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Homemade Rocketeer pack


MAKE: Blog: Homemade Rocketeer pack: “David writes - ‘Photos and a write-up about a (non-functioning!) replica I built of the jetpack from the movie The Rocketeer.’”


Audi dealer lucky to be alive after being sandwiched by runaway rig, tour bus


Video: Audi dealer lucky to be alive after being sandwiched by runaway rig, tour bus - Autoblog: “A New Jersey Audi dealer is counting his blessings after a frightening crash left him with surprisingly minor injuries. The crash happened when an overloaded, bald-tired 18-wheeler careened into Bryan Pacelli’s lane crushing his Audi TT against a barrier, just in time for a charter bus to sandwich him from behind. The whole incident was captured in dramatic fashion by a dash cam mounted on the trailing bus.”


MAKE: Blog: The Future of Interfaces Is Multi-Touch


Stolen from MAKE. 24th century, here I come!

MAKE: Blog: The Future of Interfaces Is Multi-Touch: “Jeff Han gave an amazing talk and demo at Etech - pictured here, LCARS multi-tounch interface!”


The Tome Of Secrets


Penny Arcade! - The Tome Of Secrets


MAKE: Blog: Street-legal jet powered VW Beetle


This can’t be for real. It sure is funny, though.

MAKE: Blog: Street-legal jet powered VW Beetle


MAKE: Blog: Homemade Futurama pinball machine


Sigh. I miss Futurama …

MAKE: Blog: Homemade Futurama pinball machine


Crohn’s disease ‘enigma’ close to solved?

Researchers in London have discovered that a weak immune response instigates Crohn’s disease, possibly laying to rest the popular belief that an auto-immune condition is to blame.

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EnzoGate


EnzoGate - Autoblog:

“Eriksson told the police he was a passenger in the Enzo when it crashed and that the driver was a mysterious German fellow named Dietrich (no last name, like Cher) who fled on foot and has yet to turn up.

This sketchy story has the cops shaking their heads as if to say, “You really expect us to believe that?” and the rest of autodom shaking their middle fingers at the man who reduced the world’s population of Enzos from 400 to 399. “


Lily misses her TiVo …

TiVo.com | TiVo Blog | Archives: “In today’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Alyson Hannigan laments the death of her TiVo box and finds that absence (read: silly replacement DVR) really does make the heart grow fonder (read: she misses TiVo). She explains what a bummer it was when her satellite company sent her a new box and it turned out NOT to be a TiVo box (’No little guy,’ she says).”


Serenity makes more money from DVD than from box office

After dissapointing movie ticket sales, it seemed that Joss Whedon’s Serenity would en up as a failure in the books. Think again. Over 2 million DVDs sold, plus rentals and TV rights add up to more than $60 million. Could this convince Universal to get a Special Edition out? or even a sequel?

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