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    What is the Best Saxophone Song?

    http://http://youtu.be/lXT1h3Ags94Armstrong and Sinatra very cool music! I saw the Eagles play live in Belfast a few years ago. I consider them the best live act in the world.
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    Digital Cameras: Recording Progress on Drawing in One Day

    Nice work.
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    Fix Paint Damage After Removing Foam: Tips & Advice

    Gently brush some turp's or similar solvent onto the foam and "melt" it off. Simple's!
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    Breaker, breaker, do we have any former CB nuts here?

    The 70's and early 80's were great weren't they. The cinema I watched Smokey and the Bandit in was blown to bits the next day by the IRA!
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    Breaker, breaker, do we have any former CB nuts here?

    The CB craze was big in the UK until the government banned FM communication for civilian use! Yes true, not only are 99% of British citizens not allowed to possesses fire arms in our quasi democracy/kingdom thingy, we are forbidden to communicate via FM! My dad had a really nice Murphy "home...
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    Air-popped Popcorn vs Microwave Popcorn vs Oil-popped Popcorn

    Butter popped popcorn is the best by far.
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    What can you expect in the Food Thread on PF?

    Seeweed is quite popular here in Ireland. It's a type called "Dulse" Palmaria palmata. It is dried in the sun [when we get it] and becomes very crisp with a coating of sea salt. It is to die for, when we were kids we ate it like crisps [ potato chips]...
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    How Does the Three Word Story Game Work?

    in the reactor!
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    High School What is this old apparatus with a coil and pulley used for in physics labs?

    Are you sure it's a coil and not a solenoid on the apparatus? If it is a solenoid it may be a rig to evaluate push/pull force. A force push-pull gauge.
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    Graduate Oxygen Flow Through a Concentration Gradient

    Are the products of combustion expected to vent through the same hole that is feeding the system oxygen?
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    Solar-distilled Water & your health

    Distilled water is only suitable for short term use, life raft at sea ect were you have no other sources. Rain water and snow also fall into this category. Mineral water supplies the body with trace elements and minerals/salts, whereas distilled water actively draws and deplete's essential...
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    Building a hydrostatic pressure chamber

    Heavy gauge Acrylic/Plexiglass sheet or tubing/piping would likely fulfill your requirements depending on your design.
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    Human powered wings with jet pack

    I would imagine that you would get your wings and arms ripped of if you tried to "flap" them whilst being pushed along with a thrust of 200lb! You also have forgot to figure in the weight of the jet engines and their fuel requirement. A rigid wing version of what you have postulated has been...
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    What is the Best Saxophone Song?

    Spirogyra - The Duke of Beaufoot (1971) http://youtu.be/D1jNLR9tjXE Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond http://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM Metallica Nothing Else Matters http://youtu.be/erPnyi90cIc
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    How can i receive Bluetooth signal in tiny robot ?

    Try a radio modem and use a simple pager to operate your little robot via Bluetooth.