Wed
Dec
2
Mike Franklin
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The country imposes a punitive tax of about 200 percent on new cars, so a vehicle that would cost $20,000 in the United States costs $60,000 here.
Tue
Dec
1
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Other customers, upon seeing the types of surveillance law enforcement can do, might “become unnecessarily afraid that their lines have been tapped or call Verizon to ask if their lines are tapped (a question we cannot answer).
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Believe it or not, MTV used to show music videos and other original programming that disproved the theory that youth is terminally lame
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The update doesn’t bring new features, but that’s not a problem to the Quicksilver community, 95 percent of whom (myself included) can’t figure out how to use all of the functionality that’s already there.
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We all benefit when we attend to the needs of those at the margins.
Mon
Nov
30
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They say, ‘I’m not going to spend $4,000 for an alligator shoe.’
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Backed by a sausage manufacturer and the Dutch government, scientists in the Netherlands have successfully grown artificial pork meat in the laboratory for the first time, reports the Times Online. Using cells extracted from the muscles of a live pig, which were then incubated in a nutrient-rich solution, the cells were able to multiply indefinitely. Science! As creepy as it sounds, in vitro meat is theoretically good for the environment (lab-grown animal tissue doesn’t emit greenhouse gases) and would eliminate animal suffering and deaths (even PETA is in support)
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The new ship cost Royal Caribbean around $1 billion and has 20 restaurants, 17 bars and lounges, a walk through mock-up of New York’s Central Park and two rock-climbing walls.
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Mocking TLC’s reality shows (ostensibly “The Learning Channel”), The Soup imagines the “ultimate in fringe reality programming,” a mashup with huge ratings potential.
Sun
Nov
29
Forty years ago, NASA put a man on the moon. But MIT did the steering. (via Technology Review: Apollo’s Rocket Scientists)
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On a recent Tuesday, two teachers led a four-hour class, starting with Todd Alton, a botanist who provided no tasting samples as he talked the students through a list of cannabis recipes, including crockpot cannabutter, chocolate canna-ganache and greenies (the cannabis alternative to brownies).
I know that post...
- Carlos: I am working in a photobook
- Carlos: any recommendations?
- Mike: apple.
- Mike: the others all suck.
- Carlos: apple, really?
- Mike: yes.
- Carlos: what about Blurb?
- ...
- Mike: http://cheekygrin.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/blurb-book-review-ii/
- Carlos: I know that post
- Carlos: that is the reason I met you
