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Animal-shaped rubber bands

Animal-shaped rubber bands 05/01/2004 04:49 AM
I never thought I'd find myself drooling over a premium rubber-band, but these animal-shaped rubber bands from the Japanese design firm Plus-D are super-cool. Flash Link

Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken 03/14/2003 08:39 PM
Dixie Chicks Pulled from Air After Bashing Bush Dude, these Texas people didn't find criticism of the president unpatriotic when Bill Clinton was president. They thought it was a sacred duty...Apparently country stations in Texas and elsewhere are pulling Dixie Chicks albums because their lead singer, while on an overseas tour, criticized Bush, saying she was ashamed to be from the state as him. People who want to criticize the critics of the critical comments are supporting the Chicks by buying their albums and requesting their songs. I never thought I'd buy a Dixie Chicks album, but that's what I'm going to do tonight, and I'm paying full price!

Metal Rubber

Metal Rubber 08/13/2004 11:04 AM

A new material called "Metal Rubber" may find its way into gadgets of the future due to its unique ability to be stretched, heated, and generally abused while still conducting electricity - and still able to snap back into form when the bending and smacking is over. Apparently the vendor NanoSonic is being inundated with requests to use the material, which is currently being produced via a painstaking process that builds up the material one layer of molecules at a time.

Our dreams of the Terminator condom may finally be realized. (Thanks, Aram!)

Read - A Limber Future [PopSci via NYOpinion]

Burning Rubber

Burning Rubber 08/13/2004 05:33 AM

« The smell of burning rubber. »

Cruising Night was last Friday but it seems I didn't get the memo about them first collecting in the harbour area before meeting in the icehall parking lot soo...it was too dark to really take any photos after 10p when the cars finally started arriving there. I only bothered with a few shots of the cars burning rubber on the lot for spectators and those who love the smell of burning rubber. I was disappointed since I do love classic cars.

And, barring any loss of motivation, the Prague photos will be available by sometime tomorrow.

Rubber Ducky You're the One

Rubber Ducky You're the One 07/17/2004 09:59 AM
For sale on EBay, demonically possessed duck: "If it had not happened to us I would've never given it a second thought and I certainly would have dismissed the author as a quack."

rubber biscuit

rubber biscuit 08/01/2004 11:16 PM
The Shapes of Space [note : pdf, sciam, poincaré conjecture]

FireWheel Rubber Band Gun

FireWheel Rubber Band Gun 12/19/2004 03:01 PM

It's a shame I hadn't seen this Firewheel rubber band gun before now—entirely my fault, too, since apparently DansData reviewed it almost a week ago, yet I totally missed it. It's simple, cheap, and awesome, which is right up my alley. It's just a click-wheel rubber band gun, but the nautilus shell design allows you to pop off one of the ten loaded rubber bands at a time, hold it down for a full-auto burst, or just rock semi somewhere in between. It's an Australian design, but they've got an outlet here in the US, so there might just be a chance I can make some mothers unhappy with a few arms shipments to young boys. (Thanks, Matt!)

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"Camels and Rubber Duckies"

"Camels and Rubber Duckies" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

Cooper Burns Rubber

Cooper Burns Rubber 09/20/2004 01:18 PM
Goldman Sachs and Cypress get a solid company at a good price.

Feeling like a cog with a rubber stamp

Feeling like a cog with a rubber stamp 09/15/2004 05:44 AM

Two years ago I marched in protest against the Japan National ID. Last year, after we failed, a few cities and prefectures resisted. Yokohama took the position that the bill was illegal because it required privacy protection and the privacy bill had not passed. They allowed citizens to opt out and an whopping 24% of their citizens opted out. Now that the privacy bill of the central government is in place, Yokohama is being forced to "normalize" with the central government. Last year, I accepted an appoint to the Yokoyama personal information protection committee which would oversee their integration of the national ID system with the hope that I could help them in their resistance. Today, almost a year after the first meeting, I spent the afternoon in what was basically a rubber stamp session. We voiced our opinions, but at this point there really wasn't much choice. These inquiry committee are constitutionally defined organs for people to interact with the law making process, but I felt more like a cog with a rubber stamp than a participant in a democracy.

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Rubber-Bladed Propello Fan

Rubber-Bladed Propello Fan 06/18/2004 08:01 AM

We're trying summer this year in Brooklyn without an air conditioner, something that was impossible in the humid swamp lands of Kansas City, but seems possible this year due to our new space inside one of Brooklyn's cool, stone buildings. Of course, we're tactically placing fans about, too, so now added to the constant drone of our home built gaming PCs is the persistent whirr of spinning blades. So when black+blum says they have made a fan, called Propello, that removes the hum-inducing fan guards by making the blades out of relatively non-lethal rubber, and put it in a nice package, to boot, I have to think it looks a sight better than the cheap $10 box fans we have peppering the apartment. Unfortunately, for the price of one small Propello, I could buy 13 box fans and spend all day floating on a cushion of air.
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Burning rubber on the internet

Burning rubber on the internet 05/18/2004 02:44 AM
BBC May 18 2004 6:53AM GMT

Metal Rubber Jacket

Metal Rubber Jacket 05/13/2004 09:17 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- I want a trenchcoat made of this: nano-enabled "metal rubber", in the lab at NanoSonic Inc. Charged with electricity, it has the ability to shape-shift. That's right, they're talking about morphing. Naturally it's being talked about as an application for military aircraft (booooring) and vaguely for biomedical...

too...many...bands

too...many...bands 06/15/2004 09:24 PM
Underexposed displays an exhaustive list of little-known rock bands seen live by the proprietor. With photos and a near-functional guestbook. UK-centric.

Boy Bands are So Gay

Boy Bands are So Gay 01/26/2004 04:10 PM
Soinlove presents TimberTrick: Stories in which Justin Timberlake and Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSync end up *NBed. "You're a sexy cow," says Justin. "You make sexy cheese." (01-25)

Japanese rubber monsters of the 1970s

Japanese rubber monsters of the 1970s 11/19/2003 02:16 PM
Amazing gallery of famous Japanese monsters of the 1970s. I have just fallen down the clip-art hole. Link (via Die Puny Humans)

Perfect balls and rubber sheets

Perfect balls and rubber sheets 04/19/2004 12:32 PM
US Space Agency launch to test Einstein's maths

Rubber duckie keychain drives

Rubber duckie keychain drives 12/08/2003 02:22 AM
This Japanese company is selling glowing rubber duckie USB keychain drives. Capacity caps out at 16MB -- someone should make a 1GB version of this. That plays MIDI jingles. And has a fingerprint-reader-based encryption scheme. You would be the coolest kid in the Internet cafe when you plugged in your fingerprint-reading lightup singing duckie and used it to transfer your ssh keypair-halves to gain acess to your cage. Seriously. Link (via Gizmodo)

The Brits: Did the right bands win?

The Brits: Did the right bands win? 02/17/2004 03:41 PM
The UK music industry is honouring the best in British and global talent at the 2004 Brit Awards. Send us your thoughts

Rubber Chickens to Protest Bonds' Walks
(AP)

Rubber Chickens to Protest Bonds' Walks
(AP) 06/19/2004 03:08 PM
AP - The San Francisco Giants are tired of all the walks Barry Bonds is drawing this season. The club will begin selling orange rubber chickens named "Walk'er" on Monday, when the Giants open a four-game series against division rival Los Angeles.

Japanese rubber bunny desk accessories

Japanese rubber bunny desk accessories 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: I'm completely swooning for these Japanese desk-accessories made out of multi-coloured rubber bunnies -- there are cable-stables, CD-holders, whisks, stress-squeezums and more. If only I lived in Japan, I'd be on these like cute on Sanrio. Link (via Gizmodo)

Tempel-1: iceberg or galactic rubber
ball?

Tempel-1: iceberg or galactic rubber
ball? 04/01/2005 03:51 AM
Deep Impact team ponders comet's composition

Rubber duck removed from dog after 5
years (Reuters)

Rubber duck removed from dog after 5
years (Reuters) 04/19/2005 06:54 AM
Reuters - A rubber duck sat in a dog's stomach for five years before being removed by Swedish vets last week, a local newspaper said on Tuesday.

"Suggested Local Bands"

"Suggested Local Bands" 06/24/2004 09:14 PM

Young bands on the make

Young bands on the make 04/21/2004 07:26 AM
The next big things you should be listening to now -- before they achieve total world domination. Plus: A beautifully designed, free and legal download site.

Other News: Battle of the Bands

Other News: Battle of the Bands 01/09/2004 09:51 PM
... and Steve Gillmor has an interesting take on the Jobs vs. Gates "Battle of the Bands"....

FCC to auction three 3G bands from June
06

FCC to auction three 3G bands from June
06 12/30/2004 02:00 PM
Formerly federal spectrum

Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands

Tne Encyclopedia of Fake Bands 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
Sure sure, you can go look up those bands that REALLY exist, but how about those bands which only exist in people's imaginations! Check out the Fakebandica, at http://www.fakebands.com/ ,...

New council tax bands unveiled

New council tax bands unveiled 09/01/2004 02:22 AM
Welsh homeowners are to find out if they will have to pay a larger share of council tax next year.

The Battle for the Broadcast Bands

The Battle for the Broadcast Bands 05/06/2004 01:07 PM
The FCC is considering a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to open up un-used broadcast television bands for unlicensed use.  It adopted a notice of inquiry exploring this possibility last year, but an NPRM would be a significant step forward -- it would mean the FCC has specific proposals that, following public comment, it can actually adopt. 

This is a huge opportunity.  All the innovation and investment in unlicensed wireless to date has occurred in narrow, noisy, high-frequency bands.  Because of their propagation characteristics, the broadcast frequencies are the best place to create new broadband alternatives.  Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt advoca ted this point in his Senate testimony last week. 

Unfortunately, and predictably, the incumbent broadcasters aren't happy with the idea.  Even though they would be some of the biggest beneficiaries of opening up the broadcast band "white space" which is now completely un-used, they see anything that increases usable wireless capacity eroding their lucrative government-granted oligopoly. 

A source tells me that FCC Chairman Powell wants to put the broadcast band NPRM on the FCC's open meeting agenda for next week, but he is facing furious opposition from the broadcasters.  If you care about creating new opportunities for wireless innovation and broadband deployment, now is the time to push the FCC to do the right thing. 

Other News: Big Bands vs. iTunes

Other News: Big Bands vs. iTunes 01/19/2004 12:52 PM
Here's a discussion of issues keeping some of the biggest bands from distributing music via iTunes.

Rocket Science: Reaching for Space with
Rubber Fuel

Rocket Science: Reaching for Space with
Rubber Fuel 06/16/2004 02:46 PM
Space.com Jun 16 2004 6:27PM GMT

Poll Position: Rubber Chicken Circuit
Riders

Poll Position: Rubber Chicken Circuit
Riders 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Q: Who's your favorite motivational speaker?

Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs

Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs 01/09/2004 09:51 PM
In dueling tradeshow keynotes this week, Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates laid out their competing visions for digital convergence. To Messaging and Collaboration editor Steve Gillmor, Apple now holds the lead position.

battle of the nintendo cover bands

battle of the nintendo cover bands 07/08/2004 12:29 PM
only kathryn can truly judge indie cred

eBay Today: No Cigar? How About The
Bands?

eBay Today: No Cigar? How About The
Bands? 12/03/2003 01:50 AM
Here are two sets of very odd cross-over collectibles from the Netherlands. But if you want a complete set you'll have to find no less than 290 individual bands.

Rail Bands and Super Motels

Rail Bands and Super Motels 03/20/2003 04:23 PM
A history of Malian pop music. Confused by the interlocking names and associations of the stars of West African music? This lively account by Lisa Denenmark should help (and a follow-up is promised). Via the indispensible Afropop Worldwide.

More Bands Putting Concerts Online

More Bands Putting Concerts Online 01/22/2004 06:28 AM
We've talked about bands like Phish and Pearl Jam experimenting with offering recordings of their live shows to fans online, and it appears that plenty of other musicians are signing up to do the same thing. There are a couple of interesting angles on this one. First, it's a way for the bands to (mostly) cut out the recording industry middlemen they have to deal with most of the time. Live shows are how bands usually connect with fans, and this opens up those shows to a much wider audience. At the same time, many of the bands are choosing to offer these concert recordings without any copy protection - and they're selling like crazy. There's a great quote in the article from Brad Serling, who runs the site that many of these bands are using: "The No. 1 issue that most of the music industry has wrong is D.R.M. Why make it harder for people to buy your product? The answer is fear, and you have to get over the fear. What would you do if you walked into Tower Records to buy the new Dave Matthews Band CD and the guy behind the counter said: 'Here's your CD. It's $18, but you can only listen to it in your den on one stereo. You can't take it to the car. You can't put it on your iPod.' You would laugh at him and walk out, right? It's the same thing here." Offer something to people that they want, and you'll be amazed at what they're willing to pay for.

Bands Gather to Stump Against Bush (AP)

Bands Gather to Stump Against Bush (AP) 08/04/2004 07:45 AM
AP - In an unprecedented series of concerts in nine swing states, more than 20 musical acts — including Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks — will perform fund-raising concerts one month before the Nov. 2 election in an effort to unseat President Bush.
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