OK so spiders are my favourite strange thing to randomly post on, critter-wise, but crabs must be a close second. I used to crab with my dad in Wales and we’d sometime find huge crabs, but nothing as big as these; and those Coconut Crabs are amazing. I want one!
Huge Crab, Coconut Crab, and other [...]

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Oh airships, why did you never become the default way to travel? Oh, yeah, explosions.
I get the feeling that if this had gone through we’d have been seeing a lot more of those explosions …
Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships
CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the aid of rigid [...]

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I love these huge free ebooks that come out where one geek imparts the depth of knowledge that only geekery allows. This time it is for Star Wars:
How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star
Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
Did he really have a [...]

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20. Max (Black Hole)
19. Metal Mickey (TV Series)
18. Gort (Day The Earth Stood Still)
17. The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
16. Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet)
15. Johnny-5 (Short Circuit)
14. Data (ST: TNG)
13. Maria (Metropolis)
12. ED 209 (Robocop)
11. C-3PO (Star Wars)
10. MechaGodzilla (Godzilla)
9. Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner)
8. T-1000 (Terminator)
7. Cylons (BSG)
6. Bender (Futurama)
5. Robocop [...]

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Woo. I wouldn’t want one of these but they are really cool.

Just when you think plushy creations can’t get more weird, here comes a macabre soft toy creator in the UK who recreates roadkill. Currently you can choose from Twitch the Racoon or Grind the Rabbit complete with toe tags, tyre marks and cute giblets [...]

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Arg arg arg.
No, not hot coffee in the lap again, but seeing the same post on so many different sites. Take for example these animal silluettes on boing boing, neatorama, productdose and cribcandy. That’s just a quick example of how the same thing will spread across big sites that really shouldn’t be repeating each others [...]

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Create online checklists with checkser. When you’ve made them, share them out for others to use. I’m something of a checklist fan, so I appreciate this website, even if I’m late to the party. So what checklists already exist?
Setting up a blog
Facebook Closure
Moving Home
Self Management
Divorce
Cosplay
How to review a book
Home Buyer Checklist
Things to do when buying [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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