End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans

The company today announced it will stop manufacturing and selling these
devices in Japan – after 30 years. Sony says the final lot was shipped
to retailers in April this year, and once the last units are sold, there
will be no cassette Walkmans from big S anymore.

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rare wooden books collection

This  rare wooden books collection, at the beginning, was composed by a hundred pieces handmade maybe in the nineteenth century or, considering the style, maybe before.
 
Most of them were lost or destroyed, so that today collection consists of 56 boxes, modelled like a book, with dimensions of 19 x 12.5 x 3.4 cm, everyone made with the wood of different trees species.



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Douglas Adam fans take note!

101010=42 in Binary. Douglas Adam fans take note!



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Cleaning Pennies with taco sauce

Taco Bell hot sauce is made from the following ingredients:

Water, Tomato Paste, Jalapeno Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Spices,

Dehydrated Onions, Xanthum Gum, Sodium Benzoate, and Natural Flavor.

Now I think we can rule out water, but somehow, the other ingredients
clean pennies.

Looking at the tiny amounts of Xanthum Gum, Sodium Benzoate, and Natural
Flavor,

I'm going to rule those out too.

That leaves the following things to create the copper cleaning action:

Tomato Paste, Jalapeno Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Spices, and Dehydrated
Onions

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USLHE Traveling Library

Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a lonely profession in most cases supplies were brought to them by lighthouse tender ships. One of the items the tender supplied was a library box on each visit as pictured to the left. Library boxes were filled with books and switched from station to station to supply different reading materials to the families.
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