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A number of towns in France are trying to make the act of recycling even more green, by replacing their recycling trucks with horses.

The practice is being used in 60 towns across the country, who are using horses to pull recycling carrying carriages. Not only is the use of horses better for the environment, but it’s also much more practical for many towns that have small, hard to navigate streets. “You can’t turn a waste collection vehicle around here. We used to block streets to traffic and keep waste in open skips,” Jean Baptiste, mayor of Peyrestortes in Southern France, told the Guardian.

For many of the towns, using horses has also served as a way of saving money, as well as raising awareness for recycling programs. The practice is also spreading to other countries around Europe, including Italy, where donkey-drawn recycling carts are being used in Sicily.

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In a new study from the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers confirm what you’ve known all along: laptop heat is the greatest threat to mankind’s continued survival on this planet. In the report, researchers collected and analyzed various tales of woe from youngsters who’d been treated for exposure to extreme laptop heat, and discovered that prolonged periods of use can lead to a condition horrifically dubbed “toasted skin syndrome.” The effects of gaming (or, uh, studying) too hard can leave skin in a mottled, sponge-like state, can cause permanent skin darkening, and generally makes you less attractive to the opposite sex — from a lap perspective. When viewed under a microscope, the damage is similar to that of long-term sun exposure, and though unlikely in the case of laptop heat, prolonged skin irritation is linked to increased rates of some forms of skin cancer. Researchers suggest placing a carrying case or “heat shield” between you and your computer if you’ve got to keep it in your lap. At Engadget, the entire team has been issued Kevlar short-shorts — we suggest you take similar precautions.

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pSummer is officially over and no one is happier with the sun’s absence more than The 404 Podcast. Fall also happens to be the ideal season for Renaissance faires, and this weekend I checked out a href=”http://www.whidc.org/home.html”Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park/a up by the Cloisters./p

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pUnfortunately, I didn’t see anyone in a centaur costume, but I did witness a “real” jousting tournament, not to mention a falconer and a href=”http://www.myspace.com/thegreatimmortal”Black Wolf the Dragon Master/a himself, from the a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugk37TvIR8E”Triumph the Insult Comic Dog segment at the Clone Wars premiere/a.

pTune in to the first half of today’s episode to hear the rest and click the slideshow below for photographic evidence of my nerddom./p

pSwitching gears to the only tech story in the rundown, Toshiba introduces the a title=”Toshiba shows off glasses-free 3D TVs — Monday, Oct 4, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20018421-17.html”Regza 12GL1/a, the first line of 3DTVs that don’t require a set of cheesy glasses. The 20-inch flat-panel display provides “nine different perspectives of each single 2D frame,” which are then “superimposed…to create a three-dimension impression of the image.”/p

pDon’t worry, we’re totally confused by that quote as well, but we also think it’s really funny that you have to sit 3 feet away to get the 3D effect. The Toshiba 20GL1 will be for sale in Japan later this year for $2,900, so now might be a good time to take out that second mortgage./p

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