If it was any other time or place, we’d laugh at the idea of re-visiting the Roman gladiator death races with an electric vehicle, but in this case we’re going to suspend our disbelief and just imagine this T3 Powersport Electric Chariot barreling down the road to Costco on a Black Friday with razor knives attached to the wheel hubs. Then it all becomes very possible indeed.
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It’s easy to forget that although a lot of us are feeling the chilly effects of winter right now, there are huge chunks of the globe which are still basking in very high temperatures. While it may seem strange to us frosties to spend the holidays in temperatures that would fry a termite, for most people that’s actually normal.
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It’s nice to know what people think about you, even if sometimes it’s not as glowing as you’d hope. For businesses this can be even more important, since it can mean the difference between a successful marketing program and one that’s heading to dirt town. There’s no shortage of tools to help businesses track their brand online, but many of them are very complicated and cumbersome to use.
Read More![Mention – the perfect way to find out who’s talking about you [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mention2-730x423.jpg)
If you’ve been around the Internet for a while you’ll know about Reddit.com, which is one of the most successful online communities in the known universe. The folks there are famous for their wit, generosity and heartfelt attitudes, as well as an ability to hang out with some very important people. What you may not know, however, is the community has branched out into online education, run for free and even stretching out into real world tuition.
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When you decorate a Christmas tree, you have to start with lights, maybe some tinsel, and then it’s time to deal with the ornaments. There are a thousand of those little things, some breakable, some edible (popcorn strings and gingerbread cookies), and some are passed down through the generations. While you cover the entire tree, it always sits with one side to the wall, so one side is left out.
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Peppermint is the one of the official winter holiday flavors. It makes for wonderful tea, additions to hot chocolate, ice cream, and more. If you are a fan of this particular treat, then you’re probably trying to find every way you can to add it to your meal. Instead of searching for new and inventive ways to eat minty things, why not just use a utensil made out of peppermint candy?
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When we were kids, we knew that we could finagle our parents into getting certain toys and stuffed animals. As we get older, we want more expensive things like tablets, smartphones, computers, and the like. However, when we reach adulthood, some part of us wants to relive those days of childhood where we would spend days at the arcade, or in a tree fort.
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Retimer will help you stay up and at ’em! – This is it folks. We’re heading… Pyle Steampunk Home Telephone brings in an antique look with a modern touch – Everything we use is… Always remember to stop and smell…the USB Tulip Stick Humidifier – Have you ever needed a humidifier?… Scrabble Flash Cubes – the iconic word game gets a digital…
Read MoreThe rise and rise of the bicycle continues apace, keeping track with increasingly expensive oil prices of course. Most urban locations in the West have experienced a large shift up in bicycle use, especially for those shorter journeys where the car used to be the default. And along with the upshift, has come a bunch of new gadgets intended to make our journeys more pleasant and productive.
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With all the new architectural wonders springing from the drawing board to reality these days, is it so difficult to imagine a house that can transform itself to fit a variety of configurations? Seems that the D’Dynamic – a house that can fold itself into eight different configurations – could bring this idea to reality. This building’s distinctive design is based on the Haberdasher’s Puzzle, discovered by English mathematician Henry Dudeney, which allows an equilateral triangle that’s cut into four…
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We’re approaching the most dangerous time of the year, the point at which we forget all scruples, all common sense and indulge in what can only be described as an orgy of consumption. Never mind the material cost of all this bingeing, what about our health? One way to fight the inevitable new year guilt is to invest in a set of scales which will offer some sort of diet escape plan, and help us return to a reasonable shape…
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If you run a small business, there’s never enough time in the day to get everything done, and often one of the main casualties is invoicing your customers. It’s just such a chore to drag up your invoicing program or service and set out all the details, and then locate the address to send it to and so on. Huge drag.
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Remember Dune? Based on the novel by Frank Herbert, Dune tells the epic story of a battle for resources by various dynasties across the galaxy. It was made into a lackluster movie and also spawned a short series of video games, which in fact led to the whole massive Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre which included later games like Command & Conquer.
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Have you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I’d feel a bit shocked if you haven’t, actually. If you’ve pondered how a swallow could carry a coconut, then you’ve likely wished you had two halves of a coconut so that you sound like you’re riding a horse. While we can’t exactly tote around a coconut all day for a bit of comic relief, it can be attached to our modes of transportation for an added dab of hilarity.
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Electronic music is both entrancing, and very difficult to make. While the purists who believe that classical music is the only “real” music (they do exist, and they’re quite serious), music like electronica has its own method to madness, and technical skill. If you’ve ever taken interest in this kind of music, and wanted to dabble in it, then playing with an analog synth might be fun.
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