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MacGyver - The Complete Series Pack
ENTERTAINMENT | DVD | 
Patch up a Jeep's radiator using only water and egg whites. Recharge
a lead-acid battery with wine. Make a rocket-propelled flare out of
bamboo, fertilizer, a strip of cloth, a tin can, a metal rod, a
funnel, and a wooden spoon. You'll learn these and many more tricks
with the MacGyver - The Complete Series Pack Gift Set ($200; Oct.
24). The set includes all seven seasons of the TV show featuring the
most resourceful ex-secret agent ever.

http://tinyurl.com/l3al8

Save some data with HDD Regenerator


I currently have 780 gigabytes of data storage in my desktop, and
ever since a 500gig Lacie d2 Extreme backup drive failed on me I have
lived in mortal fear of trying to rebuild my file archives. For just
such emergencies I keep a pretty extensive collection of data
recovery tools around the house, and today I added a new weapon to
the arsenal.

HDD Regenerator scans a hard drive to detect and repair bad sectors
that have become damaged, but not so far gone as to be destroyed.
Most competing utilities have the same feature set, but they aren't
able to provide the same results consistently. My crew has
recommended this software with the highest accolades, and the most
common comparison has been to magic. Your sixty dollars gets a
scanning application to use from within Windows, and a utility for
creating a bootable floppy or CD for recovery work when the system
drive is so far gone as to be unusable. It is able to scan internal
and external hard drives, and can be used for disk repairs on the iPod.

The goal with this type of recovery software is to repair the
integrity of the disk in order to copy the important data off as soon
as possible. Though the company website claims to regenerate 60% of
damaged hard drives into proper working condition, my cautious method
is to:

1.) Use the utility to scan and repair the drive;
2.) Make a backup of the important data;
3.) Reformat the repaired disk;
4.) Lastly, always rescan the drive to verify that it's safe to trust.

I know that it's a long process for repairing and verifying bad
sectors, but an ounce of prevention...

http://tinyurl.com/kwm9c

Xogen - Tap Water as Fuel?


Xogen claims to have developed a process to split water and deliver
hydrogen on demand to a burner tip, combustion chamber, or fuel cell,
without external pressurisation or storage while consuming modest
amounts of electrical current.” Video after the jump.
They have joined up with Tathacus Resources Ltd. to develop a home
heating apparatus. Their claims have, however, met with scepticism
from some quarters

http://tinyurl.com/fxnru

Metal Storm Weapons: Million-Plus Rounds Per Minute


The Metal Storm Weapon system is “based on an electronically fired
gun-and-launcher design with multiple rounds stacked in a single
barrel — the only moving parts are the bullets themselves.” Video
after the jump.
O’Dwyer constructed a triple-barrel, a nine-barrel, and a 36-barrel
firing prototype design that he lovingly named Bertha. “The reason
for the 36 barrels was simply to indicate to ourselves and to others
the future versatility of this system, in that with the 36 barrels we
had 540 rounds on board and, based on the 45,000-round-per-minute
rate per barrel, that gave us a maximum firing rate of 1.62 million
rounds per minute,” the inventor says
http://tinyurl.com/hlyl3

Air Sabre Throwing Star
By Tiago
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I have always wondered where the ninjas got their cool throwing
stars, and now I know =] This one for example it’s called Air Sabre
and in the description we can read - Not a Toy. Very Sharp. - which I
consider to be a good thing.
It’s made of silver, has a 5-inch diameter, and comes with a small
leather bag. For $7 bucks I consider the Air Sabre Throwing Start to
be a good purchase for the wanna-be-ninjas and all the alike(s).


throwing star, air sabre, silver
http://tinyurl.com/z4hg8
http://tinyurl.com/kq24b

Comprehensive Projection of World Oil Exports
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 10, @03:23PM
from the firewood-futures-market dept.
Prof. Goose writes,
"This article is a comprehensive assessment of world oil exports,
defined has the total amount of liquid hydrocarbons that are
surpluses in producing countries. This assessment is made by
projecting into the future fixed change rates that reflect current
trends in liquids production and consumption in all countries where
presently the difference between the two factors is positive. The
outcome of this assessment is rather worrisome."
Here is the money graph through 2020.
http://tinyurl.com/fahab