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Interesting reads #2: Angola bikers, Fermi Lab, Victoriana, spiked watermelon
Real thrillseeking: Angola, it's not like they said. Posted last September by one of them, the story of five middle-aged Americans' motorcycle trip to Angola; at ADVrider, with many photos. Starve the good: Private Donor Gives Fermilab $5 Million....
May 30, 2008 4:35 pm
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Interesting reads #1: Telectroscope, Dell, Miracle Fruit, Firefox 3
All over the lot: AP There you are: The Telectroscope, London's window on New York at the Telegraph: It looks like something from the Victorian era, and its name sounds like a device from 1950s science fiction. The Telectroscope is...
May 29, 2008 9:42 pm
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235 mpg VW: Your own private bubble
235 mpg: VW 1L My first car was a college graduation gift from my parents, a VW Beetle. They were cheap to run, and, except for trouble starting in the rain, great transportation. Their air-cooled engines didn't overheat in...
May 28, 2008 3:41 pm
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Try your hand at baseball haiku
Blame it on the book: Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball, edited with translations by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura. Samples: Intentional walk -- Each fan winding up his own boo A blimp...
May 28, 2008 1:14 am
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Frozen pizza with Doc Searls
Photo by Sheila Lennon Linux Journal editor and California proto-blogger Doc Searls and I met in comments on a blog almost six years ago, and since then we've emailed and blogged each other's posts but had never met. Until...
May 27, 2008 8:26 am
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The 10 best beer names ever
The 10 best beer names ever In honor of the three-day weekend --made for sleeping, planting and barbecuing -- a column in the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times touting McQuire's I'll Have What The Gentleman On The Floor Is Having...
May 26, 2008 8:48 am
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Folksinger, anarchist, presidential candidate Utah Phillips dies in sleep
The video is of Utah singing, telling stories and cracking political jokes at California's Strawberry Music Festival in 2007. More video here. Utah Phillips died in his sleep Friday night at 73. Mp3s: Hearing Voices from NPR offers these...
May 25, 2008 10:35 am
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