1. Pickin’ up good vibrations to produce green electricity  permalink

Www.bristol.ac.uk

Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research. 

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2. Eco Gadgets: Portable solar battery charger is ideal for geeks on the move  permalink

Eco Gadgets: Portable solar battery charger is ideal for geeks on the move
Jolly / Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Solar charger for portable electronic devices and notebook computers. The Portable Solar Charger from ChinaVasion is a great addition to the gear of individuals who are often on the move and never want a dead battery. The device is...

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Eco Gadgets: Portable solar battery charger is ideal for geeks on the move Eco Gadgets: ‘Mechanical Mobile’ needs a spin to generate renewable energy   —  Eco Factor: Concept cellphone needs you to spin it for power. With the sun providing energy only the during daytime, and the wind blowing stronger at night than in the day, industrial designers are working on products that harness a completely...

Jolly / Ecofriend
Eco Gadgets: Portable solar battery charger is ideal for geeks on the move Eco Tech: Nissan develops new battery to boost EV range to twice as much   —  Eco Factor: New battery technology doubles the operating range of electric vehicles. Nissan has announced that the company has succeeded in developing a new battery that can double the operating range of the LEAF and other EVs to up to 186 miles...

3. A late Thanksgiving Day Present  permalink

Transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com

I received my email today announcing the December 2009 PastPorts (.pdf) - the newsletter for the Special Collections Department of the St. Louis County Library.

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4. Fake Mac Computers? Yes, And They're Legal  permalink

Fake Mac Computers? Yes, And They're Legal
Digg.com

Psystar won't stop selling its Mac clones. Instead, the company will be limited to selling its "Open" line of computers without OS X preinstalled, and that responsibility would lie with customers. Apparently that's a compromise Apple is willing to live with.

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Dan Hopper / Best Week Ever
Fake Mac Computers? Yes, And They're Legal Chinese Tiger Woods Computer Re-Enactment Far More Exciting Than Actual News   —  Sorry to go overboard with this Tiger Woods ordeal (who do I think I am, THE MEDIA??? AWWWW SHEEEEEETTTTT I went there!), but the following video was too amazing not to post. Here’s a Chinese tv station’s computer re-enactment of the Tiger Woods incdient — it’s like Grand Theft Auto, but with more rampant speculation and [..

5. Agendas Skew Perceptions Of Homelessness  permalink

Noreply / The Homeless Guy

When dealing with a subject like homelessness, people attempt to make their observations about homelessness conform to other preconceived notions they have about life, instead of seeing homelessness for what it really is.

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Does Nashville Have A Lot Of Homeless People?   —  I guess that depends on what you consider to be "a lot." According to most estimates Nashville's homeless population size is average for the country. I determined this on very circumstantial information considering that it is very difficult to count the homeless population, and all counting of homeless people has been inaccurate to a degree.

6. Green, But Also Gorgeous  permalink

Green, But Also Gorgeous
Never teh Bride / Manolo for the Brides

The eco-friendly wedding dresses of yesteryear were naught more than organic hemp silk sacks, sometimes embellished with a sash of peace silk colored with vegetable dyes. Or at least that’s the way they looked to me, since the companies and designers producing them seldom did much in the way of fitting them to the bridal [...]

7. Video Calls Now Available on iPhone  permalink

Video Calls Now Available on iPhone
Digg.com

Be happy, because video calls are now legally available on the iPhone. Be sad, because it's one way only, so you won't be able to flash your naughty bits.

8. Study: Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money  permalink

Study: Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money
Digg.com

A Harvard Medical School study found that the huge cost of installing and running hospital IT systems is greater than any expected cost savings, Computerworld reports.

9. Military families brace for Obama's Afghan surge  permalink

Military families brace for Obama's Afghan surge
Hosted.ap.org

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan, but many said they support the surge announced Tuesday as long as it helps to end the 8-year-old conflict.

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10. The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle  permalink

The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle
Noreply / Yeah

This month for Barrie Summy's Book Review Club , I'm discussing The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle. When I decided to tackle this project, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It happened so simply. I was clicking around on the web and stumbled upon a link to the author's website. "I remember when that book came out," I thought. "It ...

11. Mechanical flapping steampunk leather zeppelin  permalink

Mechanical flapping steampunk leather zeppelin
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing

The latest thing of beauty to emerge from the Ukrainian cave of wonders operated by Bob Basset, a collective of steampunk leatherworkers, is this "Flapping Push Toy": a leather steampunk airship with flapping bat-wings, brass portholes, and intricate gears within. Bravo! Flapping Push Toy/Игрушка-толкалка, крыльями махал

12. Narc on Your Boss, Get Cool Cash  permalink

Narc on Your Boss, Get Cool Cash
Www.wired.com

But if you didn’t become rich off the financial bailout, here’s another way to take advantage of The Man — this man being your boss, of course.

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13. Desert tracks #3  permalink

Djn1 / C h r o m a s i a

This is probably the last of the shots I'll be posting from my recent trip to the desert near Dubai and while it doesn't portray the same sense of scale as my previous two 'desert tracks' images, I am pleased with it. Like desert tracks #2 , this one was also processed almost entirely in Camera Raw (with just some minor cloning and sharpening in ...

14. Photo of ghostly eye on ceiling  permalink

Photo of ghostly eye on ceiling
David Pescovitz / Boing Boing

A Coast to Coast listener named Alan sent in this amazing photo of a creepy giant spectral eye staring down at he and his wife in their bedroom. Alan says the eye turned out to be "a bedside light reflecting off a stack of CDs." Too bad. "Creepy eye on ceiling"...

15. JARI Announces Lightweight 3-seater EV  permalink

JARI Announces Lightweight 3-seater EV
Techon.nikkeibp.co.jp

Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) developed the "C·ta," a lightweight three-seater electric vehicle whose body is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP).

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16. New U.S. Television Series: Find My Family on ABC  permalink

New U.S. Television Series: Find My Family on ABC
Dick Eastman / Eastman

The following announcement was written by “Find My Family:” “Find My Family,” a Heartwarming New Series That Brings Families Together From the producer of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” comes the highly anticipated “Find My Family,” a program with one simple mission — to bring families back together. With the help of a ...

17. A Video of the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree  permalink

Dick Eastman / Eastman

Want to see what you missed at this year's Southern California Genealogy Jamboree Held last June? Now there's a YouTube video that provides a quick look. You can watch the video at or else click on the image below: The following description was written by the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree:The ...

18. Fruits  permalink

Www.sxc.hu

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19. Make area postcards for $$  permalink

43 Things

Meaning is slippery, but try to only add goals that have nearly identical meanings. For example, "Be fluent in Italian" and "Speak fluent Italian".

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20. Top Water Conservation Tips  permalink

Planetgreen.discovery.com

A dripping faucet can waste 20 gallons of water a day. A leaking toilet can use 90,000 gallons of water in a month. Get out the wrench and change the washers on your sinks and showers, or get new washerless faucets. Keeping your existing equipment well maintained is probably the easiest and cheapest way to start saving water.

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