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The blog’s stats for the last couple of days show that my last post, about the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike for women, has generated a LOT of interest. That certainly doesn’t surprise me. Having seen quite a few student designed concept bikes over the years, I can say without hesitation that t

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Winston Churchill once predicted that it would be possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without having to keep an actual chicken. And in fact scientists have since figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and say it will one day be possible to produce steaks in vat

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The cold weather is just setting in for a long cold winter, so you might as well get some gear that makes a statement.  Even if you can’t seem to grow your own beard and mustache, you can have a Beard Head to keep you warm.  Plus it’ll give you that fluffy beard you’ve always wa

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speaking at the Ad Council gala at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.

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  As if Brett Favre isn’t already a source of shame for denizens of Wisconsin, now Iraqi detainees are trying to use the sore spot to their advantage. Iraqi prisoners at a detainment camp run by the Wisconsin National Guard have learned some English, unfortunately for the soldiers, it is

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Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent climate-research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, some of which argue that scientists need to “hide the decline” in data about temperatures.

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“Not Really Sure if I Believe This Guy” by Chip Py If Seattle is going to make national news, it might as well be for ninjas. A lone man was found by Seattle Police on Monday night screaming atop a 5 foot fence post. He claimed he wasn’t being chased, and merely “overesti

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Poynter has an interesting article, looking at The Daily Show as being a leader in media criticism, an area where it does an excellent job, even if that's not its intention. But, what struck me most of all in the description of the team behind the show, was that it has a full-time researcher and fact checker who is actually better than the fact checkers than professional news networks.

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The media mogul will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

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Georgia slaveowner Sen. Saxby Chambliss recently participated in this thing from National Geographic, which “invited all 100 U.S. Senators to draw a map of their home state from memory and to label at least three important places.” Most of the participating Senators sketched their states admirab

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So how’s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday… “Supposing I was to say to someone: ‘you can have my Twitter identity for an hour

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It can be upsetting when your parents take away your Xbox. One teen reportedly decides it's all too much for him and calls 911 to ask whether they have the right to do so.

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When I was growing up we always put up our Christmas stuff the day after Thanksgiving. Nordstrom agrees. Once again, they are taking a stand against Christmas Creep.

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Morale is low aboard the Deathstar. (Thanks to Ashi!)

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If LeBron James truly believes he can help the Cleveland Browns, coach Eric Mangini has an orange helmet waiting for him.

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Google has announced this morning that for certain queries they will be showing site hierarchies in the search results rather than URL's string. On first inspection I don't like the system because in all the examples Google has provided the keyword rich product URL is removed.

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If you bought or rented the new Fight Club blu-ray and brought it back to the store convinced you rented a faulty disc, you've been Punk'd by director David Fincher. When the disc boots up it displays the menu for Never Been Kissed for a few seconds before showing its true Fight Club colors.

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An interest observation courtesy of Mint: of the 307,868,280 Americans out there, which compose 151,485,000 tax units, 46.9% will have zero federal income tax liability in 2009. Brilliant plan to keep the country happy: the poor pay no taxes, the rich get a massive stock market bubble to sell into,

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If your crippling ennui is such that you can’t even decide between a Seven-Layer Burrito and a Quad Stacker, Eating the Road has an amusing flowchart that should help you navigate the bevy of fast-food options. It’s based on queries like “Are you drunk?” and “Are you drunk on malt liquor?

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