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Ten Stunning Ultra-Geeky Home Cinemas, each designed around one favorite movie or movie series. Star Trek outnumbers Star Wars 3 to 1.
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21 Money-Saving Sites from Around the Web. If you’ve used any of these sites, let us know what you think of them.
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“Weirdest” Animals to Get Conservation Attention. Good luck to the rare Hirola, the Bumblebee bat, and the Golden-rumped elephant shrew.
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The Academy Award nominees, each with a link to more information. This is the time of year I always decide to watch more movies, but I never do.
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A compilation video of people failing badly in whatever they are doing. Might be painful to watch, or it might give you the giggles. Or both.
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The super-secret Area 51 has a new name: Homey Airport. I am not making this up.
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Wired celebrates the Macintosh’s 24th anniversary with a gallery of Apple’s worst products. Can’t you just feel the love?
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Witness some of the best slam dunks ever from the NBA. Kinda makes you wish you were there!
My husband is addicted to W00T. He bought Zunes for himself, me, and his brother there, all for like $85 each.
posted by Sara on 1-24-2008 at 9:24 am
W00t-offs are even more addictive!
posted by beth on 1-24-2008 at 9:46 am
Nitpick: Apple’s been around a lot longer than 24 years. 1984 was the year the Macintosh was introduced.
posted by Loomis on 1-24-2008 at 12:17 pm
You are right, Loomis. I corrected this elsewhere, but forgot I had it here, too. I’ll get that fixed.
posted by Miss Cellania on 1-24-2008 at 12:20 pm
I don’t know about most of the money-saving sites, but I will say that retailmenot.com is AMAZING. I’ve literally saved hundreds of dollars on shopping using that site (especially around the holidays) because there are so many coupon codes. On one $300 online order, I saved $40 AND got free next-day shipping.
The only trouble is that some online stores have figured out what’s going on, and have requested to have their coupons removed.
posted by Betty on 1-24-2008 at 4:58 pm
Miss C: How come the last link in your cup of links is ALWAYS a Mental Floss article?
posted by derek burress on 1-24-2008 at 5:47 pm
derek, it’s because we have a lot of good articles that were published back when we didn’t have this many regular visitors. And it keeps my lists from being too short!
posted by Miss Cellania on 1-24-2008 at 11:29 pm