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Care2 - largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. Visual Thinking. Decide.com: Online Shopping for TVs, Computers, Cameras & Electronics. DIY Continuous Ink Printer = Unlimited Free Printing. Instead of paying for absurdly priced printer cartridges, build yourself a Continuous Ink Printer (CIS) which can be made by hacking an old printer to suck ink from external reservoirs.

DIY Continuous Ink Printer = Unlimited Free Printing

You can get the raw ink for dirt cheap so it’s essentially like unlimited printing for free (besides the paper). So now you can actually print your collection of pirated books! A CIS is relatively easy to create, just take an Epson Stylus 760 (a surprisingly hard to find printer) and make a few modifications to it. Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection: Mac OS X and Windows software Collection.

Mental_floss Blog » How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? If you’re a geek of a certain age, a good portion of your childhood probably revolved around sitting too close to the TV, clutching a plastic safety cone-colored hand gun and blasting waterfowl out of a pixilated sky in Duck Hunt (also, trying to blow that dog’s head off when he laughed at you). The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper, seems downright primitive next to the Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect, but in the late 80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. How did that thing work? Annie get your Zapper.

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