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“JH: Can people talk about Cleveland Steamers?”

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“These are photos from the Jefferson Neighborhood of houses that have been purchase to make way for a new shopping center.”

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Look at this later.

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Clipping to save reference to the links in the comments. woo.

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“Heim’s attempt to heal this divide added four “sub-space” dimensions to Einstein’s four, making a total of eight. Later he decided that two of the dimensions were unnecessary, and removed them from the theory. His two sub-space dimensions coupled the forces of electromagnetism and gravity, which meant that theoretically, electromagnetic energy could be converted into gravity. This is the principle that his hyperdrive idea was based upon. The theory was so compelling and the math worked out so well that after Heim announced it, Wernher von Braun– the man leading the Saturn 5 rocket program– contacted Heim and asked him whether the Saturn 5 was a waste of money.”

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“Apple’s television ads for its new Macs boast that for years, Intel’s chips have been “trapped inside PCs–dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks.”

Now, the voiceover proclaims, the Intel processor will finally be set free.

Of course, that’s not exactly the way Intel would put it.”

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I need one of these. And 100TB of file storage to go with it.

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“Coffee connoisseurs are known to be willing to shell out large sums of money for a high-quality bean. The high-end beans, such as Kona or Blue Mountain, are known to go for extraordinary sums of money. Then there is Kopi Lowak, reputed to be the most expensive coffee in the world. While price can vary, Kopi Lowak (which translates as “Civet coffee”) can sell for as much as $50 per quarter-pound.”

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*drool*

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My kid loves Elmo, but this is incredible.

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“”Wow” remains the strongest and clearest signal ever received from an unknown source in space, as well as the most fascinating and unexplainable. The signal’s original discoverer Jerry Ehman doesn’t care to speculate on its source, and he remains scientifically skeptical. “Even if it were intelligent beings sending a signal,” he said in an interview, “they’d do it far more than once. We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times.”

Perhaps. But consider that when humankind used the Arecibo radio telescope to send a message out into space in 1974, it was only sent once.”

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“A future outdoor hot tub would have some major design changes. It would be much, much smaller, giving us less water to heat. It would have a thorough insulation layer on top. (A thick layer of ping-pong balls would be especially fun, as you could get into the tub, displacing the balls, and keep it insulated even as you soaked in it.) It would have a radically redesigned stove, likely an ash can with two chimneys, one for air intake, another for smoke output.

And it would probably be built some warm summer evening, not during a freaking snow storm. As should be clear from this post, we’re idiots.”

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This looks totally cool.

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“The rules of this game are thus: Use nature and geography as your canvas. (i.e. Make a lake shaped like a teletubbie, or volcanic rock look like a dragon, constellation patterns that seem to look like images, or rock shapes that seem to resemble actual things).”

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“The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today’s shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI-based, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin’ ’70s beat. (Jerry Bruckheimer will also have conquered Broadway with the CSI musical “FOLLICLE!” starring Nathan Lane as a frenetic but lovable blood spatter and Matthew Broderick as lint.)

Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can’t be copied. Therefore, look for the original series Misplaced, as well as Unfound, Not So Much with the Whereabouts and Just Pull Over and Ask!”

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“The article you can’t afford to miss. How Sprint will be the first carrier to reach, deploy, and sell 4G in the United States.”

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Best. Showerhead. Ever.

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“WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — The government is getting out of the way of next-generation mobile broadband services — a new niche being developed by cell-phone companies — by preparing to spend $936 million to move its radio communications onto an obscure segment of the spectrum, experts are telling United Press International’s Wireless World.”

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