Souldaddy’s Dream Girl - An exploration of the sexiness of…
Souldaddy’s Dream Girl - An exploration of the sexiness of geekery and nerdocity. (by zendulo)
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No. 6: Austin, Texas - Kiplinger.com
No. 6: Austin, Texas - Kiplinger.com: 2008 Best Cities to Live, Work and Play
From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, July 2008
These ten great places will only get better.
What really happenedM1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile
With underinflated tires eating up gas, where is the Tweel?
Some 3.56 million gallons of gas are wasted each day because of incorrectly-inflated tires according to the U.S. Department of Energy or $14.2 million in gas a day at $4/gal. In 2004, Michelin shocked the world with a revolutionary airless tire technology that could change transportation as we know it, the Tweel. Four years later, where’s Tweel?
Bush’s laws will be scrutinized if I become president, Obama
If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while Republican President George W. Bush has been in office.
Deputies Search for Armed Burglars… in my backyard!
As I was sitting in my home office around 1:30 this morning, a car screamed past my window seconds before I heard it slam into my neighbors’ cars. When I saw the police cars fly past at about the same time, I knew this was no ordinary late night car crash.
Here’s the story from KVUE […]
Massive Ice Chunks Fall 1600 Feet Video
Massive Ice Chunks Fall 1600 Feet Video
Fire Contraption
How G. W. Bush made one Republican into an Obama supporter
I was a little shocked to find out about a less mentioned problem of the Bush administration - complete and total financial mismanagement. The kind of mismanagement that speaks to a complete lack of coherent planning, restraint, or responsibility.
The 4 Most Harmful Ingredients in Packaged Foods
Most processed foods are laden with sweeteners, salts, artificial flavors, factory-created fats, colorings, chemicals that alter texture, and preservatives. But the trouble is not just what’s been added, but what’s been taken away. Here are the big 4 ingredients in processed foods you should look out for…
Newsweek’s top high schools, Austin edition
So Newsweek has posted their latest list of top high schools in the country. You can filter by state (e.g. Texas) on the site, but if you’re like me, you’re only interested in the schools in the Austin metro area.*
RANK
SCHOOL
LOCATION
STATE
INDEX
52
Westlake
Austin (EISD)
Texas
4.33
77
Westwood **
Austin (RRISD)
Texas
3.86
95
LBJ
Austin
Texas
3.67
386
L. C. Anderson **
Austin
Texas
2.23
589
Lake Travis
Austin (LTISD)
Texas
1.87
631
McCallum
Austin
Texas
1.8
662
McNeil
Austin (RRISD)
Texas
1.75
716
Cedar Park
Cedar Park (LISD)
Texas
1.68
800
Round Rock
Round Rock
Texas
1.57
831
Dripping Springs
Dripping […]
Swimmer with Just One Leg Qualifies for the Olympics
South African amputee Du Toit made Beijing by finishing fourth in Sunday’s 10km world championships in Seville. Britons Cassandra Patten and Keri-Anne Payne also qualified for the open water events at the Olympics.
Grumpicus commented on Swimmer with Just One Leg Qualifies for the Olympics
I’ll agree with your first paragraph but the second is misleading.
1) It wasn’t the IOC, but the IAAF that was trying to keep Pistorius out of Beijing.
2) The argument had very little to due with the amputation itself and was completely about the technology of his prosthetics and whether or not they actually gave him an advantage.
More info here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/sports/otherspor …
3) “In a unanimous ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced [today] that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will have a chance to represent South Africa at the Beijing Olympics this summer.”
http://www.cbc.ca/sportsnews/story/2008/05/16/pist …
Billions of electronic-eating ‘crazy ants’ invade Texas
It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything electronic.
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