Bush veto record

President Bush has yet to veto any legislation -- making his presidency wholly unique in that regard -- except, perhaps, Base Closings.

Ball point pen drawing

This fellow Dave can draw with a simple ball point pen!!

RFID clothing tags

[via bookofjoe] Which companies have secret, item level RFID tagging plans? 'Checkpoint revealed that one of their major clothing clients is secretly working on plans to incorporate item-level RFID tags into all of their merchandise in 2005. Could it be Abercrombie & Fitch? Old Navy? Calvin Klein? Carter's? Champion? Apparently the brand doesn't want its RFID involvement publicized; Checkpoint's lips were sealed.'

Camus nutshell

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

Funding map

This Fundrace map shows calculations based on records filed with the FEC of contributions by all individuals totalling more than $200 (and some totalling less than $200) to a single Republican or Democratic presidential campaign or national committee between January 1, 2003 and July 31, 2004.

Federal Election Commission records of political funds raised and plotted to buildings and addresses the money's come from including listings of your neighbor's dole.

Climate ingredient

"The climate may have varied much more wildly in the past thanreconstructions from tree-rings and ice-cores suggest, say climate scientists who have studied 1000 years of simulated data. The findings byHans von Storch from the GKSS Research Institute in Geesthacht, Germany and colleagues are provoking a heated dispute. While some scientists warn that their results imply climate changes in the future could be more dramatic than predicted, others argue that their methods are flawed.Current climate reconstructions rely on relating temperature records -stretching back only one century - to indicators of climate such as tree-ring growth. But now the new study suggests that this method may infact be smoothing out century-long swings in the climate." In a controversial new study, a group of scientists argues that dramatic climate change may be more normal than previously realized. Learn more in the New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996470

Farming tips

"The New Agriculture Network" (NAN) on-line newsletter, a periodic cooperative effort between a grower group and three U.S. universitieswith funding from the American Farmland Trust and area 5 of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, carries seasonal advice for field crop and vegetable growers interested in organic agriculture. In a recent issue (vol. 1, no. 10, August 26, 2004) on the web at: http://www.ipm.msu.edu/new-ag/issues04/08-26.htm two plant pathologists discuss important aspects of organic crop disease management. Free electronic subscriptions to NAN areavailable by e-mailing the message: subscribe organic_ag_news to: mailto: majordomo@listserv.msue.msu.edu

Look up song lyrics

Over one million lyrics have been posted to look up your favorite songs at Lyrictracker.

Future of Google

RedFerret has an interesting monologue about the possible future of Google.

Google as 21st century television
We often forget that the real success of television was solely down to the fact that businesses suddenly recognized an easy way to deliver their message to the massed ranks of consumers for very little effort. No more need for teams of roving salesmen in every town. Do we forget that soap operas were created simply to sell more detergent to daytime housewife viewers? Now transpose that advertising platform, but extend it and give it a global reach. And improve the targeted nature of the advertising exponentially over time. A massive, incredibly efficient, global advertising platform - which learns a little more about us every day from our Internet use, and sends us highly targeted 'opt-in' - yes we agree to accept this stuff - advertising, which will be matched to our exact wants, needs and desires from moment to moment. It's a dream the television execs of national, loosely targeted, programming services can only dream of today.

The only difference I see between the NBC and ABCs broadcasters of yesteryear and the Google of today is that the former dealt very much with our desires - creating an aspirational society via broadcasts of the American Dream - whilst the latter is all about fulfilling our needs (what do we want, and how much do we need it?). Google is well on its way to identifying exactly what we need through our weblogs, searches, communities, email messages and whatever else it takes. Over time as they learn more about us, they will refine and polish the advertising that is beamed to our phones, computers, PDAs and beyond.

In many ways the Google business model is the complete antithesis of the spammer ideal. Instead of shotgun advertising returning 0.1% response and a 0.1% conversion rate thereafter, targeted advertising - as the specialist portals like music and health realised early on - is much, much more effective and valuable. In some cases we're talking 12% response, with a 5% conversion to sale. That can be big big money when you're talking about hundreds of millions of viewers. And colossal sums if we look at hundreds of millions, maybe even billions, of Internet users. Of course this is just my little theory.

See-through display system

A wearable information delivery tool.

Read detailed information and follow complex instructions directly at the point of task, head-up and hands-free.

The Nomad is the world's first wearable, wireless computer to feature a unique head-worn, see-through display that allows technicians to see relevant information while still focusing on their workspace.

Weighing only 4.5 oz., the Nomad head-worn Display Module delivers a high-contrast, high-resolution (SVGA) transparent images overlaid on the user's vision. Two comfortable headgear options are available: mounted under the brim of a baseball cap or integrated into a headband. The Nomad System features a fully integrated wireless (802.11b), Win CE-based computer, for simplified connection to an existing computer terminal or remote server to access web-based content.

Gilder's Technology Report says: Vision is astounding. It is impossible to shake the belief that what we see is absolutely real. Yet what we see is the result of a complex chain of chemical and electrical events triggered by the impact of photons on the retina. The entirety of what we see is created on a tiny patch of sensors at the back of each eye.

Movie theaters are dark because white is black. Before the lights dim, we see that the screen is white. As the film plays, the projector’s light shines through the film and onto the screen. The light, filtered by the film, bounces off the screen into the eyes of the audience. Where film areas block the projector’s light, the (white) screen appears black. The projector’s lamp must provide enough light to create images for all the eyes in the audience. But eyes represent a tiny fraction of possible destinations for the projector’s photons. The efficiency of this system is near zero. A few microwatts worth of photons create the eye’s image. Multiply by a few hundred viewing eyes and divide by the 5,000 to 10,000 watts of the projector’s xenon-bulb light source. Display monitors, televisions, laptop, PDA and cellphone displays are hardly better.

Microvision uses a light source and a moving mirror. Photons from the light source bounce off the mirror and impact the retina. Moving the mirror with small x and y deflections paints an area of the retina with a source-modulated stream of photons to create an image. The power at the light-source is measured in milliwatts, making Microvision’s system orders of magnitude more efficient than any conventional display system. Further, the image that’s created isn’t the postage-stamp image of today’s cell-phone LCD. It appears to the viewer as a full-color image with the resolution of a giant desktop display, but with better contrast. Microvision’s display has a contrast ratio of 5,000 (compared with 500 for a typical laptop LCD).

There’s no fundamental limit that prevents scaling Microvision’s imagers from cell phones to theater projection systems. Early prototypes cost $100k. Cost-saving developments brought the first commercial systems below $10k. [as low as $4k]. The next generations will scale costs below $1,000 and eventually below $100, where Microvision’s imagers will be suitable for consumer applications. Microvision’s opportunities aren’t technology limited, they’re development-resource limited.

Altitude simulator

AltiPower is an innovative personal altitude simulator. A device that naturally enhances the performance and endurance of athletes, pre-acclimatises people travelling to altitude and improves the health and wellbeing of ordinary people. In elite athletes the program has shown to increase performance by between 1-3%. Non athletes who begin an exercise program along with IHT can have exceptional increases in fitness.

After adaptation to lower levels of oxygen has been achieved, (generally 16-20 sessions) it is common to find increased levels of certain enzymatic antioxidants, such as glutathione peroxidase and super oxide dismutase in the body, increased neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, improved metabolic efficiency, improved blood sugar and insulin levels, improved neuroendocrine function, increased tolerance to toxic substances and improved tolerance to exercise.

This device starts at over $500 and costs about $100 per month. I suspect as baby boomers reach for optimum health gizmos such as these will reduce in price and become more popular. Technology and drugs are not recommendations for all of us, but tools that are designed to help us can improve our lives. I think this gizmo indicates a large and growing segment.

Petty tyranny

It's called petty tyranny and we have plenty of it.
I caught this little snippet from a blog I quickly ran through:

"And right now I'm sitting in amazement, for an engineer walked by, spilled his coffee all over the floor, and kept walking without a second glance. I want to grab his tie, yank his face down into the brown puddle and teach his overpaid ass to never make me clean up another mess of his as long as I live, so help me. But the thing is, it's perfect symbolism for what the management is like in our company. They make a mess and we clean it up. If you knew the crap going on here right now, you'd wonder why someone hasn't tried to sabotage it yet. It took working here to fully understand why some people do just that. I guess the temptation sometimes is just too much. The only lesson I've learned from working here is: If you disagree with your supervisor or manager, keep your mouth shut. Got a suggestion? Keep it to yourself. Want to justify yourself? Don't bother. Think you deserve a raise? Think again. They want followers here. People to do the dirty work."

Try to count the billions of times thoughts like these scurry through the minds of our good citizens every day. It destroys America. This type of environment is too common.

I've been trying to recall the name of a great USA poet who once said, "We haven't had a social revolution in over 200 years. We've made great strides in industry, technology, medicine, the sciences, but we have made far too little progress in our social structures. The last important advance was during our Revolution. There has been very little social progress since."

Low cost Segway

Half scooter, half waterski

RedFerret says, "I have to say that the EasyGlider looks like fun. Think of the EasyGlider as a cross between an electric scooter and water-skiing.

"The single driven wheel acts in the same way that a water-ski boat does, pulling the user along behind, though in this instance the accelerator and brake are hand-controlled by the skier. Imagine you are water-skiing, you are attached to the back of a boat. You swing with the waves and wait for the boat to pull you out of the stream. Finally then, the traction and you emerge to the surface, come out of the water. You glide and feel your hair fluttering with the wind. You do extreme oblique curves and ride out the waves...With the Easy-Glider, we bring you these feelings on the road. Forget the waves, forget the snow and glide your curves on asphalt! Here's their home page: easy-glider.ch

According to Australia's Gizmo.com.au, "The company is holding firm orders for more than 2000 at the retail price of EU890 / $1000 US ". The EasyGlider is small and compact and can be easily stowed in a car trunk. More details as production specifications emerge. The EasyGlider weighs in at around 22kg, which is around half the weight of the Segway. Mass production is due to begin in October 2004.

Gizmodo seems to be calling it a Personal Tugboat!

The “skiing on asphalt” mode is typically done in conjunction with the rider using in-line skates or a skateboard, though there is also a wheeled “tail” that can be attached directly to the EasyGlider transforming it into a complete transportation system without the need for blades or a board.

A good read covering the development cycle of unusual products:
Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World

It's expensive to be poor

The notion that we live in a global economy is now a commonplace. Supply chains extend halfway around the planet, and no respectable corporation would dare show its face without at least pretending to have a well-defined global strategy. The funny thing about the global economy, though, is how much of the globe has been left out of it. Four billion people still earn less than four dollars a day, and as far as the global economy is concerned they hardly exist—except, of course, as cheap labor. After all, if you were the C.E.O. of a big company, whom would you rather have as customers: the rural poor in Uttar Pradesh or upscale suburbanites in greater Phoenix? But perhaps it makes better sense for companies to see the poor as patrons worthy of their solicitations.

bookofjoe says, The always original and interesting financial columnist for the New Yorker wrote this week about the enormous opportunity that lies hidden in plain sight for anyone willing to turn her profit-seeking eye on the poor. Surowiecki notes that buying in small amounts, which is all a poor person can do, is always more expensive than buying in bulk. And of course, we all know that people with tons of assets get the lowest interest rates, whereas those with nothing pay exorbitantly for the privilege of borrowing. Put $50 in a savings account at the bank, and they'll take 10% of your assets a month as a maintenance fee. Put $50,000 into that account, and suddenly not only are there no maintenance fees, but you're getting a nice chunk of change as interest every month, along with free checking, etc. Put $500,000 into that bank, and suddenly the bank's increased the interest rate it's paying you. And so it goes.

Richard P. Feynman, in his legendary remark to one of his classes at Cal Tech ("There's plenty of room at the bottom") jump-started the field of nanotechnology. Surowiecki notes that there's plenty of profit to be made at the bottom as well.

Then, you have to contend with the local monopolists who make huge sums of money selling to the poor, and the local government officials who profit from helping keep those monopolies in place. To tap the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, we may have to "save capitalism from the capitalists," as the economists Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales put it. Big business has spent a lot of time pretending to make up for all the bad things it’s done in the developing world. Now it should try to make up for all the good things it hasn’t.

CK Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing, 2004): Imagine a solution to world poverty that is both charitable and profit-making, that can appeal to the left and to the right, that can be embraced by both those who run NGOs and those who run companies, a kind of global New Deal and an antidote to global economic growth stagnation.

Impossible? Not if you read CK Prahalad's new book. Companies are finding ways to tap the largest untapped market left in the world — the poorest of the poor — while providing dignity and choice, and sustainable markets, to and for these people.

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In our SACHET MARKETING trend, we noted that two-thirds of the world's population makes USD 1,500 or less per year. This is not to say that there's no market opportunity: according to a recent article in Foreign Policy by University of Michigan Business School professor C. K. Prahalad, and Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, the 18 largest developing nations are home to some 680 million families earning USD 6,000 a year or less. These low-wage earners take in USD 1.7 trillion a year -- roughly the size of Germany's gross domestic product.

The money is there, but why try selling these consumers expensive, bulky goods and services originally designed for consumers who easily make thirty times as much in North America, Western Europe or Japan? The solution: SACHET MARKETING, named after single-use shampoo sachets which sell for a few cents in emerging economies (for example, more than 60 percent of the value of the shampoo market and 95 percent of all shampoo units sold in India are now single-serve; source: Foreign Policy), which is all about micro-selling methods, about serving up products, services and loans in small portions and sizes, light versions, or single-use sachets, so that aspiring consumers can afford AND get to know and like your brand. Like the Smart Buddy system in the Philippines we recently highlighted, and Banco Azteca in Mexico, Unilever in Tanzania, or Whirlpool in South America.

Avoiding low spirits

Says the bookofjoe: Think about the work of Antonio Damasio who believes that only with emotional input can we make our best decisions and judgements.

Antonio Damasio occupies an extraordinary position in the world of neuroscience. On the one hand, he is an internationally famous physician and scientist, publisher of many papers in the most prestigious journals, and author of the best-selling book Descartes' Error. On the other hand, his achievement is seriously under-rated. In my view, Damasio is not ‘merely’ a successful career neuroscientist and popularizer; he is the major living figure in his field, possessor of the most profound understanding of higher human cognition: in short, a genius. If I was able to nominate one individual for the Nobel prize, it would be Antonio Damasio. This may sound like wild over-praise, but it can be justified.

Damasio has suggested that while the senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste smell function by nerve activation patterns that correspond to the state of the external world; emotions are nerve activation patterns that correspond to the state of the internal world. If we experience a state of fear, then our brains will record this body state in nerve cell activation patterns obtained from neural and hormonal feedback, and this information may then be used to adapt behaviour appropriately. For example, if we see the approach of an aggressive looking man, this image provokes sympathetic nervous system activation which affects the internal environment of the body by its action on smooth muscles and hormonal levels. This change in body state corresponding to the emotion that we call fear leads to patterns of nerve cell activation in the brain. Emotions are therefore cognitive representations of body states.

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The High Value of Avoiding Low Spirits
And there is this review of a new book called Exuberance: A good case could be made that the value of a life is determined by the moods that characterize it. To feel sad and depressed is an undesirable life; to feel exuberant and full of zest is the way life ought to be lived. Given this, it is clearly important to understand all moods - the good, the bad and the ugly.

Psychologists have typically focused on the miserable moods, no doubt because of the urgency of their remediation; but the elated ones are equally worthy of study. "Psychologists," writes Kay Redfield Jamison, "for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalogue the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones."

In "Exuberance," (Alfred A. Knopf, 405 pages, $24.95) Ms. Jamison undertakes to correct this imbalance. She argues that exuberance is crucial to creativity and achievement, as well as being a nice thing in itself. Her main method is to cite various exuberant individuals - Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Wilson Bentley (the snowflake enthusiast), Louis Armstrong, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Watson, P.T. Barnum and others - and to argue that their exuberance was part of their success. Much of the book thus consists of snippets of biography stitched together to make a general point. Anecdotally this works well enough, and it is certainly fun to read. (I liked Churchill's remark: "We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.") Ms. Jamison readily admits that exuberance can swiftly shade into mania, poor judgment and annoying behavior, and she also allows that not all creative and successful people are naturally exuberant. But there is a real question as to whether melancholy is a more appropriate emotional response to human life than exuberance. The tragic sense of life is arguably truer to the world than blanket exuberance. Melancholy might not be as good for you as elation, but it might reflect a greater appreciation of the world. No doubt this is why exuberant people are often under suspicion of superficiality - as Ms. Jamison herself notes.
But she doesn't really want to appraise emotions for accuracy, possibly because she sees no relation between mood and truth. Like most psychologists, she thinks of emotions as inner sensations rather than ways of apprehending reality.

Ingredients list

Skin Deep
A searchable database of personal care ingredients. What to buy, what to avoid.
Not recommended for the paranoid. [via redferret]

Ball chucker

The Lobster 202 Ball Bucket is hereby on offer as the 'ultimate ball machine for dogs'. $489.00. (Geesh!)

Remember kids, lateral thinking can save lives! 'I have half a dozen dog owners a month come to me to ask about ball machines for their dogs. To a man (or woman) every pet owner thinks that they are the only one with this "crazy idea". I put this page up to assure you that you are not alone and that there are great machines that are reasonably priced to fit you and your dog's needs... You can even get a wireless remote and sit down and relax while the dogs run wild. For the ultimate in leisure, train your dogs to put the balls back in the machine!' [via redferret]

When I run into links to gizmos or ideas for pets I just cannot help myself. This is not a pet blog but gee whiz, some of the items are too neat to resist.

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PetsMobility(TM) Networks, Inc., will be manufacturing and launching the first ever PetsCell(TM) cellular telephone for pets. PetsMobility will provide wireless communication products and services to the rapidly growing multi-billion dollar pet market and is seeking corporate alliances and partners to assist the company.

The patent pending PetsMobility(TM) PetsCell(TM) will be compatible with existing cellular and satellite GPS technology. The PetsCell(TM) will allow pet owners to talk to their pets as well as allowing owners to request assistance should they require help. In addition, and perhaps more valuable, pet owners will have a piece of mind that if their pet is lost and someone finds their pet wandering the streets, with a simple press of a button on the mobile device, the auto dial will dial the owners home alerting the owner to retrieve their pet.

10% brain myth

The statement, "We use only 10% of our brains" is false; it's a myth.

We use all of our brain.

Let's look at the possible origins of this myth and the evidence that we use all of our brain.

Where Did the 10% Myth Begin? The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" (from The Energies of Men, p. 12). Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920's and 1930's that started it. Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and found that these animals could still relearn specific tasks. We now know that destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior. That is one reason why neurosurgeons must carefully map the brain before removing brain tissue during operations for epilepsy or brain tumors: they want to make sure that essential areas of the brain are not damaged.

We need unbiased media.

Hey! I've gotta agree.

This picture nor anyting similar did NOT make it to the airwaves.

The photos that I saw would give the impression that there were small crowds, often chaperoned by large crowds of security officials.

As the gingerbloom blog said, here's "What you didn't see on CNN, MSNBC, or the Faux News Channel.

I am again disappointed that media journalists believe they have the right to "edit reality" -- whether left or right.

Dualmode vehicles

Dualmode vehicles, the ultimate in intermodal transport is an affordable concept allowing transport of freight or passengers on rail as well as road

Slashes fuel consumption and emissions

Brings standard access to rural areas
Takes out most rail infrastructure cost
Raises carrying space

Economics of branch lines of the railways could be quickly transformed for the better with a dualmode vehicle being developed by an engineering design company near Darlington Stephenson rail pioneering country.

This innovative vehicle will run on road as well as rail. It is as applicable to freight as to passenger transport. Branch-line infrastructure costs could be at least halved because signalling and points could be largely, if not totally, made redundant.

Legal music downloading

One Million Free & Legal Music Tracks!

Go for it

... in the culture we were all conditioned in, I have seen that if anything is the cause of the most misery, compensation, confusion and fear, it’s sexuality. We definitely live in a patriarchal culture. No matter the “freedom” women have been granted, those “freedoms” are male-dominated, male-allowed, and those “freedoms” have turned to traps where men can breed women and leave them with their children to fend in a world run by men, a world not set up for the caring, nurturing and security of women and children. So for all the seeming “freedom” to be sexy or to get equal pay or the ability to climb the corporate ladder, or to be a movie star or fashion model—really it’s all mandated by the commercial patriarchal culture. This commerciality has had the most important and devastating effect on women. The male culture, being commercially driven, allows for no humanity, for no softness or familial comfort—it demands a cruel devotion to becoming commercially hip and it grabs women into a vise of servitude. She’s not allowed to find her own version of femininity, but is locked into an acceptable form by the male- dominant aesthetics, and those aesthetics––ruled by commerce––allow for no deviation. Even the dominance in the field of style and fashion by homosexuality is pretty much male homosexuals who are trying to please the commercial aesthetics of other males. more...

Your life itself has to become a great work of Art. You have to become a work of Art. You have to become your own Creation. You take the experiences of your Life and you become the Creator of who you are because of those experiences. Because of what's happened to you. Because of what's happening to you every day here and now.

Gently rocks the cradle

As reported by CNN and Engadget, The Caring Cot gently rocks a cradle when the baby cries for "more than 30 seconds."The Caring Cot was invented by one Gary Cho, whose agenda wasn’t just keeping the baby quiet in the middle of the night, but also safety and preventative care. If the device (which is estimated to cost £150—that’s about $270 US) “hears” the baby cry for more than thirty seconds, it automatically begins rocking the cradle vertically (which he claims is more effective at calming a child than horizontal rocking); it also monitors the child’s movement and ambient temperature and can sound an alarm if it thinks something’s up, which could help detect early symptoms of Sudden Infants Death Syndrome (SIDS). Jeez, you’d think babies couldn’t just take care of themselves, or something.

More at daddytypes.com: Pampers UK co-sponsored "Big Sleep Week" with Mother & Baby Magazine. The highlight of Big Sleep Week, of course, was the Sleep Survey, which attempts to connect the dots between Mums' lack of sleep and just about every ill that befalls them. Two standouts: 71% say lack of sleep has "spoiled their sex life," and yet only 26% of dads wake up when the baby cries. 52% "simply slumber on or pretend to." Clearly, Pampers is plotting to replace dads, step-by-step, role-by-role, with robots and electronic devices. I think we know where this is going.

I was a young father very much in love with his children. But crying and squawking was par for the house. It's part of being human. The automatic swing, the bouncing harness under the door, the rocking chair, the strolls up the street, the rides in the car, the pacing up and down the hallway: These are the duties of a dad. And I woke up easily too. I learned to detect every little murmur and could soon tell which required immediate intervention to make things easier all around. I was a primary nurturer. Made me very warm and very happy.

Alone in the bush

Along the road to Rocky Mountain House, I knew as the Nordegg Road, I stopped my car after a great gravel curve and walked a mile or so into the muskeg bush.

In a small clearing the size of an urban lot there were two buildings that were as weathered grey as old tree bark. One was a log cabin the size of a Victorian parlor and the other was a tilted shed the size of arena porta-potty. When I walked into the cabin, the dust and webs told me I was first in years, perhaps decades. Tenderly, I picked up an iron frying pan on an old iron stove almost as lightweight and skinny as the pipe above it. Tenderly, I picked up a woolen mitten as darkened by use as by the years it was lying there. I saw a shelf and on this shelf a little blue diary with a rusty but brassy 5&10 Cent clasp. I opened the diary and read, "My Johnny. He been gone so long I think he gone for good. Oh I miss my Johnny." I turned from month to another month and read, "My Johnny where you been? You been gone six week. Gone it forever. Catch your trap and come back to me Johnny. I wait long."

From a blog I stumbled across:

"QUARELL
THIS TIME JAAN CAME TO SINGAPORE BUT HE DOESNT STEP TO SHORE COS HE COULDNT AND DUE TO MY WORKING HOURS...DURING THIS PERIOD, WE QUARRELL QUITE A LOT.. WHEN HE'S IN M'SIA, HE MSGED ME LATE CZ HE HASNT TOP UP HIS M'SIAN CARD..UNDERSTANDABLE...THEN WHEN IS BACK, THE FIRST THING HE ASKED IS FOR HIS PHONE...I AM NOT ANGRY WHEN HE ASKED ME TO LOOK FIR THEM..I EVEN ASKED ALIFFA'S HELP...BUT AM SICK, AT LEST ASK ABT MY CONDITION...THAT MOMENT I FEEL AS IF HE DOESNT CARE...iKNEW HE LOVE ME BUT SOMETHING IS LACKING...i DONT KNOW WAT IT IS.. AND THEN WE SORT THINGS OUT AND NOW, WE QUARELL AGAIN...BECOS OF LAT NIE MOVIE...HAIYA...

WHATS HAPENING TO US...?"

This reminds me so much of the lonely woman of Nordegg spending the better part of all the winter waiting for Johnny.

So? Check it out.

Born in El Paso, Texas on October 7, 1920 and raised in Los Angeles, California, Wulf was the great, great grandson of renegade Cherokee Chief John Bowles. He leaves behind a living, breathing and always-evolving legacy—based on his philosophic premises of Ecolibrium, Creavolution and Living Therapy—in the form of the Zendik Farm Arts Foundation, which promotes Creative Survival through the Arts.

Tough links to locate

Great Lakes Ships
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Algoma Central Marine
American Steamship Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Canada Steamship Lines
Desgagnes Transport Inc.
Inland Lakes Transportation
Inland Steel Company
Interlake Steamship Company
Lower Lakes Towing Inc.
N.M. Paterson & Sons
Oglebay Norton Co.
United States Steel
Upper Lakes Shipping
Great Lakes tugs

Beechglen accident

Niagara II photo archive

The wreck of bridge Bridge 12
Windoc / Bridge 11 collision

International Merchant Ships
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers

Modifying what?

Modifying wheat or modifying what?
Police and activists were cited as saying that at least 15 people were injured Saturday when French police used tear gas to disperse anti-GM activists who had gathered by a field of genetically-modified maize.

• CNN.com - September 20,2004... Anti-GM activists cleared over farm raid. Activists fear GM pollen could contaminate neighbours, NORWICH, England
• Reason... 2003... Anti-GM activists draw wrong conclusions from interesting new study.
• UK Indymedia... Anti-GM activists off their trolleys?
• A Nematologist’s guide to surviving anti-GM activists View as HTML
• The Trials of anti-GM Activists
• Yorkshire Dales News:... Anti-GM activists celebrate wheat victory.

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Citizens, it is a call for government:
Who Owns the Foreshore and Seabed?

Went swimming in the moana [Waikiki]
She whispered in my taringa (ear)
Oh won't you come with me
There's such a lot to see
Underneath the deep blue sea.

Does she see us in all our human glory, strutting and fretting our rights and obligations at each other, and marvel at our ingenuity and perseverance? Or does she see us as a lice infestation, scrambling over each other to get the last fleshy morsels on the carcass of her mutilated relation, and weep?

Man Made Wonders

My family regards itself more or less unimportant in the big picture. It has destroyed itself in innumerable ways. But some remember helping to build The Welland Canal, and are proud of it too.

"The Welland Canal is one of the world's greatest man made wonders." Although not as well known as the ancient Egyptian pyramids or as famous as it's neighboring natural wonder Niagara Falls, the Welland Canal can be best described as simply amazing.

We can wean

[via redferret]
The CatSeat.

Well you'd look surprised too if someone leapt out of the airing cupboard clutching a Nikon Coolpix and snapped one while you were minding yer privates. Sheesh!

$109.95.

The CatSeat...is the revolutionary next generation litter-box designed to allow the option of mounting to your toilet, and to completely wean your cat(s) from litter. This will forever eliminate the mess and expense of litter from your life.'

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As seen in Dog Fancy Magazine.. No more late night walks. The Patio Park is a dog potty and training aid for your terrace, garage, office and more..

Features a charming picket fence, mock fire hydrant and REAL GRASS, turning your terrace into Central Park for your pooch. The unit measures 56"l x 26"w x 24"h, holds a 2'x4' section of grass sod with a water reservoir at each end. The self irrigating system promotes even watering; just add water to the reservoirs and the irrigation strips absorb and distribute it for you.

Each unit comes with 2 plastic liners, 3 irrigation strips, base tray, wall with removable picket fence, mock fire hydrant and watering wicks. We recommend replacing your grass once a month. Grass can be purchased at your local lawn & garden store. Costs about $250.



And in case it rains in the office...the dog umbrella.