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Modified Bike Trailer Doubles as DIY Mobile Camper Home. The ultimate in eco-friendly mobile living, this ingenious residential bike trailer idea from Tiny House Design is perhaps not as far fetched as it might first appear.

Modified Bike Trailer Doubles as DIY Mobile Camper Home

After all, small or big, portable homes have similar security issues and bikes can pull quite a bit of weight and existing bike trailers can haul up to hundreds of pounds. The designer has suggested it could be built from a heavy-duty trailer base around eight feet long and three feet wide with curved walls made of plywood and, foam board for exterior insulation, wood doors and windows and thin aluminum for cladding. There is no doubt that the quarters would be extremely cramped but would it be that much worse than camping in the woods? Module synth. Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Pussy Willow's Theremin Christmas Card. 10 Insanely Expensive Nerdy Holiday Gifts. ​It is that time of year again, boys and girls: the holidays.

10 Insanely Expensive Nerdy Holiday Gifts

Time to spend outrageous amounts of money on things for those nearest and dearest to you. These days, even those of us who are relatively well-off don't have that much to spend. But what if, my friends: what if? What if you were free to drop as much filthy lucre as your grubby heart desired? And not on something sensible like a car or a dishwasher, but something grand and bold and nonsensical? You may have already seen some of these posted on TR with the fitting "Awesome Things You'll Never Own" tag: I thought it appropriate to review some of the crazier ones. 1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia.

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old.

1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia

According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine. In 1999, University of Georgia archeologist Mark Williams led an expedition to investigate the Kenimer Mound, a large, five-sided pyramid built in approximately 900 A.D. in the foothills of Georgia’s tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. Many local residents has assumed for years that the pyramid was just another wooded hill, but in fact it was a structure built on an existing hill in a method common to Mayans living in Central America as well as to Southeastern Native American tribes. Speculation has abounded for years as to what could have happened to the people who lived in the great Meso-American societies of the first century. UPDATE: Raw Story contacted another UGA Scientist, Dr. Witness The Nerdiest Holiday Crime Ever Committed.

Are you a Takei Merch-anary? Doxie Go - Scan Anywhere - For Mac, PC, iPhone, & iPad. A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges ScanScout Deceptively Used Flash Cookies to Track Consumers Online. Online advertiser ScanScout has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceptively claimed that consumers could opt out of receiving targeted ads by changing their computer’s web browser settings to block cookies.

Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges ScanScout Deceptively Used Flash Cookies to Track Consumers Online

In fact, ScanScout used Flash cookies, which browser settings could not block. The proposed settlement bars misrepresentations about the company’s data-collection practices and consumers’ ability to control collection of their data. It also requires that ScanScout take steps to improve disclosure of their data collection practices and to provide a user-friendly mechanism that allows consumers to opt out of being tracked. The FTC investigated ScanScout as part of its ongoing effort to protect consumers’ privacy online.

ScanScout is an advertising network that places video ads on websites for advertisers. To the Batcave. Warp 11. My Pet Zombie for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Welcome to diegostocco.com. Trolls Create Mock Memorial Facebook Page for Dead Miners. September 19, 2011Tim Visited 261 times , 1 Visits today.

Trolls Create Mock Memorial Facebook Page for Dead Miners

The Tropism Well, an Ingenious Sculptural Drinking Fountain. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch: How the site changed startup culture. - By Farhad Manjoo. A few months ago, Michael Arrington heard a tip that Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, was starting a new company.

Michael Arrington, TechCrunch: How the site changed startup culture. - By Farhad Manjoo

Ordinarily, this would have been enough for Arrington, the founder of the blog TechCrunch, to bang out a post with details about Fake's new firm and her backers. The news that someone who started one company is starting another company may not sound like a big deal, but in TechCrunch's startup centric world, it's equivalent to the news that Beyoncé is pregnant. This time, though, Arrington did something that he doesn't do very much—he held off posting the scoop. Instead, he asked Fake to confirm it. Rather than respond to Arrington's email, Fake decided to break the news on her own blog. Arrington didn't like that one bit. Mind Mapping & Diagrams. Snapfiles - freeware and shareware software downloads and reviews.

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