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weird craigslist posting of the day:

Yasser Arafat Birdhouse - $45
Reply to: sale-347601654@craigslist.org
Be the talk of your neighborhood! Custom-built wooden birdhouse owned by the artist. Characature of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat, incredibly detailed close-up -- warts and all! Handpainted by birdhouse designer/artist. Birdhouse opening is Yasser's open mouth. Suitable for outdoors. Comes with pole for mounting.
Location: Towson, MD

COOL news story of the day:

WiTricity Gives Power Without Cords
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- How many power cords does it take for Massachusetts
Institute of Technology researchers to make a light bulb glow? None. They've come up with a way to make a 60-watt bulb glow by sending energy wirelessly from a device across the room. The breakthrough was published in the online version of the journal Science. The scientists have dubbed their finding WiTricity.

It's not a new concept, but scientists had dismissed wireless juice as inefficient because energy generated by charging devices radiates in all directions. But leave it to an MIT physics professor to make it work. Researchers used specially tuned waves that radiate less to send the energy. The key is to get the recharging device and the gadget that needs power on the same frequency, similar to how a radio picks up only one station at a time.