Well, not too far beyond, we hope.
 I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news…
(ETA:   Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)

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No, really.
Tags: anime, contact+lenses

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One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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Yes, you too can use that wonderful built-in motion sensor to pour virtual beer.
….Ooooooookay.
Meanwhile, I truly feel there might be better things to run on an iPhone or iPod Touch. 
 
Tags: iPhone, useless, app, waste+of+electrons

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ZoomBak A-GPS Locator for Dogs
(And it seems to me that if you could use it for dogs, you could use it for cats as well — assuming that the hardware’s not too big.)
They also do locators for cars, bikes, family members, backpacks, etc. The devices report in via mobile phone, using the T-Mobile network and networks […]

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For you iPhoners and other outwardly-mobile types, we now have a .mobi version of OOA. It’s at:

http://outofambit.mofuse.mobi/

If you prefer to read Out of Ambit’s mirror blog at LiveJournal mirror (“Word Salad II”), we’ve got a mobile version of that too:

http://wordsalad2.mofuse.mobi/

 Have fun!
 
Tags: .mobi, mobile, Out+of+Ambit, Word+Salad+II, LiveJournal

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The uranium content of granite has always been somewhat in our radar since we moved to Ireland, since there’s a lot of granite in Wicklow;  and where there’s granite, because of the decay of the tiny amounts of uranium it often contains, sometimes there’s radon as well. But here’s a side effect I hadn’t given […]

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The “Eye of Sauron” Tesla Coil.
Technorati Tags: Sauron, Tesla

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Those of you who may have been watching the progressive site revamp at The-Big-Meow.com should be warned that, while I was attempting to add some features this morning, some stuff got screwed up. It’s not serious, but it affects the look-and-feel of the site, and may take a while to fix, as I’m still not […]

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A gentleman with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford has created a street-legal Beetle with a jet engine stuffed in the back.

Best line from his erudite and fascinating discussion of this subject:
Jet keeps sucking the rose out of the bud vase on the dash!
And just wait till you see what he wants to […]

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On summer evenings, when the little ultrasonic things that keep bugs and mice out of the house are turned on, if the windows are going to be open, turn the ultrasonics off. Otherwise the local pipistrelle bats come in the windows and start hunting through the house for the strange mutant bat-thing that’s suddenly […]

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And when I saw it in the Guardian this morning, I thought, “What a neat thing to send to BoingBoing.” Unfortunately Warren Ellis beat me to it.
The Nike+ system, which has taken 18 months to develop, uses a tiny transmitter fitted in the trainers to send information back to the music player with every […]

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