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Blowguns and energy beer banned

PENAL CODE SECTION 12582. Any person who knowingly manufactures, sells, offers forsale, possesses, or uses a blowgun or blowgun ammunition in thisstate is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SACRAMENTO, CA - San Francisco, California and 13 other states have reached an agreement with a second brewery to pull alcoholic energy drinks off store shelves.
The settlement with MillerCoors requires the company to stop manufacturing and marketing all caffeinated alcoholic beverages, including Sparks; reformulate Sparks so that it does not contain stimulants, including caffeine, guarana, taurine or ginseng, and eliminate the use of images that suggest an energizing effect; not promote the mixing of caffeinated products with alcoholic beverages; and inform distributors and retailers that reformulated Sparks contains alcohol, but no caffeine, and Sparks should be displayed separate from non-alcoholic energy drinks.
The states had argued the stimulants in Sparks counteracted drinkers' sense of intoxication, possibly distorting ther judgment and inducing unsafe behavior. Sparks has held 90 percent of the alcoholic energy drink market.
Last June, California and other states succeeded reaching an agreement with Anheuser-Busch to stop making its alcoholic energy drinks.

Idaho Club's clubhouse burned down

Iconic building is 'a total loss'

SANDPOINT - The Idaho Club's iconic clubhouse burned down on Thursday, according to Northside Fire District officials. “It’s a total loss,” Northside Fire Chief Brad Mitton said of the club’s rugged, yet elegant timber and stone clubhouse. The log clubhouse was considered one of the finest structures of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. “We are greatly saddened as this was a building that held many memories for so many people,” Chuck Reeves, president of The Idaho Club, said.

“We are just thankful no one was injured.” “The only thing we can do at a time like this is to look to the future and think about how we can quickly rebuild the Lodge and make it even better than it was before.” In a prepared statement, Reves said no one was in the building at the time of the fire and there were no injuries. The blaze remains under investigation and no further details were immediately available on Thursday. Along with Northside, the East Pend Oreille Fire District and Sandpoint Fire Department were also summoned to the fire. The 30,000-square foot clubhouse housed a restaurant, bar, pro-shop and office space. The ground-level portion of the clubhouse also provided cart storage for the club’s 18-hole Nicklaus Design course. The clubhouse replaced Hidden Lakes’ former clubhouse, which was housed in a trailer home near the corner of Lower Pack River Road and Highway 200. The new clubhouse was part of Hidden Lakes Golf Resort's expansion plan, which was approved by Bonner County in 2000. At the time, the projected cost of the clubhouse was $6.2 million and was to be built by Pucci Construction. Dick Villelli later sold the resort to Pend Oreille Bonner Development, which further expanded the housing development and began reconstructing the golf course, which was designed by golfing legend, Jack Nicklaus.

Daily Bee link

Swoopo -WTF?

Read about it here -comments are most interesting

Swoopo follows up

My opinion -not a scam, but not a smart place to shop!

3m MPro 110 (tiny) Projector

Physical Dimensions:
0.9"h x 2"w x 4.5"d

Gizmodo sites quality control issues in their review

Uber bass for your car

To help people understand the need to move out of your way!

5. Rumbler Intersection Clearing System Whether it’s due to cranked-up radios or a plummeting sense of civic duty, today’s drivers are apparently less likely to get out of the way of a police siren. Taking a page from thunderous, bass-heavy car audio systems, Chicago-based Federal Signal created the Rumbler. The “Intersection Clearing System” consists of two 8-in. woofers and an amp, adding a low-frequency signal to an existing siren’s high-pitched wail. According to Joseph Bader, vice president of engineering for Mobile Systems at Federal Signal, the Rumbler was designed to operate at 180 to 360 cycles per second. Sirens, by comparison, are in the 500- to 2000-cycle range, and music is either high in cycles, or extremely low (those bassed-up audio systems are buzzing at 120 cycles or less). The Rumbler’s range is not only pretty different, it’s pretty disconcerting, which is what makes it effective. And since the system is essentially duplicating the siren’s existing signal at a much lower frequency, listeners quickly realize that the vibrations they’re feeling are mapped to the rise and fall of the approaching siren. In most cases, officers turn on their Rumblers for a single 10-second interval, which is long enough to clear an intersection or a jammed-up stretch of highway. The effective range is up to 200 ft. ahead of the police vehicle. But Bader says the system is more useful in close quarters.

Short-Term Impact: The Rumbler is being adopted by agencies on the East coast, particularly in metropolitan areas, such as Washington, D.C. The system’s simple installation and incredibly low cost—around $600 per car—could make it a fixture in city-based fleets within a few years.

I think gangsters have been using their own version of this for years tho...

Crazy boat video

Note Tesla coil on side

Violet Blue oublogs 'em all (from SF)

http://artmachines.org/

http://violetbluesf.com/

http://techyum.com/

and last but certainly not least:

http://www.tinynibbles.com/

Thank you, Laughing Squid!

Don't fuck with Dio, maaaaaaaan!

"Meet Kyle Drinkwine. The Wisconsin man, 24, allegedly became so incensed by a lackluster karaoke performance of a heavy metal song that he assaulted the singer and a second man, police charge. According to a River Falls Police Department report, Drinkwine throttled singer James Mischler, 28, and his friend Cyrus Kozub, 29, "over one's ability to sing karaoke." Though cops did not specify which song set Drinkwine off last week, Kozub told TSG that Mischler was performing "Holy Diver," the title cut on Dio's 1983 debut album (the band is fronted by Ronnie James Dio, the former Black Sabbath lead singer). [In a subsequent interview, Mischler told TSG that when Drinkwine and some cronies started heckling him, he responded with a putdown about the "big gaudy crucifix" worn by Drinkwine. "I told him he should find a better vending machine for his jewelry," Mischler recalled, adding that the comment angered the heckler, who himself had earlier performed an Eminem song."

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