, Aug 5 12:26
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D-Link has launched a pair of "green" Wi-Fi routers that promise to reduce electricity bills by using up to 40 per cent less power.
Hexus, Date: Tue, Aug 5 11:30
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If you thought MSI was going soft with all this low-cost Wind business, you were wrong. Here's a pair of notebooks for the gaming market.
Hexus, Date: Tue, Aug 5 10:51
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Thecus is setting its sights on the enterprise and business environment with its iSCSI storage series, the i4500R and i5500.
Hexus, Date: Tue, Aug 5 10:15
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Intel's Atom processor may be hogging the limelight, but VIA states that its Nano is the only choice for efficient performance without compromise.
Hexus, Date: Mon, Aug 4 15:04
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AMD's popular Radeon HD 4850 graphics card is the latest to be given a HIS IceQ makeover.
Hexus, Date: Mon, Aug 4 14:11
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Lenovo today became the latest big-name manufacturer to enter the netbook market and its Atom-powered portable will retail at $399.
Hexus, Date: Mon, Aug 4 13:10
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So far Foxconn is the only vendor to formally announce issues with the NVIDIA 790i chipset.
Hexus, Date: Mon, Aug 4 12:45
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Intel spills architecture details on upcoming Larrabee, promising to end the VPU stranglehold enjoyed by NVIDIA and ATI. We take a first look.
Hexus, Date: Mon, Aug 4 07:58
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Looking for a quiet graphics card? ZOTAC has given the water-cooled ZONE treatment to NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GTX+.
Hexus, Date: Fri, Aug 1 15:26
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Creative customers can finally download X-Fi drivers for Windows Vista that will restore features previously available on Windows XP.
Hexus, Date: Fri, Aug 1 10:16
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We take a HEXUS.first look at Akasa's new gamer-orientated Infiniti Zor case. Up to scratch or just another in a long line of near-homogeneous products? Read on...
Hexus, Date: Fri, Aug 1 09:09
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Intel today announced a partnership with Facebook that will see thousands of Intel Xeon-based servers deployed at Facebook's data centres.
Hexus, Date: Thu, Jul 31 17:23
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NVIDIA has launched its GeForce 9500 GT graphics card, and those who think it's ideal for the HTPC might like the look of these passive solutions.
Hexus, Date: Thu, Jul 31 16:18
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Whenever a new issue of Hi-Fructose shows up in my mailbox, I climb on my roof and genuflect in the direction of Arcturus to pay homage to master Zogg for allo...
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(Click on thumbnails for enlargement) I went with my wife and kids to Topanga State Park a couple of weeks ago. It offers wonderful hiking, rock climbing, and p...
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Graphic designer and cartoon historian Leslie Cabarga, went to great pains to clean up the excellent artwork in this 480-page homage to Casper the Friendly Ghos...
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(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) Yesterday I was harvesting figs from my tree before the fig thieves who regularly drive through the neighborhood to poach f...
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Last year, I stumbled upon Ira Mitchell's blog, Glassyeyes.com, which is all about buying inexpensive eyeglasses from online retailers. Here's a recent Minneapo...
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My 9-year-old daughter is at summer camp for a week. She sent this letter to us:Dear Mom and Dad,Last night was so awful. Lilli had a migrain all night. A girl...
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Automata maker extraordinaire Dug North says:I went into an antique shop that was going out of business and picked up a large-format magazine/book entitled How...
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G.J. Echterncamp is a young video director and documentary filmmaker. His latest subject is an utterly absorbing movie about his parents, Frank and Cindy.In th...
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*Please*, do your fucking dishes! Thanks!Previously on Mad Professor:• Passive aggressive taxi cab sign
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Shawn Wolfe says:
I love looking at (ie. studying, meditating on, losing myself in) this collection of old architectural renderings of supermarket prototypes, ...
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I am enjoying Glyph Jockey's cell phone photos of interesting sites in Tijuana. Link
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My four-year-old daughter made these masks at summer camp today. They remind me a bit of the characters in Fo...
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This no-nonsense cabbie wants his fares to know what's what without having to speak to them. Xeni Jardin snapped the photo with her iPhone and added incisive c...
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(Click on thumbnails for enlargement)Mister Jalopy gave me this cake of Tio Nacho. It's a medicinal soap made by Bustillos in Mexico.Take a look at Tio Nacho ("...
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I like my iPhone very much, but I was unhappily surprised to learn that it doesn't have iChat and AIM built into it. I suspect this is because AT&T wants you to...
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