[A magician does the table cloth trick backwards](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/19/old-table-cloth-tric.html). The whole act is pretty funny, watch the whole thing.
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[Caricatures are better than realistic sketches for identifying people](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/caricatures-are-more.html). Memory is a pretty strange thing - this study suggests that adapting to the way it works rather than…
I was listening this morning to a [recent episode](http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticality/069_skepticality.mp3) of the great podcast [Skepticality](http://www.skepticality.com/index.php), and I was very struck by a question host Swoopy asked of interview-ee Michael…
[*Repbulic*, by Charles Sheehan-Miles](http://www.sheehanmiles.com/blogid/2970). Haven't read it yet, so don't know if it's any good. But I like the genre, so I'm optimistic.
[The $US 20,000 halogen-powered siphon bar coffee machine](http://gizmodo.com/347967/the-siphon-bar-pours-20000-cup-of-coffee). No one could possibly think that's excessive for the public service, right? It would definitely be productivity enhancing.
[A jet powered toaster that can toast bread in 50 seconds](http://gizmodo.com/335843/turbo-toaster-prototype-jet-engines-your-toast). I believe I agree with Homer Simpson when i say: 50 seconds? But I want it now!.
[Pen fork and spoon attachments for your pen](http://gizmodo.com/347964/pen+top-utensils-shut-down-humanity-its-reached-its-peak). I agree with Gizmodo - the peak of all human achievement has now been reached.
[Buy a share of the future income of a baseball player](http://www.realsportsinvestments.com/Player_Profile.html). Given the direction of the stock market lately, this seems like a really good idea to me.…
So, there's a movie of [Watchmen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen) coming out. Probably the greatest graphic novel of all time. Now, it's a film based on Alan Moore comics, [so it's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell) [going…
[A dispute over whether something is a cake or biscuit could cost 3.5m pounds](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/14/marksspencer.europe?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront). This is *exactly* what euro-skeptics think of the EU in the UK. How on…