Famed French taxidermy store rises from ashes
(the associated press) paris’ most famous taxidermy shop, deyrolle, is rising anew, a year after being gutted by fire.

ninety percent of the stuffed animals stocked in the 178-year-old store went up in smoke - from lions to small rodents, butterflies and brilliantly plumed birds. the make was thought to […]

PEPSI Changes Logo to Coincide With Historic Age of Obama
it’s time to saddle up those unicorns…pepsi kicks off age of obama (ab- after barack) with a modern oba-logo and hopey-convert website to honor the marxisant radical:

it’s a cult.click below to go to the “o”ptimism website:

debbie schlussel also discovered that unconstrained tea is in the tank […]

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Bundled, Tossed, Untied and Stacked
by tom spurgeon * richmond periodical has added rob ullman’s traffic & weather to its web put. managing editor & publisher will be running work from rob tornoe. * this in all likelihood doesn’t average anything to anyone but me due to its extreme arbitrariness and lateness, but i contrariwise just […]

Mispredicting and the Philadelphia Eagles

there’s a large, and burgeoning, writings on the ways that individuals mispredict their own happiness. the classic examples are the loss of happiness from injury (becoming a paraplegic) and the payment in gladness from winning a lottery. in both scenarios, we mispredict how actual individuals meet with the losses and gains. […]

Holocaust in Gaza
in february 2008, israel’s deputy defence minister matan vilnai warned that if hamas continued firing rockets, they would bring upon themselves a ?bigger shoah,’ the word used by israelis to refer to the nazi genocide or butchery. this statement came in the wake of attacks download adventure movie on gaza which left 32 […]

Twitter’s Massive 2008: 752 Percent Growth
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digg_bodytext = ‘There’s little doubt that Twitter was one of the most talked about startups over the past year. But just how much did it grow in 2008? The final numbers are in, and according to […]

Note to LA Times: Legislators Are Not Children
the la times today has a bizarre editorial in support of a proposed initiative that would give someone the boot all the legislators and the governor if they do not agree on a budget by the constitutionally-mandated deadline of june 15:

brad morisoli of livermore has proposed an initiative […]

Benefit From Being A Baby Boomer
People sometimes ask me: “What should I do with my retirement account?” I often tell them to consider ways of retiring that are not dependent on financial abstractions and various corporate/government promises, such as Social Security or corporate pensions. This usually gets some puzzlement because they’ve been trained for decades […]

Turn Your Linux Desktop into an Alarm Clock
several months ago, i posted here a less geeky tip on how to turn your linux package trap into an alarm clock using a python script. this time, i’ll keep it simple by showing to you some free and open-source programs that you can far install and use […]