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DIY Wooden Mobile Phone Charger Juices Your Phone So You Can Escape the Grizzlies

12:00PM March 27, 2009 | Erica Ho

Some of you were wondering how the homeless charge their mobile phones—maybe they do it Chechen-soldier style and created their own wooden, dynamo-powered mobile phone charger out in the untamed wilderness.

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FEMA Firefighters Manual Covers UFO Attacks, Crashes

4:30AM November 10, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

newVideoPlayer("/UFOpreparedness.flv", 506, 423,""); This video shows how FEMA not only deals with credible threats as hurricanes and terrorist attacks, but also with credible threats like alien attacks and UFO crashes: They have an entire chapter dedicated to this topic in their firefighters manual. Great. As if it wasn’t enough with the UK government revealing aeroplane encounters with UFOs and Hubble discovering unidentified objects in Space to fuel my absolutely cuckoo, sculpt-giant-mountains-out-of-mash-potatoes, I-hope aliens-are-two-metre-tall-buxom-blue-amazons, I-want-to-ride-a-warp-capable-spaceship fantasies. [io9]

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