Just what every music fan needs for outdoor festivals - a JetPak. By day, it's a normal-looking coat; by night, it transforms into a waterproof sleeping bag and head tent.
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Caught web-handed: Instead of patrolling the city in their cars, police in the United States are trawling Facebook, MySpace and Craigslist to catch criminals, and it's working. There was the Florida man convicted of murdering his friend: he posted pictures of his victim on MySpace next to the words "Rest in peace" hours before the victim's death was even reported to the police. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with burglary after a woman found her home ransacked, her jewellery stolen and the burglar's Facebook account open on her home computer. Then there's the Los Angeles graffiti vandal who became an internet sensation after posting videos on YouTube of his handiwork. And one fugitive was living abroad - kicking back on the beaches of Cancun, Mexico, by day, partying in the clubs by night - until he started posting Facebook updates about how much fun he was having - and added a former Justice Department official to his list of friends. (Source: FoxNews.com)
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John Key isn't the only one to answer criticism by "de-friending", writes a reader. "I became a fan of Prime TV so I could question their practice of showing the Warriors game so late at night. Their FB page was covered in people complaining about their treatment of sport sometimes. When I went back to the page to see if anything else had been sent, I saw I had been "de-friended" and my comments were gone. Way to treat someone who watched Prime more than any other channel, Prime."
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How quaint! The new phone books have arrived and a Westmere reader wonders why? He says he never opened the last ones. "The online white and yellow pages constitute what must be the worst search engine on the internet, but other online searches beat the books every time. Surely the wizards at Yellow, which produces the books, can come up with a scheme that has them delivered only on demand - or that allows people to opt out ... ? How many trees are felled to produce books that are shelved for a year before being recycled?"
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Way Wrong - how these backwards road markings can go bad. "Many years ago," a reader writes, "my husband had a business downtown. One morning he was greeted by a very agitated Korean desperately looking for his car. With hand signals and simple words it was established that he had parked his car the evening before in the lane marked 'only park car' in bright yellow letters. Of course his car had been towed from the car-park queue, which was effectively the middle of the road."THERE is a logical reason signs on the road are printed with the words backwards, declares this reader. "In the dead of night when you are driving by headlights, what is the first word your lights will light up? Think about it."
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Today's Webpick: Functions band Crystal Swing from Ireland are taking the web by storm... Go here and check out their song 'He Drinks Tequilla'.
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