How to make your own Han Solo in Carbonite chocolate bar
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Columbia Heights
I don't really have any insightful (read: publishable) thoughts about my neighborhood, so instead I'm just going post things I stumble across.
These will in turn evoke a sense of place like an Illustrated Classics version of A Tale of Two Cities.
“The Empire will compensate you if he melts”
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“Initially developed for use in robotics and machinery where power cables usually need extra slack to accomodate movement, Asahi Kasei Fibers realized that its Roboden elastic cabling also had potential in other applications. Its remarkable ability to stretch and return to its original length like bungee cable also made it ideal for use in electronically enhanced clothing, without making the wearer feel like they were being constricted.”
Easily track people, objects, anything in your space.
Google Maps envelopes show where your mail’s been
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“Sky Ear is a one-night event in which a glowing “cloud” of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky.”
“Using mobile phones people can listen to the actual sounds up high, the electromagnetic sounds of the sky as well as streams of “whistlers” and “spherics” (atmospheric electromagnetic phenomena that are the audible equivalent of the Northern Lights). Of course, the action of calling the cloud changes the electromagnetic environment inside and causes the balloons to vary in brightness and colour.”
Start typing on this site and you’ll not only look productive, you’ll look like a hacker.
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