This week’s pile of real live news headlines from the newspapers of Northeast Wisconsin: Police respond to pig on U.S. 41 – Green Bay Sometimes it’s really hard to fight the stereotypes people have about Wisconsin. Beer Fest highlights brewing’s value – Stevens Point Hooray for beer! Weston mother learns head-lice lessons – Weston Some [...]

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Courtesy of our good friend Tani comes this intriguing little bit… Seems a guy named John Scalzi has a blog where he does bloggy things. Yesterday he posted a rather innocuous list of 10 things he wanted to accomplish that day. Seemingly tongue-in-cheek, #9 read “Tape bacon to the cat.” Some folks claimed he was [...]

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Who is buying Segways? Who?! 23,000 people? …*sigh* Well, I guess Pet Rocks were a big seller in their time as well. I don’t think Pet Rocks ever had a product recall though. I don’t know what team designed the Segway, but they’re probably not very nice, because they stuck some mean design flaws in [...]

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Fifty years ago, all of us at Engadget weren’t even a glimmer in our mothers’ eyes — in fact, now that we think about it probably most of our parents hadn’t even met yet. By that logic, it’s hard for us to imagine a world without hard drives, which were born 50 years ago today, [...]

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