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• The Ultimate Rube Goldberg Machine

  
  Pie Heaven — Authority: 142
  AKA, the beautiful 13.7 billion year history of the universe.
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• Please Wash Hands Before Using Toilet

  
  There, I Fixed It — Authority: 584
  Submitted by: cheddamelz via Submit a Kludge!
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• Rube Goldberg meets Japan: The bizarre Japanese art of Chindogu

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , Asia , Japan "If youre not thinking about Japan every day," popular blogger Tyler Cowen likes to say , "youve yet to wake up." Todays bizarrely fascinating cultural nugget from Japan: Chindogu. Literally translated as "weird tool," Chindogu is the Japanese art of creating ...
  2 weeks ago

• Island in the Stream

  
  Laserfiche News Portal — Authority: 127
  Texas A&M University Corpus Christi uses Laserfiche to streamline BPP/FAMIS report distribution – saving time and money along the way
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• Part 4. Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Gets in Bed with the Cato Institute.

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  SocratesChildren   Ninety percent (90%) of the opinion in the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) report on high speed rail is status quo, anti-public investment, and emphatically Cato Institute doctrine. This essay present eleven (11) ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  The official position of the California Democratic Party is unequivocally in favor of single-payer healthcare. And yet Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, did what she could to sabotage the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Friday Friends: Some Lovely Kludges

  
  There, I Fixed It — Authority: 584
  There are times when a kludge is necessary. For example, you’re stuck in the middle of the woods and just tumbled into a ravine and judging from that white bit protruding from your leg, a temporary cast made from a stick and some duct tape will suffice until you either get to help or a bear eats you. Sometimes, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top 5 Fridays – Rube Goldberg Contraptions

  
  The Cynical Blog — Authority: 130
  What the heck is a Rube Goldberg contraption, you ask? I made it up, you say? Bullocks! Rube Goldberg was a popular American cartoonist who especially liked to illustrate elaborate machines that performed simple, often insignificant tasks. Catalogued here, you will find my 5 favourite crazy convoluted contraptions ...
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• Rebuilding is a Chore

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 127
  By Mark W. Danielson Many years ago, I built an airplane. Other than the expense, it was a relatively simple task. All it took was following the plans and putting in long hours. Okay; that’s simplifying it a bit, but it wasn ’t insurmountable. At the time, I was living in Victorville , California, and every ...
  4 weeks ago

• rube goldberg breakfast machine cobbled together from household items: instructions please!

  
  technabob — Authority: 738
  For so long, the breakfast options of lazy people like me were severely limited: either eat something that you only need to take out of its package, something with no cooking or preparation required, or wait for someone to prepare food for you. No more! Teacher/artist/lazy man’s hero Yuki Suzuki and his friends ...
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• Boom Blox

  
  GConsole.info — Authority: 138
  Boom Blox BOOM BLOX, is the first game developed in collaboration between two giants of multimedia entertainment, Electronic Arts and director/producer, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is obviously a master storyteller and so knows a thing or two about blockbusters, but he also no stranger to the gaming world. A long-time ...
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• 1930s The Gashouse Era, Part One

  
  Cardinals Best News Links — Authority: 457
  The Redbirds started winning in the 1920s and this grew into the 1930s. This era had the 1934 Redbirds now known as the Gashouse Gang. A rollicking, innovative, hard playing roughhouse bunch who won it all in 34. But, how did the Cardinals fare in the rest of the decade?Redbirds Rap
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• New York and Philadelphia... World Series rivals BEFORE 1950

  
  SULLY BASEBALL — Authority: 423
  If you read or listened to World Series coverage this year, youd think this was the second time New York and Philadelphia squared off in the World Series. And it is true, the Phillies and the Yankees only played each other one other time... the 1950 World Series. But well before the Phillies became THE team in ...
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• 2009-09-19 @ 40 Watt

  
  deadlydesigns.com — Authority: 127
  Maserati / Still Flyin’ / I am the World Trade Center Ruby Isle / The Young Sinclairs / Venice is Sinking Click to see the entire gallery!
  5 weeks ago

• Mid-Afternoon Open Thread: Rube Goldberg Cascading Effects Edition

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 438
  From Wikipedia: __________ A Cascade Effect is an unforeseen chain of events due to an act affecting a system. If there is a possibility that the cascade effect will have a negative impact on the system, it is possible to analyze the effects with a consequence/impact analysis. __________ Cascade effects have ...
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• ohmigoditsonFIRE!

  
  Draining the Locks — Authority: 119
  By this point in human history, everybody ought to know Rube Goldberg . He was an illustrator with a degree in engineering from UC Berkeley who, starting in the early 1900s, created a series of cartoons in which a very simple task was completed using extraordinarily complex means. The cartoon to the left is a ...
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• Aerating The Lawn

  
  There, I Fixed It — Authority: 584
  Submitted By: Raymonds [IMG: http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/raymonds-airatethelawn.jpg?w=500&h=333][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thereifixedit.com&blog=9050238&post=4095&subd=thereifixedit&ref=&feed=1]
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