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Chris is a Mahalo.com developer. His hobbies include cooking, woodworking, and writing short bios about himself. E-mail address: cfinke@gmail.com

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U.S. military using goats to grow spider silk

Science – Researchers are "growing" special spider's silk inside the mammary glands of two Nigerian dwarf goats. The silk is 3 microns thick, but is three times as tough as Kevlar. To put it into perspective, if you had a cable made out of the silk, it could hold the weight of a jumbo jet without breaking.

View Story Discuss (0) (forbes.com) 729 days ago by cfinke

Submitted and Voted for on July 26, 2006 10:31pm

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Marijuana gumballs

News – A new trend in high-school drug trafficking is selling marijuana laced gumballs: "chew for 30 minutes to one hour before you would like receive your high; chew for as long as possible, then swallow."

View Story Discuss (12) (examiner.com) 729 days ago by cfinke

Submitted and Voted for on July 26, 2006 10:25pm

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RiffTrax - Download funny DVD commentaries

Movies – "Do you feel that some of the movies coming out of Hollywood are just, well, missing something? At RiffTrax, you can download Mike's commentaries and listen to them along with your DVDs." The guy from MST3K has hit upon a great new business model - independent DVD commentaries. And if they're anything like his show was, they'll be hilarious

View Story Discuss (0) (downloadsquad.com) 729 days ago by cfinke

Submitted and Voted for on July 26, 2006 10:18pm

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Have Your Browser Fix Your Typos

Gadgets & Tech – Have you ever typed .cmo instead of .com? How about .ogr or .nett? Why not let your browser correct those mistakes for you? URL Fixer is an extension for Firefox, Netscape, and Flock that will fix typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar (asking first, if you want).

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Submitted and Voted for on July 18, 2006 10:06am

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Wal-Mart: Feel free to steal cheap stuff.

Shopping – Wal-Mart is altering its zero-tolerance policy and will now only prosecute shoplifters who are between 18 and 64 and try to steal merchandise worth more than $25. That's one heck of a senior discount...

View Story Discuss (0) (money.cnn.com) 742 days ago by cfinke

Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2006 01:41pm