Monthly Archive: August 2008

Aug
30
2008

Fascination with the Dodo Bird, by Adam Savage

Adam Savage’s talk at The Last HOPE: Fascination with the Dodo Birdparts:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  A  B  C (YouTube with a great audience Q&A session)

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Aug
30
2008

Geoffrey Perkins

Legendary British comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins died in a freak accident yesterday. Chances are if you watched some British comedy over the last 20 years, and liked it, Geoffrey Perkins had a hand in it.

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Aug
30
2008

Look at all the MAPLE SAP I got!

The worst comic strip ever? Thrill to the stilted, unfunny adventures of Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy, brought to you by Jerry Beck, of Cartoon Research fame.

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Aug
30
2008

Lard: The New Health Food?

As I sent my friends home bathed in the warm glow of hog grease, I felt sure that our generation would pass the test of lard. We might not cook with it every night–natural lard is expensive and (all right, I’ll admit it) deep-fried foods are often loaded with calories, no matter which fat you …

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Aug
29
2008

Mythbusters Adam on education issues

MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 ways to fix U.S. science education.

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Aug
29
2008

Den-Vaffel-Bike

Waffle Bike is a fully weaponized waffle-making machine.

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Aug
29
2008

Bewm!

Boombot.

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Aug
29
2008

Will the Dalai Lama reincarnate?

As the health of the Dalai Lama seems uncertain, the question remains: will he be reborn this time? and, if so, where?

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Aug
29
2008

Je me souviens … l’accord de partage de l’utilisateur

Facil, an open-source community based in Québec, is suing the Québec government for buying Microsoft software when free alternatives are available. Facil’s press release says, in part, “From February to June 2008, FACIL has noticed sales of proprietary software for more than 25 million dollars. These purchases were made for products offered by large multinational …

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Aug
29
2008

Heroes

A Serbian village erecting a statue to reggae superstar Bob Marley? Sure, why not? A Bosnian town with a statue of kung-fu legend Bruce Lee? Hell, yeah! And how ’bout, say, a Serbian monument to Rocky? Er, well.. ok. But the British Museum displaying what they say is the largest gold statue built since ancient …

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