From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Thrills! Chills! Big-Budget Water Tower Destruction

May 18, 2009

Self-promoting corporate multi-media at its best! Here’s what happens when high production values are applied to a water tower demolition. Testa Corporation used a tried and true ‘old school’ method [...]

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Art to Go: Creative Toilets and Urinals

May 16, 2009

From Now That’s Nifty, a blog that earns it’s name with their post of Unique and Strange Toilets and Urinals. Check out the post to see them all, but here [...]

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h2o mp3: Moon River: Audrey Hepburn

May 15, 2009

Moon River was composed by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini in 1961. It’s been recorded by hundreds of musicians, but this is the “original” performed in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Audry [...]

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Most Dangerous Species in the Mediterranean

May 14, 2009

A public service campaign that will delight you into doing the right thing. From the website of Klas Ernflo (cool name!) it is a “Campaign for the Government of Catalunya [...]

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Aquamantra Gets Its Groove Back

May 13, 2009

Remember Aquamantra, that deeply spiritual fluid that “resonates with the energy and frequency of your well-being?” That karma-in-a-bottle where “the quality of your thoughts determine the quality of your life [...]

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California’s Big Squirt: Fertile Farmlands and Tourist Meccas!

May 12, 2009

An out-of-the-box engineering idea from the October, 1951 issue of Modern Mechanix, via blog.modernmechanix.com, CALIFORNIA’S BIG SQUIRT THE parched deserts of Southern California need water to transform their barren soil into fertile [...]

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Mysterious Fruits of Water: Marionberry

May 11, 2009

Now that consumers have deduced that bottled-up tap water might not be their best buy, marketers have responded with value-added flavorings that ostensibly de-commoditize their products. Now, many esoteric fruits of the [...]

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Ingenious Drain Hack: You’ll Thank Me Someday

May 9, 2009

Thanks for the tip, Angela & Diane, I just wish I’d known of this trick years ago before losing untold numbers of earrings, coins and other stuff down the drain. [...]

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h2o mp3s: When the Levee Breaks: Covers

May 8, 2009

With some recent mentions of this Led Zeppelin song, I’ve decided to tell you of my guilty pleasure and little secret: I actually collect covers of this song, and my [...]

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Green to the End: To the Afterlife via Resomation

May 7, 2009

We’re all going to die eventually, and after all our “green” efforts while living, wouldn’t it suck if our last earthy impact was less than environmentally friendly? Enter “Resomation,” the [...]

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