Every time I read an interview with a Downton Abbey cast member, they seem to be discussing how much downtime they have on set Read the rest
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Downton Wars: Cast of ‘Downton Abbey’ creates parody video with lightsabers
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Uber charges rider $16,000 for a 7-mile trip
But Uber knocked $15 off Jaime Hessel’s bill because it agreed that the driver had taken an “inefficient route.” Gothamist : Hessel told us by phone that she e-mailed Uber at 12:30 today to ask them for an explanation. Read the rest
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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition
MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest
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$17 radio amp lets thieves steal Priuses
If your car has a proximity-based ignition fob that lets you start the engine without inserting a key, thieves on the street in front of your house can use an amp to detect its signal from your house and relay it to the car, getting away clean. Read the rest
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Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history
A restaurateur in Lecce, Italy dug up the plumbing for his perennially blocked toilets and discovered thousands of years’ worth of tunnels beneath the building, including a Messapian tomb. Read the rest
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Amazing demo gets 1000 colors out of 4-color CGA PC card from 1981
“Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved .”
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Watch 100 years of fitness history in 100 seconds
In just 100 seconds, this snazzy video from U.K.-based healthcare provider Benenden Health explores 100 years of fitness trends. Read the rest
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Inject this substance in your eyes for night vision
A group of biohackers is injecting a substance called Chlorin e6 into their eyes to give them temporary night vision . Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish
Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
They were the first company to dabble in a laughably crude version of the surveillance business-model, aggressively collecting your address every time you bought batteries so they could get into the direct-mail racket. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private