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Free Toaster When You Open a PennyPincher (TM) Goat Savings Account
by Josh Clark | November 18, 2010
If money is the root of all evil and goats are the incarnate of evil, then why not use them interchangably? Well, you can. Some enterprising entrepreneurs in rural Korawan, India have established a bank that maintains goats as currency. It makes utter and complete sense — don’t say it doesn’t, Western Yankee.
NDTV reports of a woman named Prema and some of her fellow villagers have assembled some goats that they loan to woman in the village looking to make extra cash for their families selling goat’s milk.
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Ponies and Drinking
by Molly Edmonds | November 18, 2010
If your weekend plans include re-reading “Black Beauty” while drinking a few bottles of wine, then boy oh boy, do I have some podcast episodes for you. This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, we took on two of the great passions of women — a good horse and a good cocktail.
Proving that, eventually, every task will be roboticized, there is this video. It shows a robot that automatically milks cows: But if you really want your mind blown, there is this – 80 cows at once: I am not a dairy farmer, but I have spent a fair amount of time on dairy farms. If [...]
I am working on a homeless project with a friend that is requiring research, and as part of doing that research came across this site: Survival Guide to Homelessness This is one of those brilliant reconceptualizations that is worth reading simply because of the inventiveness and clarity of the author. Instead of being “homeless”, he [...]
You asked: How is corn whisky made? — Joseph, Saint Louis, Mo. Marshall Brain answered: There are two ways to make corn whisky: The legal way and the illegal way. If you are making it legally, it looks something like this at the Jack Daniels distillery: How Stuff Works – Jack Daniels Whiskey And here [...]
You have to admire the energy here. People want white iPhones. Apple has been stalling. Teenager sees a market opportunity and goes for it: Teenager imports white iPhone 4 casing from Foxconn, makes $130,000 converting black iPhones one enterprising teenager called Fei Lam came up with a very lucrative idea. He decided to import the [...]
Honda Air concept : A Vision Of The Future Vehicle – “Created for the 2010 LA Design Challenge by the Honda Advanced Design Studio in Pasadena, CA, the Air concept is defined as “a vision of the future of lightweight and alternative fuel performance vehicles”. Inspired by modern roller coasters and skydiving wing-suits, the Air [...]
You may have heard of all-terrain vehicles, but what about super terrain vehicles? In this podcast, Ben and Scott check out the newest — and strangest — combination of luxury and security vehicles.
How do individuals relate to reality? How has humanity attempted to interpret its position in the universe? From navel-gazing to the geocentric universe and beyond, the search for humanity’s place has become a long — and mind-blowing — enterprise.
So this is pretty awesome: A recent rising star in the Japanese pop music scene is actually nonexistent in any way we “normals” would consider an individual to exist. She is, in fact, a hologram named Hatsune Miku. Miku is the product of a software craze sweeping Japan right now called Vocaloid. You type in whatever lyrics you want and pick some notes from the program, and hit play and what you’ve wrought is sung by the program. There’s no need for you to open your mouth.
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