The Washington Post had an article with five ‘myths’ about suburban expansion, the paving of of America and car travel , namely… Americans are addicted to driving; Public transit can reduce traffic congestion; We can cut air pollution only if we stop driving; We’re paving over America; We can’t deal with global warming unless we [...]
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“Tipping didn’t take hold here until after the Civil War, and even as it spread it met with fervent public opposition from people who considered it a toxic vestige of Old World patronage. Anti-tipping associations were formed; newspapers—including the Times—regularly denounced the custom. Tipping, the activists held, fostered a masterservant relationship that was ill suited [...]
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Plenty of folks do summer internships, myself included. But not too many of us go out of our way to spend the summer in Baghdad, in the wake of the occupation of Iraq. I read today from the September issue of Harpers an interesting article “Misinformation Intern: My summer as a military propagandist in Iraq” [...]
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“There’s a small but ardent underground economy among Americans in dummy addresses and e-mailed scans of Japanese iTunes Cards, picked up by friends in Tokyo convenience stores or openly sold online.” An interesting article in Slate about one way to get around the geographical limitations of iTunes, which prevents cross border sales. I found this [...]
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On my second night in Belfast, I led my friend down a dark alley to a bar that defiantly wasn’t frequented by to many (normally it would have street access, but due to construction the main street was closed off). Anyway, walking into the bar we could tell it was a far cry from the [...]
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If you don’t know Tesco is a massive UK retailer / grocer who garners often the same criticism that Wal-Mart does. Tesco grew to be so large based on low prices and gets criticism to go with that, as is par for the course it seems. On the BBC today I heard an interview that [...]
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Taken in Galway Ireland Thought I’d test out the linking from Google’s Picasa Web Photohosting
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Someone mentioned to me recently that being in a neighborhood with more dog owners makes it a safer neighborhood. Now, this may make some sense as dog owners are likely to be out walking their dogs and today with cell phones they add eyes and ears that can prevent problems from arising, there is also [...]
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An ad in the Sunday paper for McDonald’s hyped up the food quality of items on the McDonald’s menu one item that I thought was especially interesting was the listing on tomatoes “The tomatoes we use in our Premium Salads and on your favorite McDonald’s sandwiches are grown in farms across North America. The tomatoes [...]
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Been a bit slow on here, over the last week been getting back into the swing of things (actually still less then a week back in the states) but anyway, getting books, going to class, getting back to work, and realizing that my school days are number has been taking up some time. Hopefully good [...]
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