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Occupy Water Tower: The Revel’s in the Details

October 23, 2011
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News overload! We’re all scanning the headlines. Hundreds of them, sometimes, in a single day. And only a few select, tantalizing, provocative links ultimately earn our coveted click-through. What a [...]

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Water Tower Graffiti: If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em

July 30, 2010
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Why can’t we all just get along? Rather than stir up conflict with naturally-rambunctious teens, perhaps more authorities should take a cue from Fallbrook, California. There, for more than three decades, the [...]

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Yosemite February Fire Fall: A Hot Photo Op

February 18, 2010
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It’s a good thing I read Aquafornia or I might never have known about the odd, rare and spectacular illusion known as the Yosemite “Fire Fall”… which actually involves no [...]

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Inventors Imagine a Water-Grabbing Fog Farm

February 17, 2010

This week a study revealed that California’s coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, potentially endangering the state’s treasured coastal redwood trees. And that’s not all! It [...]

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10 More Weird Water Items for Sale on Ebay

February 9, 2010

The Thirsty in Suburbia Super Water Flea returns! Following are 10 more hand-picked examples of rare, unusual and weird water-related merch just waiting for your winning bid. (The Sept. 2009 [...]

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Water Towers, Merry and Bright: Part 1

December 21, 2009

Water towers and Christmas lights are a natural combo so again in 2009 we’ve rounded up some fantastic festive towers decorated for the holiday season! (See the 2008 collection here [...]

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Wonderful World of Disney Toilets

December 16, 2009

In the fanciful land of Disney they don’t use indelicate words for human waste! Call it something less offensive, like, # One and # Two! Think of the children! Urine, [...]

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In Full Surround! L.A. Mass Freak-Out over Rain

October 14, 2009

It almost never rains in Southern California, but when it does… “We’re going to have a mass panic on our hands.” Comedian Mark Iverson’s movie parody, Rain: H2O…NO pulls out every widescreen cliche [...]

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In-Depth Report on Jimena

September 15, 2009

This guy is sinking but ratings are not! Watch as a reporter inadvertently crosses the line and becomes the news rather than just reporting it. This fast-moving viral video shows [...]

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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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