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Looking to get rid of that pile of old hard drives at your company, but are afraid to simply donate them to a local charity in case they come across all that porn your boss stored on his?
Try this guide to making windchimes using the old hardware and do your part in annoying that overly-sensitive neighbor who can’t stand the clink-clank-clink of wind-driven noise devices in your backyard.
The SF Weekly has an article on their website entitled “My Dinner at Applebee’s With White Supremacists!” about the author’s attempts to infiltrate online hate groups. The story involves him meeting a family of members at the local Applebee’s restaurant, something that’s simultaneously disturbing and yet sadly funny.
Not a read for the easily offended, but a good one none-the-less due to how it shows just how normal and mundane seeming the people behind hate that is often sensationalized can be.
Car and Driver magazine has an article on their website detailing the adventures of Angle Grinder Man, new hero to the overtaxed and overregulated British motorist.
If your car has been “clamped” (most commonly for illegal parking) and you do not want to pay the £90 ($162) fee to have the clamps removed—and if you can find him—then he will fly to your aid. Or more likely, drive to it. With a few grinding sparks, he will liberate your car from the clutches of the evil empire, the local authority, or private clampers. He is also planning on “broadening” his “appeal” by tackling speed cameras, too.
He’s not too difficult to find, as it turns out. Brits just call 07984-121043, and over dramatic recorded music, they hear this message: “This is the voice-mail of Angle Grinder Man, the world’s first wheel-clamp and speed-camera superhero vigilante! I am out cleaning the streets of bureaucratic vermin! Good, honest, decent folk can leave me a message after the grinding noise—with God’s help, we shall prevail!”
How this man hasn’t been captured since the November 2004 article, I don’t know.
Looking for a pet that is both cute and creepy at the same time, with little upkeep beyond some recharging every other day?
Then take a look at this video of the latest japanese robot cat from SegaToys.