(Washington Post.) “Frustrated Baker: I love baking. My boyfriend has some sort of cake aversion, although he likes sweet stuff in general. I bake whenever I get a chance for an appreciative audience, mostly for potlucks, where the tasties are devoured by people who sometimes literally queue around me when I walk through the door with a batch of cupcakes. But BF is not so subtle about saying, “BLECH!” and spitting out things that he tries, just to be nice, but thinks are too sweet. I a
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A short — but good flyer from Canadian Tire this week. It starts on Saturday, March 22 and goes through Friday, March 28. To start we’ve got the Nextar 1 GB MP3 Player (Product #44-1904-0) for a mere $19. This would be a nice back-up player; ideal for your gym bag. Switching gears a bit, they’ve got Glidden Easy Flow Interior Paint for the lowest price of the year. A 3.70L can starts at $9.88. In the kitchen, we’ve got a 30-piece Glassware Set (Product #42-3680-2) for half-price: $12.49. There
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By Evan Ackerman Our robotic sister site, BotJunkie, has been going strong since last year’s launch… There’s almost more cool robot news than we can keep up with! We kicked off this week with a video of a humanoid robot keeping itself (and us) entertained on a swing set, checked out the latest video of Boston Dynamics’ BigDog robot mule that looking damn funny keeping its footing on ice, watched a dachshund play fetch with a robotic tennis ball slingshot, saw the fastest industrial robot in
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