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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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Ran across a couple good quotes while going threw my RSS reader today that I found interesting.
One is from a friend and another from a guy whom I often don't agree with but find his points interesting nonetheless:
"Language. It's seems that 'take initiative' is an oxymoron. Right from the linguistic ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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This took creativity... this guy annotated a video on how to play Nirvana's "Come as you are". Besides tips, he included sheet music!
Nirvana Guitar How-To
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
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Air | Space | Cyberspace
To see and hear advertisements for military services that includes Space and Cyberspace as sub-branches of the service is completely surreal. It feels like a mock sci-fi ad out of some cheesy TV show, but that's exactly what the US Air Force is doing with their latest ad campaign.
Over the ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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It's amazing to see what advertisers use to say to get people to buy their products. This Schlitz beer ad from 22 April 1908 is hilarious to read:
The Doctor says "drink beer" to the weak and the convalescent. To those who need strength—need a food and a tonic. If it ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Apparently there was a 2.7 earthquake in my hometown yesterday morning within an epicenter about 3 miles from my parent's farm (USGS).
And my family was concerned about earthquakes here in California. :)
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Ran across this on my old blog and thought I'd repost it here...
Cartoon Laws Of Physics:
Law I
Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Buck to Looney Exchange Rate
Time to move to Canada... the U.S. Dollar has hit it's lowest exchange rate with the Canadian Dollar since the Civil War.
1 USD = 0.944 CAD
1 CAD = 1.059 USD
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This map of San Francisco is maddening… each one of those dots is a “farmer” receiving a farm subsidy:
http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/mappage.php
It's not just limited to San Francisco, it's like this across the entire country.
Farm Subsidies on the Sauce
Growing up on a small farm, subsidies have always been a divisive subject for me. ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
This is unbelievable, when I ran across this website on MetaFilter I thought it was a joke.
However, The Happy Ending Foundation (THEF) does exist (and apparently doesn't have the slightest thing to do with what I first thought it meant. :) ).
They're goal... rewrite sad children stories so they have ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Ran across a couple of interesting articles today:
I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneerA little scary, but really exciting at the same time...
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it...
Using lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched together a chromosome that is 381 ...
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