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Archive | April, 2007
Google Search Going Downhill – Shrimp Gobis
I saw lots of shrimp and their symbiotic companions, the shrimp gobis while diving. So on search Google or Yahoo for shrimp gobies. I’ve been trying Yahoo more these days on searching, sometimes I get much better results. It seems Google has too many shopping oriented results often. I’m not finding a photograph online of [...]
Holographic disk drives
Wow! Reading the new issue of Popular Science, there are now on the market by Maxell 300 GB disks meant for professional archiving. And they expect by 2010 to have 1.6 TB (that’s about 350 DVDs worth) drives. And they write data to the disks about 30 times faster than DVDs also. The data is [...]
The NASA Space Pen Legend Busted
I always believed it Dvorak Uncensored » Another urban legend Busted
What to do if you find out you are in a fairy tale
From the following post on bookofjoe: bookofjoe: fora.tv — ‘Eggheads on the web’
God’s Grandeur
God’s Grandeur THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared [...]
The Cost of Bottled Water
The above is “organic” bottled water we got here. The bottle says it is filtered through fields that are certified organic. The real cost of bottled water on the environment. There is certainly a lot drunk in the developing world and in the gulf! You could extrapolate the numbers whatever way. Triple Pundit: AskPablo: Exotic [...]
Photographing Squirrels
This is funny! mental_floss magazine – Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Alcohol, Tobacco Worse than Pot, Ecstasy
In research published in The Lancet, Professor David Nutt of Britain’s Bristol University and colleagues proposed a new framework for the classification of harmful substances, based on the actual risks posed to society. Their ranking listed alcohol and tobacco among the top 10 most dangerous substances. Read the rest of the post at: Sahaja Yoga [...]
Wear your seatbelts!
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: Wear your seatbelts They typically don’t wear them here. And you always see the head bump on the windshield! Lots of rollovers of the Japanese SUVs.
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