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  • Our houses are getting bigger

    Rick Bookstaber makes the point on Business Insider that [technology is increasingly changing the way we live our lives](http://www.businessinsider.com/bookstaber-commodity-paradigm-shift-2011-5) (also [here](http://rick.bookstaber.com/2011/05/commodity-prices-and-paradigm-shifts.html)). He comes at it from the perspective of Commodities...

  • Playmobil Apple Store

    Very amusing video, Think Geek have a review [here](http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/?pfm=Carousel_20110401_Apple_Store_2#tabs).

  • Journalist Wall Of Shame

    Some of the reporting is awfully sensationalist and fear mongering, playing on people’s fears to get a quick, cheap story. There’s a good list of some of the worst examples...

  • What I want in a Washing Machine

    So the washing machine died… it had been getting more and more noisy and this morning whilst I was performing my domestic duties it started doing that really really catastrophic...

  • Some more information on Japan’s current status

    The traditional news media is painting an alarming picture of the situation in Japan; if I just relied on what the TV was saying, you’d think the place was wiped...

  • An insightful experiment

    Our psychological state allows us to see only what we want/need/feel to see at a particular time. What five words do you see? *[Image reference removed - original test image...