TastySomething ironic happened on the way home last night.
I came home late last night after spending an evening with a friend having dinner and, as always, checked my e-mail (one habit I’ll never break.):
“i find reddit to pose a quandary for myself also.
i dont have time or patience to dig around
individually strenuously enough to at [...]
Jared Diamond, he of Guns, Germs, and Steel fame, had quite the interesting opinion piece in today’s Times:
Real sacrifice wouldn’t be required, however, because living standards are not tightly coupled to consumption rates. Much American consumption is wasteful and contributes little or nothing to quality of life. For example, per capita oil consumption in Western [...]
I may be late to the game on this one, but I’m super excited about the NPR media player. I’ve long loved NPR, but my days of being in the car during Morning Edition or All Things Considered are past me (for the moment). NPR has always released the material online a few hours after [...]
Crocs, those ugly shoes that have even earned the hate of Maddox, have apparently worn out their welcome. Shares of Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) are giving back over 25% on weak earnings. In other words, if you bought a share of CROX yesterday, that share is now worth 75% of what you paid for it.
Of course, [...]
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Turns out that there’s a sweeter reason than just “saving energy” in Congress’s move to extend Daylight Saving Time by one week:
The candy lobby also played a significant role in pushing Halloween into daylight saving time, believing that extra hour of trick-or-treating in daylight would spur more candy sales but arguing that it would decrease [...]
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Looks like it’s a rough day across the Atlantic. “Suitable Node” errors occur when there’s a problem with the ExpressionEngine database, and are repaired through a reoptimization of database tables.
Edit: Obviously, BBC News is back up, within mere minutes of going down. I was more interested in their lack of graceful error handling [...]
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Sometimes I think I could be a hotshot Hollywood producer. Though I usually come to the realization that my talents would be totally worthless and wasted.
Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”. This Neanderthal thinking comes after both [...]
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Memo to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC:
Stop. You’re killing people.
I know you love the big story. I know you can’t resist the urge to talk for hours on end to anyone with a few lines of color on their chest or a political affiliation about a “major” current event. I know that you get a rush [...]
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“Over the past few weeks, I’ve been fielding questions regarding bird flu and our preparedness regarding hazards associated with this illness (and other associated illnesses.) As a participating member of Needham’s Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC); Olin and Olin’s Crisis Management Team have assembled tools and resources for [...]
Good news from the land of Kamen (as in Dean Kamen): Two devices, one that creates power from any burnable source, and one that decontaminates water.
The electric generator is powered by an easily-obtained local fuel: cow dung. Each machine continuously outputs a kilowatt of electricity. That may not sound like much, but it is enough [...]
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