Filed under: Spy Photos, Trucks/Pickups, VolkswagenDespite what the truck in these photos looks like, it is not a Toyota Hilux rebadged by Volkswagen. No, according to The Car Connection, it's a Toyota Hilux body atop Volkswagen's upcoming Robust pickup. And before you VW fans get too excited, it is not intended for sale in the States. But truck shoppers in South America and Africa will be able to choose between a V6 or common rail diesel in both
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What are the traditional and modern remedies for pain relief in Iran?

Kenyan Opposition Threatens Protests if Government Does Not Start Changing the Constitution

Hundreds of Indian villagers chase royal Bengal tiger until it was captured.

In two weeks time I'm heading to Tallinn, Estonia. Like Wroclaw, Poland, which I visited last year, Estonia was booked in a pub and was chosen by going through the budget airlines websites to see what destination sounded the most...

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eldavojohn writes "A lamp powered by gravity has won the second prize at the Greener Gadgets Conference in NYC. From the article, "The light output will be 600-800 lumens — roughly equal to a 40-watt incandescent bulb over a period of four hours. To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour glass-like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lam
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An anonymous reader writes "When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster as a member of the Rogers Commission, he issued a scathing report containing brilliant, insightful commentary on the nature of engineering. This short essay relates Feynman's commentary to modern software development."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli said he was inspired by the late actress Natalie Wood for the embroidered loose cotton and chiffon shifts in his womenswear collection shown on Wednesday.

The same day CNN?s Allison Flexner, an one-time producer of Cuban stories, apparently issued a memo instructing how the "resignation" of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was to be covered, CNN?s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour neatly matched one of the points made in the memo during two segments on Tuesday?s "American Morning." During the first segment, which was six minutes into 7 am Eastern hour, Amanpour heralded Cuba being "a
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Los Angeles Times's L.A. Now blog today picked up on reporter/former L.A. mayoral mistress Mirthala Salinas: Her rise through the ranks at Telemundo was swift. Her fall following the disclosure of an affair with Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of our fair city, was a spectacle. And now she's back - on the radio this time. Hoyinternet.com is the first with the news: Cuatro meses después de renunciar a su trabajo como reportera de Telemundo-Canal 52 d
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The art gallery at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has a Charles and Ray Eames exhibit, which includes these molded plywood leg splints for injured soldiers from 1943. They are now highly collectible as works of art....

Jared: Thought you guys might get a kick out of our Steampunk Justice League costumes (that's me as Superman). Each of the costumes were made by the wearer, and I think we make a rather attractive group. The link is to the Flickr pool where we're stuffing all the pictures. Link...

Matthew says: Swedish graduate student Emil Ernerfeldt created the program Phun, a 2D physics playground, and has made it free to download for non-commercial use. He demonstrates it in a zenful YouTube video, where he creates devices like cars and piston engines in seconds using simple shapes. Download app here....

Link to a photo series by Dave Bullock on Wired.com from a visit to the "longest linear accelerator in the world, which resides beneath nondescript industrial buildings near the Stanford University campus."...

John of Insound says: I just wanted to tip you off to an insanely cool item Insound just started carrying. It's a limited 5LP set with tracks by Cat Power, Animal Collective, The Knife and more that comes in a domed case that also housing a custom-made MINI Clubman "Vinyl Killer" Record Player: a battery-operated toy car containing speakers and a needle. As the little car drives along the record's groove, it plays each track, acting as a fully p
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Here's a funny little 8-bit animation explaining how to deal with the typical kinds of things that happen in an online forum. Link...

Charles Betz says: Christina Matzke at the University of Bonn in Germany and Damien Challet of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy, used a mathematical model to show that shower temperature becomes increasingly sensitive to small changes in hot-water flow as the number of users increases. Thus in a youth hostel, for example, the showers often fluctuate between scalding hot and ice cold during heavy use. Link...