"Child Vouchers" sounds like it's from 1970-s, a notorious example of not everybody getting a memo.
Halfbakery
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#22Oh wow, I found a post I made 10 years ago, when I was 12:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/lego_20case#1173590361
It's really strange to read something I wrote almost half a lifetime ago.
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#23Wow, this is a blast from the past. The website looks largely unchanged from when I first visited. I think it was featured by Attack of the Show on G4TV.
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#24This was another old favourite http://www.pimpthatsnack.com
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#25I like it! I have random ideas all the time, and I'm pleased to have somewhere to post them.
If anybody here works at Google, here's my first post: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Translated_20Search
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#27Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn't have a full backup so, funny though it is now, there was some epic stuff on the old site that is lost forever.
Very old school indeed! From the about section: "The halfbakery software is implemented as one big C CGI program, edited with vi, compiled with gcc, invoked by an Apache http server."
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#28TL;DR anyone?
I always wondered why TL;DR requests are being consistently down voted. Sometimes this is not a "too long don't CARE to read" but rather "I'm not sure I'm getting what this is about without investing a few hours into it so please kind Sirs and Ladies, can you sum up in a sentence?". Thanks for responding, responders.
For me, "TL;DR" inevitably implies a certain laziness. If a person really means, "I tried to understand this but I'm not getting it", maybe they could say that.
Given that the top reply to this post is a copy and paste from the first paragraph of the about page, I could see why people suspect the querent did not work very hard before posting, and so values their own time more than that of other people here. That might not be true, but I think it's on the asker to make that clearer, not the readers to guess.
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#29Site seems to be momentarily down, I'll make a note to come back later. Thanks for posting this, OP.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a pretty successful Kickstarter a while back for a product ("Coffee Joulies") that was exactly that, but for your coffee mug. Little bean-shapes made of stainless steel, filled with material that changed phase at 140F.
There's also Ember [1] (also a kickstarter I think) that just made a mug with a heating element and controller to keep your beverage at a specific temperature. Using materials with specific phase change temperatures sounds like an innovative solution, but it's also grossly engineering a problem that can be solved better by $10 worth of components. [1] https://ember.com/products/ceramic-mug
I'd also be really worried about toxicity and materials that changed phase at that temp... Or well any temp. Can it leech through the walls? I wouldn't be Keen on dropping molten steel in my coffee either.