April 2010
23 posts
“Everything in your house that is made from wood, should be removed before...”
– Beavers: A Great Pet
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“In the future I can see data centres becoming part of the [community] heating...”
– Why the Carbon Reduction Commitment is bad for data centres | Kate’s Comment
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Blood, Sweat and Luxuries (BBC) →
«Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods». «Contains some upsetting scenes.» Since ‘…and T-Shirts’, and what with ‘…and Takeaways’ (which I’ve just discovered and haven’t seen) the producer of this series seem to be on a roll. And...
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RFIDIOt.org - RFID IO tools →
Fantastic resource for RFID hacking. (Supposedly designed in HTML4.)
“The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; […]...”
– “Hello” on Wikipedia. Henceforth I’ll answer my phone with «Ahoy»!
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“We would rather suffer the visible costs of a few bad decisions than incur the...”
– Warren Buffett; via 37signals.
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Where babies come from. [In Germany] →
Warning: contains graphic horizontal contrasting stripes. And pubes.
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Extreme Commuting →
«A commuter who travels one hour, one way, would have to make 40% more than his current salary to be as fully satisfied with his life as a noncommuter […] Commuting is a stress that doesn’t pay off»
Lindsay Lohan's child trafficking film: DVD extras →
«features a scene in which a very young and serially abused child labourer is required to comfort a Hollywood starlet»
Thank god I read this article before tuning my set.
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Canned Unicorn Meat →
«they massage each unicorn’s coat with Guinness daily and fatten them on a diet comprised entirely of candy corn»