http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/elect.html
I've got a lot to learn when it comes to electricity, but this figures to help. It's an faq of electricity myths.
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Baseball, Dominican-style. - By Bryan Curtis - Slate Magazine
At the
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
DOORS 19:00 START 20:20 DOOR $11
Pecha Kucha is an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The key to a Pecha Kucha Night is its system where each presenter shows 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up.
See also the Wired article: Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down
Your friend Nine Inch Nails has invited you to download nine inch nails new album "the slip". To download your file, click on the link below and follow the instructions on the download page carefully. If the link below is not clickable, copy it and paste it into your web browser's address bar.
http://dl.nin.com/theslip/confirmation?token=262o5b2W
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When I was living in Japan, I had the opportunity to try fugu- the poisonous blowfish sushi. The taste was nothing special, but it did leave my tongue tingling a little.
Still, every year a few people die when it is prepared incorrectly.
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
This essay by Clay Shirkyon has been making the rounds in the last few days.
In short, he argues that people will continue to spend less time watching sitcoms and more time creating and sharing information. A "cognitive surplus" that was wasted on passively watching television, is being used to generate gains for all of society.
I'm not sure I agree, but an interesting article nonetheless.
The Reality of Depending on True Fans
What is the future of the music industry? Kevin Kelly has a theory that an artist can survive with 1,000 dedicated True Fans that support the artist with $100 of support per year.
Long-time ambient artist, Robert Rich, responds with the story of his influential career as a struggling musician.
Anatomy of an Ikea product | Crave : The gadget blog
Http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9923315-1.html
After a 3.5 hour visit to Ikea in Coquitlam today, this seems like a really suitable link.
Find out how Ikea manages its cheap prices by focussing on efficiency and eliminating waste.
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The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs.The magazine’s offices were on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building, an unadorned tower added to Rockefeller Center in 1972. When White finished his cigarette, he returned to the lobby and, waved along by a janitor buffing the terrazzo floors, got into Car No. 30 and pressed the button marked 43. The car accelerated. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. But after a moment White felt a jolt. The lights went out and immediately flashed on again. And then the elevator stopped.
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