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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
MythBusters Duct Tape Hour
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The MythBusters are back with one of their most dangerous episodes ever: testing the limits of duct tape.Because, as you know, there are few limits to duct tape. So to find said limits must take tremendous courage, imagination, and hutzpah.
In the words of MythBuster Adam Savage, "We could have done 50 hours on duct tape, but we had to reel ourselves in."
A few clues though. The MythBusters take duct tape to the high seas, and also test its strength by lifting this car 5,000 feet in the air.
Check out some more fun photos from the MythBusters' special episode.
"Duct Tape Hour," airs Wednesday, October 14 at 9PM ET/PT on The Discovery Channel.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Blade-free fan
What, a fan with no blades? Yes, that's exactly what you're looking at, and what makes the Air Multiplier so hard for people to classify at first. This fan uses some innovative airflow engineering to pull air up through an energy-efficient brushless motor base and multiply it 15 times, expelling it through an airfoil-shaped ramp at a rate of 118 gallons a second, according to the press release.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Repo man allegedly tries to get cops to do his job
Authorities said a car-dealership repo man was being held in the Kane County Jail for allegedly trying to trick police into doing his job for him. East Dundee Police Detective Michael Seyller said Monday that a 47-year-old man was arrested last week after he tried to dupe police into tracking down a vehicle he was trying to repossess.
Seyller said the suspect has been charged with filing a false police report, falsely reporting vehicle theft and phone harassment.
The man reportedly told police last week that a vehicle he had repossessed had been stolen, possibly by its owners.
A day later, a Carpentersville police officer spotted the vehicle and pulled it over. But after talking with the owner, police learned that the man had never repossessed the vehicle.
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Woman calls police to report theft of pot plants
There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Pfau said the woman told deputies the men fled after one of them demanded her marijuana plants. He said the woman then was booked on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.
The woman claimed the drug was for personal use but didn't possess a medical marijuana card.
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Canadian trucker fined for smoking on the job
A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.
The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County.
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Authorities said a car-dealership repo man was being held in the Kane County Jail for allegedly trying to trick police into doing his job for him. East Dundee Police Detective Michael Seyller said Monday that a 47-year-old man was arrested last week after he tried to dupe police into tracking down a vehicle he was trying to repossess.
Seyller said the suspect has been charged with filing a false police report, falsely reporting vehicle theft and phone harassment.
The man reportedly told police last week that a vehicle he had repossessed had been stolen, possibly by its owners.
A day later, a Carpentersville police officer spotted the vehicle and pulled it over. But after talking with the owner, police learned that the man had never repossessed the vehicle.
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Woman calls police to report theft of pot plants
There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Pfau said the woman told deputies the men fled after one of them demanded her marijuana plants. He said the woman then was booked on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.
The woman claimed the drug was for personal use but didn't possess a medical marijuana card.
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Canadian trucker fined for smoking on the job
A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.
The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Japanese restaurant's unusual rule:
At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered.
What a wonderful, bizarre idea (especially if you ignore the unresolved question of what the first customer of the day receives.) When you order, say, an ice cream and coffee, you pay for them and find a seat. In a few minutes, you're called to the counter where you pick up, you guessed it, not an ice cream and coffee. You receive whatever the person before you in line ordered.
So what's to keep people from ordering an inexpensive item and hoping the person before them was a high-roller? Well, I guess shame.
Also, the cafe has a few rules. Among them:
Treat the next person. What to treat them with? It's your choice.
No buying twice in a row.
Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, quietly give it to another while saying, "It's my treat...")
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What a wonderful, bizarre idea (especially if you ignore the unresolved question of what the first customer of the day receives.) When you order, say, an ice cream and coffee, you pay for them and find a seat. In a few minutes, you're called to the counter where you pick up, you guessed it, not an ice cream and coffee. You receive whatever the person before you in line ordered.
So what's to keep people from ordering an inexpensive item and hoping the person before them was a high-roller? Well, I guess shame.
Also, the cafe has a few rules. Among them:
Treat the next person. What to treat them with? It's your choice.
No buying twice in a row.
Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, quietly give it to another while saying, "It's my treat...")
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Man Asked Daughter For Sex Online
Pennsylvania state officials arrest five men, including a man who allegedly used Facebook to ask his own daughter for sex.Attorney General Tom Corbett said on Friday that John Forehand, of Lititz, Pa., allegedly used Facebook to find and sexually proposition his own biological daughter, calling himself "Bad Daddy."
According to the criminal complaint, Forehand proposed meeting the girl for sex and explained in graphic detail the sex acts, telling her "not many other fathers and daughters are this brave, so not many of them are so lucky to experience all these pleasures."
Corbett said the girl alerted her mother, who contacted the Ephrata Borough Police Department.
The state Child Predator Unit and Ephrata Police arrested Forehand when he arrived at a predetermined meeting location on October 7. Agents seized a camera, tripod and an unopened box of condoms from Forehand's vehicle, along with a digital camera, camcorder, computers and data-storage devices from his home.
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Arcing Power Lines Cause Tree Fire & Explosion
Arcing wires are being blamed for a spectacular explosion that took place in this Northern Washington city over the weekend.
Trouble began when a 60-foot poplar tree swaying into high voltage power lines Saturday afternoon. The tree branches danced closer and closer to the lines, eventually catching on fire.
But after 10 minutes, fire trucks had yet to arrive at the scene. Meantime, the electricity began pulsating, and the flames were intensifying.
"Like every time it would hit, it would be like, 'Dzzzzz,' and basically sounded like a light saber -- the light saber sound in Star Wars.'"
The arc caused a power surge, damaging many computers and circuit breakers in the neighborhood. Some 4,500 people were left without power.
"The computer fried, a fax machine fried, things like that," said Chris McCoy, computer technician for 3D Corp.
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Trouble began when a 60-foot poplar tree swaying into high voltage power lines Saturday afternoon. The tree branches danced closer and closer to the lines, eventually catching on fire.
But after 10 minutes, fire trucks had yet to arrive at the scene. Meantime, the electricity began pulsating, and the flames were intensifying.
"Like every time it would hit, it would be like, 'Dzzzzz,' and basically sounded like a light saber -- the light saber sound in Star Wars.'"
The arc caused a power surge, damaging many computers and circuit breakers in the neighborhood. Some 4,500 people were left without power.
"The computer fried, a fax machine fried, things like that," said Chris McCoy, computer technician for 3D Corp.
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