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Yeah, that's a shock to anybody who has ever seen any of those commercials on late-night TV. But here's the thing, this Claire Hoffman article from The Los Angeles Times is a wonderful piece of participatory journalism.
Given its ubiquity, strength, and lightness, why don't they build bikes out of bamboo?
Brano Mares not only wondered, he built a beautiful bike. Wes want!
A medical mystery solved?
BTW, one of my favorite stories ever is that when Hollywood test-marketed the film of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III, it scored poorly because many potential viewers felt they had missed Madness I and II. So they changed the title to The Madness of King George.
Precisely because you're not miserable enough in the first place, if I follow this chap's reasoning.
"Bad" language alert.
So there I am, sitting eating my lunch, watching the news on TV, waiting like the slavering dog that I am for more Mel goes Mad, when none other than Alice Cooper a.k.a. Vince Furnier, he of the large pearly whites and the exquisitely died hair, comes on CNN and begins batting his bright eyes and cheerfully expounding on his new youth center in Phoenix.
Now, I consider the whole reformed rock star become prostelitizing anti-drug crusader thing to be fairly pitiful and Cooper is no exception. I'm not saying keep getting loaded. Just stop talking about when you did. And when you didn't.…
VMAX Services' Richard Kohlruss followed-up with some information on Tangent Audio. Here's how the CD-100 looks on the inside.
You see those little bits highlighted in red? Any hardware that can become loose during transit has been dabbed with Loctite Red.
If you're like me, you don't know what Loctite Red is. If you're like me, you would have spent your college summers at a chemical plant in Port Newark, NJ, painting curbs and handrails Emergency Yellow to keep your coworkers from crashing their forklifts and from plummeting down the slippery stairs. If you're like…
One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.
If you're like me, it might seem in retrospect that you spent longer laboring over Thucydides than it took Athens and Sparta to fight the dang thing.
Yes, it was time well-spent, but I never thought I'd look forward to reading another book on the subject—after all, it seemed like he'd said everything that needed to be said on the subject. Victor Davis Hanson's A War Like No Other just might be my next "big" read.