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A continuing series. Today: Time Warner is releasing a digital video recorder that won’t let you skip commercials. Next from Time Warner: a magazine that doesn’t let you skip the adverts…

A remote controlled tarantula. Fair warning - if you own one of these and it comes near me, don’t expect it to survive…

Those of us from the 80s and early 90s remember mix tapes with fondness. Here’s a way to bring them back.

A state-by-state guide to the swing required for the coming federal election.

The techniques designers use when making book covers.

A robotic fire fighter concept design.

Developing country aid in the Internet era

The secret meeting rooms of Disney World.

The solution of one Texas student to the US heatwave.

Typography and graphic design on the US Highway system.

Make your work look more like a movie poster.

Coming Soon: a documentary about an election for class monitor between three eight-year-olds.

Eight unauthorized Harry Potter books from China. (Via, which has one of the summaries if you don’t subscribe to the NY Times)

A papercraft steam engine that really works.

Perhaps this new uniform could have given the Empire a happier ending.

Another good idea to save electricity: streetlights that dim when the moon is full.

A juicer with an innovative design.

How to make glow-in-the-dark tomatoes.

Venetian tourist vendors have tourist and rude tourist pricing.

These speaers from Grundig look eerily like something from Star Wars.