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...Though I rank setting up a Slingbox as a much easier task than configuring a wireless network or, say, building a bird feeder, you are expected to have a wired or wireless network router already in place, and know a bit about networking. The best way to connect a Slingbox to your router (besides plugging it in directly) is via a powerline Ethernet bridge, like the Netgear XE102 ($60 each). You actually need two-one to connect to the Slingbox in your TV room, and another to pick up the signal in the room where your router is. The setup...
...landing gear is stowed, forming a vapor bomb inside the ship. NASA, however, is confident that all the chips are minor and is saying so with uncommon certainty. "It looks extremely good," says Shannon. "We don't have anything to worry about." Says Griffin: "The orbiter is a clean bird...
...GERRY THOMAS, 83, inventor of the TV dinner; in Phoenix, Arizona. Thomas came up with the idea as a marketer for poultry company C.A. Swanson & Sons, after seeing that Pan American Airways was developing a flat aluminum tray for hot in-flight meals. Since Swanson had a post-Thanksgiving bird surplus, he devised a multicompartment tray for the turkey and accompanying side dishes. Introduced in 1954, the dinners took off, selling 10 million that year and earning Thomas a raise and a spot on Hollywood's Walk of Fame...
...Most previous Lapita pottery finds have been too damaged for repair - few are in as good shape as those being unearthed at Teouma, and the team hopes several objects can be fully restored. The last week of this year's dig produced an extraordinary pottery bird, never before seen in the Pacific, one of three originally on the rim of a pot which contained human bones and was decorated with mouthless human faces. The birds were perched looking into the bowl: "God knows what that means," says Spriggs. Such objects will make priceless museum pieces. But the answers that...
WHAT'S THE STRANGEST THING SOLD ON AMAZON? You know bird spikes, those things you put on ledges and buildings to keep pigeons from landing? A friend of mine e-mailed me that he looked everywhere for them and found that Amazon had all different sizes. You can buy stainless-steel bird spikes, polycarbonate bird spikes. We have the whole bird-spike array...