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Scary glowing eyes made of LEDs? As a haunting aid that must be pretty unobvious and without precedent, for the idea was granted patent protection. Fortunately, there are also scary...
"You cannot step into the same river twice," Heraclitus famously said as handed down by Plato and Aristotle. Heraclitus himself may have held slightly different and more coherent beliefs. More...
If a walking-stick is rubbed with pulmo marinus, the purple jellyfish, it will "light the way like a torch," reports the great historian and naturalist Pliny the Elder in his...
What to cook for Halloween? That easy: ghost cookies, eyeball tarts, candy spiders and blue brains. What to email for Halloween? That's easy, too: Ghosts, skulls, skeletons and bats. ›› Don't be...
Have you ever tasted a durian? I haven't, but the descriptions do make me curious: pudding with vanilla and onion flavor, cheese, or chocolate liqueur with butter. Of course, there...
Covered in thick plastic coating, dangling on a massive power cord, shock-proof and so light it must be floating, it is, since 2000, typewriter, jukebox, gaming board. Oh, I love my old orange (Tangerine)...
Eudora, the email program named after Eudora Welty and first developed in 1988 (and distributed as freeware), sees its last commercial hurrah. Version 7.1 for Windows lets you save and....
For his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Søren Kierkegaard, one of the greatest writers among the great philosophers, did not need a core body of text to which the...
