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Site Seeing
By JULES ALLEN Feel free to browse You know you want oneElectric and whizzy little smart cars are everywhere in the United Kingdom. And if you were paying $5 or so for a gallon of gas, you'd probably push that mid-'80s gas guzzler over a cliff and use the insurance money to make a down payment on, say, an eco-friendly car such as the Toyota Prius. Sure, Honda has a teardrop-shape hybrid gas/electric car, but it looks a bit too strange for my tastes. The Toyota looks like a real car. If you've got even a passing interest in these kinds of vehicles, this page is for you. It's got all the news that's fit to link on this and other cars. Missing manualsI don't keep the boxes for the fancy electronics I spend a huge chunk of my disposable income on. By now you would think I would have learned the lesson of not having a manual at the critical moment. Just like not asking for driving directions -- ever -- I'll fumble for hours with a digital watch or other obscure interface until I revel in my masculine wonder at figuring out the settings. If you've got a brain instead of testosterone-driven willpower, head over to this site. It has manuals from a bunch of companies such as Nikon, GE and Uniden. Nokia is absent but you can always find some guy working on his car to help you with that. High-flying foodYou can get fed on a plane these days? I guess you're flying on different carriers than I am. I usually have a glass of muddy water and a packet of stale pretzels thrown at me as a surly flight attendant sprints up the aisle only to hide in the lavatory for the remainder of the flight. Sure, putting a happy face forward for a bloated, greedy mega-corporation is a thankless task, but we're people, too, you know. My moaning aside, I think the scariest looking food on this site has to be from Turkish Airlines. I'm not putting any of that odd green stuff in my mouth, that's for sure. Pop goes the forkI wonder if all the odd ideas in the world are taken? ChocolateFireguard.com sells music rather than, well, chocolate fire guards, so perhaps there is some salvation. Here's a link to one of the oddest culinary gizmos I've seen since the spork. The site thinks that "the Popcorn Fork will be the fourth commonly used eating utensil in the home (especially when the dishwasher hasn't been emptied)." But short of picking up small rodents and creatures with too many legs, I'm putting popcorn in my mouth with my filthy hands. Old style, baby. For the nerd withinhome.tampabay.rr.com/wwalls/lcd.htm I'm not sure who "wwalls" is because there's not a lot of info about him or her on this site. But this local tinkerer has taken a do-it-yourself approach to building one of those projectors you often see in the back of computer and business magazines. Rather than spending the price of a secondhand car on something new, this champion of recycling has rigged together a device out of everything but chewing gum and string. I'm not sure if walking into a presentation with a cardboard box full of electronics would have a client in awe or in need of Band-Aids from all the laughing and rolling around on the floor. Either way, they'd remember you.
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