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A product recommendation, and a caution
It's pricey, but the furminator pet brush does an incredible job. It works great on our cats, rabbits, and the bid dog.
Also, I really, really, really strongly advise you not to step on one barefoot. I can't stress that enough. -
Good news, for a change!
Rekha's village, Jhalda II, is a seven-hour drive from Kolkata and has one of India's highest female illiteracy rates. As is the fate of many girls here, Rekha's parents pulled her from school after they began arrangements for the wedding. No point in learning since she would soon be a bride. "I felt very sad because my best friends were going to ( Read more... ) -
I have a great internet business idea!
Start a free internet service.
Charge extra for extra features.
Have Google come along and destroy your market by giving away those features for free.
Here's the brilliant part: make it close to impossible to cancel, and then keep billing people once a year even after they've canceled, hoping they won't notice.
I call it "Microsoft Hotmail Plus" -
First, do no harm
An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit against a Lawrenceville, Indiana police officer and a local doctor and hospital, claiming he was forcibly catheterized after a DWI stop. According to the lawsuit, Jamie Lockard passed his roadside breath test. But the officer still detained Lockard and took him to a local hospital, where doctors strapped him to a ( Read more... ) -
Res ipsa fucking loquitur
I just bought a floor lamp. Apparently this is the first floor lamp, specifically the first "torchiere", that I've purchased that was manufactured on or after January 1st, 2006. There's a funny box of a sort I'd never seen before labeled "current limiting device" as well as a few stickers labeled "federal regulation" with bits about 190 watt limits ( Read more... ) -
Check out this awesome video now
Kinda like Cake+Soul Coughing+The B-52s?
I'm going to go see him in Seattle on 9/15, and you should too. I'm looking at you, sharkcowsheep
porphyre's post has more tour dates for you non-Seattle folks. -
My people* knuckle under
Swiss Banks Court New Markets, Shun Americans as Secrecy Erodes
Swiss private bankers are turning to emerging markets and shunning American clients as the government’s agreement to hand over the details of 4,450 UBS AG accounts to U.S. authorities erodes bank secrecy ( Read more... ) -
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Between the living root bridges and the Karni Mata (also known as the rat temple) I think I'm gonna have to go to India some day. -
Perks of the job
At work I develop and operate the video transcoding pipeline. I don't have time to watch everything that comes out, we have a whole QC procedure for that, but I do like to spot-check the outputs. Sometimes I find some real gems by the lesser-known providers. This morning I ran across a title by MVD. It's the 1925 silent film of Phantom of the Opera ( Read more... )
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