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Honda Develops Giant Mobile Key-Ring

Tired of losing your keys? Just pick up the Honda U3-X prototype. It’s much too large to disappear between the seat cushions, and can even shuttle you between the foyer and the dining room table as you conduct your search.

And Now For Your Daily Resurrection

This remarkable video was shot by a ski team in Haines Alaska. The skier/cameraman falls prey to an avalanche and is completely submerged under a mountain of snow.

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Digg: Just Another Faux Democracy?

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Digg.com is one of the largest websites on the planet. Like many of its competitors in the social media arena, it doesn’t purport to create or provide anything of substance. Digg’s value comes in the community that it organizes and speaks for. In Digg’s case, that community’s function is to vote for the most worthy news stories of the day for more casual visitors to consume.

With the announcement of some prospective changes to its voting rules, is Digg capitulating to big money interests? Or has its slow march to corruption already rendered its original mission moot?

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The Smell of Capitalism in the Morning


Since moving to Jersey, my answering machine has been inundated with messages from a “Jeff Price” at “NCO Financial Systems Incorporated”. “Jeff,” a computer-generated voice, is attempting to collect a debt. I figured this was an easy case of mistaken identity with a new phone number, given that I have never dealt with credit at all, but I was once again reminded that Google is your friend in modern America…

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If the Rebel Alliance Were Run by Environmentalists…

You don’t know the power of a grassroots letter writing campaign, Luke.

via the folks at EndCiv.

TechCrunch Duped by Amway

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Earlier today, internet business culture behemoth, TechCrunch, posted a riddle for its millions of devoted followers. Branded as a heretofore unbroken code, the decipherer was promised Good Will Hunting-like stardom and a potential job with Google, no doubt as the Alpha Team Leader of a Top Secret Super-Genius Infiltration Training Program. Not to mention a TechCrunch t-shirt…

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Rise of the New Dawn

Here is the newest music video release from Electronica’s Han Solo, otherwise known as Zaptra.

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Arrrr, A Harr Harrr, Yarrrrr!

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Shiver me timbers! Today also be Talkin’ Like a Pirate Day. We here on the SS Emu are a non-sectarian crew, and hope you find a non-land lubbin way to cheer and grog yourselves into the bloomin’ nighttime.

Here be some help with your pirate diction. Now get off me poop deck, and sally forth into the mighty surf an spray…

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Triumph Makes Appearance at Chabad Telethon

In wishing all you Meppers a Happy Jew Year, here’s a clip of Mep favorite Triumph the Insult Comic Dog inexplicably performing at LA’s yearly Chabad Telethon.

Weird Japanese Face Animator (Emu POTW)

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This Japanese site will take any portrait-like picture that you upload and automatically convert it into a blinking, nodding, quasi-zombie animated template ready to model various animal heads, wigs, and facial hair.

It’s easily good for 45 minutes of time wasting. Fun, fun.

Link via BuzzFeed.