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nelson : Freaky alien model - The Na'Vi have assumed human flesh colours and infiltrated our fashion advertising
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2 month ago
nelson : Bear vs. plane - There's nothing you can't fix with duct tape
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deusx : Apple - Support - Discussions - Changing modifier keys in keyboard ... - "Unplugging the dongle to my Logitech MX 1100 and then swapping my modifier keys worked. Just be sure to open the modifier keys window first."
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deusx : Snow Leopard broke Control and Caps Lock swapping - "The problem turned out to be related to the wireless USB hub for Logitech’s MX Revolution (and others?) mouse. If you unplug it before you change the Modifier Keys the changes do take effect. You can then plug the Logitech USB dongle back in and e
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deusx : Rare tongue-eating parasite found - "A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast."
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deusx : Things you don't want to see at the airport for 500, Alex on Twitpic
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deusx : Teen pregnant after ‘swimming in pool’ | The Sun |News - "Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel's mixed pool. She is now seeking compensation from the hotel. "
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deusx : Theft ends in torn genitals Weird News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania - "The owner, 28-year-old Olga, agreed to hand over the takings but as she was giving him the money, used her karate skills to knock him to the ground and tie him up with a hairdryer cord. She then locked him in the storeroom and told colleagues she&#
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deusx : Palm OS Robotic Tattoo Machine Invented - "An Austrian electrician has invented the world's first tattooing robot and it runs the Palm OS. According to the news site Ananova, Niki Passath, 25, has unveiled his invention, which he calls Freddy, at a hi-tech fair in Vienna. "
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deusx : TheCabin.net ·· Prank call leads to $50K in damage 06/09/09 - "The bogus caller told the employee that there was a problem with the sprinklers and that she needed to "reset" them by pulling a nearby fire alarm, which the caller claimed to have deactivated for the purpose. When the audible alarm went o
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : Firefox: Most Popular Search Engine… - I stare at this caption, and I can't even begin to work out what they THOUGHT they were saying. Every time you think you work it out, you realise it's still wrong. [via] #
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Andy Baio : Project Gutenberg iPhone app blocked by Apple because of the Kama Sutra - note that Stanza, eReader, and Amazon's Kindle app all allow the same book [via]
deusx : Whither Eucalyptus? - Jamie’s Web Log - "If you’re wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it’s currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it’s possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, do
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10 month ago
deusx : Amazon.com: Leslie Michael Orchar...'s review of Black & Decker Grass Hog XP 14-Inch 7.2 Am... - "Died of a melted plastic gear after less than a year"
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deusx : Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear | Lifestyle | Reuters - Somehow, I think being the only pig in a country is quarantine enough. ""For now the pig is under quarantine, we built it a room because of swine influenza," Aziz Gul Saqib, director of Kabul Zoo, told Reuters. "We've done this be
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wearehugh : [PDF] The IE 8 super-DOCTYPE-sniffing flowchart - apparently there is no way to ensure that your site is rendered according to standards without adding MS-specific cruft to your HEAD or your HTTP headers
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deusx : GodzillaBukkake.com - Macroherpetophile image macros - "Macroherpetophiles are people who have a fetish for big lizards. Macro as in Godzilla big. This particular group of MHPs has a thing for bukkake to top it off."
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wearehugh : Why "function sun(){}" will absolutely kill your webapp's performance
Simon Willison : Magic properties make Firefox synchronously load the Java plugin - Magic properties make Firefox synchronously load the Java plugin. Even defining a function called sun() (or several other symbols) will trigger the Java VM to be loaded, dramatically hurting the performance of your page.
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deusx : SNUGGIE™ PUB CRAWL - San Francisco, CA - Date: TBD - "In response to the stunning public embrace of the warm and cuddly Snuggie™, the SnuggiePubCrawl.com Team is hosting the first-ever Snuggie™ Pub Crawl in San Francisco, CA. Even though it's just a blanket with sleeves, we're sure that y
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deusx : Beer: NanoBrewMaster Home Brew Station Will Be the End of Me - "I think I'm in love: The NanoBrewMaster Home Brew Station is an infinitely configurable, 15-gallon beer-making gift from the gods. Newbie brewers like myself just set it up, forget it, and it makes beer."
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15 month ago
deusx : Amazon.com: Playmobil Security Check Point: Toys & Games - "The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal dete
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Rod Begbie : Watchmen: The condensed version - "goin to Mars. BRB" [via] #
deusx : scans_daily: Watchmen: The condensed version - What's kind of awesome is that it surfaced some of the allusions / easter eggs in the comic that I missed even the half-dozenth time through reading it. "I'm still trying to find out who the heck did this. But as soon as I do, I'll cr
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wearehugh : Elements of an EmotionML 1.0 - apparently, a group of interested parties has converted smilies to XML. it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish W3C specs from Onion articles. <emotionml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2008/11/emotionml"><emotion><category
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