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Bottled water usually IS tap water. A restaurant or pub in a city is required to have the same standards of water quality as a house, so the water you get is the same as what you get from a tap at home. Bottled water is wasteful. It takes huge amounts of energy to transport, and creates a lot...

For LAN parties and the like, has anyone out there made a good, powerful, graphics-capable gaming machine on a small form-factor case? Have you built something that doesn't overheat and can keep up with current games but is still portable? I'm looking for something in mini/micro ATX or ITX. If...

Tire? You mean the metal rim of the wheel, right? If it's sort of folded or bent badly, you can say it's "tacoed" (if it takes a shape that resembles a taco shell). If your wheel is out of true, that's something different -- minor adjustments to the spoke tension can fix that. The rim isn't...

Tire? You mean the metal rim of the wheel, right? If it's sort of folded or bent badly, you can say it's "tacoed" (if it takes a shape that resembles a taco shell). If your wheel is out of true, that's something different -- minor adjustments to the spoke tension can fix that. The rim isn't...

Muenster has a Henry Moore piece called 'Vertebrae'. I don't know if this is the one they initially rejected.

Bottled water usually IS tap water. A restaurant or pub in a city is required to have the same standards of water quality as a house, so the water you get is the same as what you get from a tap at home. Bottled water is wasteful. It takes huge amounts of energy to transport, and creates a lot...

Anglerfish have some really weird body parts. 1) A built-in 'lure' to attract prey. It's a long filament extending from the fish's head, and sometimes it even glows in the dark. Little fish will swim near to see what it is, and the anglerfish will chow down. For a pop-culture reference, there's...

Nope. Opium is made from certain kinds of poppies. The poppy seeds that are used in food come from a different kind of poppy and only have a slight amount of opiates (the chemicals in question). It's not enough to have the narcotic effect, but it's enough to show up on sensitive tests. Sesame...