12 days ago
deusx : Comics - Explosm.net - 1457 - "That's not water."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Finally, a car that runs on water! - "Energy made from water," as Hirasawa says, "is not a dream story anymore We hope many people will join us in our challenge to promote the use of our WES, for the better future of the earth," he added in a statement.
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8 month ago
adamrg : The Rise of Big Water - I can live without oil, but Big Water scares the crap out of me.
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13 month ago
deusx : Waterhobo - "for the sake of this discussion we are talking about rabbits, however I must make a disclaimer that in motion detection and autofire if an unwitting person is tresspassing on my property and happens to walk into the field of fire... well we will ref
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15 month ago
plasticbag : How to do water droplets in Photoshop in five minutes - I mean it's fascinating and everything but having watched it all the way through twice I still actually have no idea how they did it or what each of the various things they did accomplished. Still, a fascinating five minutes.
Ethan Marcotte : How to create water droplets in Photoshop - Yes, it's a Photoshop tutorial. Still, I think these things aren't necessarily valuable for the end result, but to see how the author solves problems you'd approach differently. So there. #.
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16 month ago
nelson : Cocaine consumption - NYC has the most cocaine in the waste water
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17 month ago
43folders : Message in a Bottle - Bottled Water - Luxury Water - Mineral Water - "Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion."
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17 month ago
deusx : Geekdad - Wired Blogs - "If you've got some Alka-Seltzer tablets, a drill, some string, and lots of water, you've got all you need for a fun, summer-time (outdoor) game."
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19 month ago
plasticbag : A planet has been found that's only 1.5 times the size of earth and appears to have liquid water running on its surface... - Wow. That's pretty amazing. What interests me is twofold. Firstly, obviously, is there life. Secondly, if there isn't, how easy would it be to introduce some?
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20 month ago
deusx : SciencePunk » Mighty Minnesota Storm Surge - "Witness the mighty power of nature overcoming puny municipal defences in this incredible video."
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20 month ago
WillPate : Water Privatization - "A 12-month investigation by journalists in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America shows that the results range from questionable to disastrous"
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30 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground are experimenting with water-cooling and heat-exchange to chill the Underground - Air conditioning the Underground has proven impractical - the tunnels are so far underground...
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32 month ago
erikbenson : The Segway creator's next project - Water and electricity machines for (relatively) cheap. Part of their innovation is an interesting distribution model. Sell small machines to people so they can rent them out. Make them business people. Better than going through the government perhaps.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : The Bureaucrat in Your Shower - Fascinating little article with a bit of a Libertarian perspective about how the US government stops Americans having proper showers like they had when they were kids...
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39 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes [via]
plasticbag : Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes - Stunning. Beautiful. Really worth exploring in substantial detail. And if you work in ceramics or glass or plastics, there are some forms here you should be exploring. Awesome.
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40 month ago
jkottke : Tom Standage says bottled water is "bad to the last drop" - It's more expensive than gasoline, doesn't taste any better, and isn't any safer.
philgyford : Bad to the Last Drop - New York Times - Tom Standage on why you're an idiot if you buy bottled water when you could drink tap water.
Matthew M. Boedicker : bottled water a scam?
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plasticbag : From the new issue of Wired: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea - Two articles in the same wired about highly implausible geniuses with theories that the mainstream are suspicious of - getting more visionary or am I reading Fortean Times?
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plasticbag : G-Cans photos of Tokyo's massive underground flood and water systems - I was sure I'd posted this before, but I can't find it anywhere on delicious or on the main weblog, so I guess I didn't. Stunning pictures - like something from Quake...
cameron : Tokyo G-Cans project photos - Cavernous pipes for draining water during the typhoon season
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cameron : The social life of water - Water groups in very specific network structures
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49 month ago
plasticbag : The World is Turning Gay - Or at least it is according to a weird new advert (in Hong Kong) for a new form of cherry ginger Perrier water...
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plasticbag : There's now more squid biomass in the world than human (and there's 6 1/2 billion of us) - "Dr George Jackson from the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean studies in Tasmania said squid thrived during environmental disasters such as global warming."
Steve Cook : Squid now the dominant large animal on the planet - Global warming has caused a population explosion. It's all downhill from here, human race. I've seen this movie.
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