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Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches edit / delete

"Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height." This was, I think, the first web site I ever searched for -- after having seen a mention of it in Wired UK, and playing with a web browser for the first time at the Live '95 show in London.

to amusements food poptart ... on 02 June 2014

Wheel running in the wild edit / delete

Apparently if you put a hamster wheel outside, a significant number of wild mice will happily use it. As will slugs. And the occasional frog. With photos.

to amusements animal behaviour mice science ... on 24 May 2014

Presentations by Ange Albertini // Speaker Deck edit / delete

Fun with binary files -- e.g. constructing a JPEG that shows a different image when it's encrypted with AES, or constructing a PDF file that's also a valid Windows executable.

to amusements binary file format reverse-engineering ... on 24 May 2014

Index of / edit / delete

A pretty impressive collection of TV scripts.

to amusements etext film scripts tv ... on 20 May 2014

Transform any text into a patent application – Sam Lavigne edit / delete

Very silly.

to amusements patent text ... on 20 May 2014

RationalWiki edit / delete

Often amusing, although there's a fine line between being rational and being smug.

to amusements atheism rationality science wiki ... on 27 April 2014

Things I’ve learned from British folk ballads edit / delete

"Cuckoos' nests are right out."

to amusements folk music song ... on 27 April 2014

PICatout: LED scintillante edit / delete

Making your own flashing LED, with a little PIC glued to the base. This is very silly and also very impressive.

to amusements electronics led microcontroller pic ... on 09 April 2014

Random disorganized thoughts on WearComp.org, WearCam.org, EyeTap Digital Eye Glass, funtain and Steve Mann's Personal Web Page/research edit / delete

All sorts of... stuff. Wearable computers. Hydraulophones. I think I came here looking for cheap wearable displays...

to amusements hydraulophone music wearable ... on 26 March 2014

CanLII - 2012 ABQB 571 (CanLII) edit / delete

Highly entertaining legal writeup of a family of vexatious litigation strategies.

to amusements law legal ... on 07 March 2014