Some people are overly motivated. For example, this 15 year old girl who has sold 17,323 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. 17 thousand. (via) Honestly, though, I think it’s kinda sad. I mean, she worked 7 days a week, 3-7pm mon-sat and then 11-7 on sun from December to March. What the hell? Ah well. [...]

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Ok, poor Texas. Remember back in the 80’s when Texas was going to be the first US stop for the northerly migrating killer bees? Oh, I guess they actually got there. Well, now guess what? They just imported some ants that love to eat their electronics. (via) The “crazy rasberry ants” stowed away on some [...]

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I don’t know why, but every time I post about the UK’s love of spying on its townfolk, I think that’s going to be the last one. So when the next one comes around, I’m shocked again. And again. And again. Well, now, enter Budgens, a London supermarket chain who is - in secret - [...]

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Well you’ll be happy and relieved to know that CW has put in an order for 13 more Reapers. While it isn’t the most fantastic show out there, I still like it alot and recently it’s been on a getting really good trajectory dropping the tired formula that dogged the first many episodes and exploring [...]

Categories: breakfast links · movies · sci-fi · tv

Ok, first just a pair of movie thoughts. First up John Scalzi writes for AMCTV his thoughts on whether or not Guillermo del Toro is the right man to direct the Hobbit (I really like that Scalzi). (via) I just like in his thoughts how he notes Jackson’s free ride through King Kong and Lucas’ [...]

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The last time I went to Japan it was with the express purpose of finding a bar that hand carved a chunk of ice into a sphere to put into my whiskey glass. They do it because a sphere would have the least surface area and thus would be the least melty ice shape. Because [...]

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Well from the ashes of disaster perhaps WiMax springs, renewed? Apparently a new consortium is in town, with Google, Intel, Comcast and Time Warner throwing their lot in with Sprint and Clearwire. Normally, I’d be concerned that Comcast and Time Warner were coming in, what with them increasingly in competition with the telcos, but A) [...]

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Gizmodo ran not one, but two, count them, two animal powered vehicles this morning. Or this morning to me at least. First up, from the old school, check out this hamster powered toy car. Kind of awesome with a video - if only it had remote control steering and was geared to power it forward [...]

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First Monday Back Art
First up. Atari. You know you love Atari, well, you know you love Atari if you’re an oldster like me. You’ve loved it since the first time you played Pong. Check out this post on the Rise and Fall of Atari. You know it’s gotta be good because like the first 25% [...]

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Ok, so it’s clear I like the animal cams. What can I say… I like invading the privacy of wild beasts. Today we bring you the 24/7 Eagle Cam! Focused on a nest - at some point this pairs going to lay eggs and then you know what happens. That’s it… chicks. So stay tuned [...]

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