So .. finally found my new jacket - a dainese on clearance from a previous year. Waterproof exterior and fits my oh-so-lithe frame well. Also well armored. I think this will be a little too warm at peak summer .. but  should be great for commuting which can start Monday ... BECAUSE ( Read more... )

Where "best" means:

* holds full faced helmet.
* locks.
* is water tight.
* values low price over, say, matching the bike's paint color exactly (or at all).

*--Ryan.

RCN (at least in Framingham) dropped their remaining analogue channels this week. All channels are now digital.  Anyone out there happen to know if these are clear-QAM ?  The interwebs imply they are not .. but I can't find any thing authorative.  RCN claims you need a cable box for each TV and doesn't mention TVs that might have QAM tuners .. this ( Read more... )

http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/07/man-being-eaten-by-alligator

I enjoy that such a niche exists...

I've crawled out from under my interweb rock, followed a link, and stumbled on these videos.. which make me laugh.  For example...
http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_the_surge_8423.php

The audio track is not work safe..

http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/homepage/x650666266/Four-alarm-blaze-guts-Verrill-Farm-building

It is reported that roughly 305,000 houses had papers filed in foreclosure proceedings in Sept.  Of these 305k, 62k filings were new default notices (properties being newly foreclosed on v. receiving notice of an auction or so some other activity.)  Here's the link with state-by-state numbers ( Read more... )

The discussed bank bailout gives the Secretary of the Treasury an unlimited power to give away $700 billion dollars in return for bad mortgage debt without meaningful overview by an elected official.  See the text of the current proposal: http://www.nytimes.com/ ( Read more... )

larger?  Maine or Kentucky by area.
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I mentioned this website in a comment somewhere .. but thought this site deserved an entry to itself.  These are great.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/