Clean Coal: It's amazing

Satirical look at clean coal advertising. Check it out.

The first official F1 news

• David Coulthard
• Eddie Jordan
• Jake Humphries
• Jonathan Legard
• Martin brundle
• Lee McKenzie
• Ted Kravitz

More info on the BBC new page

Obituary: Michael Crichton

Just read on sci-fi wire that Michael Crichton has passed away after fighting cancer aged 66.  He created not only Jurassic Part, but also Congo and ER.  He was also the writer behind 'Prey' which was a great book, if not a little sensationalist, on the risks of nanotech.

All your questions answered!

All your questions answered!

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Mozilla Geode

Okay, I am not very good at this jounralism malarky, so this is really just going to end up more a thought-vomit than anything else.  Google 3 beta1 is going to have geocoding built in to, and for us users that cant wait, we can download the new Geode extension for firefox 3.  Now, sadly I couldn't get it to work on my office computer, not sure why, could be a UK thing.

But my main interest comes from how useful this could be.  I recently watched Dave Gormans America Unchained where he found it hard to find local service stations that weren't owned by 'The Man'.  Now, with this on your phone, you could in theory have it show you automatically where all these stations are in your browser rather than having to install a seperate app.  And so, any device with mozilla firefox would be able to track location.

CASE:
Go to a new city for one night, want to know the closest pub, go to beerintheevening.com, straight away it lists the closest pubs to where you are.  No need to tell google maps, or know the postcode for where you are.  Whilst I am sure further uses other then time saving utilities will come from this, I am still quite interested in this now.

Why oh why doesn't it work on my computer!

Fry is on Twitter

Whilst I have always had my reservations surrounding twitter, I do find it interesting, especially how it can be quickly read, so not taking too much of your time up.  No I can bring twitter to those that may not usually be interested.  Mr Stephen Fry is now Twittering, oh yes.

Waterkula

Here's a cool twitter feed to subscribe to if you work in an office.  Every hour it posts a new link for you to remind you to go drink some water.  The link is usually something random and a little bit interesting.

I may have to subscribe.

waterkula

Oldest Lifesaver

Awesome, the oldest lifesaver in the world.  I just want to shake his hand!

The World's Oldest Lifesaver from Brett Clements on Vimeo.

Prius 2010

The new 2010 prius in all it's glory.  Whilst a wave of smug befalls anyone buying such a car, I think it looks really sleek, and would under ordinary circumstances, be tempted to buy one as my new car (replacing the poor deceased Daewoo Matiz, codename "Liono").  So tempted in fact that the other day, at a toyots garage I saw one of the 2003 models, and was tempted to touch (even though it is strictly frowned upon).  Sadly, I have no garage, so the chargin of the electrical aspect of the car, which is the main selling point, would be complicated.

Nevertheless, it is pretty.  But how does it handle, and when will they put in these new solar panels, I am curious about scratching and how to clean them.

Metallica in Rice

This is awesome, the metallica album cover, made using japanese food, there are several others, if only wetherspoons did food like this, my world would be complete.

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Live like an egyptian

Okay this may be old news, I am still catching up on some feeds since my holiday a while back.  But imagine living in a pyramid, that's kinda cool (especially for those stargate fans out there).  Then consider it carbon neutral living, now you can feel smug aswell as cool.  Now imagine the lifts going vertical and horizontal so you can get from one corner to the oposite, oh, I am getting excited.  Finally, the cherry on the chicken is that it uses steam (aswell as other methods) to create energy.  A steampunk city, now that is awesome.  Sadly it's sheer size probably means it wont happen, it is after all an entire city of 2.3 square kilometres and has no cars allowed.  Still, a man can dream cant he?

Energy Ball

Oooh, I want a house so I can have one of these.  its called an 'energy ball', and if the fact of owning an energy ball isn't enough for you, it's the first approach at making an attractive small scale wind turbine for residential use.  It uses air, and compressed liquids, and physics stuff.  It looks a little bit modern art, i'd want it to replicate the black iron you get in gardens, and have an added weathervane beneath as they are always useful.

Awesome

It's a pub

Inside of a tree

WOW!

Worlds Only Bar INSIDE a Tree

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Water on mars + twitter!

Okay, 2 items in one, both, welldone mars for having water.  But how cool is the fact that all this news was first sent to the public through twitter.  This is a great use of an app that I otherwise considered a little dull for general use other than brainstorming.  This basically does what rss does, but makes it all a little bit cooler.

NASA: "We have water" on Mars. - Boing Boing

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halo corpse alphabet

Interesting, someone has created a complete alphabet (with minor punctuation) using various corpse images from Halo 3.  This is funny, inventive, and morbid.  I like!

halo corpse alphabet « i <3 halo 3 screenshots

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EA using Drupal

Well, after time spent learning Drupal, it finally seems as though it isn't just NGOs using it.  Recently Metallica used Drupal on one of their album pages, and now EA have with their new game 'Battlefield Heroes'.  I feel all knowledgeable and stuff now!

EA using Drupal on Battlefield-Heroes.com | Schoonzie

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Virgin Galactic launch 'eve'

Well I am now torn in two directions.  I am currently reading Asimovs robot stories, and as ever, his visions about the future and space travel are amazing, and I would love to be around as that all begins one day.  But at the same time, I wonder at exactly how much damage to that same future each flight is causing.
It's a conundrum that it is.

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Cool sound illusion

Wow, this is just plain weird!

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12 Examples of Paragraph Typography — Jon Tan 陳

12 Examples of Paragraph Typography

12 Examples of Paragraph Typography — Jon Tan 陳

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Great Batman panels - Boing Boing

Wow, batman, never knew how true batman forever was to the truth.  You and yur nipple suit!

Great Batman panels - Boing Boing

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Is it Tron, is it a Dyson, no, it's a car!

Okay, for thoise wondering, this is a car not a dyson, its an electric car aimed at solving issues of space when parked, it neatly folds iself up.  I have no idea what happends if it does this and someone is still inside, or can you drive it whilst in that position?

Either way, it looks sporty, and clean (in more ways than one).

Folding Electric Car Concept Saves the Earth; Some Space | EcoGeek

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999 Calls

Another reason why Somerset and Avon are awesome!  This isn't the only one, just watch them!  Stupid callers.

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Olympic Monkey

Go monkey go

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laptop chair

An awesomely well thought out chair design, a seat for you, and a seat for your other half, your precious laptop.

www.robincarpenter.com

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DEFENDER of the favicon

I bizarre, impossible to play little game.  Simple keys to use ( N to start a game or shoot, and arrow keys to move) the game is in the url favicon, but you can hit enter to show it on  the page.  Neat idea, can't help think it could have been a bit more playable though.

DEFENDER of the favicon | Mathieu 'p01' Henri | July 2008

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Music Video: Biggest Regret

This is an interesting video, the creator googled real-life regrets, and put the results into this video.  Some thoughts are funny (2:34) others are quite heartfelt and sad.

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Heavy metal monk in second album

Monk + Heavy Metal = Awesome

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Heavy metal monk in second album

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Dont be fooled by ecogeek posers

There are many out there pretending to seel green products, so what we need is an art project that shows aesthetically green prodcuts with ones that really are good for the world.  Hang on a minute, here's one that does just that.

Green Gadgets Shown To Be Eco-Hazards | EcoGeek

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Tiled backgrounds designer

Tiled backgrounds designer

Really nice background tile creator if you are looking for that elusive retro wallpaper look.

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streetartlocator.com

An interesting little site, that allows everyone to add street art onto a worldwide google map, sadly not a lot around my area, but I think this is a new site.  So please add any pieces that you think are noteworthy and interest you.

streetartlocator.com is a community google map mashup mapping street art the world over.

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Anti-terror Assault Vehicles...

Or Segways as some of you know them.  I know this is old news but it is still pretty crazy.  Chines forces are planning on using them during the games to patrol and keep everything running smoothly.  I am not sure how much it will help, but I look forward to seeing it on the BBC this summer.  All these athletes running around, and then these police that cant be arsed to walk a normal beat... lazy buggers.

Segways Fight Terror—and Fuel Costs | EcoGeek

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Dopeys lego elevator

Go dopey, go go go!

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The Lawn Zombie

If only I had a garden, I would plant some nice shrubs, sweet smelling hyacinth, and maybe a lawn zombie too.  Excellent sculpture, and only $90, so about £60, NICE!

Zombie garden sculpture brings the flesh-slavering undead to your daffodil bed - Boing Boing Gadgets

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Adobe Makes Flash Searchable

Okay, i'm pretty sure not many web geeks (other than those I work with) read my blog, but still.  This could be big, although in all likelihood, it'll end up as another function that makes the web more hackable, and flash more advertisement based.  Ltes wait and see

Adobe Makes Flash Searchable - The Holy Grail of Website Usability? - ReadWriteWeb

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Steampunk Icons

Amongst my silent love for steampunk I have been made aware of these really nice (and simple) icons.  It's great to see how they weren't over complicated which could easily happen, particular with the subject matter.  Now I only need a site to use them on.

IconBuffet | Free Icons | Steampunk Saga

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Creatives grow better in the South West

Excellent, cheers Gav for sending it across.



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Alice Chess Set

This is just another of those chess sets I really want to own.  At first glance, it looks like a regular chess-set, but it is based on 'Alice through the Looking glass', on how when alice goes through the mirror, she becomes a chess piece, this is expressed by the way that the pieces, when off the board look solid, and the mirror is shown, but as they entire the game, they become a chess piece, showing the transition.

This is a great idea, and I really like it, I believe it was a college project, so not for sale, but if it is, I would be interested in owning this piece of cool.

Yasmin Sethi - Product Design - Alice Chess Set

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Nintendo Wall Decals

This is just awesome, whatisblik have created these lovely wall stickers based around various nintendo console games.  Of course your wall should be blue, to match the game, but I suppose white would be allowed if you don't have enough light in your room!

I love this idea, turn the whole wall into a mario level, I want this for my home office (whenever I eventually get one).

Nintendo Wall Decals

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Gummi Lighthouses

Did you think, mm, nice lighthouses, or were you repulsed at the pure phallic-ness of them.

Funny Gummi Lighthouses - Boing Boing

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Mercedes to only make non petrol cars by 2010

Sorry, in a rush, so a direct quote, please follow the link for more info, but this is awesome news, and will make for a very interesting future considering the sheer size of mercedes-benz.

"In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. Focusing on electric, fuel cell, and biofuels, the company is revving up research in alternative fuel sources and efficiency."

EcoGeek - Technology for the Environment

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Free cutout samples from games

Excellent little cutout models of crates, and game stuff

Stones Edges - Free Samples

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And the kitchen sink...

Look at this awesome sink, it's designed to be shaped like an ammonite, and the water trickles down by gravity, although I could see a potential issue with food getting stuck to it a little bit.  But tbh, if you clean when you use, then all is well, and you'll have the coolest sink in your street, now what could be more important?!?

Concrete Washbasin from HighTech - Ammonite washbasin shaped as a fossil | Trendir

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A good, non tech, explanation of social media

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10 optical illusions in 2 minutes

10 optical illusions in 2 minutes, some are a little weak, but several are wicked (including the classic dinosaur face that follow you round the room).  Apparently this was done as a phone advert for Samsung, but forget that part, just watch the cool stuff.

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Nomad System (24 Module Pack) - Accessories - MIO

If I had a room that needed dividers (say a large office to be divided into two) I would definately use this.  They are card pieces that slot into one another to create walls, these could then be constantly moved, and rooms reshaped for every purpose.  Although, how stable are they if the windows open and a gust of air comes through, hmm, I am not so sure.

Nomad System (24 Module Pack) - Accessories - MIO

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Steampunk underground

Apparently this station actually exists, and is located below a Paris museum dedicated to victorian and industrial art/history.  Now, I went to art a few weeks ago, and am gutted that I didn't go to see this, it is definately going on my list for when I next visit the city, sadly, I doubt the cogs in the ceiling move, and move things above ground, but still, it looks truly awesome.

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » Steampunk On One’s Commute

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Sinful Wine Glasses

This is an absolutely awesome collection of wine glasses, if I had these I would drink more wine for sure.  They are each based on one of the 7 deadly sins, and they are awesome, some are cool and usuable, others need to hang, or are full of holes.

Please get me them somebody!

Deadly Glasses 2

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Patching ancient walls with legos - Boing Boing

Awesome way to fix old walls, I want to buy a falling down building, and a crate of lego right now!

Patching ancient walls with legos - Boing Boing

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Radio wine box

Awesome idea, free radio built into your wine gift box.  I dont drink whine too often, but I would be inspired to have this just to look so damned cool with a bright pink box under my arms!

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Afro Coffee: Coffee Culture Revolution

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A musical rollercoaster ride

An awesome little video, not sure if it musically acurate, but hell, it still looks pretty cool.

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A musical rollercoaster ride

An awesome little video, not sure if it musically acurate, but hell, it still looks pretty cool.

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The birth cycle of a chick

Good for schools, this shows how the chick grows outside of the yolk, and consumes it as it grows, not pretty to look at, but true.

The Birth of a Chicken | haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine

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This should be on all airline flights

GlyphJockey, or, if you will, Glyph Jockey

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Wind powered Dubai block

More architectural wonders from the world of eco living.  This massive building is being built in Dubai, and each floor rotates indipendantly of the others.  In between each floor is a set wind turbine, allowing this building to not only power itself, but many more things aswell.  I'm not quite there with understanding kwh, but the building is expected to produce approx 1,200,000kwh.

Now, I am not sure how much will be spare.  But to put into perspective, the average london home uses under 600kwh a month, so that is 7200kwh a year.  This means that the building creates enough energy for approx 166 london homes, I dare say a large amount of this will be used by itself, but that is an incredible number to be throwing about, hopefully this catches on to other designs in this world (and maybe the UK government will stop preaching, and start doing something big, incredible, and inspiring about this issue).

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Warhammer, but better!

I am now soo temptied to learn how to play every night, just so I can go into games workshop, and kick everyones asses with cute kitties, oh the hilarity, and the shame they would feel, their tears, so tasty.

Hello Kitty comes to Warhammer 40K with the Sisters of Battle - Boing Boing

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70 Amazing Business Cards - Fubiz™

I am in the process of trying to sort out business cards (trying to decide on whether to go down the moocards route due to budget), and one of my friends put me onto this site of business card designs, some are ingenious in shape and material, others (as below) just look really nice, but use a standard shape, maybe this is the route I should be taking, center my content, and see what happens, I think I may end up sending off and getting several designs back, and let them do the talking, seeing if and where I get the work from.

Good old trial and error market research can you expect better.  Although, if anyone knows of a good card company that aren't over priced, I may be interested, i'll design, just need the printing on the cards done.

70 Amazing Business Cards - Fubiz™

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SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.

I have spent ages trying to parse my feedburner feed onto my website, it has been driving me mad.  I found magpie and others to be too bloated and complex, then I came across simple pie, oh my, they arent lyine, it is simple.  I am now very happy, and my blog on my site is now search engine friendly, I just need to make an archive page using it (is that even possible?!?).

Techie fun, how sad

SimplePie: Super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom feed parsing in PHP.

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Japan Postal goes electric

Awesome news, this may sound like just a small little idea, but with 21000 postal vehicles in Japan planning to go electric, this will make electric points in fuel stations much more economically viable, and if more of them appear, then more people will get the electric vehicles.  This could be the big instigater Japan needs to really go to town, being the amount of car manufacturers over there, this could be BIG!

Japan Looking To Go Green With Electric Postal Cars | EcoGeek

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Carbon zero beer - UK

Whilst I doubt it is as perfect as stated, carbon-0 beer hmm, is that including transporting it and such, maybe it is.  But still, you can drink beer, save the world, and not feel like too much of a tree hugger, awesome news, go beer.

EcoGeek - Technology for the Environment

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New electric motorbike design

I just love this new bike, it makes me very happy when a design works, and at the same time, absolutely ignores convention.  I can just imagine the conversation:

Down the Rose and Crown
Hey man, you ever wondered what would happen if strange things had children
You mean like a segway and a motorcycle
yeah, but that would be crazy, wouldn't it?

Look at it, it takes up so little space, it's electric, and futuristic, which is always good.  I do get sick of seeing all the identically base design on motorcycles, I can understand it on racers, as they are honed to race, but a road bike has so much more breadth for design possibilities depending on lifestyle.  This would be a great runaround bike, popping into town and back.  I really would love one, and they don't sound too pricey (in comparison) $8000.  But then, i'm not sure about top speeds, or road worthiness.

Uno Does A Number on Motorcycles | EcoGeek

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Matchbook Signlanguage Alphabet

This is a really nice piece, simple idea, and surprisingly realistic finger effect by the matches, it's as though they have nail varnish, sweet.  I just wish I knew signlanguage, so could write random things using these.  Maybe an idea for a new clock?!?

American Sign Language Matchbooks | xoxo -- c 7 11 23 -- JK Keller

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Hops shortage

This is far from good, apparently, due to dwindling growers and a warehouse fire, there has been a shortage in the growing of hops, for thise of you that dont know, hops is what makes beer, gods nectar.  We must help, maybe there should be a new charity campaign setup.

Help the hops.

Cost of hops crops hits tops: Won't someone please think of the beer? - Boing Boing

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Don't you just love cuddly toys?

Roadkill plush toys are angelic little things, whose only crime was getting hit by a 4x4, you can't hate them for what wasn't their fault, give them a home, buy one for your kids.

They are adorable

RoadkillToys.com Designer Plush Toys - shop

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Death of satans phone

Cheers Gav for the link to this video.  Phones are evil, be warned

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Sterilise water using crisp packets and other junk!

This is an awesome piece of ingenuity, allowing people to create their own water purifier from crisp packets, and other waste items.  Whilst this means that sadly countrie that sell prepackaged goods can make use of this, it is for sure a step in the right direction, not only keeping them healthy, but educating people on the science of what they are doing.

So thumbs up, lets eat more crisps to clean some water

ISEF: Sterilizing Water with Trash! | EcoGeek

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Clothing Shop: Last Exit to Nowhere

I think I am in tshirt heaven, I don't need more clothes, yet I want to buy every last one from this shop .  You see they aren't just run of the mill obvious t-shirts, a lot of them use logos and emblems from the backgrounds in the films, not just a big picture of an alien with the slogan 'in space no one can hear you scream'.  Instead there is a penetentiary t-shirt, or one with the nostromo emblem on.

A must have at some point for me, but i think the one for me is 'Dapper Dan' or 'the overlook hotel' shirts.  Any gifts, much appreciated :-D

Last Exit to Nowhere

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Degraw Street Mural

This may look ugly to some, but I think it looks really nice.  It's by a New York artist called Damon Ginandes, and has definately made this otherwise dull, and ugly block look full of life.

design fckr™ | Featured | The Work of Damon Ginandes

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Famou robots tee

This is a t-shirt of famous robots that I would love to wear with pride each day (although the geek in me must state that certain creatures portrayed such as a Dalek are my Cybernetic Organism than robot, but hey, it's still pretty cool).  I can name too may of the robots in this t0shirt, does that make me a sci-fi geek, or well educated in the world of futuristic media?

Chop Shop / Tee Shirts / weRobot

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Somerset explosion

Why oh why didn't they advertise this.  I'd have gone with some deckchairs and popcorn to which a bigassed explosion that harms no one.  Look at the size of it, NICE

Giant WWII mine detonated at English seaside town - Boing Boing

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Bowl with spoon-rest - Boing Boing

Some days, there are so many cool things in the world.  This is just a nice piece, stackable bowls, that have a nice area for holding your spoon, similar idea to the chopstick holding bowl, but for us westerners who look like, well, spoons when we use chopsticks.

Bowl with spoon-rest - Boing Boing

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