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Show #146: Token Ring Circus

1. Hubble Fix
2. Missing Mythbusters Show
3. Chuck’s Got a Rant

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Pirate Cannon – A working replica of a naval cannon that fires pneumatically via Digg

Tallest Men In The World (w/ pics) via Digg

Monster Rouge Waves via Digg

For centuries these waves have been regarded as just stories told by sailors. But, more serious study have found more than a little truth to the myth. During a three-week study in 2001, radar scanning detected ten monster waves in a 1.5 million square kilometer area.

The Definitive How To – Blaster Rifle via Digg

For about $50 in supplies, you too can make a replica of the Stormtrooper blaster rifle.

Mythbusters missing flatus experiments via Digg

These segments have never been aired on TV. Watch as they test the myth that farts are flammable and girls (like Kari for example) don’t pass gas. Now, how would you test to see if someone never farts? Well obviously you need some kind of instrument placed in a strategic area.

Marv

The Beauty of Mathemagic via Digg

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
etc.

Skynet goes live in October 2008 – Judgement Day via Engadget

Engadget is stretching the truth a bit, but the USAF is proposing a major command organization (such as the Space Command or Air Combat Command) for the purpose of safeguarding U.S. military and civilian cyberspace. They haven’t gotten funding for this project yet, so it looks like the Governator can keep his day job a bit longer.

Dolphin May Have ‘Remains’ of Legs via Newsvine

Open letter to the Associated Press:
If you’re gonna run a story about some tiny extra flippers found on one particular dolphin and not any other. It would help to have a picture that really shows those extra flippers.

Marv

Hard Drive Belt Buckle via Boing Boing

Lost Moon landing tapes found via Digg

Stored under the seats of students at an Australian college. Looks like the tapes were used to store data from the instruments left on the Moon. These tapes do not appear to be the missing high quality video footage.

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Lab Accidents via Digg

The lab-accident rate in schools and colleges is 100 to 1,000 times greater than at firms like Dow or DuPont.

Fully functional Transformers Halloween Costume via Digg

A pretty clever DIY costume of Hotrod.

Marv

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Oxycyte: Better Than Blood? via Digg

A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it

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Chicken Tractors via Digg

It has helped him grow crops in a region where soil is very infertile. The chickens eat all of the bugs and pests that destroy the crops, fertilize the space that the chicken tractor occupies, and are kept safe from natural predators like foxes, raccoons, and possums.

Maggot Art via Digg

Step 1: Dip some maggots into paint.
Step 2: Drop those maggots onto a piece of paper. They will smear a trail across the page in immitation of abstract art.

Pool + Dominoes = Awesome via Quioticals.blogspot.com

More domino inspired tricks. This fad should run it’s course by the end of the week. If not, I’ll shoot it myself.

Book In-Jokes via Digg

The dedication runs as follows:

To Joanna,

My brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or interferes, asks nothing and endures all, and writes my dedications.

ILM Halloween Party (Flickr photoset) via Boing Boing

Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II – The Domino Effect via Digg

251 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke + 1506 Mentos + WAY TOO MUCH FREE TIME = …

Ok, so now we’re regressing to last summer’s fad. Someone had better come up with something new and post it to YouTube.

Which Superhero are you? via Clipmarks

I’m 60% Green Lantern?!? Man, they need to add more variety to their stereotypes.

Marv

Show #145: Natural Geek Enhancement

1. Moon trees
2. What might happen to Blockbuster video
3. Is Windows cursed?

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Photo Gallery: New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil via Digg

A species of bioluminescent fungi looks unassuming as it pokes its capped head above the mossy wood from which it grows in the tropical forests of Brazil. But at night a chemical reaction causes the fungus to emit an eerie green glow sometimes called foxfire.

Remote control Robotic Insectoid via Digg

Rube Goldberg Machine from Office Equipment via Digg

Some time killing ideas for your next all-nighter at the office.

Massive 60 Acre Spider web covers entire field (pics) via Digg

For reasons that area scientists don’t really understand, millions and millions of tiny black spiders called Halorates ksenius – they have no common name – became trapped in Russell Jervis’ clover field and started spinning webs.

Photo Gallery: ”Bizarre Beasts” Were Real (Believe It or Not) via Digg

I’d swear that these were photoshopped, but it is on the National Geographic website.