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Does this glue blob look like Homer Simpson?

Posted January 27, 2012 - 3:01 pm

It must be Friday - the weird videos are coming out.
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Creepy Robot Baby Aims to Inspire Parenting

Posted June 24, 2011 - 10:59 am

Japanese scientists strike again
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Woman caught trying to smuggle 44 iPhones in stockings

Posted February 1, 2011 - 4:38 pm

A full-body scanner in Ben-Gurion International Airport has made some interesting discoveries since it was installed in October 2010.
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A $1.9 million stolen violin? There's no app for that

Posted December 8, 2010 - 11:01 am

A $1.9 million violin was stolen at a sandwich shop in London's Euston station in late November while its owner was playing with her iPhone.
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45% of Brits swear at slow PCs

Posted October 20, 2010 - 10:42 am

More than two in five (45 percent) of Brits swear at their PC when it slows down or freezes, says PC Tools.
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New Technology Lets You Play With Real Cats Over the Web

Posted October 8, 2010 - 9:29 pm

Forget LOLcats, these kitties are real--and you can interact with them in real-time! Apriori Control, in conjunction with the Idaho Humane Society and the Oregon Humane Society, has developed a website where you can interact with real cats by controlling robotic toys over the internet.
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Teenage German bank robber pays for taunting email

Posted August 26, 2010 - 6:00 am

After emailing the police and the local media to correct errors in their reports, he was "completely shocked" when the cops showed up at his doorstep.
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Wisconsin lawmakers victim of bizarre blackmail scheme

Posted August 11, 2010 - 5:42 pm

Mysterious group blackmails Wisconsin state legislators, then tells lawmakers they should avoid passing laws that would interfere with the group's plan to blackmail child pornographers.
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Scam artists try to sell wooden blocks as laptops

Posted August 10, 2010 - 5:25 pm

Sure, it's hard to avoid a bargain, but you should probably check to make sure that the "laptop" you're buying second hand isn't just wood wrapped in bubble wrap with a Toshiba label slapped on it.
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Playboy launches website for office drones

Posted July 26, 2010 - 5:42 pm

The smut juggernaut is hoping TheSmokingJacket.Com will pass the safe-for-work test.
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Hobbyist builds home fusion reactor

Posted July 15, 2010 - 5:07 pm

By day, Robert W. Bussard toils as a web designer for Gucci. But in his spare time, he's looking to change the way the world generates electricity.
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Errant text message leads to drug bust

Posted July 14, 2010 - 5:03 pm

Here's a tip: if you're going to send a text message do your dealer asking if he has any pot to sell, make sure you enter their phone number correctly.
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Musician creates hybrid CD/vinyl disc

Posted July 6, 2010 - 6:35 am

One enterprising musician has managed to combine both legacy formats onto a single physical object.
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Epic tennis match overloads high-tech scoreboard

Posted July 1, 2010 - 9:22 am

Partway through last week's longest-ever professional tennis match, the IBM-supplied scoreboard, which could only handle digits up to 47, failed, and the umpire had to start announcing the score.
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Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg made secret moon trip

Posted June 25, 2010 - 5:13 pm

OK, maybe the artists themselves didn't travel to the moon -- but tiny original artwork that they created did.
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Australian court decides on meteorite custody

Posted June 23, 2010 - 5:07 pm

When a space rock falls to Earth, who does it belong to? The owner of the land that it slams into, or the first person to find it?
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Real Finnish police investigating virtual furniture theft

Posted June 17, 2010 - 5:39 pm

If you had spent money carefully collecting just the right furniture for your room, and someone stole it, you'd call the cops, wouldn't you?
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Mom finds abducted kids on Facebook

Posted June 16, 2010 - 5:35 pm

A search on Facebook suddenly brings Prince Sagala in contact with her now teenaged daughter, over 15 years after she was kidnapped.
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Church offers live services via iPhone, iPad

Posted June 14, 2010 - 9:53 am

St Andrew’s Church in Bo’ness, West Lothian, Scotland, is offering a chance for Apple iPhone and iPad owners to watch the latest services live.
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US military forced to use video games to whip flabby recruits into shape

Posted June 5, 2010 - 5:10 pm

Modern day youth find the experience of "exercise" so foreign that one US Navy admiral thinks that they should be eased into it with Wii Fit.
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Baby to be born online, given awful name

Posted June 4, 2010 - 5:07 pm

The little tyke who will be the first to have its birth streamed live over the Internet will also be saddled with the awful name Chattrspace.
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Is this Bulgarian cell phone number cursed?

Posted June 2, 2010 - 5:01 pm

If everyone who's assigned a specific cell phone number keeps dying under mysterious circumstances, is that a sign of supernatural foul play?
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Hoverboard Project Takes Flight--and Actually Hovers

Posted May 27, 2010 - 8:06 pm

Artist Nils Guadagnin's latest creation is bound to please many fans of the Back To The Future trilogy: He's created a replica of Marty McFly's iconic hoverboard that can actually hover--as long as nobody stands on it, that is.
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Get ready for doomsday in the Mojave Desert

Posted May 27, 2010 - 5:12 pm

Whatever you're afraid of, you can hide from it in an underground bunker in California.
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Chinese scientists find good use for cigarette butts

Posted May 22, 2010 - 2:00 pm

Toxic chemicals in cigarette butts can be used to keep water pipes from corroding.
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