Twistori: Finally a Use for Twitter!

I just discovered Twistori last night! And as many users have noted, this would be great to have as a screen saver! Actually, I often use 2 monitors when I’m on the computer, so I’ve been putting this page up on my “background” secondary monitor.
Twitter is… USELESS in my opinion. I’ve only been using it [...]

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Destroying New Mazdas

A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars from WSJ
A ship carrying 4,703 Mazdas from Japan to the States nearly sank a couple of years go, and they’ve been trying to figure out what to do with the cars since then:
Insurers covering Mazda’s losses wanted to be sure the company wouldn’t resell any cars or [...]

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Printable Paper

http://www.printablepaper.net/
Brilliant.  I’ve often said to myself, “One of these days, I’m going to make a graph paper or music paper [treble clef staff or guitar tab] template to print on regular white copy paper.”
It’s ridiculous what they charge for pads of these “specialty papers” in the stores. 
But…  I never got around to doing that.  And [...]

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Where the Cats Crawl and Come to Die

HUH! There’s a pink plastic flamingo just outside my window! I suppose there might as well be one there since it’s a place where cats crawl and come to die! Not literally, though there are scores of cats prowling the premises, including a three-legged “attack cat” – as the sign warns. That big, fat, furry [...]

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Words That Make You Go…

Some words are just so pretentious…
Zeitgeist, oeuvre, meme, and thought leader are just some of the words that I’ve been frequently coming across.
Now, that word “meme” is a pretty new one to me…  For some reason, I’ve been bumping into the word a lot recently.  I must have come across the term, oh… 8 or 9 [...]

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