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Mario on a sidewalk curb

Definitely cool for those of y’all that grew up playing Mario.

Alka-Seltzer in space

What happens when you put an Alka-Seltzer in water with no gravity?

Get an image of iPhone without iTunes

Found myself needing to get an image off of my iPhone without using iTunes. On my Vista machine it’s easy enough. The iPhone shows up as a device and it’s browsable just like any camera.
Turns out it’s just about that easy on my MacBook.  Fired up Image Capture, selected the phone, and they were there. [...]

Centered under the storm

I don’t think it’s possible to be any more centered under this storm cell.

Lego printer

Michael Jackson was an inventor

Who knew?  Michael Jackson had a patent in his name.

It was a design that allowed his feet to go into the floor of the stage and stay locked in place for a dance move where he leaned out over his center of gravity.  The normal way of doing it would have been to use stage [...]

Add a false window to your wall

If you’ve got an empty wall begging for a window but don’t want to break out the saw to put one in, or just can’t, you might want to look at one of these. It’s a set of blinds with lighting behind to simulate a window where one doesn’t exist.

Yoda dancing

Sure, Yoda fighting in the Star Wars movies was good. But, here are a couple links to Yoda dancing.
Yoda #1
Yoda dancing to ‘Oops, I did it again’
Links from UtterlyBoring.com

Evacuating from Houston – Pictures from IH-10

I, and 3 million other people from the Texas gulf coast, decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of staying with Rita bearing down. As it turns out, my house came out undamaged and all I have is the experience of 12.5 hours in the car in what should have been a 2.5 hour [...]

McDonalds employees being paid to do homework

Kathy and Jerry Olinik, owners of 2 McDonalds restaurants in Michigan, are making their employees do their homework. The 30 high school students employed by the Oliniks are asked to do their homework for an hour either before or after their shift, but are still on the clock. They decided to do this [...]