Cool Little Miniature Stove - Even MacGyver would be proud!

Here's how to make a great little portable stove from stuff you probably have laying around your house! It's perfect for camping, backpacking, and power outages.

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Know Your Rights: How does fair use work?

Know Your Rights is Engadget's new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world.

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The XP alternative for Vista PCs

Microsoft is quietly telling PC makers they can offer a Windows XP "downgrade" to customers buying systems preloaded with Vista.

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Yoda art

Oragami Yoda!

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Countdown Special Comment: The President Of Hypocrisy

In light of President Bush’s disgraceful presser today, Keith Olbermann decided to make a Special Comment on tonight’s Countdown and wow, did he make the most of it. Olbermann blasts the president for his cowardly and un-American behavior of pimping General Petraeus as a political hack and hiding behind him to deflect criticism.

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Mint.com is now live! Free online money manager.

"I'm pleased to announce Mint.com is officially launching today at TechCrunch 40 in San Francisco. We are now open to everyone! The free, automatic, online way to manage your money is here!" Truly awesome free service.

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1,000 Ft High Fireball - What a Party!

This makes all other fireworks look sparklers! This years world record shattering fireball at Burning Man. The BIG boom is @ about 3:00.

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An open letter to iPhone owners from Steve Jobs

We have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store.

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MobileChat: Second iPhone chat app debuts with style

Well shiver our timbers—just as we catch the new ApolloIM beta for the iPhone, MobileChat comes across our tips line and throws everything out of whack. Featuring a simple buddy list much like ApolloIM and many of the web-based iPhone chat apps, MobileChat only does AIM (at least for now). Despite that, it has a nice feature set...

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