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Show Notes for 167

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Fun With Words: Contronyms via Digg
These are words which are their own antonyms, such as

“strike” – hit / miss (as in baseball)
“custom” – usual / special
“clip” – fasten / detach

Obelisk Chairs via Digg

Imagine if you will, four chairs and a table fitted so that they fold into a really big football. Coated aluminum frame to provide durability. It’d better work or that’s a $9000 eyesore in your living room.

Marv

Son of Super Mario via Boing Boing

The map left by his uncle Luigi made the sewer system easy to navigate. The inscriptions on the pipes were vague. What was world 1-1?

And the question on everyone’s mind? Who is his mom?

Marv

Fighting the good fight, never backing down, and always looking ahead…

Ah, the things that we wish we were doing.

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World’s smallest R2D2 via Digg

Fits in the palm of your hand, and might possibly fit in that old X-wing model you have stashed in your closet. Comes with a light saber remote control.

The Chork (Chopstick / Fork) via Digg

If there was anything sillier than the spork, it would have to be the chork. It is not even a training wheel device. By using his instrument, you might as well paint a sign on your forehead saying that the technology of two straight sticks is far beyond your dexterity. My mom can’t pump her own gas, but even she can handle chopsticks.

Marv

Google Alert – Technorama could be bad for your social status!

1. Someone’s idea of what 2001 would be like 100 years ago
2. Where to get your very own rocket belt
3. New plane design modeled after a tuna

Show Notes for 166
Thanks to Dean Jensen of My Life and Times, The Soho Podcast, and Hanbell Podcast with the idea for today’s intro.

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PHOTOS: 4 stories of Donkey Kong, made from 6,400 Post-Its! via Digg

This is the best use of those pesky monitor stickers I’ve ever seen. I bet if you look close enough, you’ll see someone’s password scribbled on one of them.

Furniture inspired by Scrabble via Digg

Beer bottle Christmas tree via Digg

Hmm. Is this from Charlie the Beer Guy’s house?

Gallery of Portraits created with COFFEE, not paint via Digg

These pictures remind me of those old fashioned sepia photos. I wonder if the prints for sale have any coffee in them. There wouldn’t be much point otherwise.

Marv

Once…Twice…Three times a Technorama….

Once again we try to make sense out of this weird wired world, and all the feedback we have gotten.

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K.I.T.T. for sale via Boing Boing

It’s one of the four Trans Ams that was used for close up shots in the show. Asking price is just under $150k. Doesn’t talk or drive itself, but you can just add a Tom Tom or something.

How Geeks Play with Fire via Digg

The hottest marquee display ever. Yeah, a pun. So sue me.

Wicked Origami via Digg

Some entries from the annual MIT Origami competition. Had to be college students that had that much time on their hands.

Buddist Sand Art via Digg

And only monks have enough patience to make a piece of art this complex and then toss it into a body of water.

Marv

We are off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of .. Technorama?

1. Lego Batman Video Game
2. 101 Great freebies in the Geek Library
3. The $100 laptop… or is it?
4. Seti finds something!

Show Notes for 165
Thanks to Scott Johnson of MyExtralife and MyExtraLife Radio
and JT from the Gigcast for both of them helping with the intro on today’s show.

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