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Tase of the Union

By Donal on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 2:28pm | Politics



We saw the state of the union speech under unusual circumstances.

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Who Can Spend?

By Donal on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 8:57pm | Media


In good news for my profession, architectural billing has come back from the abyss.


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A Less Obtrusive Wind Device

By Donal on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:14pm | Technology

Update:

This video Resistance linked to is also interesting - recovering oil from plastic. Again, you have to evaluate whether he is spending more energy melting the oil than he is getting back, but it sounds good.

 

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Flat Out

By Donal on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:53am |

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Experience: I lived with trolls

By Donal on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 8:18am |



Like most bloggers, I grew up with an innate fear of trolls. It wasn't until I was a bit older and saw a troll in a comic book store that I realised how far away this animal was from the mythological creature I'd learned about on usenet.

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Foodflation, Food Insecurity and Civil Unrest

By Donal on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 3:16pm | World Affairs



My wife and I noticed several months ago that the food we chose to buy was getting much more expensive. I was probably more inspired by Michael Pollan and she by Mehmet Oz, but years ago we agreed that we would cut out the hydrogenated stuff and the high fructose stuff and the high sodium stuff.

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