The rumors had been flying for months that XM and rival Sirius would merge, and word is now out that such a deal is now underway. Of course this is very far from a sure thing as there is FCC approval needed, as well as antitrust clearance. Both XM and Sirius are aligned with certain [...]
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Just saw this morning the news that Australia is going to ban in three years traditional incandescent lightbulbs in a bid to reduce green house gas emissions. If you didn’t see the earlier post on CFLs you may wonder how a country could do this, but after trying out these bulbs I think that despite [...]
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I read an article a few days ago about the wind chill factor, how weatherman love to bring it up, possibly because it can sound so extreme. I hadn’t known what the number meant, but i figured it was how cold you felt if you had exposed skin. Anyway, if your interested in learning what [...]
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In the U.S. oh too often we are given just any old glass to drink our beer from. Even worse sometimes establishments start dishing out the plastic cups during busy times when they don’t want to wash or to risk breakage. Now I will say I am no snob and I enjoy my plastic cup [...]
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Haven’t had one of these in a while (actually in college down in Virginia anytime it snowed, which was possibly twice, they canceled) but its always a fun thing to learn nonetheless. As of 1:30pm OSU will close for the day, this is after half of the professors in the law school decided on their [...]
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So anyone who has had to endure my presence over the last few months has known that I got into the Wire, the HBO series about Baltimore police, drugs, politicians, corruption, violence, the streets, etc. The show which started out looking like a police drama has gone on to address so many areas. Enough on [...]
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You may have heard the fuss that came about recently when Pizza Patron (Mas Pizza, Menos Dinero) a Texas based pizza chain that adopted as its core market Mexican and Latino Americans (not in their pizza recipe however). The chain, started by Columbus, OH native Antonio Swad, performed extremely well and adopted a new campaign [...]
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Last week I heard a story about (see and listen here at NPR.org) Wal-Mart hyping up CFLs and the big push they are going to be making in their stores. What is a CFL? They are compact flouresent lights, those funny looking lightbulbs with a twisty spiral of fluorescent tubes, but that fit in traditional [...]
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Here in my neighborhood in Columbus there is a pretty good greek place The Happy Greek, that makes a pretty mean Gyros along with all the other great food they have. They must have been doing well because they opened up a second restaurant in a much larger, expensive surrounds of the South Campus Gateway [...]
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So I mentioned I wasn’t getting too pumped up for the Super Bowl, but in the end I was pretty happy with it. Not sure why, I liked that it was in the rain and the ball popped out, although I guess this led to some saying the game should always be in a dome [...]
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