"huhn't uh" or however you spell it. I understand that even vocalized, people outside the US can't tell the difference between that and it's opposite, "uh huh"
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
"This win means that Californians will be the first in the nation to decide whether they believe marijuana ought be taxed and regulated for all adults over 21, much the same way alcohol is. ... Support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high, with polls ranging from 44 to 52 percent national support. In California, where marijuana has been legalized for medical use since 1996, 56 percent support legalization."
- Paul Buchheit
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"‘ L Filipe dos Santos (aka Corcoise) was born in the summer of 1978 in Portugal. He grew up in a rural environment but watched too much television and, through his adolescence, he developed his rural-hype self identity. Not knowing what to do with it, he searched for some way to express himself. So, by the age of 16, he started sketching. ‘"
- Kimber Scott
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"For today’s post, we have piled up dazzling slow shutter speed photos that will take your breath away. Using slow shutter speed photography can be a totally different phenomenon if you get it right. You can use it to inspire others, or to capture light painting, or may be some smooth water effects, or it can be anything else. So here it is an amazing collection of slow shutter speed photography for your inspiration. This is an introductory post on this style of photography, hope you’ll like this."
- Kol Tregaskes
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"As a design collaboration with Barcelona's Chocolat Factory, 5.5 Designers created three chocolate-based projects. The Gâteau is a chocolate "cake" for every taste: each section of the cake-shaped chocolate is a different flavour. Only three molds are used for the production, but flavours can be mixed and matched in many combinations. The Most Honest Chocolate Tablet seeks to reduce any guilt associated with chocolate consumption by stating clearly on the packaging the amount of calories contained in each piece. And the Introverted is a series of chocolate "bowls" that guide us towards the heart of it all: the cocoa bean. + cinqcinqdesigners.com Discuss | Bury | sharing is cool: Product design | chocolate design designers All"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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I heard a really good tip today for those of you who purchase real live Christmas trees....
Be sure to add 1 Tablespoon of Robitussin to the water...
This will stop the tree from coughing its balls off.
Just thought I'd share....
SDwildgene has added a photo to the pool: This male Peregrine Falcon was drooling at the yummy birds flying by down below. :-) Or not. See the pictures in the comments for what's happened. First, I noticed this perching male Falcon showing sign of discomfort. He hung his head and wagged it from side to side with the beaks open as if he was choked. As I was about to jump up to perform the Heimlich maneuver him, I suddenly realized that he was in a process to regurgitate the casting (the pellet of indigestible material). Sure enough, there it came. This seemed to be a painful process as the falcon continued to show sign of discomfort and there's slimy liquid (saliva or gastric juice) hanging down on his beaks. He recovered in a minute or so, wiped his beaks on the stick and took off. He is ready again for the next meal :-)
- burdr
"As light filled the sky on a recent morning here, a handful of giant mirrored dishes were being prepared to track the sun and ultimately feed solar-generated electricity into the Phoenix area.High-tech marvels, the solar dishes look like three-story-tall mirrored flowers atop steel stems. But at the heart of each dish is a very old-fashioned invention: a Stirling engine, patented by a Scotsman in 1816, decades before the diesel or internal combustion engine. The cutting edge of renewable energy is littered with long-established ideas such as the Stirling. From generating power from the wind to harvesting liquid fuel from algae, some of today's most promising new technologies are actually quite old. "
- RAPatton
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"The invention of the gas turbine -- used to power aviation and generate electricity -- is the only true energy breakthrough in the 20th century, says Vaclav Smil, a prolific author on energy topics and professor at the University of Manitoba. "There is nothing new under the sun." Others would disagree. They cite nuclear power, even though a nuclear plant incorporates old-fashioned...
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- RAPatton
"Things have moved faster in some other areas of science and technology, such as genetics, which in less than half a century went from the description of the double-helix to cloning and gene therapies. But in the energy arena, ideas tend to percolate longer. American inventor Charles Fritts developed the first solar cell in 1883, introducing the basic design still in use today. Five years later, the first wind turbine used to generate electricity was built in Cleveland."
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"Scientists in Europe say they have connected a robot hand to an amputee, which allows him to feel sensations and control it with his thoughts."
- Kol Tregaskes
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