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RIP roaring
about.me just got some funding, and already has several hundred thousand users. The idea is just to be a place for short personal biographies and links to all your other sites / facebook / twitter / etc... Sort of a business card for the web. Super simple idea, but I think they are doing it right and might succeed. So I'm mentioning it because it's free to sign up and you can probably still get your own name at this point (like http://about.me/yourname). If it turns out to be a bust you won't have lost anything. (I was always mad I was too late to get jimbassett@gmail.com)
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights 2010
The huge flight of 407 eagles smashed the old record of 245 set two years ago at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, which has kept an annual tally of migrating hawks, eagles and falcons since its founding 76 years ago as the world's first refuge for birds of prey.
via adman
pretty sure everything thats wrong with the world can be summed up by this.
JimB: Ever played with dd-wrt? I'm planning to get my feet wet soon.
the quaids whack-o stars
Every space mission for the last 50 years map.
Complete map of optimal tic- tac-toe moves. (Click on the map for full size version.) Felix Salmon calls it "a funny, perfect, free, nerdy, gorgeous Sol Lewitt".
sorry, i couldn't resist.
mindfulness good as meds
55th anno xmass portland ship parade
bristol bay: theres gold in them there fish...
I'm afraid of Americans.
One more reason not to move to Portland
After two trips to Oregon failed to turn up the supposedly "locally common" bird, I finally saw my first Varied Thrush.
On my lunch hour.
In Manhattan.
Portland population didnt grow for 30 years (1950 to 1980) than exploded again...
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1850 821
1860 2,874 250.1%
1870 8,293 188.6%
1880 17,577 111.9%
1890 46,385 163.9%
1900 90,426 94.9%
1910 207,214 129.2%
1920 258,288 24.6%
1930 301,815 16.9%
1940 305,394 1.2%
1950 373,628 22.3%
1960 372,676 −0.3%
1970 382,619 2.7%
1980 366,383 −4.2%
1990 437,319 19.4%
2000 529,121 21.0%
Est. 2009 566,141 7.0%
U.S. Census Bureau
Oregon has the highest state tax in the country:<((
BUT
Air quality index...........................City stats average
(% of days AQI ranked as good) 94.8% 71.9%
Restaurants (within 15 miles) ...... .4,205 2,268
Bars (within 15 miles).......................360 127