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Roger Shawyer's Relativity Drive
Roger Shawyer claims to have developed a spacecraft engine that turns energy into thrust with no moving parts.

Sounds like a dime-a-dozen nut case, except that he's a respected space engineer. And he has a working prototype.

It sounds to me like it violates the conservation of momentum, but my understanding of microwaves is not so good. Anyway it's a pretty good article from the New Scientist.

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Microscopic Photography
The Boston Globe has an article with 32 pretty amazing microscopic photos.

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UPS to deploy Hydraulic Hybrid trucks
Early next year UPS will be testing seven hydraulic hybrid delivery trucks - diesel trucks with a hybrid drive system that uses a fluid pressure differential to recycle braking energy.

I just thought this was cool because I've never even heard of this technology and it's already being deployed.

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Awesome Interactive Design from The Netherlands
A really cool blog from the Royal Academy of Art at The Hague. Check it out for consistently rad and interesting postings about new interactive design ideas and products. I recommend starting with this one.

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Hermes Birkin Handbag Sells for $42,500.00
A Hermes Birkin handbag sold for $42,500.00 to an unidentified buyer...

As you will see from looking at the two screen shots of the sale, at the bottom of this post, there are a lot of Hermes handbags for sale...

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Opinions are Emotional NOT Rational
Basically explains why you should never discuss politics or religion


“The heart has reasons that reason does not know,” -Pascal


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What Science Expects of the President elect
An excellent podcast, featuring interviews with scientists in several fields and an outline of what we should expect and not expect of the 44th President on issues such as embryonic stem cell research, global warming, education, and the space program.

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Repower America
Gore's plan to have America running on 100% clean energy in just 10 years.

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You Can Run, But You Can't... Run
The Italians make Our CrownVictorias look indeed Black and White.

"Don't even think about trying to outrun the cops in Lazio, Italy... the boys in blue are rollin' in a 560-horsepower Lamborghini Gallardo that'll do 203"

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State Senator from Nebraska sues God; case is dismissed
Finally the guilty party for "Acts of God" is almost held accountable...

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OLEDs: The future of lighting?
What would you do with thin and bendable luminescent lights attachable to any fixture?

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3d Platform for Flash
Check out this Russian programmer's progress into his 3d engine for Flash.

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The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
A new pet store just opened in New York... and it's a little different!

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Photosafari in Chernobyl
Somebody's photo travelogue of their tour of the Chernobyl disaster area. A true post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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Armed Robbery of the Year
He used Craigslist to recruit a bunch of decoys, pepper sprayed an armored car driver, and escaped with a large amount of money in a getaway inner tube.

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Online Poker sites caught Ripping Off Players
Rogue employees at Absolute Poker and UltimateBet have been systematically cheating at online poker for the last 3 years, "winning" about $10 million from suckers.

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Yay for Octoberfest!
Can you say boobs? I can't describe it any better, just open the link.

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The Power of Politcal Misinformation
How do you make the crazy crazier? Tell them they're wrong. A number of studies have shown that corrections to political misinformation helps further spread the belief in that same misinformation.

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The Street comes to an end
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley have decided to pull the plug on investing and transition to deposit-taking lenders. Evidentaly they think the model is 'fundamentally broken', and it only took them $700 billion to figure that out.

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What Would Dilbert Do?
"Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, commissioned a survey of over 500 economists to find out which candidate for President of the United States would be best for the economy long term."

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Optical Illusions (more)
These two are pretty trippy, this is the first time I've seen something like this. Check it out.

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SlotMusic - Full albums on microSD cards
SanDisk announced that they will start to sell full albums on microSD cards. There's a lot of talk as to whether or not this will actually take off, but at least someone's thinking about way to try and evolve the model. I think more interesting is the agreement that they have to distribute not just MP3's, but at a higher bitrate (320kbps) than what I've seen commonly available.

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Bill Maher on the state of the Union
A recent interview with Bill Maher cutting through the bullshit and talking sense. The interview centers around the upcoming election, the economy, Iraq and Afghanistan.

They don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our air strikes.

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Western Spaghetti by Pes
You may remember the twisted films of Pes from this post. Now Pes is back with a new film about making spaghetti!

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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
This is a lecture by Mark Miodownik, Head of the Materials Research Group at King’s College London. It's a 45 minute MP3 in which he walks through the entire process of making a cup of coffee, starting with the fruit on the tree.

Here's the direct download link for the MP3.

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