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The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt Returns
mresolver writes "University of Chicago students have once again emerged from the library after a long winter to participate in the world's largest scavenger hunt. The multiple day event is famous for the working breeder reactor that students managed to build during the 1999 hunt. This year, the official list (PDF) includes a superconductor, working wood refrigerator, hot air balloon made to Montgolfier specifications, one-way funhouse mirror, and a walk-in Kaleidoscope."
shameless karma whoring; patent 6368227 is "Method of swinging on a swing.", supposedly unique in that instead of swining the "usual" way you swing sideways.
When i was younger my brother and i used to sit astride swings and swing towards each other in a joust/battle scenario. Which would be slightly different to the method described in this patent, so maybe i should patent mine. there might even be prior art in my photo albumn from the 80s when i was a wee whippersnapper to support my claim that i (co)invented it!
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
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