The Wrex Files

Simon Mwaura's junk-built home automation system - The really cool thing about the maker featured in this YouTube video is that his home automation system is cobbled together from salvaged components and ...

MP couple win squatter court bid - Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen win a court bid to evict squatters - but face a sleaze inquiry over why the house was empty in the first place.

T400s disassembled, documented, found to be full of components - When one of our editors got his hands on the ThinkPad T400s, he saw a serious machine for sane, sober business-types. But as any ambitious Engadget reader...

@BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com) - (Ed. Note: We recently gave the Boing Boing Video website a makeover that includes a new, guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in...

The Most Annoying Places to Talk on a Cellphone [Annoyances] - The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Intel commissioned a survey of 2,000 people on when and where cellphone talking, texti...

Seeing the world with improved Google Search results - As an avid traveler, I know how helpful it can be to see a map when searching for a location on Google. Using our Universal Search technology, we have prov...

Vinnie Hasson http://ping.fm/p/Rqeoj - Dress day. - http://ping.fm/p/Rqeoj - Dress day.

BBQ Chicken Pizza with Gouda, Cilantro & Red Onion - [image: BBQ Chicken Pizza with Gouda, Cilantro & Red Onion]

Girlfriend Loves Spending 'Alone Time' With You - SAGINAW, MI—According to your girlfriend, your request for some "alone time" this afternoon sounds fantastic, and she'd love nothing more...

How To Cook Fish (A Musical) - Dear Readers, I am so proud to share with you my latest Food2.com effort: "I Can't Cook Fish," a musical co-starring my friend Lisa and Rebecca Charles of Pe...

Blasphemy Is A Crime in Ireland - [image: Blasphemy Is A Crime in Ireland] submitted by dbspin to atheism [link] [3 comments]

Picher, Oklahoma - Picher, Oklahoma is a small town in north-eastern Oklahoma near the Kansas-Missouri border. It was once a major hub for heavy metals extraction, boasting s...

Milan Trade Fair Will Feature World's Largest Rooftop Solar Array - [image: milan-trade-fair] The city of Milan will soon be home to a 2.9 million-square-foot, 18-MW solar array atop the Milan Trade Fair. The array will b...

How Giving Changes Everything - Give and you shall receive.

[+688] The USB Powered Chainsaw: Best. USB Peripheral. Ever. - Boss got you thirsty for blood? Need a way to cut trees while still remaining active on Digg? Really into bringing weapons to the office? Attention Dwight ...

Q&A with Sophal Ear: From refugee stories to international policies - In yesterday's TEDTalk, development economist and political scientist Sophal Ear shared the deeply personal story of his family's escape from the Khmer Rouge...

"So Help Me God...Now Pass the Creamed Spinach" - Richard Ravitch signed his oath of office a lieutenant governor at the Peter Luger Steak House

Vile Eats - From the McGriddle to the Volcano Taco, the "most vile looking fast food menu items of all time.

This Guy Loves Bears - This Guy Loves Bears In the wrong way... On the other hand, for a brief moment I thought FOX News was doing a good job.

The Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy - Have you ever noticed that no matter which Best Buy you go into, you end up seeing the same people working there? That's because there are seven types of...

Smells we can't detect affect judgments we make about people - *[Originally posted in December, 2007]* [image: ResearchBlogging.org]Do smells have an impact on how we judge people? Certainly if someone smells bad, we...

Exclusive - Backstage with Howard Dean - Governor Howard Dean gets excited about his first Colbertnation.com viral video.

PHOTOS: Fog Catchers Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places - [image: image] Special fog-catching nets that can pull hundreds of gallons a day out of the air are helping conservationists in Peru bring water to rai...

Two degrees - The countries of the G8 today approved a target of 2° C rise in global average temperature above the natural, preanthropogenic climate, that they resolve s...

Obama's Border Fence & Ocean Tipping Point? - While the're putting the finishing touches on the controversial fence along the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico, the outrage is far from over. ...

Bouchon in Santa Barbara: good food and a great wine-by-the-glass service - On our way to L.A., we stayed overnight in Santa Barbara. This was a nice break: the town has pretty beaches, downtown shopping is great and dining options...

It's strawberry time again - Three years later, strawberries are going strong and we're headed up for some picking, eating, and jamming. Ollie can't wait, and neither can I!

Pitch Perfect - Learning to sing like the pros isn't something you can do overnight. Over the last decade, though, recording studios have been fudging things a bit with so...

The 3 Short Questions for Long-Term Emotional Change - In The Sedona Method, Hale Dwoskin talks about 3 questions we can ask ourselves to release negative emotions on-the-spot instead of letting them stir up ...

Judge: Loaded Guns In Parks Not Best Idea - In a move we suspect is meant to protect hungry bears, rabid squirrels, and roaming psychopaths who are known to frequent U.S. National Parks, a U.S. Dis...

MN: 2012 Pres (PPP 7/7-8) - by Emily Swanson Public Policy Polling (D) 7/7-8/09; 1,491 likely voters, 2.5% margin of error Mode: IVR (source) *Minnesota* *Job Approval / Disapprova...

PA-Sen: The Senate's biggest hypocrite calls someone else a hypocrite - It boggles the mind. "Congressman Sestak is a flagrant hypocrite in challenging my being a real Democrat when he did not register as a Democrat until 200...

O'Reilly vehemently insists 'God and Country' rally 'wasn't about religion' -- but organizers say it was - You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOADS: (0) [image: Download WMV] [image: Download Quicktime] PLA...

Appeals court gives lawmakers legal protection - WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court says statements that lawmakers make during congressional ethics investigations cannot be used against them in cr...

With a Dem in the WH, signing statements draw a red flag - The Hill: Senior Democrats and Republicans railed against the notion that the president could ignore a law they had passed and he had signed. "We do thi...

Joseph Romm: Hansen mostly recycles myths in his mostly pointless attack on U.S. climate action - Much as I am happy to publicize Hansen's leading edge climate science (see links below), I am unhappy to have to waste any time debunking...

Obama's Bloody Wars Of Occupation - Tom Ricks takes note: June was the bloodiest month of the war in Afghanistan, reports John McCreary, the former DIA analyst who follows the fighting there ...

Health Reform and the Middle Class - During the Vice President's roundtable with HHS Secretary Sebelius and White House Health Reform Director DeParle, the Middle Class Task Force releases its...

Lawmaker won’t deny program CIA misled Congress about was Cheney-led foreign assassination effort: Developing.... -

Nooners Unloads - The reaction to this will be fun to watch: “The elites hate her.” The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conserva...

AIG preparing to pay millions in bonuses, again - As the unemployment rate increases, and Wall Street goes back to it's traditional bonus model, this is not going to be well received. Bush is long gone, so ...

Sarkozy, You Dog - On GMA this morning, they dissected the video of the G-8 moment that yielded the Obama photo which right-wing sites like Drudge had such a field day with y...

Specter, Sestak fight over their credentials as Democrats - Say this for Sen. Arlen Specter: When the guy falls for a new party, he falls hard. Specter, the erstwhile Republican seeking reelection as a Democrat in...

Johnston: Palin Is Just A Fame Whore - Levi Johnston made quite a name for himself by impregnating that Palin daughter (NOT PIPER YOU MONSTERS) and then going on the Larry King Live occasionally...

Post-Acquittal Detention - The other day, Spencer Ackerman reported: Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil lib...

Congress Links - - Sen. Ensign’s parents paid their son’s mistress (and her husband) $96,000 in “gifts.” (Roll Call). - Blue Dog Rep. Murphy takes up the torc...

Is it true that persons older than 59 can't get heart surgery in England? - There's no such prohibition on heart operations in England, as a chain e-mail claims.

The significance of McClatchy's act of journalism - *(updated below - Update II)* *McClatchy's* Nancy Youssef has an article today that is a consummate example of excellent journalism. I don't want to ex...

Freedom from lobbyists - What's good for the drug companies may not be so good for the hapless pedestrian

Poll: Palin resignation a bad move for future presidential run - http://page.politicshome.com/usa/americans_see_palin_resigantion_as_a_bad_move_for_future_presidential_run_.html

Why we connected with Twitter - Just a few words about our strategy behind last week's Twitter integration project. Certainly, we hope it's a big benefit to campaigns. There's no doubt that...

Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government Reform - The Obama Administation’s commitment to reform and transparency is embodied by the one of the Transition’s most dynamic groups—the TIGR (Technology, Inno...