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Archive for December, 2008

Toy Stores You Would Have Missed

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

An article from an upscale travel publication is circulating on the wire services, with the attention-optimized title America’s Most Unique Toy Stores. “Like any good escape,” it reads, “these shops also offer a transitory (yet incredibly vivid) diversion from the woes of the outside world.” That sounds a lot like shoppertainment to us, blurring the [...]

Green Tech May Unleash Spook Light Invasion

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Will light bulbs of the future be powered by cars, trains, and landing planes? It’s happening right now in the happy cartoon animation on the web site of Innowattech. This Israeli company wants to embed piezoelectric materials (quartz crystals) into asphalt and concrete, and when tires run over them, electricity will be produced by the [...]

Report Casts Doubt On Bra Tree Evolution

Monday, December 15th, 2008

We’ve been reporting on shoe trees for years, but every so often a rumor would trickle in about a bra tree. More specific bra tree tips arrived starting in 2005, in states such as California and Vermont and Arizona. We figured Bra Trees might be just a natural (and naughty) progression from the more established [...]

Medical Museum Displays Iraq Splatter Slab

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

In the latest of many unique exhibits, the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, is displaying part of a U.S. military tent “trauma bay” that used to be in Iraq. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a concrete slab that was under an operating table on which countless battlefield operations were performed. [...]

Las Vegas Volcano 3.0

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Original Volcano. A stumpy volcano, set inside a three-acre artificial lagoon, has belched water and flame in front of the Las Vegas Mirage Hotel every night since 1989. It’s credited with starting The Strip’s renaissance — as that word is understood in Las Vegas — leading to ever-greater outdoor replica extravaganzas like the Luxor Pyramid [...]

Tony The Tiger: Serial Offender?

Friday, December 12th, 2008

When the legendary Tiger Truck Stop moved from Texas to Louisiana a couple of years ago, and reduced its stock of live, caged tigers from three to one, its owners probably hoped that they would get some peace. Not so. According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, Louisiana state wildlife officials have found an old law [...]

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