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Wired writer Clive Thompson has a thought-provoking piece in this month's issue on the general decline in fixing and tinkering and how it affects our ingenuity, our thinking, and even our spending habits:You see this on a personal level. If you can't get under the hood of the gadgets you buy, you're far more liable to believe the marketing hype of the corporations that sell them. When things break, you toss them and buy new ones; you accept your role as a mere consumer. "I think it makes you more passive as an individual," says Matthew Crawford, a former motorcycle repair-shop owner (and postdoctoral fellow in cultural studies) who's writing a book on the demise of mechanical aptitude in America.Hit the link for a few upbeat signs about the growing resurgence in around-the-house aptitude, fostered by magazines like read more » 
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The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life, is a compilation of the best 116 hacks and downloads from Lifehacker's archives. This dead tree version of the web site transforms dozens of blog posts into comprehensive, edited tutorials, which will be familiar to longtime readers. While an official electronic version of Upgrade Your Life isn't available, today I've pulled together links to all the past posts that informed each book chapter to give you a one-stop preview of what's inside that cover. Consider this post the unedited web version of the book. After the jump, get a ginormous roundup of al read more »
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An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind. read more »
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parts for 1997 pontiac sunfire honda deluxe elite 250 scooter windshield read more »
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Koena Mitra humiliated at Bangalore airport
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Mitra was humiliated by the airport staff at Bangalore when she was
asked to strip. Fuming Koena Mitra narrated the incident, ?Three girls
in uniform, clearly in a mood to bully me since I am a celebrity,
called me to the frisking room. They asked me why I was wearing torn
jeans and told me, ?Youngsters look upto you, you are a trendsetter,
why do you do such things???
?Even when they were frisking me, they were feeling me very hard right
from my shoulders to the back p read more »
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A tiny tax on banks has the power to raise hundreds of billions, giving a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and in the fight against child poverty as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world. read more »
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A tiny tax on banks has the power to raise hundreds of billions, giving a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and in the fight against child poverty as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world. read more »
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