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15 Sep 2007 |
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At Gerald Ford's liveliest, a coroner would be pressed for a method of determining his demise, but now that he's dead (people assure me) he's been memorialized in a corn maze.
Say, that's terrific, respectful fun! Celebrate long-dead GOP values like 'smaller government' while shouting, "I got lost in Gerald Ford's hair!"
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28 May 2007 |
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has shuffled off this mortal coil. I might not have posted this but I know Carl found him pretty compelling.
Here's some old Match Game footage:
Bossy
Snotty
As a bonus Edna Crabopple (Simpsons) is in both vids.
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16 Jan 2007 |
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Yesterday the Green Cone was featured on Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site. Cool!
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19 Jul 2006 |
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Interesting article from Harper's (2004), which has a bit of a Jared Diamond Guns, Germs & Steel feel to it.
The Dust Bowl was no accident of nature. A functioning grassland prairie produces more biomass each year than does even the most technologically advanced wheat field. The problem is, it’s mostly a form of grass and grass roots that humans can’t eat. So we replace the prairie with our own preferred grass, wheat. Never mind that we feed most of our grain to livestock, and that livestock is perfectly content to eat native grass. And never mind that there likely were more bison produced naturally on the Great Plains before farming than all of beef farming raises in the same area today. Our ancestors found it preferable to pluck the energy from the ground and when it ran out move on.
[via kottke]
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27 Jun 2006 |
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It's kinda hard to believe that Sierra Club didn't take the aweful blue bag recycling and ding us a few points?
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20 Jun 2006 |
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Replacing just one 60W bulb in your house with a compact flourescent bulb could save $1 BILLION with a "B" per year, if everyone in the US did it.
I knew compact flourescents were way more efficient, but that's some crazy math. We use one in our dog's room, for an exterior light just outside our basement door, and have more to replace other exterior lights once the current bulbs burn out.
We've found they just don't work for living spaces, though. I put one in our family room light for a night, and the light is just so, well, flourescent. Makes my brain hurt. Still, I'd think most people would have somewhere that one would make sense. They also last much longer, and don't generate the heat of a regular bulb.
[via kottke]
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09 May 2006 |
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"The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida.
http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/about/