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More and more companies in the US are harnessing wind power for electricity. Massachusetts is leading the way, because state law is forcing government buildings to go green.
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Five Crazy Japanese Games Shows. The shows where you surrender your dignity for laughs and maybe even prizes!
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The Top 10 Historical Hoaxers. From a British point of view, that is.
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The sad story of Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who thought he was human. He was raised with humans only, until the funding ran out.
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Finding a clever error 404 page helps to take some of the sting out of not finding what you wanted in the first place. Pingdom shows us 17 Brilliant Error Pages.
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Thanks to her amazingly trained dog, this woman never has to get up from her desk. Now if only it could brew coffee…
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Top Ten Harmless Geek Pranks. Some of these can be pulled off at the last minute, so beware!
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How To Fuel Your Car With Thanksgiving Leftovers. Or just about any kinds of leftovers.
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Nim’s story is so sad.
posted by beth on 4-1-2008 at 9:13 am
Human Tetris! Makes me want to move to Japan just to watch that one regularly!
posted by Lindsey on 4-1-2008 at 12:33 pm
Good one! One of the Geek pranks “total confusion package” will swap 2% of you video clips with the Rick Astley video. Well guess what, for April fools day, Youtube replaced all the featured videos with links to the ‘Rick Astley video’. For a few seconds, I thought someone installed the “total confusion package” in my Firefox.
posted by Stew on 4-1-2008 at 12:46 pm