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Nine months

[Well, thank goodness that we went to all that trouble for David Hicks...](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hicks-to-serve-nine-months-jail/2007/03/31/1174761797302.html?s_cid=rss_smh)

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Today’s silly trailer

Trailer for [When Harry Met Sally remixed as a horror film](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMWpxTK7q2s&eurl=). ([Via](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/85452284/horror_remix_of_when.html), which has a few more good links)

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Weekend project

[Make your own Trebuchet](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/make_a_trebuche_1.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Fun!

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Hide your TV

I've always thought those beds with the TV built into the foot were not very well thought out (imagine the neck strain you'd get watching them...). [Here's a…

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Must. Resist. New Zealand. Joke!

[Scientists have created a sheep that is 15% human](http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=). ([Via](http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/2013236&threshold=4))

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Great moments in journalism

From a San Francisco Chronicle [story about a local political scandal](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/01/BAGNCNT86S12.DTL): >That seemed to be the buzz on the streets of San Francisco, too. Tarri Chandler, who said…

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Open source geology

Great story about the benefits of "crowd-sourcing" [in places where you wouldn't expect](http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2007/id20070201_774736.htm). ([Via](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/02/go_for_the_gold.html))

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Water speakers

By golly, these [speakers made of water](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/modal-water-speaker-sure-is-purdy-233358.php) look so very pretty... Also expensive, I suspect.

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