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This weekend marked the second occurrence of the Firefighters Association of Nevada City’s Spaghetti Feed. This is one of two major fundraising events we hold every […]

Out of Florida comes the story of a cat born with six legs. The article says that the extra legs and some duplicate intestine need to be removed, and the family who owns the cat can’t afford it. They are seeking donations to fund the process, which is expected to cost upwards of $2500. Yes, […]

Apparently the smaller traditional telcos in the US, those who haven’t adopted any sort of Voice over IP technology, are whining that they’re loosing money because the big bad VoIP providers are cheating.
The basis of their argument seems to be that they can’t tell where some incoming calls are coming from because the VoIP providers […]

According to a rumor posted over at downtownmakeover.com, TA truck stops, who own the truck stop at McCarren and I-80 in Sparks, have bought the Alamo truck stop at Vista Boulevard. This might be an indicator of TA consolidating their operations into the larger, newer site at Vista and I-80.
This would be a huge improvement, […]

With this post I inaugurate a new category that I’ve avoided until this point: Politics. I spent an inordinate amount of time today reading politically themed articles and blog posts. Most of that can be blamed on reading David Colborne’s blog and then following the ever expanding tree of links from there. I find myself […]

Well since everyone’s doing it, here’s the results of my online personality test:

I’m sick of upselling. It started with fast food restaurants for me. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t asked to supersize or the equivalent. Now they’ve really crossed the line.
I do not, repeat DO NOT want to buy additional services when I call Charter because my cable internet is not working. I called […]

There’s a new brewing game in town, and their name is Buckbean. Located just south of the interesection of South Rock and East McCarren, Buckbean is a medium-size brewing operation. They’re created their space out of a larger warehouse type building, and installed a brewing system with a 30 BBL capacity. That’s 30 barrels of […]

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/14-04-2008/104878-highest_tower-0
Apparently the esteemed journalists at Pravda.ru fell asleep during Journalism 101. I ask you to think back to elementary school, and recall the concept of What, Where, Who, When, Why and How - the basic questions that any article should answer.
This article does address the What and the Who, a two-mile high skyscraper designed by […]

Someone has invented the laptop sweater. Oh, its called a Body Technology Interface? That makes it sound perfectly sane.I think there’s something wrong with this person’s Chair-to-Keyboard Interface.
http://sternlab.org/index.php?project=BodyTechnologyInterfaces
Wow.