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How to make fake gold bars

March 19, 2008 1:29pm

Next time I take payment in gold bars, I'll cut a few random ones in half.

What do I get from the Canadian Tire store to bisect gold bars with?

How to make fake gold bars

March 17, 2008 12:34pm

Which economy is collapsing? Maybe it's time to learn how to make fake euros.

Using Mathematica to decorate Easter Eggs

March 10, 2008 3:25pm

The tradition of computer-generated Easter eggs dates back over three decades.

* World's Largest Easter Egg
* Understanding the World's Largest Pysanka

HOWTO Get a load of hard-disk space back

January 31, 2008 12:58pm

Yikes, epic, epic fail for Thunderbird's default setting, and for the mbox format.

When I empty the trash, I assume that what was in there is no longer within easy reach of the narcs, the tax collector, the church police, my girlfriend, and the BDA (take that, Lemming!).

As someone who has archived mail for a decade and a half, I wonder how many people out there are unable to use a MacBook Air solely because of Thunderbird's bad behaviour.

Cleveland death ray of 1934

January 27, 2008 8:31am

Perhaps the contemporary model was considered a defensive weapon because the effective range was only about sixteen centimetres, or the rate of fire was twenty rounds per calendar quarter.

Skyscraper airport of tomorrow, 1939

January 6, 2008 8:23am

And who wouldn't want to while away an hour or two in a formal garden at the edge of a runway, in the brisk breeze 500 metres above NYC?

Pro-tech/anti-commie vid from the 1939 World's Fair

December 3, 2007 8:29pm

I think the scheming intellectual 'furriner', Makarov, is being used to appeal to middle-class American values and attack any suspicion of mechanization (perhaps an attitude of the labour movement).

A real communist in 1939 would have been bragging about the massive industrialization of the USSR in the last decade—without mentioning the deaths of a few million Soviet enemies of progress.

("Russian-looking?")

Salt lick art

September 28, 2007 10:31am

Oh, yeah, and artist Elvira Finnigan has been working with salt as well. Her work is at saltwatch.ca.

Salt lick art

September 28, 2007 10:20am

This may be inspired by the works of artist Doug Lewis, who has been using various techniques to make sculptural work from salt licks for several years.

There was a short video interview about his work on Zed TV: Quicktime , Better-quality FLV.

Saudi religious police attacked by girls

September 26, 2007 1:11pm

@Willibro, by politeness I meant not hopping on a public forum and repeating all kinds of stereotyped crap about the Ay-rabs. The comments here sound like an elementary schoolyard in the 1960s.

Saudi religious police attacked by girls

September 26, 2007 10:41am

In a “civilized” country those girls would be tossed in the slammer for assaulting an officer with a weapon. Nice to see that an apology still counts for something somewhere.

And to some of the commenters here: isn’t politeness and showing basic respect a sign of being civilized?

Tom Waits's dog food commercial

March 21, 2008 7:37am

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