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Love this air-conditioner cover ("Tape & painted cardboard on window AC unit cover, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY") snapped by Flickr user Dbilly.

This has got to be it. Wii Exercise bike. I don’t think I have seen any other controller bigger than that.

The purpose of the hidden camera program Panic Face King is to induce an extremely panicked expression on the face of an unwitting victim by placing them in (what appears to be) a dire situation. This video clip shows one way to create a panic face king. The producers of this program ought to be fined and locked up, if you asked me.

A 29-year-old British woman may face charges for driving into a puddle and splashing kids waiting for a bus. She says the kids asked her to splash them.

Callard has claimed the children asked to be splashed and would not have done it otherwise.

She told the Daily Mail: “The fun factor is mostly gone from life these days but they were playing in puddles, like kids always have done.

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Ransom Riggs, over at the mental_floss blog, has a great pictorial tour of Bodie, California–America’s quintessential ghost town. I remember reading about Bodie in my Childcraft Encyclopedias back in the day, and I’m excited to finally see the whole thing up close…

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When confronted with an abuse of power, an injustice or a scam I’ve developed a really effective technique: I blog, tweet and whine about it passionately for as long as possible. Basically, I do this until people get sick of me (some of you reading this have at various times told me this–I’m sorry!). I’ve learned over the years that this process is wildly effective in the long-term and водителях therapy. It’s a way for me to relieve the dissonance associated with the injustice, perceived or real, that I see.

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I photographed this graffiti under an overpass near the Palo Alto Caltrain station. It’s a C++ program, called FUCKYOURMEMORY.c. Only in Silicon Valley.

My column in this week’s Tennessean looks at franchising as a path to business ownership for accidental entrepreneurs:

Franchising is a path to business ownership that many of today’s accidental entrepreneurs find appealing.

those in career transition who are considering business ownership,

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See, it says so right there on the sign.

Crop art is exactly what it sounds like: Art made with crops. Generally speaking, that means everything from crop circles to grape-vine wreaths. But we’re talking about a very specific kind of crop art. One seldom seen outside the surreal confines of the Minnesota State Fair. This crop art is all about seeds–thousands of them–glued together to form an image. Right now, you’re thinking about preschool macaroni pictures, aren’t you? Don’t. Real crop art is much more challenging.

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On the news that Bobtown, Pennsylvania has outlawed Hallowe’en to “keep kids safe,” Lenore “Free Range Kids” Skenazy points out that there has never been a single substantiated incident of a kid being sickened, hurt or killed by doctored candy handed out during trick-or-treating in the history of America.

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