Adco-popupBrian Sammon writes:

Electronic cigarettes threaten the tobacco industry + government amenable to tobacco lobbyists (and desperate for cash) = this.
After the air has suitably cleared, plant article in paper.
Ground prepared for next step; government disincentivise e-cigarettes (on health grounds of course, selectively citing reports to back this up)…

*cough*

Pic: NYT

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Everything But The Manual is a LEGO/Meccano-esque DIY furniture concept from designer David Graas: 177 identical oak blocks that can be bolted together to form a variety of useful or decorative shapes.

There’s a video showing construction of several configurations here.

awesomer/psfk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zNufXt-Zs

40 year-old French waiter, aero-nut and would-be pilot Laurent Aigon spent five years constructing an insanely detailed 737 cockpit simulator in his son’s bedroom in Lacanau, south-west France.

Such was his attention to detail that he’s since been invited to lecture at the Institute of Aircraft Maintenance at Bordeaux-Merignac.

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BRA8AybCYAA813uBRA6E5BCEAE3fPcStore Street Garda Station, Store Street, Dublin, this evening

The 33-year-old was shot as he was driving along Seville Place in the north inner city at about 9.30pm. He managed to drive the car to Store Street Garda Station where he abandoned it on the Luas line, ran in and reported he had been shot. He was taken to hospital where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the head.

 

Man Seriously Injured In Shooting (RTE)

Thanks Adam S and Fiona Fawn

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