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When I was in college my roommate sophmore year was not a cleanly person. He would not shower for days before football games because he thought the stink gave human advantage over hi opponents. It gave my bad dreams. Oh, and those football games: intramural!.

His eating habits were just as bad. One time, he left a pizza box on his desk on a Thursday night, went away fro the weekend, and then ate the leftover pizza when he came back on Sunday evening. Another time, he bought a frozen microwavable cheeseburger (it was in sealed plastic), and left it on his desk for a few days before eating it. Oh, and we didnt’ have a microwave.

That leads me to this product, a commendable achievement in food engineering.

Cheeseburger in a can

If anyone knows has eaten one, or knows where to buy online from the U.S., please post a comment. I must have this.

P.S. If this interests you, check out the Harvest Your Own Pearl Kit

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) — Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gram packets that cost €1-1.5 ($1.35-$2).

Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

“We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks,” 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.

Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour’s drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.

“Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16,” said project member Martyn van Nierop.

The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands.

The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.

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Yes, it will be an expensive phone, but I paid $250 for the very first SideKick when it came out. And then it made me feel like Linsay Lohan.

A while later I paid $300 or $400 for my Treo, and then $400 for my Blackberry. And those phones made me feel like an old man.

If you took a Treo, mixed it with a Blackberry, then mixed that with Koolaid, Michael Jordan, beer, ice cream cake, and a teeny bit of vintage 1957 Hugh Hefner sperm, I’m still not sure it would be as cool as the iPhone.

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This device looks kind of like a mini-enema, but it’s actually a device that lets you syphon boogers out of your kid’s nose. I’m not sure which is worse.

How does it work, you might ask?? Well, you put one end of a tube in your mouth and the other end in your kid’s nose, then suck.

Won’t I get sick and vomit after eating my kid’s boogers? Of course not, there’s a snot filter involved.

Does it hurt? Nope. Kids love it. Just check out the picture below.

Why should I spend 15 bucks on this thing when I can buy a box of tissues and tell my kid to blow (her nose) herself?? No comment.

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Chinese company Golden Dragon Group, Ltd plans to market their eCiggarette, a new smoking technology with an old internet technology name, outside of China later this year.

These electronic ciggies are battery powered, look like real cigarettes, deliver nicotine to the lungs in 7-10 seconds, and supposedly deliver none of the bad carcinogens that smokers love to hate.

The electronic cigarette has been around in China since 2003, and sales have been climbing steadily since. They currently cost about $200, but there is not word on what they might cost when they reach the States.

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I’m always trying to find ways to be more disruptive in the office. We have created some reat games in my office. There’s the game with the big tin foil ball that combines the strategy of bowling with the excitement of shuffleboard, and then there’s Ja-Ru. Ja-Ru is strategy game played with a pink rubber ball and a coffee cup. It’s as awesome as anything can be in a cube filled space, and that’s why I hate waking up in the morning.

Anyway, here’s another toy to help break up the monotony that is every day. The “Executive Batting Practice” machine will most likely be used by the every day man in the cube rather than the executive in the corner office. And it’s most likely not going to improve my swing all that much. But it does look like a good way to waste some time between lunch and 5:00.

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I’m a big fan of DVRs. I have 2 Tivos, a Comcast DVR, a PC equipped with BeyondTV, and 2 media center PCs. I actually don’t watch all that much TV, but with all the options I have I can watch what I want wherever I want. And I’m a bit of a technology whore. I just buy stuff to try it out…

So I’m kind of excited to hear about Plextor’s new USB HDTV reciever.

The high-speed USB 2.0 receiver comes bundled with software that automatically scans for free air-to-air digital and HD signals in a given area and will subsequently pull them in with a flat digital antenna. Users can then watch and record live TV with standard definition TV and HDTV video resolution in the basic configuration, Plextor said.

The receiver also converts recorded TV into MPEG-2 files in real-time and stores them on the user’s hard drive. Once there, they can be easily burned directly onto a DVD, according to Michael Arbisi, vice president of channel sales for Plextor.

The receiver will ship in April with an MSRP of $99.00. Wife permitting, I’m sold.

via Extreme Tech

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These folks make paper products from elephant poo. Their products do not smell, and come in colors other than rust brown. Amazingly, they can make about 25 large sheets of paper from a single steaming pile.

We collect naturally dried elephant dung from elephant conservation parks and bring it back to our paper-making factory.

Link via BoingBoing

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