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Anybody have good or bad experiences with specific brands of dishwashers, refrigerators, stoves, and/or washing machines?
Augustus Owsley Stanley III, Dead at 76 Kid Charlemagne
via chuck fb
history of sci-fi infographic
building that used to sit at the corner of e3 and bowery where the bowery hotel is: drydock savings bank
Japan hit by massive earthquake and tsunami
Wine Job Postings By Distributors Rise In February
Postings 20 Percent Higher than February 2010
SONOMA, CA—Winejobs.com released a report detailing wine job posting trends as of February 2011. As the wine industry’s leading online job site, Winejobs.com has a unique vantage point over industry trends. The Winejobs.com Index shows distributor job postings in February 2011 increased 20 percent from their level in February 2010, and were 24 percent higher than February 2009.
ARGH. so i just bought a new printer that only apparently works with os x 10.5 and up. the hp people said i won't find printers that work with 10.4 any more bc apple is not continuing with support for this os. can i update the os on skinny's laptop?
The real roots of yoga
Mash-up of Bill O'Reilly and an angry kid.
RIP freewheelin' Suze Rotolo.
house of david / via antiques road show
portland here i come w/ the great mr dibenedetto!!
Sunday Feb 27 Rain/Snow High: 44°F Low: 41°F
Monday Feb 28 Rain High: 43°F Low: 37°F
Tuesday Mar 1 Rain High: 43°F Low: 42°F
Wednesday Mar 2 Showers High: 43°F Low: 39°F
why the hell am i moving to a place thats colder than NYC in feb??
this womans voice is great
i saw here once and saw her in her new hometown portland, OR last time i was there
http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/live-from-home-with-alela-diane-wild-divine/
portland on npr
keep portland wierd or cool, double decker 1965 bus thats a vintage clothing store
Valentine’s Boobies. Bree & Jim will remember these from the Galapagos. Birdchick has been posting a series of mating rituals for the holiday; scroll down for more. (Note the use of Mah Na Mah Na as soundtrack…)
Marjorie Cameron: The Wormwood Star
via kembra fb
Interesting Neal Stephenson article about the history of rockets and the strange lock-in we can encounter along paths of technical innovation.
To employ a commonly used metaphor, our current proficiency in rocket-building is the result of a hill-climbing approach; we started at one place on the technological landscape—which must be considered a random pick, given that it was chosen for dubious reasons by a maniac—and climbed the hill from there, looking for small steps that could be taken to increase the size and efficiency of the device. Sixty years and a couple of trillion dollars later, we have reached a place that is infinitesimally close to the top of that hill. Rockets are as close to perfect as they're ever going to get. For a few more billion dollars we might be able to achieve a microscopic improvement in efficiency or reliability, but to make any game-changing improvements is not merely expensive; it's a physical impossibility.
There is no shortage of proposals for radically innovative space launch schemes that, if they worked, would get us across the valley to other hilltops considerably higher than the one we are standing on now—high enough to bring the cost and risk of space launch down to the point where fundamentally new things could begin happening in outer space. But we are not making any serious effort as a society to cross those valleys. It is not clear why.
more my speed and hopefully my price is the (the little white one)
2012ish Audi A1 All Electric
yes i am studying up for the learners permit!!
the julie project. wow. i'm hooked. but have to get back to work.