Best of Chatterbox: most of May...

As the day drew to a close and the blog started to tire of the collective witticisms and deep philosophical musings, we all scuttled off behind the toilet bowl of life, to lurk until a fresh new box graced our web.

Yes it was unofficial Star Wars day. Yes people made the joke. No I'm not repeating it.

There was also talk of recent world events, namely the death of Osama Bin Laden. Along with some uncommonly thoughtful commentary on the events surrounding this, regarding morality and the responsibility of government, it was good to know the blog still had its priorities in order with SandySleaze positing that: "Burying him at sea should hopefully stop him coming back as a zombie". This (inevitably) led to much discussion over who would be the worst celeb zombie (worst as in nastiest, rather than just inept). Maybe the suggestion of Jordan fits the bill on both counts; it's not really for me, or my lawyers, to say.

Looking for a fog machine? - Laser Pointer Forums - Discuss Lasers ...

fog machine using the "juice" fog is water and glycol. The different colors indicate water at different ratios of glycol, glycol means more fog. You add the juice of fog in the tank (duh), and press the button (duh). The pump lights, fog juice and forces in the heating element. This causes the liquid to be vaporized in the fog. The heating is caused by the fog juice to cool the heating element. With a 400 Watt flogger, in general, once the heater temperature hits a thermal relay cuts the heating element. Yes, that's right, he died.

Magic touch for classic sleds

1. where the last person voted off the island becomes Red American Idol and wins the opportunity to oppose Barack Obama in the grudge match this fall not to mention grab all the money they can from the Koch Brothers secret PAC account money machine.
2. The crisp, cold air that turns your breath to a puff of fog. The smoky smell of a vintage snowmobile's gas engine being fired up for another Old Timers Run… “I love the smell of that old snowmobile smoke,” says John Madson of rural Lake Park.
3. Zehua Shang bows his head toward a petite cup, inhales the fragrance of white tea carefully aged two years and sips the russet-colored liquid. Sitting in his Crown Center shop, Shang Tea, he understands firsthand the time and effort it takes to savor
4. Still, it's hard to imagine what to do with such a general purpose machine sitting in one's house. And that's what makes Brendan Dawes such an interesting early adopter. For one, he's kept meticulous records of his productions since he bought his
5. On the crest of Buffalo Ridge in southwest Minnesota the blades of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine can be heard better than seen as they slice through a thick fog. The machine in one of Minnesota's breeziest locations went on line last spring,