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This might be the best iPhone app ever

There is a new app called free fall high score that challenges you to throw your iPhone off the highest place you can find for a high score! Screw it, why wait for an app? Just go throw your iPhone off a building right now!

A new game for the iPhone challenges you to not only drop your phone, but to do so off of as tall a structure as you can find. It’s called Free Fall High Score, and it is undoubtedly the riskiest mobile game that we’ve seen.

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Texas Town To Convert Urine Into Drinking Water

The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water.

“When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” says Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas.

Less than 0.1 inches of rain has fallen on West Texas for months. Normally, the region gets more than 7 inches of rain this time of year. This week’s Department of Agriculture Drought Monitor map shows 75 percent of Texas is in “exceptional” drought stages.

Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.


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Sour Puss Police Bust Kids Lemonade Stand

Here’s one to file away under weird. Three little ladies in Midway, Georgia were enjoying their summer day selling lemonade when local police drove by and told them to close up shop. You’d think fresh outdoor air and the opportunity to bide summer’s lazy days away from video games in a hyper air conditioned room was criminal…Or was it?

That city law requires a business and food permits ($50 a day), even if the stand was at the home of one of the girls….Health issues were also a concern, Morningstar said. “We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” he said.


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Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies – Recipe

Last week, I drew up some guidelines to follow if you wanted to try baking cookies in your car. This past weekend, since the temperatures were well over 100F out here, I decided to give the technique a try myself. I parked my car in full sunlight in the middle of the day, sliced up some cookie dough and started to bake.

Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, soft
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
2/3 cup mini chocolate chips

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Microsoft Has a Higher Credit Rating than the US Government

This is getting ridiculous to the extreme. First it was Apple has more money in cash reserves than the U.S. and now Microsoft has a better credit rating. Things are going to hell in a hand basket when the entire US government is being upstaged by the tech world. Microsoft is the only tech company in the U.S. with a AAA rating along with only three other non-tech companies achieving that distinction.

The US used to have a whopping 60 companies that had a AAA rating. In 1995 that number went down to about 30 or so. Today, just four US corporation have a AAA credit rating and one of them happens to be Microsoft.


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