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And time began seriously to pass

when walking the dog i stepped on a few snails by accident. it was dark and its raining so there were heaps of them out on the footpath.
the snails here look a lot like the ones in the Netherlands, so i thought, they must all come from a similar place and have (very) slowly populated the whole world (or so…

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energy theft

battery technology is improving very fast at the moment, i just read about the new lithium-ion combination with carbon nano-structures and air-batteries that promise a 10 fold improvement on current capacity.
(http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/ibm-develops-air-breathing-batteries/ )
in a couple of years i can imagine a ‘current affair’ report that follows somebody from work to home to ‘out’ them as stealing electricity from work.
almost everyone has…

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chicken as image stabiliser

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id3v2 file encapsulation

i've been looking at the id3v2 specification that is used to add meta-data to mp3 files. here it specifies that you can include any other file to the mp3 file. i have seen that itunes already uses the attached picture id3 tag to show cover art but i haven't seen any program that uses this functionality to add for example…

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in-band meta data

when adam was talking (in one of his daily source codes ) about adding meta data to (mp3) sound files he was thinking about the mp3 id-tags but the following idea came to my mind:
in-band signaling
you could send some tones that represent data in the audio itself.
there’s a few different standards that already describe something like this so first i…

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