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Parade of the Wooden Soldiers — Radio City Rockettes Summer Intensive 7/20-24/09
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.... "'Green' levels perform the Radio City Rockettes' 'Parade of the Wooden Soldiers' at their Summer Intensive Performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City." Sometimes it's fun seeing how the sausage is made. The varsity ...
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Bulbcap
From the website: ••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bulbcap The Bulbcap is a lampshade slightly more than a lightbulb. The caps are directly pulled over lightbulbs up to 40 watts. Bulbcaps can be fixed on bulbs hanging from the ceiling, or on standing lamps of any kind.  ...
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12seconds: bookofjoeTV's debut?
Why only 12seconds ? "Because anything longer is boring." More: "The scientists here at the 12seconds dodecaplex have conducted countless hours of research to determine the precise amount of time it takes for boredom or apathy to set in during typical Internet video viewing. Our patent ...
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Buy Cormac McCarthy's typewriter
If you do, there's no doubt you'll become a great writer once you start using it. I mean, everybody knows that as soon as you put on a pair of Air Jordans you can dunk. You can't? You musta bought fakes. Anyway. Wrote Patricia Cohen in today's New York Times Arts section front page story , ...
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Something is rotten in the state of Britain
According to a November 11, 2009 New York Times story , "Britain has one of the largest DNA databases in the world, with profiles of over five million people, or 8 percent of the population." 8 percent of the population? The home of George Orwell becomes ever more like the author's imagined ...
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Human Map T-Shirt
"Think of all the fun you'll have timing your digestion with this shirt. With organ locations printed on it, you can trace your dinner as it moves through your body." $12 . [via FashionablyGeek ]
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TreasureNet — 'The original treasure hunting website'
Fun site , with many interesting forums and some very knowledgeable individuals chiming in. There goes the day.
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Hi/Low-Beam LED Wrenches
Clever. Recessed LEDs built into the jaws of the seven double-sided wrenches [metric and standard: 14 options] can be set to high or low brightness, depending on the distance of the bolt. Emergency blinker warning function. $99.95 .
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Helpful Hints from joeeze: How to clean stainless steel cutlery (and other stainless steel items)
1) Never mix different types of stainless steel (for example, a Georg Jensen stainless steel Leaf Bowl and Royal Doulton cutlery) in the same dishwasher cycle. Putting items with a different grade of stainless steel in the same dishwasher cycle can cause a chemical process which can leave ...
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What is it?
Answer here this time tomorrow.
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'That Crafty Feeling' — by Zadie Smith
"A lecture given by the English author Zadie Smith to the students of Columbia University's writing program in New York on Monday, March 24, 2008." "Discussed: Fraudulent and Fraudulent, Idiots, Kafka, Macro Planners and Micro Managers, Obsessive Perspective Disorder (OPD), Gravity's ...
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Nuance Chair — by Luca Nichetto
The Venice-based designer created it for Casamania .
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'The moral dimensions of ditching a mortgage'
I must say I was astounded to see the above-headlined column by Kenneth R. Harney in yesterday's Washington Post Real Estate section. I mean, it's the nightmare of the pillars of capitalist society, whom Harney refers to as "... the 'the social control agents,' namely banks, government ...
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Torso T-Shirt
Got innards? £21.99 . [via my7475.com ]
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JoinUsInFrance.net — 'Over 500 French cheeses pictured and described'
Mmmm, French cheese . Charles De Gaulle in 1961 remarked , "Any country with 300 different kinds of cheese is ungovernable."
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Paperclip Lamp
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bookofjoe.com — Designed by David Wykes and Benoit Collette. Email: smatheny@teague.com [via Jhuly Johns ]... (more) Paperclip Lamp
Scobleizer on why the Huffington Post is flourishing while MSM dies
He makes a pretty good argument .
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Tippi Micro Gel Grips — Blast from the past
These innovative devices first appeared here on March 25, 2008, clearly ahead of their time and thus passing for the most part unnoticed. Now they're back. Intended to help you sort, shuffle and collate paper. Friction ridges enhance grip and dexterity. Bonus: no fingerprints.  ...
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Thierry Legault, astrophotographer extraordinaire, explains the secrets to his success
He told Brigid Grauman, in a November 10, 2009 Wall Street Journal profile , that his success at capturing moments such as that above (the transit of Venus across the sun on June 8, 2004) when extraordinary things happen in the sky resulted from "the right equipment, knowing it well, ...
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Doody Head Game
From the website: ••••••••••••••••••••••• Doody Head Game Maturity is overrated. Why not play target practice with your favorite fool as you lob poo piles at her cap? Hysterical 'Doody Head' hats have sticky strips and pre-printed point scores so you can keep track of who slings the most ...
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