June 2007
57 posts
Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent - New York... →
America Online and Salary.com, in turn, determined that workers actually work a total of three days a week, wasting the other two.
May 2007
37 posts
“this isn’t a book that says there’s something wrong with shopping. It says that...”
– Benjamin R. Barber - Los Angeles CityBeat
SECESSION.NET →
Creating a worldwide Secession Network promoting the Right to Secede - Community-Based Secession - Libertarian/Decentralist Political Processes - Nonviolent Secession and Institutions
JAJAH - web-activated telephony →
“HOW DOES IT WORK? 1.Type in your phone number 2.Type in your friends phone number 3.Click “CALL” Your phone will ring - pick up - start talking!”
Tainted Chinese Imports Common -... →
Standing in the shadow of dad's salary - May. 25,... →
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, →
Autoblog →
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Mac utilities - →
Stone Age tribe kills fishermen - World -... →
“The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range.”
Weekend Project: Catalog mementos with a digital... →
Shari and I did this awhile ago. Good idea!
The Real Owner of All Those Planes - New York... →
“Nearly half of the airplanes flying today are leased by the airlines, and Mr. Hazy, with his $45 billion portfolio, is the biggest player, as measured by dollar volume, followed by General Electric.”
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty - New York Times →
3-d printers coming to a home near you.
Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside →
Very interesting article on dieting:
“Those who doubt the power of basic drives, however, might note that although one can hold one’s breath, this conscious act is soon overcome by the compulsion to breathe,” Dr. Friedman wrote. “The feeling of hunger is intense and, if not as potent as the drive to breathe, is probably no less powerful than the drive to drink when one is thirsty. This is the...
Blobular →
yugop.com →
City liberated of advertisements: São Paulo «... →
LP: Home invasion gone wrong for [illegal]... →
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke...
BLDGBLOG: World's largest diamond mine →
This diamond mine in eastern Siberia (Mirny, to be exact) is so deep that the surrounding “air zone… is closed for helicopters” after “a few accidents when they were ‘sucked in’ by downward air flow…”
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