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Slashdot | Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA
“The Independent is reporting new findings that indicate a common additive called sodium benzoate, found in soft drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max among others, has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA in a cell’s mitochondria.”

Why does this hat have the word “Digital” in the description?

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Handstyles for miles, originally uploaded by MC Hammerheadshark.

Email from Sleekback:
I dreamed that you were in the SAS and I was visiting you while you were on maneuvers.
We were camped, sleeping out in the open on sleeping bags on a massive sheet of black slate that dipped down into the ocean.
It was just me and you; you were supposed to get up early […]

(Alternate post title: I used to have to park my own car.)
Likely:

passenger vehicles with internal combustion-only engines*
Hopefully we will be using fuel cells of some sort by then, although it’s possible that we could still have some hybrid gas-electric vehicles being sold.  Also as part of that: manual transmission.
Cathode Ray Tube televisions
i.e. your regular old […]

Ben found some… questionable DIY projects.

I’ve been somewhat considering ditching DirecTV and going back to cable. One reason for that is that DirecTV has basically abandonded any support for the DirecTiVo, which is now light years behind in terms of the features that the regular TiVo’s have been upgraded with. But it sounds like it’s still better than […]

lego drives
Originally uploaded by superlocal.

Lego block external hard drives, from some guy in Japan.