Archive for February, 2008
February 29, 2008 at 10:54 pm · Filed under 1 Other Neat Things, Neatorama Only
I’ve been roaming across the States the past few weeks – spent a few days in Boston/Providence and a few days in L.A. Although they’re on opposite coasts, the two locations do have one thing in common: residences that make me feel like I live in a shack. A hovel, really. Don’t get me wrong, I really do love my house, but how can you compare that with mansions built by the Vanderbilts and the Winchesters?
Let’s start with the first house that made me feel inadequate.
The Breakers, Newport, R.I.
photo from Stacy Conradt
February 29, 2008 at 9:39 pm · Filed under Blog & Internet
Now this is the blog that tells it like it is. If you need insight on what white people like, that is. For example:
#71 Being the only white person around
In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.
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February 29, 2008 at 8:24 pm · Filed under Architecture, Car & Vehicle
The first subway in America was not a train, but a pneumatic people mover! Opening for business in 1870, the subway worked on the same principle as the pneumatic tubes we use at a drive-through bank. Giant fans at either end provided pressure to blow a carriage through Manhattan.
For a fare of two bits per passenger– all of which was donated to a charity for soldiers’ orphans– twenty guests at a time could take a ride on the pneumatic carriage. The custom-built, fifty-ton blower was situated in an adjacent chamber, separated from the waiting area by a long corridor. The Æolor blower was twenty-one feet high, sixteen feet long, and thirteen feet wide, and it contained two colossal lengthwise paddles which rotated to draw air in one side and out the other. The magnificent blower was outfitted with a special set of adjustable baffles which allowed her to switch […]
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February 29, 2008 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Money & Finance
The Consumerist reports that a customer who requested Comcast cable to stop sending direct mailers found a $1.99 “change of service” fee on his bill.
I had in fact called Comcast a few weeks earlier and asked them to stop sending me anything except a monthly bill. They were happy to do so, but had not told me that they would try and stick me for $2.
Fortunately, he was able to get this charge removed via an online chat with customer service. But how many people would never notice the extra fee? Link -via J-Walk Blog
February 29, 2008 at 6:36 pm · Filed under Video Clips
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Maybe they just didn’t have enough cable. Or an axe. Or sense. -via Arbroath
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February 29, 2008 at 5:31 pm · Filed under _interesting, _beautiful, short videos
Welcome to TheNobelPrize channel on YouTube, which brings you fascinating insights into the minds of current and past Nobel Laureates — courtesy of Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Foundation. Here, you can watch a range of Laureates give interviews and official Nobel Lectures, in which they reveal the stories that helped shape their lives and careers. You can also see the official videos of the Nobel Prize announcements, where members of the Nobel Prize-Awarding Committees reveal their reasons behind their choices for each year’s Prizes.
Below is Muhammad Yunus on poverty, head to TheNobelPrize channel for more.
February 29, 2008 at 5:25 pm · Filed under _beautiful, _cute, Photography
Meet Margaret at Chester Zoo, UK, a new girly giraffe baby. Click to see more photos of this cutie, and also see Flocke the bear, this coyote, Knut the bear and this panda.
@ haha.nu.
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