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...picking up a signal, you can build a Pringles-can antenna, a very cool home-brew device that plugs into most wireless cards. The easiest instructions are online at oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 Basically, you'll need a soldering iron, a glue gun and about $6.45 in parts from Radio Shack, Home Depot and the snack aisle of your grocery store. No time to build one? Perhaps one of your neighbors will help. After all, the whole block may reap the benefit...
TMCM has adventures mostly of the existential kind. In one strip he moves to a country shack to get away from it all only to discover an even more determined isolationist living under the floorboards. Climbing down to "see how an anti-social person lives," he finds it packed with "counter-culture" material goods. A friend to the powerless by being powerless himself, TMCM worries about the environment, feels alone at parties, and just generally gets tense and anxious. Obsessed with all the drudgery that fills up his day he rushes to complete it all only to end up standing...
Here too, however, the odds can be stacked in the hunters' favor. Deer are often lured to feeding stations, where they are serenely unaware of the men in the stilt-mounted tin shack 75 yards away. Such lying in wait--or "shooting over bait"--is legal in Texas and defended by hunters. "It promotes a clean kill," says Gardner. Other sportsmen are troubled by the practice. Stan Rauch of the Montana Bowhunters Association believes that fed animals are tame animals and should thus be off limits. "Animals become habituated to people when they depend on us for food," he says...
...stay in touch through encrypted e-mails and temporary mobile-phone numbers. Hacking into a cable network is as simple as hooking up a portable DVD player to one of the cable's unprotected transmission points. It takes about 10 min. and "everything they need is available at Radio Shack," says a foreign cable executive in China. There's not much the government can do except encrypt transmissions or lay state-of-the-art digital cable lines?both far too expensive solutions for rusting industrial cities like Changchun. Watch for prime time to become a prime target...
...Christine S. Narnia ‘02 wasn’t going to buy electronics as Christmas gifts, but the delightful banter between Teri Hatcher and Howie Long in a series of Radio Shack ads has turned her around: “When I see how Howie’s interested in football, but Teri’s interested in shopping, well, it just makes me want to go to my local Radio Shack and purchase DirecTV and cell phones?...