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sugru can help you dramatically prolong the life of your stuff. By applying, in some cases, even a teeny tiny bit to your things, you get to keep them for much longer and decrease your impact on our wee world. Repair with gusto!

The team at TechCrunch and the boys at Fusion Garage were working on a pretty killer Tablet called the CrunchPad.

Unfortunately, TechCrunch just released news that the deal is dead in the water and stated that “We will almost certainly be filing multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage, and possibly Chandra and his shareholders as individuals, shortly. The legal system will work it all out over time.”

In true TechCrunch fashion, CEO Michael Arrington brazenly reveals all of the details in this post.

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• Higher Than Expected Production Costs May Delay CrunchPad (shoppingblog.com)
• Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad still not available, maybe never will be? (engadget.com)

MackanK94 on Youtube just released this compilation of stunning photos of our universes Nebula.  Including the Horsehead Nebula, Ant Nebula, creepy Hourglass Nebula (that looks like it has a human eye in the middle) and many more. Take a peak.

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• Nasa releases spectacular new image of Crab Nebula (telegraph.co.uk)
• New Hubble images (openparachute.wordpress.com)

Kittens?

I know.

I am sorry.

Couldn’t help it.

Just look how cute that thing is.

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. Thanks Hulu!

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• Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’ (torrentfreak.com)
• Pirates shed tears of illegal grief as Mininova goes legit and deletes infringing torrents (downloadsquad.com)

Learn the story of Albert Einstein’s unfinished theory of everything. Thanks go Google for providing the the full documentary.

This San Francisco skip-mob was in celebration ofiSkip.com’s 10th Anniversary. Skip on!

Learn more about the skipping movement at iSkip.com

Sometimes, a hug is all that we need. Free Hugs is the real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger put a smile on their face. In this age of social-disconnection most all of us lack that simple human touch from another, the effects of the Free Hugs Campaign are now felt around the globe.

Learn more about the Free Hug Campaign

Marissa Mayer leads Googles product management efforts on search products web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs and more.

She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com.

Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare time, Marissa also organizes Google Movies outings a few times a year to see the latest blockbusters for 6,000+ people (employees plus family and friends).

via YouTube - Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products and User Experience, Google.

Affordable and sustainable housing for urban, low-income areas is much needed all around the world. In order to improve the overall quality of life in these places, architect Vincent van der Meulen together with Enviu, the Dutch organisation behind the Read the full story on TreeHugger