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[Video Link] One of the great makers of our time recalls the very early days of Apple.

We went into the garage when we were two young people with no money. You have to work out of your home. We had jobs on the side. We had nobody that could loan us money. We had no business experience. We were like a million young people who are so excited about the future they may have some day, in business, making something just out of their ideas. That’s what we were. — Steve Wozniak 10/06/2011

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I imagine a dystopian future where the government controls the supply of computer cables, forcing a select few dealers to hock their wares in dark alleyways. You’re not going to like their prices, but sometimes you just gotta upgrade to DVI.

~NSHA

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C’mon Randy, keep fighting! Stop the pipeline!

It’s not just the usual suspects who are opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700 mile oil spill waiting to happen. A key group that is organizing against the pipeline are landowners who don’t like a Canadian company, TransCanada, threatening their land and access to safe, clean water. In Nebraska, the pipeline would cross over the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies groundwater for irrigation to 30 percent of the US. That’s part of the reason why Randy Thompson, a Nebraska landowner from Merrick County has been fighting TransCanada for years. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Joey Gase makes a habit of driving fast, but his auto racing career has accelerated quicker than he expected. Just two months after making his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut with Go Green Racing, Gase will make his fourth Nationwide start Friday night in the Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. It will [...]

posting from my phone. It doesn’t ever capitalize anything.

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As seen outside a bar in Fort Worth, Texas. We feel your pain, guys:

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Ping pong, the highest of all priorities.

~NSHA

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Winners of the Google Science Fair (L-R): Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose, and Naomi Shah.
The girls swept up at the inaugural Google Science Fair, winning all three age categories. Shree Bose also won the Grand Prize.

And lest you get visions of baking soda volcanoes: Lauren Hodge, winner of the 13-14 age group, “studied the effect of different marinades on the level of potentially harmful carcinogens in grilled chicken,” Naomi Shah, winner of the 15-16 age group, “endeavored to prove that making changes to indoor environments that improve indoor air quality can reduce people’s reliance on asthma medications,” and Shree Bose, winner of the 17-18 age group, “discovered a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs.” !!!

Our judges said the unifying elements of all three young women were their intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness and their ambition to use science to find solutions to big problems. They examined complex problems and found both simple solutions that can be implemented by the general public—like changing your cooking habits or removing toxins from your home—as well as more complex solutions that can be addressed in labs by doctors and researchers, such as Shree’s groundbreaking discovery, which could have wider implications for cancer research.

Emphasis mine. What extraordinary young women.

LOVE the Lego trophies, btw.

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News From The Future: Virtual supermarket in a subway station…

in a campaign designed by the seoul branch of advertising agency cheil, tesco homeplus supermarket opened last fall a virtual grocery store in a south korea subway station, permitting users to shop using their smartphones.

a large, wall-length billboard was installed in the station, designed to look like a series of supermarket shelves and displaying images and prices of a range of common products. each sign also includes a QR code. users scan the code of any product they would like to purchase, thereby adding it to their online shopping cart. after the web transaction is completed, the products are delivered to the user’s home within the day.

the strategy makes productive use of commuters’ waiting time, while simultaneously saving shoppers time spent going to the supermarket.

It will most likely be NFC, not QR code as this actually happens.

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Imagine a larger pipe than this 12″ one that spilled 42,000 gallons. Imagine it underground seeping into your water supply. Say NO to KeystoneXL.

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We think we’re protecting our kids by treating all men as potential predators. But that’s not a society that’s safe. Just sick.

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And this, fixies and gentlekludgers, is the single best picture I have seen in all my time running this site. Well done. ~Not-So-Handy Andy

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Dear Readers: Here is an article from the New York Times that says what I keep trying to say: Crime is down. Not up. Not even sideways. Down.

How far down? Major crime — murder, rape, robbery, assault —  is at “the lowest rate in nearly 40 years,” sez the paper of record. In fact, America is enjoying a crime plunge so striking, the experts can’t even figure out WHY it is happening. But it is.

So when folks say that they’d really LIKE to let their kids play on the lawn, or bounce a ball on the driveway, or stick a toe out the front door, but they can’t because we are living in hell on earth, engulfed by danger, and ANYTHING could happen and good Lord, isn’t our job to keep our kids SAFE, especially in TIMES LIKE THESE…please show them this article.

Please. — L.

P.S. And please also remember that this drop in crime cannot be attributed to parental hovering, since we are NOT hovering over adults and yet crime against THEM is down, too. No one is obsessively watching over grown-ups on play dates, or when they’re walking home from work, and yet they are getting murdered and raped and robbed LESS, too.