Winner of the National Book Award is...

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. I won't lie and say it was my first choice among the five. (It would make my top three of the five.) ... stuck on the filter, so I knew she was still wearing lipstick. She'd been up all night.She lay ... in the air, elbow bent, cigarette glowing in her fingers. Tanned legs glistening in the darkness. Blond [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:22:00

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Greece Riots: Smart Mob, Snap Mob, or Networked Anarchy?

On 6 December 2008, after 15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos died from a gunshot wound inflicted by a policeman, Epaminondas Korkoneas, ... that he was innocent – that he had shot into the air to disperse the crowd– was summarily dismissed ... of the mature news organization, one should think, is to filter real news from pseudo news, rather than [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:08:41

Katie Couric is an Annoying . . .

Katie Couric is an Annoying . . . by Steven D Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 04:07:19 PM EST When do softball questions lobbed by Our Lady of Perkiness, ... that he has made about Afghanistan -- what we are doing there, supposedly just air raiding villages ... , outside of the media elite also. I just wanted to talk to Americans without the filter and let them [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 20:15:10

Pet Allergies, Our First Family and You!

Our soon-to-be First Family faces a personal struggle that millions of other American families face every day: ... allergy free” bedroom (where we spend about one third of each day). Use a high-efficiency HEPA air ... hair brought into the bedroom from getting into the bedding. Use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:12:03

Google May Hate Prop 8, But That Doesn’t Mean They Won’t Serve Ads Supporting It

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was one of the many Silicon Valley leaders to add his name to the NoOnProp8 advertisement that ran in the San Jose Mercury ... discriminatory measure can’t buy a little air time on Google Adsense. California residents who view sites ... coming through Google, and we’re going to try to filter them out now. Crunch Network: [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 18:34:34

Extend the Life of Your Appliances

One of the easiest ways to extend the life of your appliance is with some preventative maintenance ... and pull. If it easily slides out, it’s time to replace the seal. Air conditioner – Always follow ... it up to high-cool to avoid overworking the compressor. Sustain airflow by cleaning the filter monthly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:18:47

Discover Great 3m Furnace Filters

Discover Great 3m Furnace Filters January 6th, 2009 at 08: ... . This is almost always performed by a trained personnel. Cleaning up the air ducts is also a wonderful idea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:12:31

Natures Alarm Clock

Natures Alarm Clock Posted by Sally on January 19th, 2009 in Country Living, Countryside Tales, Green Living, Hearth & Home, ... whisps of light were starting to filter through as the cockerel was crowing for all his might. I stood on the step breathing in the fresh morning air and listening to the sounds of the world waking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:52:42

Tweetdeck makes Twitter so much easier

Many of the more popular Twitter users employ third party tools to help them manage their accounts, ... is based on Adobe Air and makes use of the Twitter API to pull in the content. It provides a clean ... is the ability to filter tweets by keyword, so you can drill down – instantly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:00:00

High-level British MP wants movie-like ratings system for the internet

In a move guaranteed to attract well deserved controversy, Andy Burnham, Britain’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, ... as British TV where it is against the law to air violent programs before 9pm. But since the internet is very different in nature from TV, Burnham suggested that a time-based filter be created in which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 17:42:14

FL-18: Ros-Lehtinen Leading Taddeo in New Poll

Research 2000 for Daily Kos (9/23-25, likely voters, no trendlines): Annette Taddeo (D): 36 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-inc): 53 Undecided: 10 ( ... up on the air a few days ago, with both English and Spanish TV and radio ads.) Ros-Lehtinen, meanwhile, has only ... to filter respondents on a more fine-grained level. That's because Cuban vs. non-Cuban [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 01:22:49

Nikon D700

Nikon’s D700 features the similar 12.1MP full-frame FX sensor and the similar processing engine as the higher-end D3 at an extra |inexpensive cost ... s still a air-conditioned feature, abnormally for the added aesthetic photographer. On the aback ... frequencies that take out dust from the optical low-pass filter in front of the image sensor.  While [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:43:41

summer’s last hurrah panzanella

In the last few days, New York City has gotten the most delicious nip to its breezes; drier air and clear skies have set in and despite that fact that I maintain that I don’t wish ... some topic pages that filter the archives into recognizable, and somewhat seasonal groups. Want soup [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 16:05:24

Appliance Tune-up

Back when fuel prices were up around $4.00/gallon, the mere anticipation of winter energy costs was enough to send a shiver down people’s spines ... . Keep the coils well ventilated and clean so that heat doesn’t build up. Washers & Dryers Almost ... filter clean and separating your loads by thickness of material (i.e. don’t dry towels with bed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 07:02:38

Aliens?

“The possibility of a purely psychological explanation is illusory, for a large number of observations point to a natural phenomenon, or even a physical one - for instance, those explicable by reflections from ‘temperature inversions’ in the atmosphere. Despite its contradictory statements, the American Air Force, as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:53:59

Don’t Like Twitter’s Election Site? C-SPAN Has a Way Cooler Alternative (Really!)

We were pleasantly surprised last month when C-SPAN launched an innovative website for covering the Democratic and Republican conventions ... you to click on specific keywords that were mentioned during the debate, and then filter by candidate ... of the political spectrum. You can either opt to view all posts as they come in, or filter to a specific [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 15:47:42

Where Do Writer’s Ideas Come From?

To those who are not writers, artists, or composers the creative process seems an allusive mystical gift bestowed upon a fortunate few who are held in awe by the general population. When asked “where do you get your ideas” or “how do you do it”, many cannot answer the question because the creative process is often not understood even by those who [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:31:27

PostRank - The Easy Way To Filter RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds have become an essential way to keep up-to-date with many different online sources of information – in fact without it, tracking blog updates would be next to impossible. To those of you with a feed addiction, it may come as some surprise to learn that RSS adoption is still surprisingly low across web users– even those who spend a lot [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 23:01:11

From Cubicle Nerd to Cucumber Vendor: Learning Small Scale Farming in Mid-life

This is a guest post from Jim Dunlap (Wyoming) about his experience as a new farmer in Virginia and is part of our Wed pm/Sat pm TOD: Campfire series, where we will post articles more related to personal, local and social responses to our resource and environmental predicaments. Like many posters on The Oil Drum (TOD) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:42:38

A Human Life is Not a Problem to be Solved

If you happened to be walking through a southern college campus 30 years ago you might have seen a man sitting on a park bench apparently wiping his face in the warmth of a Spring day while gazing at the kind of lush green scenery only the South can provide. But if you had been inside this young man you would have seen something different [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:48:34

Neil Young, Wilco and Everest at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto

Frank YangIt’s impossible to fully articulate how huge Neil Young is for me. Besides having been one of my very favourite artists from the very start of my “musical awakening” some 17 years ago, it’s also not an exaggeration to say that if I were to draw a single common thread through all the bands I love or the styles of [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:06:12

Fuel/Friends favorites of 2008

Another year packed with music has come and gone. Music is a language I can't create myself but it does me good to know that every hour someone out there is humming a snippet of a melody, returning to their seat at the bar with a head full of lyrics that just occurred to them, or tapping out a drumbeat on their leg in the car [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 15:00:00

Energy-Efficient Water Purification Made Possible By Yale Engineers

Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered osmosis holds a key to addressing both the global need for affordable clean water and inexpensive sustainable energy according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:34

Preparing For Tonight

No wonder McCain tried to scuttle the VP debate last week. Preparations for it have taken Palin off the campaign trail -- which is, let's face it, her only asset at this point, and occupied way more McCain staffers than he can afford to head down to the Arizona compound to de-program her so that the regular Joe six-pack shines through [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 17:49:23

Pet Advice - Pet News - Pet Photos

Bitter Cold Weather Tipsby Mary Bushnell, St. Louis Pets ExaminerThe weather in the Midwest has been about as unpleasant as it can get. As bad as it is for people, think how it affects the thousands of animals left outside.Temperature and wind chill will kill. Here are a few ideas on winterizing your pet accommodations if you have outside pets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:24:00

How to Live With Your Favorite 'Fur-Ball'!

Bitter Cold Weather Tipsby Mary Bushnell, St. Louis Pets ExaminerThe weather in the Midwest has been about as unpleasant as it can get. As bad as it is for people, think how it affects the thousands of animals left outside.Temperature and wind chill will kill. Here are a few ideas on winterizing your pet accommodations if you have outside pets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:06:00

Smoke ‘em while you got ‘em

Obama is a liar.  He said that he would quit smoking when he began running for president at the request of his wife: When Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., officially enters the stressful world of presidential politics this Saturday, he will be trying his hardest to resist the urge to smoke those Marlboro Red cigarettes he has relied upon for years [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 18:59:27

12 Tips To Lower Your Heating Bill

The cost of energy is rising everyday ... sure that no vents are blocked by rugs and furniture. This prevents heated air from circulating ... Of Fans A hard-working bathroom or kitchen fan can expel a houseful of warm air in just one hour [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 05:06:23

Can Honeywell Furnace Filters Really Help You Save Money?

One of the best brands in furnaces is Honeywell. In order to get your Honeywell furnace to run at its peak level, ... and dirt and help your house stay fresh. In addition to getting the air quality of your rooms in better ... who are familiar with homes that contain boilers or radiated heat often just can’t understand about gas-forced air [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:11:27

Lifestyle - What Does That Bargain Really Cost? What It Takes to Make 10 Everyday Items

An aluminum can costs about a cent. Almost worthless, so it’s easy to toss it in the trash. It's like a magic trick, if you think about it. The thousands of stages in the manufacturing process, the material costs and the human stories, disappear into the air when we only have to spend a cent.   It’s how environmental catastrophes happen [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 20:00:00

Time for the General Assembly to act on state police surveillance

The revelations about the Maryland State Police’s activities surveilling, infiltrating, keeping files on, and sharing information about political dissidents have been unsettling, and demand a legislative response. Here is what we know so far: * In October 2003, Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, an anti-Iraq War group, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:03:04

Choose The Right Humidifier

Stupid winter. It dries your eyeballs into prunes and makes your skin feel like the lady-suit from The Silence of The Lambs (.. ... and you can end up with drippy condensation windows and mold spores and eventually peely paint ... . Unless you want to. In a pinch, resting bowls of clean water on your radiators or forced air vents [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 21:46:32

10 Ways To Improve Yourself While Broke

I'm going to start off by being very honest, I'm currently broke. I was expecting to get a scholarship that I didn't get, went on a trip that I probably shouldn't have gone on, and bought a certain someone special a present I couldn't afford. That's $4k in the hole, and no regrets, but a bit of a mess to clean up after [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 13:35:43

Marx my words. I'm going to burn in Music Hell.

This past Friday night I took a little road trip with Yort down to Ridgefield, CT to see a rather odd duet made up of Richard Marx and Matt Scannell. "Seriously Johnny? Richard Marx?" I hear you saying in disbelief. I know, I know. On the scale of gayness, his music is slightly north of Air Supply gay, and that's being generous [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 00:50:00

How To Turn TweetDeck Into Blogging Inspiration

Creating unique a quality blog content is one of the very common problems people face ... As A Research Tool TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims ... going at any given second, no matter what topic you write on and ability to search and then filter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:01:24

Eleven (Nearly) Effortless Ways to Save Money Each Month

I confess, I haven’t had much energy the last few weeks.  Making any significant overhauls to our financial plan, our budget, etc. just seems like such a chore.  And I certainly don’t have the physical energy to do much around the house.  However, there are still a few ways to save money each month that don’t require a whole lot of effort.1 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 18:00:52

Slow Feed Movement: 7 Tools to Filter the RSS Flood

For the last couple of days we’ve been asking people: how do you cope with all the info that bombards you through your RSS feeds, ... of it, and filter out the junk? It’s not an easy task, I can tell you that. As a journalist, I’ ... some collateral damage and heavily filter everything that comes in, because the signal to noise ratio is awful [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 14:38:23

Three Things Learned

I was browsing in the video store when I came across it. “The Gene Generation“. I looked at the DVD cover and I thought to myself, “Here is a cheap piece-of-crap movie!”. I moved on, looking at all the other new titles that had come in this Friday, picking some up, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:00:11

Palin Gives a Debate Preview

SEDONA, Ariz. — Sarah Palin took a break from debate prep to do an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show today ... and I’m out here in Arizona getting some fresh air even as we are studying up and reading a lot ... forward to tomorrow night also. Getting to speak directly to Americans without that filter [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 23:13:54

Warmed by Crematorium

Homes in the Swedish town of Halmstad, the hometown of soccer star and former men's underwear model Freddie Ljungberg, ... environmental review concluded that the crematorium's chimneys were pumping far too much smoke into the air ... up into the air, we could make use of it somehow. It was just rising into the skies for nothing," said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:49:00

ClimatePULSE: Saving the World, Two Problems at a Time

Recycling highly-concentrated streams of CO2 from large-scale emitters sounds like a fantastic way to slow down climate change. So does finding a new, abundant source of fuel that doesn’t require drilling. Why not tackle both of these issues at the same time? [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 12:48:43

Flight Of The Conchords return

Amelia HandscombI realize that the geek-correct reason to have this coming Sunday weekend circled on the calendar is for ... on the air yesterday for a talk and Buzzsugar talks to super-stalker/fan Kristen Schaal. But the piece of preliminary press that most caught my attention was this item at Filter (whose Summer 2008 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:16:37

Mazda Kiyora Concept Makes Waves

Kiyora Concept Rumor has it that as spacey as this concept looks, its design points to a future city car from Mazda, due out in 10 years or so.  The Kiyora (Japanese translation: clean and pure) may not look production feasible, but beneath its wave-like exterior are several innovations that are or will soon be employed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 13:01:01

Gallon Fish Aquarium - Equipping Yours Properly

by The Aquarium Lady A gallon fish aquarium needs certain essential pieces of equipment in order for it to create the perfect environment in which ... , we take a look at what you need to be considering, when purchasing either a filtration system or an air ... different types of filtration kits and air pumps, is by going online. Going online [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:08:56

The 50 Best Albums of the Year

original post.  If you’re going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.  40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade’s *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passion [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:08:18

In 2008, I became addicted to these 5 apps. And you?

End of the year lists are here to stay. Here are my two cents. I decided to share the five apps I got hooked on last year - blended with some The Next Web travel stories. Hope you dig the read and most of all, share your favorite five programs of 2008. Best wishes, dear readers! 1. Evernote - a second memory for everybody [ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:29:20

The RIAA in 2008: highlights

p2pnet news view | P2P:- We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other ~ Marshall McLuhan : The Medium is the Massage ————————– It’s been a bad year, a terrible year, for Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 15:34:58

AE#10: Porous Masonry Walls

While masonry is often perceived as impenetrable, a suitable material for keeping out wind and rain, it is actually by nature porous, ... facade. Brick is seen as a veneer that keeps out most air and water, but it is not the sole means ... or concrete -- by designing walls that allow light, air and water to penetrate. The most famous examples [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 17:15:00

Marek Wildland Fire Prompts Smoke Advisory

Marek Wildland Fire The South Coast Air Quality Management District has released a smoke advisory due to the Marek Wildland Fire in National ... by smoke. "everyone should avoid any vigorous outdoor or indoor exertion; people with respiratory ... unless it is extremely hot inside. In these cases, seek alternate shelter. Run your air conditioner [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 22:29:54

A Newspaper's Role in Bringing the Community Together

Modern newsrooms have to engage in a never-ending conversation with their community. This may sound self-evident, but it can be a tough sell in a newsroom working under high pressure. So how do you get reporters to buy into the proposition that they need to listen to their audience? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 18:45:40

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