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Wantit

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Christmas list

It is, as Lucy would note, the gift-getting season. Talking to Jamie the other day and asked her what she wanted for Christmas. We’ve been married approximately forever now, so I should be able to anticipate the answer, but I still ask. “Well, the mattress is dying, and we could use some new sheets.” I [...]
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A Veiled Bear

Back from the trip and desperately trying to catch up with all of the end of the semester and end of the year things. Just had a chat with my chair about how I should be tenuring rather than blogging (hi, George), so I figured I would be my normally defiant self and make an [...]
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Wheelies all the way

The Bombardier Embrio–talk about an extreme unicycle. (via Boing)
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Shocking fashion

I wonder whether the No-Contact Jacket is something that will actually become a consumer product. The jacket, when activated, turns into a giant stun gun, making it difficult for an aggressor to get a comfy grip. The jacket comes as a political message about violence toward women, so offering a manly version is probably beside [...]
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Core dump

The Antelope MCC is a modular computer system. The basic computing part of it — processor, memory, etc. — fits into a block a bit bigger than a pack of cards. This can be inserted into a dock that provides I/O in a traditional desktop form factor, and then ejected and inserted into a laptop [...]
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Izzardless?

I realized far too late that Eddie Izzard is playing two dates in Toronto at the end of the month. I tried a listing on Tribe.net, and have been scanning the Web and Ebay, but no luck. I get enough random traffic to my site now (and strangers, please do not hesistate to announce yourselves–comments [...]
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