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More oddities spotted in the news
02-08-2020, 09:51 AM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-10-2020, 07:43 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-10-2020, 08:38 PM
Bet Dartz will be putting in an order for Ektachrome if he didn't have one already.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-20-2020, 03:05 PM
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Have a roll in the camera. And used it a few times over the last year. Slide film is the shit.
Meanwhile.....
Street Racing in Ireland.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-24-2020, 12:05 PM
Some improvised fixes are worse than others
That's right, this guy gave his own car the raspberry
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
02-25-2020, 12:27 AM
I spent the first few minutes confused why he didn't just use water, and eventually I was like, oh yeah, they have ice up there.
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03-05-2020, 06:20 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
03-06-2020, 11:43 AM
SETI@Home is shutting down -- not because it's out of money or someone stomped on it, but because it's been so successful they've got a massive backlog of data to go through, and are shifting focus to analyzing the data they have instead of getting more data from contributors. They describe it as a "hiatus", giving every indication they plan to start parceling out data to users again just as soon as they get their analysis on their current data done.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
03-06-2020, 07:10 PM
Are you ready for bug butter?
Quote:According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
03-07-2020, 08:38 AM
(03-06-2020, 07:10 PM)robkelk Wrote: Are you ready for bug butter?
Quote:According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake. Just mix it with maple mead from the Dendarii Mountains, and it'll be delicious. Oh ... wrong sort of bug butter, I guess.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
08-22-2020, 09:29 AM
2020 keeps the threats hits coming...
Asteroid predicted to pass close to Earth the day before the US election
https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/aster...eTNQNWPPa8
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
08-23-2020, 08:19 AM
Why accents are behind the booming business of the human voice
Quote:"I think authenticity is key," said Jonathan Love, a 45-year-old voice actor based in Calgary who's known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2002's Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game.
If that game were to be made today, Love said it's likely he wouldn't be cast.
"I think gone are the days that I would be cast to do a Ewan McGregor accent," said Love.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
08-25-2020, 07:20 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
08-29-2020, 10:22 AM
No, no, no - I came in here for a beer.
A bear walks into a liquor store...
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-01-2020, 05:58 PM
If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36...de-them-on
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09-02-2020, 02:40 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-02-2020, 03:17 PM
(09-01-2020, 05:58 PM)nocarename Wrote: If everyone will please check their 2020 bingo cards, we can now mark the Rocketeer off as completed.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36...de-them-on
I read this and was reminded of Jet Jaguar in Fenspace.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-03-2020, 02:30 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-06-2020, 05:36 PM
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-07-2020, 12:33 PM
Pair of FlatEarthers try to sail to the edge of the world, complications ensue
https://www.indy100.com/article/flat-ear...1599408927
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-10-2020, 10:09 AM
Ryan Renolds brings Rick Moranis out of retirement for Mint Mobile commercial
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/rick-m...ommercial/
(article includes the commercial)
it also includes a synopsis of Moranis' return to the big screen in the upcoming 'Honey I shrunk the kids' movie
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-11-2020, 11:07 AM
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modern scanning techniques allow ancient text on the Antikythera mechanism to be read, explaining it's purpose.
https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/an-anc...ts-at-last
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RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-11-2020, 11:37 AM
Wow. Very cool. The discovery that it wasn't a one-off is amazing -- that means there must be more still lurking about somewhere, in various states of disrepair...
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