Thinking outside the box with crazy coffins
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Fancy rolling up the aisle in a Rolls-Royce? Maybe it's time to skip off in a pink ballet shoe?
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Strange objects in faraway space known to astronomers only as Giant Galactic Blobs have, upon close inspection, become a lot&nbsp;weirder.
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By Joe Lam'l  For me, it started out innocently enough, I suppose; a simple hobby operation in the basement to pass the time and development of something to organically feed my plants with. I didn't know it would become an obsession run amok.  I'm talking about vermicomposting.
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Some fashionable texts are based on ''shaky thinking.''
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Some spectacular companies are hiding in an unlikely place.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Next time you empty your mailbox, study the junk mail closely. It offers a sense of where you're pigeonholed by market researchers. Commentary by Momus.
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During my visit to the Exploratorium, I learned something I've always suspected: The mind is a cruel, lying, unreliable bastard. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Tycho:  Kotaku carried a story yesterday that is (basically) the Nintendo DS version of that Playstation Pornable scare from six months ago.  You can see it here, and you should, because it's awesome.  It depicts a scenario so imaginative that it juts into the realm of speculative fiction:
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A scientific-religious debate is shaping up over near-death experiences. A look at the dangers for both sides.
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There's something spooky about a regulation that mandates child safety seats in hearses.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Vince Wilson sets out to prove and explain the existence of ghosts with an arsenal of poltergeek gear. By Chris Suellentrop from Wired magazine.
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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photos There's also room in the humidor and the Darth Vader helmet. Take a gander at some strange and wonderful creations.
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The concept of slipping between dimensions fried my tiny mind as a kid after reading the Victorian satire, Flatland. Super Paper Mario and Crush turn the Flatland conceit into a piece of gameplay.
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Shortly before he died, convicted murderer Richard Liggett was asked to make two of the simple plywood coffins he meticulously crafted for fellow prisoners. Except the caskets would be for Billy and Ruth Graham.