Aiight, boys and grrrls. Get ready for this one. In that crazy, dangerous world just south of down under in New Zealand, a kiwi man (that’s kiwi cause that’s what they call NZ’ers, not because he was half man/half fruit) was arrested for assault. (via) But wait, this terrible crime was perpetrated with the help [...]

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You know you always wanted your car to belch flame from the exhaust - don’t try and deny it, it even ranked above wanting spinning rims and ground effects light under the car. I know you. Well here is your chance, check out Autoloc’s flame thrower kit! (via) This thing cranks fire out (and smoke [...]

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Today’s tubebits from sf signal provided a cornucopia of interesting links. Take, for example, this list of the top 10 Most Unjustly Canacelled Series This Decade. Which of course leads with Firefly, seconded by Angel. Honestly, I can’t remember what I thought of Angel ending. I probably was pretty upset. The list gets a little [...]

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Oh, America. Sometimes you’re so stupid. Take, for instance, the fact that our schools are now arguing that any score less than 50 should be raised to 50. (via) It is so awesome that rather than deciding to improve our educational system by, you know, teaching kids better, they’ve decided that perhaps if they [...]

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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 [...]

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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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