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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/12\/spotlight-spacestation-total-ghost\/","trash":"","name":"spotlight-spacestation-total-ghost","parent":"","title":"Spotlight: Spacestation - Total Ghost","date":"2012-02-12 13:20:15","filepath":"posts\/20001279_spotlight-spacestation-total-ghost.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MezkEiS-6jA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nA perfect space motto:\n<blockquote>\"They cannot tell us no!\n\nThey cannot tell us not to go!\n\nIf NASA says no, then we'll do it on our own.\n\nWe'll build our own rocket and go to space alone!\"<\/blockquote>\nget the MP3 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004IIE0IS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004IIE0IS\">Amazon<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004IIE0IS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or give it to a friend with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptoken.com\/item.php?d=d&asin=B004IIE0IS\">PopToken<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/?p=1293","trash":"","name":"","parent":"","title":"Movie: Dirty Filthy Love","date":"2012-02-11 14:06:36","filepath":"posts\/20001293_.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Write a short review for Michael Sheen's movie Dirty Filthy Love.\n\nMention how it is a british movie about an mentally unstable obsessive compulsive man in love that goes through the struggle of self therapy and moves beyond denial by accepting the disorder and the way of life.\n\nIt is a great movie. \u00a0Superb!"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/11\/toxoplasma-gondii\/","trash":"","name":"toxoplasma-gondii","parent":"","title":"Cat poop may make you crazy","date":"2012-02-11 13:01:27","filepath":"posts\/20001272_toxoplasma-gondii.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1273\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Cat suit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cat_guy.png\" alt=\"Cat Suit\" width=\"126\" height=\"59\" \/>Not only is the parasite toxoplasma gondii bad for pregnant women, but it is possibly bad for everyone by changing mental behavior and even increasing the risk of schizophrenia and suicide.\n\nThat's some serious findings and makes you wonder how long it takes for symptoms to appear. \u00a0Is it similar to Mad Cow, which doesn't surface until 10 years after exposure? \u00a0Scary stuff.\n<blockquote>\"The subjects who tested positive for the parasite had significantly delayed reaction times. Flegr was especially surprised to learn, though, that the protozoan appeared to cause many sex-specific changes in personality. Compared with uninfected men, males who had the parasite were more introverted, suspicious, oblivious to other people\u2019s opinions of them, and inclined to disregard rules. Infected women, on the other hand, presented in exactly the opposite way: they were more outgoing, trusting, image-conscious, and rule-abiding than uninfected women.\"\n\n-- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/03\/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy\/8873\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/blockquote>\nSo, it makes you wonder if those crazy cat ladies (that own more than 5 cats) are nuts before owning the first cat.... or if they are victims to the parasite, making them get more and more felines? \u00a0It's a chicken or the egg problem...\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/03\/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy\/8873\/\">Read more<\/a> about the research\u00a0Jaroslav Flegr has been doing at\u00a0Pregue's Charles University at the Atlantic.\n\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/10\/cat-parasite-may-cause-give-yo.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/?p=1288","trash":"","name":"","parent":"","title":"art","date":"2012-02-10 17:17:43","filepath":"posts\/20001288_.xml.json","type":"post","content":"http:\/\/g-e-e-r-s.deviantart.com\/"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/10\/too-cold-for-your-car-heater-add-a-wood-stove\/","trash":"","name":"too-cold-for-your-car-heater-add-a-wood-stove","parent":"","title":"Too cold for your car heater? Add a wood stove!","date":"2012-02-10 12:59:05","filepath":"posts\/20001267_too-cold-for-your-car-heater-add-a-wood-stove.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Pascal Prokop decided to install a wood burning stove inside his car where a passenger seat would normally be.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/10\/extreme-diy-car-mods-volvo-wi.html\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"car stove\" src=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RTR2XJR8.jpg\" alt=\"car stove\" width=\"466\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nIt works, it's up to code, and it's totally bad ass.\n\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/10\/extreme-diy-car-mods-volvo-wi.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/09\/water-droplets-orbiting-a-needle-in-microgravity\/","trash":"","name":"water-droplets-orbiting-a-needle-in-microgravity","parent":"","title":"Water droplets orbiting a needle in microgravity","date":"2012-02-09 15:18:51","filepath":"posts\/20001264_water-droplets-orbiting-a-needle-in-microgravity.xml.json","type":"post","content":"The orbits are not from gravity, but from electrical charge. \u00a0How amazing is that?\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qHrBhgwq__Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/09\/water-bubbles-orbiting-a-knitt.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/08\/tutorial-chiclet-buttons\/","trash":"","name":"tutorial-chiclet-buttons","parent":"","title":"Tutorial on how to make chiclet buttons","date":"2012-02-08 11:33:42","filepath":"posts\/20001258_tutorial-chiclet-buttons.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1259\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"chiclet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/chiclet.png\" alt=\"chiclet\" width=\"90\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>I ran across a good <a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\">tutorial<\/a> for making chiclet buttons by spelling the word incorrectly as chicklet. \u00a0I know the buttons are named after the gum of old, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiclets\">Chiclets<\/a>, because of the shape... but my typing fingers have a mind of their own.\n\nSpeaking of which, what happened to that gum? \u00a0Are they all imprisoned in gum ball machines in the midwest? \u00a0Man, that gum was savory... for a whole 3 minutes.\n\nThe tutorial is for photoshop, but it isn't too hard to get the fundamental elements of the button and apply it to something like <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>. \u00a0How is it there is a dearth of vector graphics for icons on the web (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scalable_Vector_Graphics\">svg<\/a>)? \u00a0Icons need all sorts of sizes and SVG handles\u00a0resizing\u00a0like a dream.\n\ncarry on to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blulob.com\/2009\/05\/17\/create-social-networking-chiclets-photoshop\/\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/07\/millennium-falcon-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea\/","trash":"","name":"millennium-falcon-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea","parent":"","title":"Millennium Falcon found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea","date":"2012-02-07 11:00:41","filepath":"posts\/20001251_millennium-falcon-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea.xml.json","type":"post","content":"An unexplained 60 meter round object was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea with distinct drag marks trailing for 400 meters behind it. \u00a0Could it be a sunken spy boat? \u00a0or is it an ancient space ship from a time long long ago?\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"ocean falcon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oceanfalcon.jpg\" alt=\"ocean falcon\" width=\"224\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\nWatch the full report:<\/p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_wgMa3iils\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\nfind out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/oceanexplorer.se\/\">Peter Lindberg<\/a>, the guy that discovered the object.<\/em><\/p>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/02\/03\/unexplained-60-meter-object-re.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/06\/photo-bikes-bucks-and-bums\/","trash":"","name":"photo-bikes-bucks-and-bums","parent":"","title":"Photo: Bikes, Bucks, and Bums","date":"2012-02-06 11:22:51","filepath":"posts\/20001246_photo-bikes-bucks-and-bums.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Behold! \u00a0One of the best photo's on teh internets:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sixnguyen\/6418989411\/\" title=\"DSCF8436-2 by Six Nguyen, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6054\/6418989411_17796845eb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"DSCF8436-2\"><\/a><\/p>\nfrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sixnguyen\/\">SixNguyen<\/a>.<\/em>"}}

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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/02\/05\/us-city-migration\/","trash":"","name":"us-city-migration","parent":"","title":"US City Migration","date":"2012-02-05 10:40:06","filepath":"posts\/20001243_us-city-migration.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Trulia put together a fine looking <a href=\"http:\/\/insights.truliablog.com\/vis\/metro-movers\/\">interactive map<\/a> showing how people move across the United States. \u00a0For any particular city, the map shows the cities where transplants came from. \u00a0In addition it shows where people go to when they leave a specified city.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insights.truliablog.com\/vis\/metro-movers\/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Great US Migration\" src=\"http:\/\/pro.truliablog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Metro-Movers-Preview.jpg\" alt=\"Great US Migration\" width=\"369\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nWhat is interesting is that San Francisco draws on all the major cities to fill it's vacancies, but the city San Francisco does not register on any other city's radar as a desirable place to live. \u00a0Even people from L.A. would rather live in Oakland... \u00a0Well, that probably requires a more in depth study of economics. \u00a0San Francisco isn't cheap.\n\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.truliablog.com\/grow-business\/moving-trends-using-research-to-locate-your-next-buyers\/\">Trulia<\/a><\/em>"}}