Nov
22
Spread the Wealth Pencil Sharpener
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Spread the Wealth Pencil Sharpener
Nov
22
Depression 2009: What would it look like?
Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money on healthcare, child care, and education, and we’d see uncomfortable changes in those parts of our lives. The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and heading for areas of the country where there’s more work - or just a relative with a free room over the garage. Already hollowed-out manufacturing cities could be all but deserted, and suburban neighborhoods left checkerboarded, with abandoned houses next to overcrowded ones.
Nov
18
Nov
17
Under-ice flood speeds up glacier
The observation is described as critical because of how it informs our understanding of future sea levels.
Nov
17
Weeki-wachi Springs (1947)
Nov
17
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
William Burroughs (via takaakik) (via browneyes) (via kiku)
Nov
17
Eikowatch Has a built-in flashlight and the Morse Code written on its face so you can communicate in Morse with your friends across the room or street. Clever Japanese.
Nov
13
Nov
13
Chicken tractor design
These are basically portable pens without a bottom that you can move around to different spots in your yard so your chickens can eat all the scary bugs crawling in the grass and dirt. This seems like a good solution. The top hit on Google is a gallery of 140 chicken tractor photographs, compiled by Katy of The City Chicken. It’s neat to see all of these hand-made tractors. No two are identical. Many are made from salvaged materials.
Nov
13
Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for Piece of Bailout Pie
Of the initial $350 billion that Congress freed up, out of the $700 billion in bailout money contained in the law that passed last month, the Treasury Department has committed all but $60 billion. The shrinking pie — and the growing uncertainty over who qualifies — has thrown Washington’s legal and lobbying establishment into a mad scramble.
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