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Did You Celebrate Halloween with Chris Pirillo and His Girlfriend?
Among the things in life beloved by geek and non-geek alike, bacon is a unifying foodstuff that many can agree upon as being superior to many other foodstuffs in satisfying certain primordial urges. And as time’s gone on, it’s come a long way from its traditional place at the breakfast table to enhance everything from [...]
How to Trick Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria into Being Harmless
For the better part of a century, antibiotics have been the go-to method for wiping out bacterial infections. It works out pretty well until the bacteria — like any other pest — eventually begins to develop a resistance to the stuff that’s trying to kill it. Such bacterial resistance to antibiotics can stump medical professionals [...]
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars for OS X Review
Few brands are as instantly recognizable as LEGO. From the giant collection of minifigs to the simple, eight-stud brick, LEGO has remained one of the best-selling brands of collectables and (dare I say) toys for decades. In recent years, LEGO has extended its reach to computer games. Of these games, the Star Wars series has [...]
How Electronics Recycling Can Save the World – or Doom It
New solutions beget new problems. As technology wraps itself around everything human beings do — and have done since the discovery of fire and invention of the wheel (and the first time that proto-human monkey guy clobbered the other proto-human monkey guy over the head with a makeshift bone club in the beginning of 2001: [...]
How Did Steve Jobs Get Away With Not Having a License Plate?
Steve Jobs was no stranger to thinking outside the box. Even during his youthful college years, he partnered with engineer (and future Apple co-founder) Steve Wozniak to sell phone hacking tools called “blue boxes” to his fellow college-goers. It should be no surprise that he managed to find a loophole in California law that allowed [...]
Five Ways to Make Your Business Card Memorable
The business card has long been the one constant in the business world at meetings and conferences. A relatively small, pocketable card containing all the basic information you need to contact or learn more about the business and/or person you just met is a brilliant way to leave a lasting reminder that sticks around long [...]
Five Geeky Costumes for Dogs
Halloween is at our doorstep, and you may have the perfect costume picked out for yourself, your kids, and your spouse, but what about your trusty dog? Dogs enjoy the costume advantage of having a frame that is perfect for several different creative costuming ideas. Be careful though, not all dogs enjoy the festivities of [...]
BlueBiped Robot Walks Like a Human and is Powered by Gravity
Out of the Sano Lab at the Nagoya Institute of Japan, researchers have created a gravity-powered robot that walks much like a human, without batteries or an internal computer controlling its movements. With a maximum walking speed of 3.3 km per hour, it’s not going to win any races, but it keeps this stride for [...]
Five Techie Halloween Decorating Tips
Halloween is coming up, and it’s not too late to decorate your house and lawn to make it the talk of the neighborhood. For many of us, the same old plastic skeletons and boom box playing the scary sound effects CD just won’t do. You want to give your neighbor’s kids a lasting reason to [...]
Recycling Thermal Receipts Contaminates Paper Goods with Bisphenol A
Recycling, at least in theory, seems like a pretty sound idea. Why let perfectly good materials that would otherwise have to be harvested, mined, cleared, or otherwise gathered rot away in a landfill if they can still be used for further manufacturing purposes? Unfortunately, sometimes impurities sneak into the mix and recycling isn’t quite the [...]
