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Apparently nine days ago there was a massive oil spill from a decades-old Utah pipeline leaking. Most of the blogs I follow, as well as Google News, don't seem to be covering it. What gives ( Read more... ) -
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Like most people, I've heard the phrase 'government cheese', but this is the first time I've heard about government raisins.
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Le vent de la liberté commence à souffler... wait, wrong movie musical.
Finally got around to seeing “Les Miserables”. Wasn’t sure whether I was going to like it but in the end I enjoyed it. It helped that I went in with low expectations - it definitely exceeded them. The movie indulges in scenery porn at a few moments from sweeping mountain views to close ups of Paris landmarks. Cinematically, I think it’s strong, ( Read more... ) -
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The Weather Channel in a nutshell
This stuff is getting ridiculous; just took them off my bookmarks. Getting my forecasts from the NOAA now. -
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Why is Pandora constantly bombarding me with ads for Tim Horton's? Last thing I need is to be thinking about donuts. -
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One of the things that frustrates me about environmentalists is that some of them are so foolish. South Africans spend hundreds of millions trying to combat poaching of rhinos and elephants. What if they took some of that money and started trying to combat the source of the problem - consumers in China and Southeast Asia who use horns in folk ( Read more... ) -
Read in January 2013
1) Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran - Dilip Hiro
2) Nina Simone: The biography - David Brun-Lambert
3) Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard -
Linkspam
Veg*an recipe collection. Think I need to try some of these this week.