..how they get the coloured stripes in my toothpaste.

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Those of you (and thats probably most of you) who watch the UK BBC Top Gear show will be more than accustomed to Chicago Corner, The Hammerhead & Gambon Corner.
You can now drive the Laceti around the test track online in this rather nasty looking official game.

I could be mistaken, but wasn’t the Top Gear […]

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What is it with us geek types and our facination with decorated cakes. It seems an odd mixture but we just cant seem to resist a good geeky cake can we.

And this one is just awesome! Its based Mario Kart with a bit of Super Mario Galaxy in there…and the detail is just amazing. A […]

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This was the sight when Chile’s Chaitén volcano erupted at the beginning of May this year. The breathtaking scene is reminiscent of a hollywood FX blockbuster. Its called a “dirty thunderstorm“.
The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide […]

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Probably the best swimming pool in the world….

Damn, its not Carlsberg is it! via

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These pieces of unique embroidery art is by about:blank favourite Xiang Yang
This piece, titled “Bushism-Saddamism”, explores the relationship between our favorite comic book characters. Bush on one side of the room connected to Saddam on the other side.

And this one is particularly relevant for this evenings final of The Apprentice here in the UK.

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Wow!

The choice of 460 baise colours, the aluminum finish, the “Plexineon” under table lighting; who wouldn’t want one of these in their front room?
The wife, thats who!
The price tag on this MartinBauer Tournament Table will give her a good argument at a cheap mortgage sized $36,000!via

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The FlexibleLove furniture piece (Great name eh!), by Chishen Chiu, incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure that enables the owner to push and pull it around to make the chair, sofa, lounger that they like and then push it back when they have finished or bored of its current shape…

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And lets be honest, who doesn’t want their own flux capacitor right there on their mantlepiece.

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..the new Europass hi-tech ball.
Im not a big follower of football (ok…soccer) but i found this video quite captivating. Its a small documentary film on how they make these new super dooper bendy wendy europass wonder balls.

And that ,ladies and gentleman, concludes about:blanks coverage of Euro 08!
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