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There are a lot of sections of highway in the US that have a speed limit of 55mph. A group decided to do an experiment, and drove four cars abreast (taking up all available lanes) at 55mph (the legal speed limit). What resulted is unfortunately not to surprising.

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If this doesn’t break your brain, then it was already broken..

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Microsoft is showing off a preview of its new local.live. You can pick your view type, and go for a walk in downtown Seattle. So far the program is very limited (a small section of downtown Seattle), but it holds an exciting look into the future. Now, how do I get a job walking around Seattle?

http://preview.local.live.com/

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All I can say is that I want one

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In 2000, the USA produced three million tons of polystyrene, that magical substance that makes up packing peanuts. The problem with polystyrene, is that it tends to hang around. Scientists have discovered a bacteria that can convert polystyrene into PHA, a bio-degradable plastic, that can then be reused.

biologists at the University College Dublin in Ireland have found that a strain of Pseudomonas putida can exist quite happily on a diet of pure styrene oil–the oil remnant of superheated Styrofoam–and, in the process, turn the environmental problem into a useful, biodegradable plastic.

But the bacteria thrived on this new diet, turning 64 grams of undistilled styrene oil into nearly 3 grams of additional bacteria. In the process, the bacteria stored 1.6 grams of the energy of the styrene oil as a biodegradable plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHA. This plastic can stand up to heat but also breaks down more naturally in the environment than petroleum-based products.

sciam.com

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Some of you might be wondering why I am so bent on Sony’s PSP. Yes, it is partly because it is the first and only video gaming system I have ever purchased, but it is mostly due to its versatility. The main reason that I never purchased a video game console in the past was because it was such an expensive dedicated system. It did one thing: played games. And to make it worse, it only played a certain type of game.

The PSP broke that mold by adding WiFi, movies, and music. Homebrewers have stretched that mold by adding much, much more. Now we have flash. This opens a whole to door in PSP options; from games to movies, to web content.

makezine.com

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we’ve been collecting these pictures for some years now. they come from photobooths and pavements all over the UK.

the isthisyou project was born out of a simple question: is it possible to reunite these images with their owners?

you can help by e-mailing this url to people you know.

then, perhaps, one day, someone will recognise themselves on isthisyou

Having never personally visited the UK, I am sure that my pic is not on this site. I will be sure to leave a picture of myself when I do visit though!

isthisyou.co.uk

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Just watch the video

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