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Buzz Aldrin Punches A Skeptic
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Buzz Aldrin is not the kind of person to call a layer and get away with it. This is what happened to one conspiracy theorist who said too much.
Pillow Fight Club
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The 2nd Israeli pillow fight club meeting took place in the city hall square. Here is the unofficial video. S ource: http://blog.ramonapalooza .com/
Hairy Chair
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By Belgian designer Charles Kaisin. "Layers of very fine cut paper... on a reused old chair." I like it. A lot. Posted originally at bookofjoe: Hairy Chair and republished here by the author
In Value Stock Investing, Quality is Job One
Submitted by sanserve on Wed, 2006-06-07 08:04.
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How much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success? When do we learn that most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic expectations about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin to allocate assets in a goal directed manner by adopting a realistic Investment Strategy... an ongoing security selection and monitoring process that is guided by realistic expectations, selection rules, and management guidelines. If you are thinking of trying a strategy for a year to see if it works, you're due for another smack up alongside the head! Viable Investment Strategies transcend cycles, not years, and viable Equity Investment Strategies consider three disciplined activities, the first of which is Selection.
Volvo Parallel Parking System
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Volvo has developed a self parking car in collaboration with Linköping University"In the project, four ultrasound sensors have been fitted on a Volvo S60, pointing in the directions indicated in the right figure above. When the driver initiates a parking space scan, the system fires and reads the sensors. A number of clever algorithms turn the measurement data into knowledge about the space position and size. When the space is identified and is determined to be large enough for the car, the system tells the driver that a pocket exists. The driver stops and reverses and the prototype electric power steering as well as braking is controlled by the parking computer so that the car is driven into the pocket safely, as shown in the left movie.
Worst Toys of the Century
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Toy Manufacturer Brumm unveiled its Little Boy and Fat Man 1:43 scale model atom bombs, the ones used to kill over 500,000 civilians when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.Source: From The Box
Road Rage Cards: 'Relax — and let the flip-book do the screaming!'
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Invented by Mika Larson, who sells them from her website named — surprise! — roadrage.com. You get a spiral-bound book of 8- by 11-inch cards, each with one of 43 messages, for $19.99. But here's the stroke of genius: on the back of each card is the mirror-image of the message so the doofus ahead of you can read it in their rearview mirror. [via Joe Sharkey's "On The Road" column in the May 23 New York Times] Posted originally at bookofjoe: Road Rage Cards: 'Relax %u2014 and let the flip-book do the screaming!' and republished here by th
Placido, Carreras and Friendship
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Update: It was brought to my attention that this story is not real. I leave it here as an example of well crafted web legend. The Spanish Catalans and the Madridians are longtime enemies. Basically, the Catalans are aspiring to get autonomy from Spain which is ruled from Madrid.Placido Domingo was born in Madrid. Jose Carreras is Catalan. Both are among the worlds leading tenors. image: Carreras, Domingo and a friend - Pavarotti In 1984 Domingo and Carreras became enemies because of political reasons.Both gentlemen are very popular performers worldwide. Both have put a clause in their contracts that say they will be willing to perform as long as the opponent won't appear on the same show. In 1987 Carreras has acquired a much fiercer enemy than Placido Doming.
World's most flexible light - Live Wire
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It looks like neon and it produces light just like neon but unlike neon, which is hard, the glasses in the picture are flexible. They can be flexible thanks to the Lytec technology they're made of.Live Wire is a semiconductor cable that creates a glare free beautiful light along its entire length that is cold to touch with no hot surfaces or bulbs to break. Safe and Non-Toxic , Comes in eight colors.It was used in Major Films to create special effects. Now it is finally available to the public. Source Live Wire





