Kibera's Instant Farm System Is Future of Urban Agriculture (11)
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Kibera, a dense, 2.5 square km shantytown outside Nairobi, is the largest slum in Kenya. It's estimated that possibly a million people live its maze of houses and outdoor markets. Now a group there has figured out a fast, efficient way to convert piles of trash into compost — and to convert areas that were once trash heaps into instant organic farms using just recycled PVC piping and other easily-accessible materials. One farm, which now ...
Giant spider dormant in Liverpool ... (4)
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bottom photo by Matthew Andrews / top bbc.co.uk The 50-foot mechanical creature was spotted hanging on the side of an office building earlier today in Liverpool, England. It will soon take to the streets as part of La Machine's public theatre event which unfolds over the next five days. - Huge Spider is latest arts event - La Machine [Thanks, BruceR!] More: Little girl giant plays in the park Read more | Permalink | Comments ...
Paper box templates (3)
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Not martha found this great collection of paper box templates - great for gift boxes or storing bits 'n' bobs. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Kids | Digg this!
Rain Today (1)
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The Coolest Green Charger Out There (7)
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Bold statement, right? But look at this thing! The Solar Cell Tree Charger is an engineered tree with 54 solar cells that charge your gizmos by the sun. While nothing is plugged in a battery charges that will power your devices when there is no power. All of the branches are adjustable so that you can make sure each is exposed to the sun. Read More
Strange fences (14)
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The above fence sculpture comes from Dark Roasted Blend's picks of "Some of the World's Strangest Fences." Also included, a very long fence decorated with bras in New Zealand, a fence outfitted with a domed dog window, and many other oddities. Strange fences (Dark Roasted Blend)
10 Keys to Work/Life Balance (13)
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Today’s employers seem to want more of our time than ever. In the US, the average worker puts in 55 hours a week; in Europe and other places where short working weeks have long been the norm, workers are struggling to hold on to their reasonable schedules as employers look to the US model in an effort to increase their bottom lines. Email, text messaging, cell phones, and Blackberries keep us tethered to the office ...
HOWTO build your own A-bomb (10)
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Today in the Guardian, the story of two plucky youngsters in 1966 who built their own homebrew A-bomb: ...the two amateurs were ironically aided by information published as part of President Dwight Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program, which spread word of the benefits of non-military nuclear power around the world. And Atoms for Peace was only the most prominent example of a fad for everything nuclear that propelled a huge amount of technical detail into ...
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Jason said:
Once upon a time my old website was listed by US Government firewalls as 'criminal' for containing instructions on how to build an a-bomb, which included centrifuging uranium by spinning it in a bucket over your head. Hmm.
Your Creative Genius Mindset: The Essential Qualities for “Outside the Box” Thinking (19)
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Click on the IQ Matrix image to view larger version. To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality. When we are creative, we tend to see opportunities and possibilities that we would normally filter out of our personal experience. Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and ...
Build a frequency generator on the cheap (1)
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This tutorial shows how to build a frequency generator out of parts found at your local Radioshack. Pretty simple construction and nice detail on the enclosure with a nice array of dip switches. How to make a Frequency Generator Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!
Five Minute Project: Hot Dog Bun Grilling Jig (3)
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Cooking hot dogs (and similarly shaped things) on the backyard grill is one of those classic American summer traditions. One of the weaker parts of this scheme is preparing the hot dog buns. I happen to like mine toasty and warm and crunchy, and without the hinges broken! Not everyone likes grilled buns, but for those of us who do, this is a legitimate concern. Folding buns wide or flat to grill them seems to ...
Top 5 Best Diablo Clones (2)
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As everyone awaits more Diablo III goodness to be trickle down Blizzard's milky teat, there are more than a few games out there to provide us with our Diablo "fix", as I like to call it.
Conet Project free online (12)
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Xeni and I were just talking about the wonder of Wilco and their performance at the recent Outside Lands festival. As many of you know, Wilco's magnificent album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was named for (and uses samples from) the Conet Project, a four CD collection from Irdial-Discs of "numbers stations." For decades, intelligence organizations have reportedly broadcast one-way messages to their agents in the field via shortwave, and the transmissions happen to sound weirder than ...
Enter... the Commodore 65! (1)
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Retro-Thing takes a nostalgic look back at the retro console that never was, the hysterically named Commodore 65. After the spectacular success of the Commodore 64, CBM barely knew what to do with themselves. They created the Commodore 128 that combined C64 functionality with unique high powered modes of its own, but it didn't really work out. Of course there was the mighty series of Amiga computers from the mid 80's onwards, but Commodore was ...
11 Free Mind Mapping Applications &038; Web Services - Stepcase Lifehack (63)
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Mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format. It’s a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind; it works with and represents the way we think, where as paragraph-based text is not representative of the thought process at all. There are a million and one uses for mind ...
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I tried the Mind42. It is a great tool for quick mind maps and sharing mindmaps.
Rotating Grid Optical Illusion (4)
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David O'Reilly, the author of iHologram app (fake), has released this new optical illusion that made big stir around the web. While working in 3D last year, he discovered this animated illusion. He came to conclusion that a large grid seen rotating at a certain speed will appear to group itself into smaller grids, spinning independently. In this example, we see a central grid, and 3 or 4 orbiting it. Here appear about 5 or ...
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws (42)
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Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID's security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being ...
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Jason Adam Young said:
wow, just, wow, and I mean... just wow
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Randy said:
and this is why I don't have an RFID credit card and hate the new passports.
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DJ said:
That's why a year or two ago when my replacement bank card had RFID in it, I immediately had them send me a replacement without it.
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