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		<title>Mentos and Diet Coke Arms Race Winner</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/mentos-and-diet-coke-arms-race-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it was discovered that dropping mentos mints into a bottle of diet coke releases the co2 in the diet coke very rapidly, turning it into into a water cannon (really!) there has been an arms race to see who can create the most spectacular display of it. I suspect that this video may prove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialectizer- Translating websites the fun way!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/dialectizer-translating-websites-the-fun-way/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/dialectizer-translating-websites-the-fun-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/15/dialectizer-translating-websites-the-fun-way/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, old but still fun. Enter a block of text or a website (bit like Babel fish or Google translation), select your dialect and you have a new version. The dialects include, redneck, Swedish chef, cockney, jive, Elmer Fudd, pig latin and moron so plenty for everyone! I took the first para of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strip Generator- Easy to make Cartoon Strips</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/strip-generator-easy-to-make-cartoon-strips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/29/strip-generator-easy-to-make-cartoon-strips/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes more than being able to select pieces and drag them into place to be a strip cartoonist but I guess that Strip Generator is as near as you are going to get unless you are a PhotoShop whizz. You can play with it without registering but free registration gets you a blog and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambiguous Photos</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/ambiguous-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/24/ambiguous-photos/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So is this picture two dancers or the body of a headless woman? This and several other photos show off some signs and logos that you would have thought would have warranted a second look. Mind you the London 2012 Logo is there- and now that I&#8217;ve seen it, yes it does look like Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Rocketry- Low Tech Science</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/water-rocketry-low-tech-science/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/water-rocketry-low-tech-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an avid 12 year old viewer, the BBC children&#8217;s programme Blue Peter showed how to make Water Rockets and I was hooked. Using just a washing up liquid bottle, a piece of wood (as a launch gantry) and a bicycle pump with a football pump, I launched half a dozen rockets over our house. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Your own Roller Coaster</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/design-your-own-roller-coaster/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/design-your-own-roller-coaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[simulator]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s less than a month since I was on a couple of roller coasters at Blackpool pleasure beach and a fortnight since the same on Clacton-on-sea so this is kind of topical. You&#8217;ll need Java installed. It takes a few seconds to load and the programmer obviously enjoys writing &#8216;Please wait&#8217; type messages! This isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yaar- It be Talk Like a Pirate Day Again!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/19/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The link on the picture takes you to the UK Talk Like a Pirate Day website, while the bottom link goes to the US one. Maybe we&#8217;ll see other national sites some time e.g. &#8220;Parlez comme un Corsair?&#8221; This annual event exhorts people to talk in the present tense, drop the gs off the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design A Roller Coaster</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/design-a-roller-coaster/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/design-a-roller-coaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/26/design-a-roller-coaster/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can see, although it looks ok, my first go wasn&#8217;t a total success. There are 5 questions, each with three choices so that means a possible 3^5 = 729 different versions. On my second go I got hands up but I&#8217;m not saying how until I&#8217;ve sold it for a lot of money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>399 MPH Glider?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/399-mph-glider/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/399-mph-glider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a technique called dynamic soaring that birds particularly Albatrosses use to harvest energy from places where winds are changing such as in wave troughs. Gliders use the same technique and radio controlled gliders in this video, to get up to a speed according to the radar gun of 399 MPH. Call me a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really Cool! A Programmable Fan with 42 LEDs</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/10/really-cool-a-programmable-fan-with-42-leds/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The links go to a youtube video of the fan in action. Unless it was a fridge I doubt you&#8217;d find anything er cooler! There are 42 LEDs and through careful timing, you can program all sorts of animated graphical effects. I suspect that you need to be half decent at programming it- it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MagMyPic &#8211; Howto Make the Front Cover!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/magmypic-howto-make-the-front-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/magmypic-howto-make-the-front-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2008/01/26/magmypic-howto-make-the-front-cover/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t recognise the face? That&#8217; Bill Heine, the man who put Headington on the map with his shark through the roof. MagMyPic is an excellently implemented generator of magazine covers. Just upload a photo, select a magazine- there&#8217;s 14 to pick from Vogue, Time, National Geographic and many more and the results are plain to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linguistic Fun Page</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/linguistic-fun-page/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/linguistic-fun-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/24/linguistic-fun-page/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you like misquotes, or the innumerable rules of English that are broken by English, or silly quotes, and some of the absurdities such as &#8220;quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. &#8220;. Add to this Shakespearisms- common phrases that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game &#8211; Underwater Virtual Crazy Golf!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/game-underwater-virtual-crazy-golf/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/game-underwater-virtual-crazy-golf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 05:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/04/game-underwater-virtual-crazy-golf/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crazy Golf isn&#8217;t quite the right name but the game is pretty much that. See the white ball in the top level. Moving the cursor behind it, gives it a push forward. The white rings and squares deflect it, while the dark blue circles swallow it. You just have to get it to the target- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet your Daemon</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/meet-your-daemon/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/meet-your-daemon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/23/meet-your-daemon/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Films these days cost a lot to make so they have marketing budgets to match, and of course a website. The website often includes a gimmick- a game, etc and because there is a decent marketing budget the quality is usually pretty good and its done in flash of course. Philip Pullman&#8217;s Dark Materials trilogy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GP2X Game Console &#8211; Poweful Underdog</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/gp2x-game-console-poweful-underdog/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/gp2x-game-console-poweful-underdog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit any computer shop and the console games you&#8217;ll see on sale are just for the PSP and Nintendo consoles. Yet there is a stylish and powerful games console costing just Â£125.00 that runs Linux out of the box and has loads of free software available. You don&#8217;t need to hack it to run your [...]]]></description>
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