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So, here it is, almost time for Halloween Party weekend and you don't have a costume?

What to do, what to do, eh?  Well, if  you have a t-shirt that you're willing to sacrifice and a modicum of creative ability, and an iPhone or iPad or Android device, then you may be in luck.  Gizmodo covered a buy last year who used a pair of iPads to make a costume which seemed like he had a hole in his chest.  That...
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What do  you wear under your Halloween costumes?

So, yeah, Halloween is just around the corner and that has me thinking about costumes.  Well, to be honest, costumes for adults, because, let's face it, in all our repressed, Puritanical, American, adult bodies, live crazy hedonists that just want to dress up in silly, or sexy, costumes and parade around like the goofballs we all pretend we are NOT.  And, maybe because I have a girlfriend for the first time in ages,...Read More

Do you hear music when you read?

No, I don't mean, "Do play music while you read?", but, rather, do you hear music, like a movie soundtrack while you read a book?  I know for awhile, I was so immersed in movies and the movie experience that I couldn't help hearing certain kinds of background noise and sound effects when I read certain kinds of books.  But, what if that happened on purpose?  What if you had a way to synchronize...
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Have you ever wanted a "do over"?

No, that's not spelled incorrectly.

Pretty much anything can be turned into a weapon.

What if a book slowly faded away as you read it?

I like to read.  No, really, I do.  Sure the last couple years I've been pretty busy and I haven't read nearly as much as I used to read in the "old days", but I do still love to read.  Most of the time, I grind right through a book at a pretty steady pace, never really stopping until I finish it.  Every once in awhile, though, I do get...
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I've always wanted a post-modern, surrealist pet.

A "mecha" or "mech" is a high-tech, man-shaped killer robot suit, popular in science-fiction.