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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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If you want something done right, do it yourself. If something you want doesn't exist, make it yourself. This is the story of the throwable panoramic ball camera which started as a thesis project by Jonas Pfeil. You can't actually capture your world in three dimensions yet, but it's only…

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Cutting Up Knives Bottle Openers

The "proper" utensil goes pretty much as follows: fish fork, dinner fork, salad fork, (insert plate here), service knife, fish knife, and then soup spoon. To hell with that. Do you honestly need half of those utensils? Of course not. Unless you're having dinner with the in-laws for a major…

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Look, there’s only so much Photoshop can do to fix a crappy photo. Even with that new un-blur thing Adobe just announced it still can’t account for your inability to focus. Basically that means if you’re too drunk to hold the camera steady you’re fine, but if you were too…

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House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash

Dads do a lot of very important things in the formative years when a boy is growing up to be a man. For starters, he probably didn't bitch about how there was no instruction manual the first time around. He taught you how to throw a baseball, how to take…

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Droid Razr

Back before touch screens, Angry Birds or internet connections measured in Gs, the Razr was the phone to have. Now Motorola’s bringing back the Razr name for a phone that’s sure to be just as desirable. True to its name, the Droid Razr is crazy thin—yes, even thinner than the…

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