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High School Student Builds 100% Wooden Bike

16 year-old Marco Facciola built this completely wooden bike for a school project, managing to avoid using any metal at all. Yes, this wooden wheeled wonder even has a chain and gearing made of wood, held together with wooden joints and glue. The detail in the free-wheeling ratchet and spacers between the chain links, pinned with tiny dowels, is amazing. Marco had to complete this as a non-academic project for his International Baccalaureate, and inspiration came from his grandfather, forced to make wooden wheels for his bike during the war due to rubber shortages. [LeeValley via Neatorama]

5:24 AM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
38,181 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: the funny thing is, he prolly did this the night before. us ib kids are such procrastinators. this might be his personal project if he is a sophmore. but whateve. pretty kick ass project if you ask me =] more »

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Student Catches Principal Fighting With Student on Cellphone Camera, School Responds By Banning Cellphones

Way to go, Caddo School Board. You've won yourself the Gizmodo luddite of the week award. See, when a student films the principal of your Huntington High School fighting another student, the correct response isn't to ban cellphones, it's to make sure principals don't fight with students. It was only after the student showed the clip to local media that you actually did something about the situation, putting the principal on paid administrative leave. As a side note, we would also have accepted "resigning and putting people not completely retarded onto the school board" as a correct response. [Shreveport Times via Techdirt - Image courtesy Chicspeare] More »

3:32 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Jason Chen
27,561 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: is that picture just a joke or from this "fight"? =/ more »

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High Schooler Gets Detention for Using Firefox? UPDATE: Nope

Now this is a sad story...if it's true. According to this alleged school report, one student received a detention for using Firefox—as opposed to IE or Safari, we assume. And while there could be plenty of explanations for why the school would want to control student browsers, we loved the teacher's write-up of the event: More »

1:35 PM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By Mark Wilson
53,534 views, 191 comments