<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cfa07ba6-de8d-45f2-852d-1ed898bb25fb/B550F244-F495-4127-95EA-AE72AFCE8B23/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gizmodo.com/5015148/400000-bouncy-black-balls-invade-reservoir-to-save-los-angeles-from-cancer-water" href="http://gizmodo.com/5015148/400000-bouncy-black-balls-invade-reservoir-to-save-los-angeles-from-cancer-water" style="font-size: 11px;">gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5015148/400000-bouncy-black-balls-invade-reservoir-to-save-los-angeles-from-cancer-water"><P><IMG class="center" src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/bballs.jpg" />While yesterday the world was ogling over the iPhone 3G black body, some people were just awing over black balls. 400,000 of them. 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