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I just read about this and its amazing. If you have shoes which are a little too small, you can stretch them at home with the following method: Fill a one quart freezer bag halfway with water (one bag per shoe). Make sure there’s no air in the bag (a teensy little bit is ok).…

If global mean temperature increases to 4 °C (7.2 °F) above preindustrial levels, the limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many parts of the world, while the limits of adaptation for natural systems would largely be exceeded throughout the world. Hence, the ecosystem services upon which human livelihoods depend would not…

I would like to quote a few sentences from the Noise Ordinance for the City of Palo Alto, California: 9.10.040 Commercial and industrial property noise limits. No person shall produce, suffer or allow to be produced by any machine or device, or any combination of same, on commercial or industrial property, a noise level more…

Windows Explorer has a flaw. When a location is viewed which containts folders and/or files, it should be able to display the full name of all the folders and/or files. But the way the width of the column which displays the name (and other columns as well) has only a very crude, primitive level of…

NYT: Bicyclists Using Cameras to Capture Accidents – http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/technology/bicyclists-using-cameras-to-capture-accidents.xml “Without the video, we wouldn’t know who did it,” said Mr. Wilder, 33, who was bruised and scraped in the crash. Bicyclists say cameras can also deter motorist harassment, a problem that many complain about and that cities like Los Angeles and Berkeley, Calif., have sought…

This is a list of the most important and useful extensions (plugins, addons) for the Google Chrome web browser: Name Description Proxy SwitchySharp Manage and switch between multiple proxies quickly & easily. This plugin works with Privoxy, a must-have ad-blocking proxy. It makes configuring, and switching on and off of Privoxy easy. Do Not Track…

This is a really sad story about how sick America is becoming and how far deeply into fanaticism and fascism it has fallen.  A woman who, eight months pregnant, had been cruelly abandoned by the father and became depressed, attempted to take her life.  She consumed rat poison.  But friends intervened and her life was saved.  However…

Today I input my stats on a page at the BBC which rates where you are on the “Global Fat Scale”. The result: My size is that of an average person from India.  If everyone in the world had the same Body Mass Index as me, it would mean 35 million tons less of human…

Article that appeared in news today about a study of the relationship between handlebar height and pressure in the genital area which can cause loss of sensitivity. The gist of the article – handlebars lower than seat can cause problems.  Raise handlebars (or I guess lower seat) so that handlebars are higher than seat, thus…

Reading today about yawning and it turns out that penguins engage in this behavior called “ecstatic display”.  Its just amazing to watch.