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The popularity of drones is climbing quickly among companies, governments and citizens alike. But the rules surrounding where, when and why you can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle aren’t very clear. The FAA has tried to assert control and insist on licensing for all drone operators, while drone pilots and some legal experts claim drones […]
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Have a Drone? Check This Map Before You Fly It
Lawsuit-happy porn studio beats a "poor sap" whose pleas of ignorance fail.
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Porn studio sues immigrant who has “no idea how BitTorrent works,” wins big
Survey shows they know just as much—if you ask the question right.
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Are the people who refuse to accept climate change ill-informed?
In our recent discussion on ways to hack your grill, Lifehacker reader torchbearer2 recommended the Kettle Pizza—an interesting accessory that turns your grill into a pizza oven. At $150, however, it’s not cheap. You can make your own version for about $20.
YouTube user madbare explains how to transform cheap steel flashing—which you can get from a home improvement store—into a clone of the Kettle Pizza. Although you don’t see him making the contraption in action, the design is very straightforward. He used a plasma cutter for the hole in the middle, but you can use a jigsaw instead.
In the comments on his video, he says:
Worked great and saw temps at the stone of 600F and in in the dome close to 900F. All in all I say it worked great. I did end up adding a couple more bolts to hold the stone in place and added a few 1/8 sheet metal screws around the top.
Let this be the Summer of Grilled Pizza.
DIY How to Build a Kettle Pizza Clone for $20 | YouTube
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Turn Your Grill into a Pizza Oven with This $20 DIY Kettle Pizza Clone
Like with nuclear war, a water balloon fight isn’t about pinpoint accuracy. What’s most important is raining down as much soakage on your opponent as quickly as possible. Which means that the Bunch O Balloons, which promises to let you make 100 throw-ready water balloons every minute, could be the most important addition to your summertime arsenal.
The Bunch O Balloons looks like a green 37-armed octopus with tiny empty balloons hanging off of every tentacle. The whole thing attaches to the end of a garden house and when the water’s turned on the balloons all automatically fill at the same time. When full they’re all easily dislodged with a simple shake, while small black elastics automatically seal them shut.
Bunch O Balloons’ creator, Josh Malone, is attempting to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter to put his invention into production. With a pledge of just $15 you can get a single pack which includes three hose attachments and a total of 100 water balloons—just add water.
It’s certainly more expensive than buying a bag of normal balloons, until you factor in the hours spent manually filling and tying 100 of them. Suddenly, $15 sounds like a reasonable investment if it keeps your kids occupied for an entire summer afternoon. [Kickstarter – Bunch O Balloons]
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This Simple Contraption Lets You Make 100 Water Balloons Every Minute
Launched at Wall Street Journal, Mission Statement cannibalized the style of hippie heroes Crosby, Stills & Nash, reminding us that the generation most famous for sticking it to the Man ended up being the Man anyway.
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Weird Al: Mission Statement
It looks like the white dots in this optical illusion are all orbiting an imaginary point in space that, at the same time, is orbiting the center of that red circle. They are not. In reality, they are all moving in straight lines going from one side of the red circle to the opposite one.
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Wow, all these rotating white dots are actually moving in straight lines
I recently worked on a case where one node of a Galera cluster had its schema desynchronized with the other nodes. And that was although Total Order Isolation method was in effect to perform the schema changes. Let’s see what happened. Background For those of you who are not familiar with how Galera can perform […]
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A schema change inconsistency with Galera Cluster for MySQL
I’ve been shooting airguns, on and off, for thirty years. In the USSR, break-open .177 pellet guns were common at indoor arcades, and I spent many a 5-copek coin to buy two pellets and launch them against reactive metal targets 5-10 meters away. In 1990 Illinois, my father bought a pump pellet gun, a surprisingly[…..]
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Crosman 2300S Air Pistol Review