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what exactly do they expect you to do while driving?
States Mull Bans On Driver Distractions:"Vermont lawmakers are considering a measure that would ban eating, drinking, smoking, reading, writing, personal grooming, playing an instrument, “interacting with pets or cargo,” talking on a cell phone or using any other personal communication device while driving. The punishment: a fine of up to $600."i jest! mostly.
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life in wisconsin.
40 tons of cow intestines close I-43:"A truck driver distracted by a digital music player overturned his semitrailer early this morning on Interstate 43, spilling nearly 40 tons of cow intestines and bones, according to Sgt. Blaine Spicer of the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department."
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the hidden costs of bottled water from fiji.
i'm tend to walk around with filtered water from the tap so i have to admit that i don't tend to pay attention to the latest trends in bottled water and had no idea that fiji water is all the rage and is the # 2 in premium bottled water, second only to evian. self-described sustainability engineerpablo päster calculated the total amount of water and green house gases used to produce and deliver one bottle of imported water to the u.s. the final tally was 6.74kg of water and 0.25kg of greenhouse gases.i'm all for supporting the fijian economy, but jeez!
11:36 PM 2 comments
the relative meaningless of megapixels.
the emphasis on megapixels by consumer camera marketers is just as ridiculous as the now waning fixation on cpu clockspeed by consumer computer marketers.Breaking the Myth of Megapixels:: "For the nonprofessional, five or six megapixels is plenty, even if you intend to make poster-size prints."
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Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t Out to Get You!
former googler nelson minar provides easy instructions on how to opt out of most of google's search history.that said, google still retains the history linked to IP which is easily resolvable to a person, which makes the opt-out virtually meaningless from a law enforcement standpoint.
12:31 AM 0 comments
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
for some reason this video was able to briefly disrupt my cynicism shields that typically do a good job of deflecting any of the web 2.0 hooohah that comes my way.11:36 PM 1 comments
new and somewhat obvious dietary guidelines. the abridged version.
unhappy meals - "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."The antioxidant myth: a medical fairy tale - ""Stick to flavonoid-rich foods, red wine in moderation, tea, fruits and vegetables," says Halliwell. "Don't start taking high-dose supplements or heavily fortified foods, until we know more.""
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me and punxsutawney phil .
having lived in woodstock, illinois which was where groundhog's day was filmed ( oddly, the town makes a big to-do about being the fictionalized version of the real town punxsutawney and has a yearly celebration of life imitating "art" imitating life ) i can't help but feel a strong connection to the ol' groundhog even if his predictive ability is dubious at best.3:53 PM 0 comments
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“"You're not a designer, you're not a writer, and you're not an editor!"
Well, no, blogger, you're not. And therein lies your gift. Because even if it's true the vast majority of blogs would not be missed by more than a handful of people were the earth to open up and swallow them, and even if the best are still no substitute for the sustained attention of literary or journalistic works, it's also true that sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.
...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”
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