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Geeks, tinkerers and amateur engineers obviously love Rube Goldberg devices, those overly complicated, ridiculous contraptions that accomplish mundane, everyday tasks. Akay, a Swedish street artist, has assembled one impressively complex technical apparatus that both defiles and brightens the urban landscape with a single and (seemingly) simple swoosh.
Using a bicycle and a diverse array of ...
Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer prize-winning artist and inventor, has inspired generations of creative madcap engineers (both amateur and professional) to construct absurdly complex "Rube Goldberg contraptions" in order to perform simple, menial tasks.
Such contraptions are frequently employed in film and television, perhaps most notably in the film 'Back to the Future' and the popular claymation ...
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had no idea "googliser" was a verb. “@LeFigaro_Emploi: Google : «On googlise les candidats, bien sûr» http://t.co/1UV5oF19”
Definitely not rooting for that hoity toity Pekingese, that's for damn sure. #Westminster
I'm, like, okay with being a little crazy.
The time, energy, words, weight lost, nails bitten, scabs picked and nights I've struggled thru for this are easy to judge from afar, right?
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